Ballard shingle mills resume work after weeklong strike
Ballard shingle mills, shut down by a week long strike of shingle weavers, restart with most workers returning without the higher pay raise sought. Strikers demanded one cent more per 1 000 shingles for aging equipment. two mills granted half a cent. Owners upheld eight cent wage scale. Seattle Women’s Commercial Club met and heard Dr Lilburn Merrill discuss juvenile court probation work with youth.
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Ballard
Seattle Women's Commercial Club
Lilburn Merrill
Accidental Hero Exchanges News With Porters on Train
A traveler who frequently rides the same night train greets a sleeping car porter and shares cheerful family news twins born since last meeting. The porter humorously corrects him noting the event is only a section, not a birth, reflecting light social banter aboard.
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Matthew
Seattle day at Southwest Washington fair draws crowds
October 3 is Seattle day at the Southwest Washington fair in Chehalis with special trains run from Beattie. In Redlands California Pat Lurns urges housewives to buy a cook book to combat rising living costs. A.E. Chapman in Redlands is blamed for 3,750,000 deaths as his fly swatter acts against pests.
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Seattle
Chehalis
Beattie
Los Angeles
Pat Lurns
Canada
Redlands
Cal
A. E. Chapman
Chapman
State association to elect officers at Chamber meeting
The Pennsylvania State association will gather at the Chamber of Commerce tonight to elect officers for the coming year and arrange a program of entertainments and dances.
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Pennsylvania State Association
Chamber of Commerce
Hodge to Speak as State Fair Attendance Likely Tops Records
North Yakima September 27. Bob Hodge Hull Moose candidate for governor will deliver the principal address as attendance already over 11 000 paid admissions yesterday. Toppenish schools won the prize in the educational competition.
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North Yakima
Bob” Hodge
Hull Moose
Examination of Ah Bow Begins Before Commissioner Totten
A meaty countr y description appears in the record as Ah Bow a Chinese person faces examination before Commissioner W D Totten. Ah How rumored to have arrived from Mexico with an affinity. Madam Hilda Hellstrom Gageee the Swedish American soprano to perform at Swedish club concert Sunday evening. W W Robinson Co Seattle bid for 2800 tons of oats for the Philippines at 1.44 percent per hundred weight accepted by the war department.
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Ah Bow
W. D. Totten
Ah How
Mexico
Hilda Hellstrom Gageee
W. W. Robinson & Co
Seattle
Philippines
War Department
Snakes Routed to Boston for Experimental Oil Study
One hundred snakes captured in Cowiche valley by M. L. Little were sold to a Boston drug firm for $3 each. The firm plans to extract oil from the snakes' stomachs for experimental research.
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Yakima
Boston
M. L. Little
Cowiche Valley
Alumni Dinner Highlights Dignitaries at Penn Event
J Peter D Overfield of the Third judicial district of Alaska attended a dinner hosted by the Alumni association of the University of Pennsylvania. August Shaeffer of Shaeffer Copper Brass and Iron Works offers the state university chemistry department a continuous column worth $8 000 for alcohol experiments.
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J Peter D. Overfield
Third Judicial District of
Alaska
The
University of Pennsylvania
August Shaeffer
Shaeffer
Couple Married After Impromptu Love Match
Cupid Gage yesterday sued a license to Dharm Singh a labor contractor from Vancouver and Miss Mary Woods of Seattle a negro Mexican. Singh said he met Woods six months ago and it was love at first sight. Rev August Sandal officiated and the couple left for Vancouver.
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Cupid
Gage
Dharm Singh
Mary Woods
Singh
Vancouver
Miss Woods
Seattle
Firsf Sight
August Sandal
Steel Freighter Lord Derby Arrives After Severe Voyage
The steel freighter Lord Derby reached port this morning following heavy seas and severe storms on its passage from China.
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Lord Derby
China
Uncle Hunters Prompt City Help For Missing Kin
William Turnbull of 130 Ridgewood Ave Brooklyn writes Mayor Cotterill seeking aid to find his uncle William Lomax aged about 70 with sandy complexion and a youthful look for his age. A second nephew William Pitegerald of 49256 Seconday Pittsburg asks for pursuit of another uncle, Michael McCaughney, who ran a guest at the New Central hotel two years ago.
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William Turnbull
Ridgewood
Brooklyn
Cotterill
William Lomax
Michael McCaughney
New Central Hotel
William Pitegerald
Seconday
Pittsburg
Ridiculing ordinance leads to arrest in Centralia
In Centralia Washington Sidney Gallagher wheeled J Parrott through the business section in a wheelbarrow with a lantern and auto horn attached. Both were arrested. Seattle on of the American Institute of King will begin the coming season's work at its next meeting next Thursday night.
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Centralia
Wash
Sidney Gallagher
J. Parrott
Seattle
American Institute of King
Where Do The Lost Umbrellas Go
A playful verse laments missing umbrellas in travel scenes from carriage to hotel and public places. It highlights the contrast between endless umbrella sales and the fate of lost items, ending with a rueful refrain and an envoy lament in a padded cell.
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Haven
Prince
Democrats stage rally in Coliseum crowd hears Oregon governor regret
The Democratic meeting at the Coliseum featured W. W. Black and other candidates for statewide offices. Hugh Todd won the state chairmanship, while Judge Black was deemed eligible to run for governor. Fauntleroy Progressive club plans a big district by district event. Progressive women voters push a statewide precinct to state organization.
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Coliseum Theatre
Donald West
Oregon
Cotterill
W. W. Black
Him. White
EB. O. Connor
Charles G. Heifner
Congress
Hugh Todd
Seattle
D. A. Williams
Tacoma
Walla Walla
Hich
Washington
Clark
Fauntleroy Progressive Club
Gatewood School
Dan Landon
Skagit County
Charles G. Helfner
W. E. Humphrey
Progressive Women Voters
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