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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
12
New York faces a critical labor crisis as Mayor Mitchel warns he will mobilize militia if a general sympathy strike for street car workers occurs. Labor leaders with Samuel Gompers push for union rights and consider a broad boycott of street railways to pressure for action.
Galveston dispatch reports two British subjects and 34 of 38 Carranza soldiers died when Villistas attacked an oil camp near Tuxpam on September 16. Carranza officers seeking refuge in the Englishmen's house were killed while protecting them. attackers greatly outnumbered the defenders.
Paris reports a heavy Bulgarian defeat by Serbian forces on the Zbrosko with French advances pushing Bulgarians back. Serbs reach Vrbani north of Florina after repulsing Bulgarian attacks. French troops clear the Florina region northwest of Armenikos and advance to commanding heights after intense fighting.
Discussions on methods to treat tuberculosis patients unable to visit hospitals will be a topic at the mass meeting of King County’s Anti Tuberculosis league. Other questions include protective methods for mercantile establishments and the proposed shift from county to state control of institutions.
About 75 delegates from diverse county W C T U branches opened a convention at the Methodist church on 16th Ave North and East John Street to oppose the brewers and hotelmen liquor bills on the November ballot. The program included anti liquor talks and some untapped music.
An advertisement touts liquid argon as a cure for dandruff. It claims four ounces applied nightly dissolves all flakes, stops itching, and leaves hair fluffy and glossy with repeated use. Argon is marketed as inexpensive and available at drug stores.
In Sacramento on September 22 the Fifth California Infantry camp faced heavy rain and tightened controls after two riots between soldiers and African Americans. Col. Burtt ordered arrests for soldiers entering saloons with a deadline restricting movements to specific city areas. Argentina reportedly has the world’s longest straight railroad stretch at 175 miles.
James A. Madsen, secretary treasurer of the Pacific Coast district, warned that longshoremen will strike if employers refuse arbitration. He cited two major firms withdrawing from the closed shop and accused employers of importing gunmen, while promising a ready 50-man crew and denouncing rumors of a sympathy strike.
Five boys who sell the most tickets to Along Came Ruth at the Orpheum will receive a grand prize, a Rainier bakery and restaurant gift, announced by the Boy Scout fund committee. H. B. Kennedy offered to donate proceeds of 200 Sunday excursion tickets to the scouts. Parachutes will be dropped Friday by W. E. Boeing over Seattle with merchandise orders.
Theodore Keepe speaks on Wilson and Efficiency and R P Oldham discusses Mexico at the Woodrow Wilson Independent League regular meeting in the L C Smith building assembly room Friday night. Edgar Snyder speaks at the Ballard league meeting in Eagles ball.
French curtain fires repelled a German assault along the Le Prien Rancourt sector north of the Somme last night. Germans driven back to their trenches with heavy losses, according to official announcement from Paris dated Sept 22.
Sinclair Lewis and his wife Grace Hegger arrive in Seattle after a cross country auto trip. The Sauk Centre native admits he has made only a couple of one night stops in Minnesota since leaving about 14 years ago.
Seattle will join national celebration of Electrical Week on December 2 featuring parades pageants electrical shows and demonstrations of electricity. A large Seattle committee focused on electricity and its many facets is preparing the program. London reports British troops advanced on a mile front south of the Ancre capturing two lines of German trenches between Flers and Martinpuich. General Haig made the report this afternoon.
The Great Piano House announces its retirement from Seattle with a massive stock reduction to less than half. The nine story Eilers Building on Third Avenue and University Street will host the closing sale featuring Standard High-Grade Grand, Player, and Upright pianos at well below usual prices with easy payments, followed by Montellus & Bon of Vancouver as successors.
A local store advertises drastic markdowns on every instrument in stock to force a quick sell out and vacate the building per agreement with successors. The notice notes evening hours.
In Paris a grapeshot ball from April 28 1809 is shown, reported to have struck Napoleon before his retreat to Ratisbon. The bullet caused only a trifling flesh wound.
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