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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
2
At Stanford University Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur declares wealth harms students and bans autos, costly dances and luxurious gifts. He sends a letter to parents urging restraint and warns that only those proving honest effort will stay as enrollment rises. Poorer students reportedly excel academically and afterward.
The article describes Van Perre and Van Perre at the Grand Theatre with wooden shoe dancing and xylophones plus comedy and a Fantomas-Paría sequence. Oak Theatre features Monte Carter’s musical comedy and The Follies of the Day. Palace Hip presents Five Alarcons and acts including canine, Hawaiian, and singing acts with The Deluded Wife as the film.
New York Life Insurance Sullivan Considine and Thomas Wilkes sue the Orpheum Theatre & Realty Co and manager Carl Reiter in superior court to stop use of the Orpheum Vaudeville Theatre name and seek 6000 dollars in damages.
Proprietor Shigeta tries to collect room rent from tenant A Meh dy at 5064 Maynard Ave. The tenant pulls a revolver, shoots at pursuing pursuers and escapes by leaping an embankment. Sailor W F Wood and Officer W G Morrison chase him. Wood is wounded in thigh and A L Smith grazed. Injured men taken to hospital.
In El Paso a 20 mile long column of National Guardsmen and regulars marched past Fort Bliss for seven hours. More than 26,000 soldiers in full war strength formed a single massive infantry division review the largest ever held in the United States. Nomination dates follow for Associated Students officers at the University of Washington.
Washington coal operators have offered undisclosed concessions to avert a looming strike by miners. Union officials will meet Monday at 2 p m to review the terms. Miners threaten a strike on October 1 unless a 5 percent wage increase is granted.
London Sept 21 A new British tank toppled in Porleaux wood near Combles becomes the focal point of renewed fighting as German and British detachments clash over capturing the vehicle to study its construction. The British repelled all German attacks. the damaged tank lies between opposing lines.
In Chicago on September 21 the presidential race is seen as decided in the Middle West with Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and Missouri pivotal. Seattle Lodge No 7 of the AOUW will hold the final mid summer progressive whist party September 26 at 9 pm in Evergreen hall Baillargeon building with prizes and refreshments for attendees.
London report questions whether Carlotta the Empress, sheltered near Brussels, remains insane or sane enough to dictate testamentary heirs. If she dies demented, $10,000,000 would pass to Leopold I’s daughters and King Albert’s children. if sane, German Austrian emperors may be named heirs.
Harry Hammond, convicted of forgery and described as having a record in many Eastern jails, faces a trial on habitual criminal charges with a life sentence at Walla Walla. After a superior court jury found him guilty, he said he is ready to push the habitual criminal law to the United States Supreme Court, the first test of that act in that tribunal.
J. J. McLellan, a union longshoreman, was arrested on a Thursday charge of assaulting M. C. McArthur of 2929 Second Ave on the University Street bridge over Western Ave Wednesday night. McArthur said he went to the waterfront to see his brother in law when McLellan called him a scab and struck him in the face.
German propagandists circulate false charges about British censorship to stir US resentment toward Great Britain, the British foreign office declared to the United Press.
Ed Pop Geers, veteran driver, was thrown from a buggy in the first heat of the afternoon race program in Columbus. He was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered serious.
Ray Logue former city champion lost last night in the city title billiards tournament at Brown and Hulen's 35 to 26. Johnny Gilroy moved ahead after Logue’s early lead and won the match with a steady run.
T Monomoto a Japanese barber at 506 First Ave 8 allegedly slowed a power meter by placing iron in it. FE Warner of Puget Sound Traction Light and Power Co files complaint in justice court seeking a 250 fine and possible jail time.
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