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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
1
The passage contrasts flashy car talk with a crowd admiring a Cadillac and other luxury autos, then shifts to autumn football practice. It notes boys train hard for a chance to make the team while suggesting fathers prefer comfort at home, yet share the game's spirit despite weariness and chores.
Young William Calvert severely injured in an automobile accident Wednesday. He is brother to Lawrence Calvert who was seriously hurt in a previous crash that killed three others.
The House Immigration Committee opened hearings with Miller Freeman of Seattle and Vo. 8. McClatchy of Sacramento detailing alleged Japanese financial and racial encroachment. Freeman urged closing immigration doors to avert a Pacific coast Japanese colony, warning of syndicates and picture brides. McClatchy projected that unchecked immigration could make the U S a Japanese colony in a century.
In Farrell, Pennsylvania a gun fight with state police left one striker dead and another seriously beaten as authorities raided a house alleged to harbor sniping at the steel plant. The scene followed reports of unrest amid the steel strike as federal and state investigators move through the region.
Forbes economist warns vast idle productive capacity and a tightening money market signal a future where prices fall and financing dries up. He predicts the 50 cent dollar will rise toward 200, idle capacity will grow, and a crisis could emerge without decisive action nationwide.
Incomplete box score notes show players Johnson Zinn J Walker Gridge Ruel and teams New York Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia with scattered runs and hits. Mentions Cadore Krucker Ames Adama Clarke and McQuillan Gowdy in various at bats. Grounded on partial lines, result outcomes are unclear.
Extraordinary security measures in Pueblo forced cancellation of President Wilson’s planned attendance at the state fair. Secret service, radical threats, and fatigue prompted the change. his public appearance is limited to tonight's address and a downtown parade was scrapped.
The piece recalls Prince Lichnowsky once German ambassador in London who sought peace with Sir Edward Grey. He left Berlin blamed by public anger over British intervention and published an account of German plotting. Ludendorff comments on the memoirs and their impact on the army and people.
Excerpt from a 1919 Harper and Brothers publication about morale and propaganda in World War I. It discusses rumors of home front influence on the army, enemy propaganda, and a cited brochure attributed to Prince Lichnowsky blaming the government. The Kaiser’s words are noted as CONT'D ON PAGE SEVEN.
In Batavia New York on September 25 a bomb wrecked the two story home of Carl Trimarchi killing three people and wounding four. The dead are Joseph Battagli his wife and their two year old son. Authorities suspect Blackhanders.
London September 25 British Rail executives of the National Railway union after an hour of deliberation agreed to accept the government invitation to hold a conference aimed at averting a threatened strike.
The notice directs contestants to leave rhymes at the Downtown Classified Branch in Bartell's Drug Store at 610 Second Avenue for the Want Ad Rhyme Contest.
Government rested its case in a federal probe into a March liquor theft from a U S warehouse. Witnesses described buried bottles and implicated former officer Fred Smart and others as the seven defendants faced trial with one cooperator turning state's evidence.
Mi and August D Reichert, parents of ten, seek divorce in Superior Court after 29 years of marriage. He cites desertion while she answers with non support. She describes him as too set in his ways.
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