Telman loans network exposed by Seattle prosecutor
District Attorney Alcorn targets Telman loan operation widespread across the United States. The case centers on telemarketer style money practices described as vicious, likened to sending a gift to the penitentiary. A Seattle office and 86 scattered sites are noted in the investigation.
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D. HM. Tolman
United States
Jonaire
Loce
Te Telmans Telman
Reattle
The Tolman story and a girl named Griffith
A Hartford loan office run by Mine Griffith leads to arrest under a 15 percent usury law. Tolman supports her, refuses bail, and vows to fight the law in court. The case, tied to Connecticut usury statutes, could reach the supreme court.
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Dorte Griffith
Tolman
Hartford
Mine Griffith
Supreme Court
Asery
Miss Griffith
Connecticut
The
Star
Correction on loan office listing and owner at 208 Bulletin Considine
The Wednesday loan office list misnamed F. H. Cross at 208 Bul livan Considine building. The actual operator is J. W Richardson whose case The Star will take up later. Cross merely rented desk space from the jeweler at that address.
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F. H. Cross
Bullivan-Considine Building
J. W Richardson
Star
Croe
Pavlova and Mordkine Ignite New York Dance Night
The metropolitan program features Pavlova and Mordkine from the Imperial opera in St Petersburg. Pavlova’s wild, swift movements and Mordkine’s Bow and Arrow piece captivate audiences with spectacular leaps. Their performances are a standout feature of the current grand Opera season in New York.
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Mordkine
Pavlova
Imperial Opera
St. Petersburg
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Hamilton Aims to Redeem Self with Endurance Flight
Charlies K. Hamilton declares he will redeem himself in Seattle by attempting a series of endurance flights at Wildwood Park on a two day event. The machine was transported by boat and prepped by mechanics with tickets sold only at Anderson Steamship offices to curb misuse.
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Seattle
Anderson Steamship Company
Leschi
Madison
Madrona
Parks
The
Child Drowns In Farm Irrigation Ditch
A three year old boy, Johnnie Mundate, drowned in a drainage ditch on his father's farm near Everet. The mother had sent him to the barnyard to see calves. Five minutes later she found him face down in about three feet of water. The four foot wide ditch had steep banks preventing escape.
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Everat
Johnnie Mundate
Dead man identity tied to Beattie depot fall
Everett April notes the laborer who died after the glass roof collapsed at the Beattie depot yard is identified as W. J. Hagan, a Seloot man. The hat found with the deceased is traced to Gue Anderson, a railroad yard laborer, suggesting motive linked to earlier saloon dealings.
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Everett
Beattie Tinton Depot
W. J
W. J. Hagan
Gue Anderson
Dr Matthews Compared To A Circus By Spokane Suffragist
Spokane suffragist Mrs May Hutton denounces Dr Mark A Matthews in a letter to the editor reprinting his April speech. She calls his views on women insulting and mocks his circus comparison while defending women’s role in churches and missions.
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Mrs. Hutton
Spokane
May
Hutton
Dr. Atthews
Spokane Preas
Mark A. Matthews
Seattle
United States
Let Us Have Peace in Newspaper Feud Standoff
A criticism of the ongoing rivalry between the Post-Intelligencer and the Times. The piece pleads for an end to sensational front page conflict, arguing readers seek content beyond the "front page carnage" and urging a return to responsible journalism.
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The
Times
Hague
Conservation
Vatican
Queen Anne Hill
Drothers
Decent Burial Is All This Woman Got in Life
Mamie Pastora died an unclaimed death from acute alcoholism and degradation. Her remains lay on a morgue slab in Mt. Pleasant cemetery as her brother, a Beattle resident, never claimed them. Butterworth & Sona held the funeral until prayers could come, but none did.
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Mt. Pleasant
Mamie Pastora
Butterworth & Sona
Whimle Pastora
Gilbert
Mamie Paxtola
Mamie Pagtola
Beattle
Lawyers Want Anna's Money
Laughtin playing at the Orm this week was made defendant in a suit for 497.79 filed in the court this morning. The plaintiffs Louie Bil and Champ Andrews, New York lawyers, claim a July 1908 New York City municipal court judgment against the actress for legal services rendered. The suit seeks recovery of the judgment.
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Laughtin
Orm
Louie Bil
Champ
Roosevelt in Genoa muzzles Ballinger dispute flare
Roosevelt arrives in Genoa amid welcoming crowds and vows privacy was impossible. A New York dispatch reports he plans to denounce Ballinger and side with Pinchot upon returning to the United States, with Pinchot already in Europe and the two to meet in Genoa.
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Europe
Roosevelt
Ballinger
Gifford Pinchot
Watterson urges serious Theodore Roosevelt bid in 1912
Henry Watterson in Louisville urges Americans to consider Theodore Roosevelt as the strongest possible presidential candidate since Napoleon. He argues Roosevelt could tackle corruption with courage and independence beyond legal restraints, predicting a 1912 run may be probable.
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Louisville
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Watterson
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who Was the Mother in the City Foundling Tale
A foundling on a doorstep provokes a meditation on mothers, truth, and guilt. The piece questions what drove a young mother to abandon her infant, the fate of the child, and the aching remorse and prayers that linger in a city hospital.
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Darling
Phantame
Little One
American bank bandit Canfield dies after confession
San Francisco April 8. Harry Hall believed to be Clyde C. Canfield dies after wounding Patrolman Casey. He confessed on his deathbed to a spree of bank and streetcar robberies across Seattle, Salt Lake City, Reno, Los Angeles, San Pedro, and San Francisco, detailing each hold up and amounts.
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Harry Hall
Clyde C. Canfield
New York
Clyde
Canfield
American Savings Bank & Trust Company
Seattle
Labelle
Yeserway
Hall
Salt Lake City
Brigham
Young
Haley
Fort Leavenworth
Reno
Frisco
Los Angeles
Borando
San Pedro
Fourth St. E
Market St
St. James
Mutiny and peril follow immigrant rescue at Dover
Five hundred steerage passengers mutinied aboard the Kanawha at Dover after being refused ashore. Marines and sailors boarded to quell the revolt as 400 others from the Upland landed. chaos followed on deck and lifeboats amid a Cairnona rescue disaster with multiple injuries and a surge in deaths at sea.
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Eng
Kanawha
London
Cairn Steamship Company
Upland
Sweden
Cairnrona
Liverpool
Portland
Young Couple Lives on Sixteen Dollars a Week
A young couple can live on sixteen dollars weekly or less with budgeting and savings. The Star Want Ads offer bargains in furniture and household items in the FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS column. Reading the ads helps find medium rent locations and opportunities.
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