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Seattle's First Ballplayers

The history of Seattle's Japanese American baseball team, the Mikados.

Seattle's Distinctive Charm: What Should Be Saved?

Discussing what needs to be improved. Reporter asked local community members about improvements. Includes quotes from Wing Luke and his recommendation on the Chinatown/International District

Seattle's classical Japanese dancer

Miyoka Kihara is a professional Japanese dancer living in Seattle. She has earned a high rank in dancing from the Hanayagi school in Tokyo. The article is filled with pages of her and her students getting ready for a performance.

Seattle's Clarence Arai

An editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted the historic event of having a Japanese American named to the Seattle Library Board of trustees and exprssed hope that this would be the beginning of Japanese Americans a in public life.

Seattle's Chinese Opera

Story on performance by the Luck Ngi Music and Drama Society.

Seattle's Chinese are Industious, Happy Colony

Mentions Guay Lee, Sui Gim Lock and Lung sing Luke

Seattle's Big Ditch

Wa Chong laborers and the construction of the Ship Canal.