Chicago Cabaret Raid Splits Society Wide Awake
Chicago vice probes raid elite cabarets. witnesses include wives of millionaires and cabaret dancers. Investigators escort up to La Salle hotel to testify on smut songs and animal dances amid panic. Witnesses describe tango and turkey trot as well as sensational social life in Chicago cafes.
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Chicago
United Crees
la Salle Hotel
State Senate
Peoria
Ill
Sch Heay
21St St. Wi
Probers
Rookwood
Gov. O'Hara
Natalie
Rector’s
Ing
Martin Ferrari
Maud Joseph
Abe Frank
Rector's
A. B. Thompson
States Cafe
J. T
Vice Crusaders
Seattle Park Music Spend Debateed in The Star
The Star urges $25 000 for park band concerts in Seattle arguing it boosts happiness health and civic pride. It notes prior budgets of 4 000 and 8 000 and calls for bands in every park weekly and midweek in principal parks to promote a livelier city through music and green spaces.
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Park Board
The
Star
Seattle
Solitary bandit strikes again on Madrona line
A lone street car bandit robbed conductor A. W. McKillian of $17.10 on the Madrona line last night. The attacker, described as middle aged and apologetic, wore a blue handkerchief mask and fled after the theft. This was his sixth holdup in as many weeks, with five successful.
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A. W. McKillian
Madrona
Mise D. Rice
Rexmore Hotel
A. L. Ellis
McKillian
Ellis
Alki Point
Ballard Head
Phinney Av
North
Queen Anne
Meridian Line
the Traction Company
Schricker's Wife Testifies in Banker's Trial
In Bellingham Washington April 12 the state calls Mrs W E Behricker to testify after W E Schricker refused to testify The defense seeks dismissal and a directed verdict of not guilty Schricker recounts a trip to Seattle and loss of coal property to secure the Seattle National Bank amid efforts to redeem bank losses tied to Fidalgo Mill failure
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Bellingham
Wash
W. E. Ticker
Jacob Furth
Seattle
W. E. Behricker
Ankeny
Seattle National Bank
Schricker
Suffragette Leaderlet Emmeline Pankhurst Freed in Britain
London reports Emmeline Pankhurst released from Holloway Prison after nine days on hunger strike following a three year sentence for instigating a dynamite attack on Lloyd George’s country home. Militants welcomed her, she refused food, and remains under parole rules with time yet to serve.
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Ty Thtter
London
Emmeline Pankhurst
Lloyd George
Holloway
Militant
Pankhurat
No Lady Barber Can Fool John
Spokane April 12 Pert testimony in a local dispute between Miss Ray Wilson a lady barber and John Erickson a Norwegian lumber jack from Rathdrum Idaho is taken by police. Erickson walked into Wilsons shop for a cut and shave and left after being billed 5.15 including items like fingering the scalp toweling the neck removing hair growth from the ears and sprinkling duck eggs on head. He told the barber you cant fool me.
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Spokane
Misa Ray Wilson
John Erickson
Rathdrum
Wash
John
Missa Wilson
Morgan's Body Reposes in Bronze Casket at Home
The body of J Pierpont Morgan lies in a bronze casket in the library of the Morgan mansion in New York. Relatives and close friends are admitted as red roses fill the room. Large candlesticks stand at the coffin ends and will stay lit until the funeral next Monday attended by leading financiers.
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New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Morgan Mansion
Morgan
Boy Sues Transit Company Over Ejection From Car
Frank Warren a Lincoln High School student sues Puget Sound Traction Co for 2000 dollars claiming he was forcibly thrown from a Green Lake car when he offered a school ticket as fare on January 15. The suit alleges the incident happened at 4?00 oclock after he boarded at 20th and Harrison.
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Frank Warren
Puget Sound Traction Company
Green Lake
Warren
Lincoln High School
Girl "at Sweet 18" for Postmistress
Spokane dispatch reports Miss Nelle Burke of Manafield winning endorsement to be postmistress at $1100 yearly. Local critics argue she is a minor, but petitions tied to National Committeeman John Pattison await transmission to Washington.
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Spokane
Wash
Nelle Burke
Manafield
National
John Pattison
Washington
Young Girl Watches Court Hear Sentences and Reflections
A star recounts a court morning where a 17 year old, Ralph Simons, is sentenced to 2 to 20 years at a reformatory with age restrictions. Henry Paris, 24 in age but younger in crime, faces 1 to 21 years. Pearl Turner, 18, sees a suspended sentence in exchange for staying with family, prompting the narrator to question judicial power.
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Star
Ronald
Ralph C. Simons
Monroe
Judge Ronald
Reformatory
Ralph Simons
Ponce de Leon
Fountain of Youth
Henry K. Paris
Simons
Paris
Superior Court
Pearl Turner
Eoir
Kahn Escapes Through Error From County Hospital
Photographer Raymond Kahn, once declared a farandac by Judge Mackintosh, walked out of the County hospital Friday night, was picked up hours later and sent to the county jail. He alleges malicious persecution by Clethyna and M. M. Mattison of the Times. The judge ordered a $1,000 bond and relocation to Chicago, but Kahn believed he was free to leave and left assuming transportation east was not required.
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Raymond Kahn
Mackintosh
Kahn
Clethyna
M. M. Mattison
Times
Chicago
Unionists Join LW W Attack in Grand Junction
In Grand Junction Colorado on April 12 a vigilance committee formed by labor leaders and industrialists ordered the IWW to depart. The group claims 3,000 members and aims to drive out 800 more IWW members arriving today.
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United
Grand Junction
Col
Colorfida Union
Denver
IL. W. W
W. W
Two Die Under Rolling Log in Olympia Incident
Edward Osberg and Peter F. Ward perished when a log car collapsed its retaining stakes. Osberg was from Chicago while Ward claimed a wife and five children in Portland and Milwaukee addressed letters to 2318 Galvia St Milwaukee. The Stark St. Mark's Episcopal mens club plans Alaska night with Bishop Rowe as guest.
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United Press
Olympia
Wash
Edward Osberg
Peter F. Ward
Osberg
Chicago
Ward
Portland
Galvia St
Milwaukee
Wis
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Alaska
Bishop Rowe
What Do You Know About Parcel Post Maps and Rates
The Seattle Star offers a free Parcel Post Map with a yearly subscription and details on what can be shipped, rate variations by zone, and coverage of Washington United States and the Panama Canal. A stand-alone map can be obtained for 3.25 dollars.
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Parcel Post
Seattle Star
Washington
United States
Panama Canal
The
Star
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Lial
NAB Society
Women IN Cabaret
Vice Probers
McKilto
Kan
Carboy Sues
Pauline Andrews
Nv. W
Miss Andrews
LW. W
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