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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1919
Page
12
A Seattle street light on Bivery Street stopped functioning after a 15,000 volt short at the Plant on Lake Union. Lights went out for periods of 24 to minutes until troubleshooters fixed the defect.
Rome reports a spike in birth statistics across Italy after the war with a notable surge of twins and triplets, especially in Sicily and Sardinia.
Twins born in London during Peace Week have been named Pax Victorious Lioyd and Victorious Pax Lioyd by their parents, marking a quiet wartime era celebration.
United Press reports 24 steel unions plan a nationwide strike starting Monday to demand workers representation in industry. Leaders led by John Fitzpatrick and W B Rubins frame this as democratization through organized labor, while Judge Gary’s stance on conference refusal fuels tensions and questions public opinion.
Young Col Roosevelt tours Seattle extolling American Legion aims and deportation of aliens while recounting wartime hardships. He praises labor, warns against Bolshevism, and urges lawful progress through profit sharing and strong public order.
Capt Malcolm Douglas will speak to the King County Democratic Club at Good Fellows cafeteria on Saturday noon. Col J M Hawthorne will give a brief talk on If the League Fails Then What.
Sheriff Stringer uses bloodhounds to locate Malcolm Vance 17 who vanished from Buckley Wednesday morning. Deputies join hunt as White River is dragged and nearby woods scoured. mother says the boy has fits and fears illness may have struck him.
Corpus Christi Texas officials report Sunday’s tidal wave and hurricane killed 350 to 425 people and caused about 20 million dollars in property loss. Rain hampers relief for 3,000 homeless as a tent city is planned and outside aid is sought. Former Mayor Roy Brown urges funds for families while a sea wall plan is put in motion.
Edward C. Kelly, a newspaper circulation employee, was badly wounded after Edgar Woodcock, head of the state mining bureau exhibit, fired a pistol when Kelly insulted Woodcock’s wife. Woodcock claimed the shot was accidental amid a tense walk home with his wife and a friend near the library.
The passage argues that success comes from effort not luck and urges readers to seek knowledge through persistent work. It emphasizes environment shaping thought and praises grit and pluck as keys to saving on suits coats dresses and hats at the Teed UPSTAINS Store on Second and Union.
This office emphasizes a binding written guarantee on every piece of work, years in Seattle, one price for the same class of work, painlessly done by dentists who have made dentistry their life's work, offering expert advice at no cost to promote natural health.
In San Francisco on September 19, the local telephone girls union announced that wage demands will be submitted to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph within two weeks. Miss Sophie Brown said the new schedule will be shown to operators at tomorrow night’s meeting, seeking increases beyond the $2 to $4 daily scale from the recent strike. A coastwide conference is set for September 22 to draft the final demands for presentation in the following week.
The Prince of Wales will not shake hands in Vancouver due to worn grasping muscles from touring Eastern Canada. An aide reports plans to trim his entertainment schedule after medical advice. He arrives Monday and will be hosted by Admiral Rodman and visit the commander aboard the battleship New Mexico.
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