Alarm System Work Aims to Improve Street Crossing Safety
City fire and water committee to discuss funding for street crossing fire alarms after the death of Anna Omiley. Councilman Crichton backs a steam siren at the Beattie Electric power house, while Fire Chief Cook supports Magmen at key crossings. Joslyn plans a new iron arm alarm with glass "fire" letters and a gong, with Seattle Electric Company funds and wiring to nine or ten crossings.
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Anna Omiley
Fire and Water Committee
Crichton
Post Street
Beattie Electric Company
Cook
Johnston
Second Ward
Otty
Joslyn
Hickey
Miles & Piper Company
Seattle Electric Company
Grant
Luts
License Committee Deadlock Over Saloons In City Council
A deadlock at a license revenue committee meeting halted three saloon license petitions amid dispute over whether the police chief should review each application. Comptroller Heiptinger refused to hand petitions to the police chief until committee action, citing city charter. The council later ordered refund of a $1,000 license deposit to Seattle Brewing and Malting Company as a matter of record, while debate over process continued.
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License Revenue Committee
Couel
Bach
Paulton
Johnston
Benjamin
Bowen
Burnett
Tee
Heiptinger
Riplinger
Delaney
Seattle Brewing and Malting Company
Murphy
Conway
Daulton
Untitled historic ad fragment about Hall’s Catarrh remedy
An OCR fragment advertises Hall's Catarrh remedy with a $100 reward offer. Mentions J Chenet & Co Toledo ENRAM MARVIN druggists and references a trustworthy 15 year relationship. Details are garbled but imply marketing and financial claims in a Toledo context.
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J. Chenet & CO
Toledo
Enram & Marvin. Druggists
Solid for Parker solid for Parker
Albany April 19 The Democratic state convention selected delegates to the national convention at St Louis Delegates at large David B Hill Edward Murphy Jr George Phret and James W Ridgeway Each alternate named C N Bulger W Caril Ely C H Ackerman and Francis Burton Harrison The delegates were instructed by a large margin 301 to 149 to vote for Parker.
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Albany
N. Y
St. Louis
David B. Hill
Edward Murphy, Jr
Troy
George Phret
New York City
Jomes W. Ridgeway
Brooklyn
C. N. Bulger
Oswego
W. Caril Ely
Buffalo
C. H. Ackerman
Broome
Francis Burton Harrison
New York
Crockery and China Deals in Basement Sale
Basement sale offers Crockery and China items including white stoneware bean pot butter crock and 1pound butter crocks. Pretty white and gold coffee cups 6 per item, pie plates 10 cents each, dinner plates 10 cents each, all in same design.
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Sepair
Parker as Presidential Candidate and Delegates Named
Judge A B Parker sought the presidential nomination with delegates named including Ehret and Marty Payne Whitney as electors at large. District delegates listed encompass Belmont MacCarren Littleton Grout Sheehan Sulzer Nixon McAdoo Cochran Van Wyck Murphy Towne Grady Whitney Levy Dayton Gardiner Danforth Raines Stanchfield. The convention voted to send an instructed delegation amid a packed hall and adopted a platform opposing trusts, seeking tariff revision, and reform in public office.
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A. B. Parker
Tammany
Mr. Ehret
Marty Payne Whitney
John T. Woodford
Perry Belmont
P. H. MacCarren
Martin W. Littleton
Edward M. Grout
James Sheehan
T. Dpd
Sullivan
Sulzer
Lewis Nixon
Bird
Council clash over smoking rule ends with Crichton win
In a heated council meeting President Gill sought to enforce a no smoking rule but Dr. Crichton won a narrow vote to finish his cigar. Street Sprinkling is proposed with 396 blocks needing coverage, 70 days to bid. Large street improvements and paving orders followed.
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Gill
Dr. Crichton
Crichton
Counccil
Walters
Terry, Boyleston
Boren Avenues
John Street
Eastlake
Fairview
Mercer
Dennyway
Roy
Harrison
Republican
Mercer Streets
Pontius
Westlake Avenues
Little Girl Granted Verdict Against Electric Company
Ella Wricktow, a years old, was awarded 8 damages by a superior court jury against Beattie Electric Company for injuries after a Green Lake car jumped a rail and plunged over an embankment while taking a picnic party to Woodland Park. Guardians sought 10000. doctors said injuries were minor and company offered 200.
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Ella Wricktow
Green Lake
Woodland Park
Beattie Electric Company
Ella
Conductor Assault Case Heard Over $26,000 Damages
Superior Judge Griffin presides as Robert Abrams sues Seattle Electric Company seeking 26000 damages for injuries claimed after an assault by a University car conductor and motorman. Abrams says the conductor failed to stop at his chosen street and beat him, throwing him off the vehicle. he alleges permanent injuries.
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Griffin
Robert Abrams
Seattle Electric Company
Abrams
Dead Man Found Near Lopes Island Identified
A man was found dead days ago near Lopes Island’s south end by farmer Chadwick, as reported to Capt. Texter of the revenue cutter Grant. The unidentified man lay in a black skiff with crutches aboard. An inquiry failed to identify him and the body was buried after a futile inquest.
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Port Townsend
Lopes Island
Chadwick
Texter
Revenue
Grant
Markets Wholesale Prices Provisions Freon Meat-Cow Beef
Wholesale price notes report higher on average with meat and provisions. Cow beef priced at a certain per pound rate reflecting market changes.
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On & I
Local Produce Prices Listed in scattered OCR
Fragmentary OCR lists fruit prices including pineapples at 44 dow dia per box lemons or berries at 12 per box and other items such as green fruit and cranberries. The text is incomplete with many garbled words and unclear quantities. It appears to be a market or grocery listing from a period newspaper.
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Aarp
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Lttie
Mit Firet Avenue
Vine and
Cedar
TEITH
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Dental Trust
Brown's
Painless Dentists
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Miret Avenue
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Portland
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Everett
Teke Advantag
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Brown’s Paintess
MacDougall & Houthwick's
Mto
White River
Walla
Fies
Newsifesta
Girle
Raymond & Hoyt
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Kentucky
Bond
Keystone Liquor Co
Desale and Family Trade
Cor
Seneca
Columbia
Lakewood
Caldwell
Ernst Bros
John
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Monarch
Hamilton Organ Company
Second Avenue
Stone, Fisher & Lane
China
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Merode
Chennex
Cascade Laundry CO
Cuffs
Third Avenue
Main Street
Seattle
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