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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
4
The Star notes Dr. Lillian C. Irwin’s bid for election to the school board making her the first woman candidate for the post. It argues women are central to teaching and childrearing and urges voters to elect a woman to oversee the school system.
The passage notes the pound sterling at 32 cents below normal and American banks swollen with gold. It warns that profit awaits those selling munitions to the British if Americans resist pressure and the Turks hold the Dardanelles. A proverb about a girl and the fruit of her eye closes the excerpt.
A column mixture notes Garlic helped Italian troops in trenches and a New York barbers wife bears their 19th child. Buddhist priests from Japan present peace resolutions to President Wilson in Washington after a San Francisco convention.
Paris reports official claims that the German crown prince failed to pierce French lines in the Argonne with no strategically important gains. It says over 100000 German casualties and 40000 in a single corps in the last year, with French losses this week also heavy.
Chehalis, Sept. 11 A broken leg resulted when farmer China Taucher dozed at the wheel and awoke to find his auto in the ditch while en route home from town.
Deputies and police hunt four armed bandits who halted six cars near Renton Junction on the Pacific highway by a red lantern barricade. They robbed occupants of cash and jewelry, wounding no one, with victims including Henry J. Tiedemann and Albert D’Lantry. The robbers fled into the woods after dumping the barricade.
Eastern members of the American Typothetae arrive Friday night en route to the national convention in Los Angeles. They will be entertained by local members during their stay.
Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological Garden, will address an open meeting Saturday night at the Y M C A. Park. Officials seek to form a society to establish a 700 here to exhibit wild animals from Washington, Alaska and British Columbia.
Friends of Raymond Cottrell a city steam roller operator claim he quietly married Miss Caroline Vick a Tacoma stenographer on August 23 in Everett. Cottrell denies the charge while Vick returned to her Tacoma duties and he continued steam rolling.
A motor bus driven by A blin from the Y M C A struck Dean Street at 17th Pike injuring a pedestrian. An Eastlake car and a jitney driven by W H Hill collided near Union with passenger T M fitney thrown and bruised.
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