SPECIAL CREWS IN RUSH HOURS IS PHONE PLAN
A Seattle Star letter-writer proposes rush hour crews of former operators and high school girls to speed calls at exchanges. The plan would use married ex-operators for one to two hours daily and relieve the regular staff amid heavy demand. Mia BE Pickering of Chehalis criticizes local pay phones and notes Seattle business interest delays.
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Hello Girls
Seattle
The
Star
Mia
BE. Pickering
Chehalis
Wash
Pickering
Flood of Herring From Bering Sea Arrives in Seattle
The steamer Admiral Watson of the Pacific Steamship Co brings a large herring cargo from Nome Alaska to Seattle. Three thousand five hundred barrels of cured fish were loaded at Golovin. The ship also carried a passenger net of two hundred twenty nine.
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Hering Sea
Seattle
Admiral Watson
Pacific Steamship Co
Nome
Alaska
Golovin
Union Critique of Company Treatment of Women Workers
A speaker condemns the company for how it treats union women. She cites credit for nine months’ prior work on resigning operators, while non-union workers earn 20 to 30 cents more daily despite longer service. She argues the service is rotten due to mistreatment at the switch.
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Telephone Company
Awitch
Cascarets Candy Proclaimed Gentle Laxative For Children
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a mild laxative safe for children aged one year and up. It promises quick relief from constipation without gripping the bowels or causing sickness and claims mothers prefer it for their kids.
Unconditional Surrender Support Gathers in The Star Letters
Readers press for Germany surrender as the path to allied victory, sending numerous names to The Star. The list includes residents from Seattle and towns across Washington and beyond, among them families, soldiers’ wives, and war mothers, all backing unconditional surrender.
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Wash
Stephen J. Abrameff
George KE. Sruce
Lynden
Mra
Ob. Myers
Sedro-Woolley
J Ki Hroce
Ferndale
Nowena Olson
Cottonwood
Mont
J. W. Jumper
Firat Ave
MC. Dose
Wolganski Port Stakeley
Curtis
Marry Curtis
Boston St
John BE. Matelter
Tolt Wash
Mre
N. Hameated
Skthat
W. Patingley
Eit
B. Thomas
W. HL Kieaster
Mattie L. Thompson
Charleston
G. L. White
Greenwood
J. J. Donovan
Hennett
Jesse Woolliwcrott
Hert
Laura Mitchell
Capt. Feet
OW. Mead
Virginia
Minnia
City
H. P. Speare
Allan Jay
Pownall
Monroe
Wilbur M. Haptic
Banner
Ida Kh. Weat
Auburn
Nellie Zirgensun
Trenton
L. V. Brock
39Th Ave
Chas Manley
Chas, & Hines
Wesl Ave
HK. T
Plays Seized Across U S for Foreign Rights in Flux
The alien property custodian seeks American plays owned by foreign agents as agents hunt for rights abroad. Royalties from famous operas and dramas have already been seized while shows stay shut due to flu.
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Germany
Mme. X
Berlin
United States
Wilkes Theatre Poised for Matinee If Flu Ban Lifts
At the Wilkes theatre the stage is set for the first act of Rol Cooper Megrue s Seven Chances. Costumes hang ready in dressing rooms and the director holds each player s phone number for rapid recall. If the flu ban ends by 2 pm a matinee could start at 2 30.
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Wilkes Theatre
Rol Cooper Megrue
Wilkes
Vaudeville Hints of Openings This Week
Shows ready to open if ban lifts include Moore Eva Tanguay and vaudeville acts at Oak Monte Carter in Tit for Tat Metropolitan My Soldier Girl Pantages Here Comes Eva and vaudeville acts listed.
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Moore
Eva Tanguay
Oak
Monte Carter
Eva
My Soldier Girl Chorus Arrives in Portland Ahead of Seattle Ban
Chorus girls from My Soldier Girl roam Portland streets buying trinkets to parade on arrival in Seattle once the health ban is lifted. Health officials will notify theatre men by wire when the company can come, and Seattle plans a big musical show with music and comedy to celebrate the ban removal.
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Seattle
Portland
McBride
Farwell Son Killed in Action in France
George B. Farwell, son of Seattle attorney George D. Farwell, has been killed in action in France, according to a cablegram received by his father.
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George B. Farwell
George D. Farwell
Seattle
France
Nora Mooney
Frank T. Glasetter
Glasetter
Brown
King County
Seattle market seen as lowest on the Count White visit
Florence A lay, a university and social figure, died Wednesday while visiting her father at his orchard home in Peshastin. Td Gorman, Seattle salmon canning expert and president of Gorman & Co., died suddenly in New Orleans on a business tour of the southern states.
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Florence A.lay
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