Rainier Grand Hotel in Seattle to be razed next month
The Rainier Grand in Seattle will be torn down next month. The piece recalls its heyday as a social hub with visits from celebrities like Sarah Bernhardt and James J. Hill, and tells of Swiftwater Bill’s champagne bath and later gambling losses before his wife stopped funding him.
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United Preas
Seattle
Rainier Grand Hotel
Northwest
Far North
Alaska
Swiftwater
Bill
William C. Gates
Rainier Grand
Sarah Bernhardt
Richard Mansfield
William Jennings Bryan
John L. Sullivan
James J. Hill
Buffalo Bill
Swiftwater Bill
White Horse
Spokane
Cow Attacks Kill Woman in Indiana Farm Incident
In juries sustained by Mrs. Elizabeth Steele 83 Oakland City caused her death at a hospital in Princeton Ind She leaves her husband Martin A Steele 94 and four children.
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United Press
Princeton
Ind
Elizabeth Steele
Oakland City
Martin A. Steele
Brooklyn Woman Leads Fight Against Laundry Gangs
Mrs Rosalie Loew Whitney of Brooklyn New York becomes head of an association to end racketeer tribute to gangs in laundries. She is the wife of financier Travis H Whitney and a lawyer and mother.
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Rosalie Loew Whitney
Brooklyn
N. Y
Travis H. Whitney
Fire protection for state parks slated
State Forester Ralph Wilcox announced protection against fires as the first step in developing Brown county and Dunes park state forests. Observation towers will be erected at these sites immediately. Wilcox said ten towers on private forests in southern Indiana would provide protection and pay for itself by saving trees.
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Brown County
Dunes Park
Ralph Wilcox
Indiana
Wilcox
Air transport grows with 46 U.S. companies in operation
The United States now hosts forty six air transport firms flying about seventy five thousand miles daily. They carry express and passengers and total more than six million pounds of air mail each year.
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United States
Swift justice of Wild West still survives in Colorado
Nine inmates wait on death row at Colorado State Penitentiary including six bank bandits from Lamar and three Manter bank robbers. Ralph Fleagle Big Boy Royston and George Abshier led the Lamar trio who killed bank officials and a Kansas physician. Little Jake Fleagle remains at large with a $5,000 bounty. The Manter trio John Walker Harold Weiss Amelio Herrera William Moya were condemned for wife killings and the Deputy Sheriff murder in Eads.
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Alice
Colorado
Lamar
Colo
Ralph Fleagle
Colorado-Kansas Line
Gray Wolf
Herbert L
Royston
Jake Fleagle
Ralph
Little Jake
Death Row
Three Manter
John Walker
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Tion
Harold Weiss
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William Moya
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Moya
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Shorty
Soillinos
Fountain Square
Money Back Coffee
Sally Lee
Station Street
Brightwood
Creamery
Ted RR
Grennan
Y “Resh
Indianapolis
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AMS
Grou
Hamburg
Red River
Wisconsin
Hamill Bros
Carload
Virginia Ave
B. & C. Freighthouse
A&p
N. B. C. Premium
del Monte
Boye
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