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20 Apr 1911
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Seattle Star in Seattle, Washington
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1911
Page
1
Mayor backs police in jail probe amid brutalities claims
City officials defend Jailer Corbett as a council hearing airs accounts of mistreatment in the jail. Witnesses describe beatings and nudity ordeals. protesters demand reform while the mayor says affidavits are lies and the jail is clean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pape
Corbett
City Hospital Lets Drunken Husband Take Wife Home to Die
After giving birth a 36 hour hospital stay ended with a release to a drunken husband and a shack at 65 Blanchard. She died 18 hours later. Officials debate blame while coroner and humane officers target the husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hospital
J. D. MacGregor
Equalid
Blanchard St
Daphne Pollard to quit stage life at Lois theatre
The Lois theatre star Daphne Pollard announces she will leave the stage though acknowledging past success. She cites her mother and father returning from Australia as a reason and hints at a permanent retirement from show life. A Seattle press agent confirms little beyond cautious remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daphne Pollard
Lois Theatre
Daphne
Pollard
Thle
Mommer
Australia
Miss Pollard
Seattle
Lois
Grow Thin Eat Five Meals Says European Physician
Prof Albert Robin a physician to crowned heads and European aristocracy advises that to grow thin one should eat five meals a day and take gentle exercise. The remark appeared in a United Press article dated April 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Presse
ARIS
Albert Robin
Europe
Ladies Smoke Aboard Oceanic Sparks Social Debate
Passengers on the steamer Oceanic discuss fashionable women smoking in deck chairs. Mrs Brooke Claxton, a society matron, admits to smoking and defends the practice as a worthy fad abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Oceanic
Brooke Claxton
Baseball Today Weather Delays Several East Coast Games
Rain postpones Boston at Brooklyn and Philadelphia at New York games while Nationals at Brooklyn and Americans at Washington proceed. a New York Washington matchup is also listed with rain affecting the schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baseball Today
Brooklyn
Boston-Brooklyn
Philadelphia
New York
Washington
New York Washington
Madero Moves on Juarez as Attack Looms
Ultimatum to Navarro demands Juarez surrender by 6 pm or face assault. Madero commands four columns, Garibaldi Orozco Villa and Raoul Madero close for a fight near Juarez. Americans warned to leave. prisoners feared. Rebels estimated around 4,000 outside Juarez works. artillery planned for Friday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle Star
United Press
EL Paso
Tex
Madero
Navarro
Juarez
Garibali
Orozco
Villa
Raoul Madero
Garibaldi
Lawrence Converse
Edwin Blatt
Flores Ranch
Sied
No damages for brakeman as jury finds no negligence
Thomas M Monahan lost his suit against Milwaukee railway after a jury found neither he nor the company negligent in a boiler explosion. The piece notes upcoming compensation act on October 1 to protect workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Monahan
Milwaukee Railway
Government to Blame for Camorra in Italy
Reports from Naples say the Camorra thrives in southern Italy while trials near completion in Viterbo for the Cuoco-Cuoccolo assassination. Critics argue government neglect and illiteracy fuel the crime, saying warmth and poverty breed a large idle class and Camorra recruitment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
United Press
Battle Star
Viterbo
Genarro Cuoccolo
Naples
Camorra
Employee wins free season ticket for correct admissions guess
John Givens, receiving clerk at the Postal Telegraph main office on First Avenue, won a free season ticket to the ball games after guessing nearest to the opening game paid admissions. His guess was 4455, the correct total 4434. the ticket was awarded today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Givens
Postal Telegraph Company
First Av
Mr. Givens
Senate opens Chugach forest files in Morgan Guggenheim probe
Washington April 20 The senate adopted a resolution directing the secretary of the interior to send to the Senate all claims locations filings and entries in the Chugach forest. The move follows allegations that a Morgan Guggenheim syndicate sought control of a railway route from Alaskan coal lands to Controller Bay via an open land strip. Senator La Follette introduced the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Morsan-Guggenheim Syndicate
Chugach National Forest
Coal Lands
Controller Bay
Senate
Secretary of the Interior
Chugach Forest
Morgan Guggenheim
LaFollette
Residents petition City Light Georgetown seeks city light
Several hundred residents and property owners petition the mayor and city council. The Seattle Electric Co. currently lights streets while Furth Co contracted before annexation and the city pays monthly. Seattle Tacoma Power Co. furnishes light to residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown
Seattle Electric Co
Furth Company
Electric Company
Seattle Tacoma Power Co
Poker Not Ideals Court Rules On Gambling Charge
In Angeles Superior Court Judge McCormick rejects poker as the American game when Roy Woodstock’s attorney likens it to an American institution. The court says America has lofty ideals and rejects any paternity of gambling with the name. Ladies Day noted at the ball park with all women admitted today. Giants likely to field Foreimer Whaling and Cates Lewis for Vancouver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Mathews
Corbett
Health Department
Grant
Billy
Elizabeth Daniels
Bartlett
Dee
Angeles
Superior Court
McCormick
Roy Woodstock
America
Ball Park
Foreiner
Whaling
Cates and
Lewis
Vancouver
Day elected president of Equitable Life Insurance Society
William Day was elected president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, succeeding the late Paul Morton. Three directors opposed Day who favors keeping the company non mutual. J Pierpont Morgan favors mutualization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William Day
The
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Paul Morton
Day
J. Pierpont Morgan
Hamilton Claims Salary Rise Amid County Dispute
County hospital nurses were denied a $5 monthly raise while foreman L. Card at the county poor farm won a $15 boost from $75 to $90 after a tense board meeting. Hamilton had promised $90 pre election, and the claim for January and February was disputed until minutes showed the raise was approved over McKenzie’s protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. ©. Card
Hamilton
Dr. Carson
McKenzie
Auditor's
Murphy
Card
Board of Commissioners
Shomo Hidden as Hunt for fugitive intensifies
Hot Springs Ark April 20 and Burns detectives along with Deputy Sheriff Roberts search for Charles W. Shomo. They are shadowed by men on Shomo payroll who relay tips about his hiding place and movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Ark
Charles W. Shomo
Burns
Roberts
Shomo
Witness Secrecy Shomo Hides Until Grand Jury Ends
Report states Shomo remains in hiding to avoid revealing testimony to the grand jury. It is expected he will leave his hiding place once the jury is dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shomo
College Men Standpatters But Getting More Progressive
A University of Wisconsin professor argues college men are generally conservative and often wrong in politics. He notes no great movements led by alumni in the Revolution, cites Lincoln’s lack of a university education as a turning point, and suggests that today colleges breed intelligent radicals like La Follette Beveridge and Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
LaFollette
Beveridge
Roosevelt
Fiancée Receives Bullet Torn Clothes of Captain Creighton
Blood stained relics of Captain Creighton reach his fiancée Francis Hughes in El Paso. His hat poncho notebooks and blood stained letters survive while his saber and side arms remain on the Mexican side for fear of arrest. A letter from Mexican provisional president Madero offers condolences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Tex
Creighton
Bauche
Francis Hughes
Madero
Mexico
Mistaken Burglary Leads to Shootout in Market Street Flat
New York April 20. Jacob Colter and another tenant mistaken for burglars shot Miss Bloomfield in the thigh then fired from a window to alert neighbors. About 1,000 people crowded the street as Madison Street reserves arrived and police entered the building. The shooter was jailed, later freed, and Miss Bloomfield was hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jacob Colter
Miss Bloomfield
Market St
Madison St
One Solid City From Everett to Tacoma Prophecy
University professor W G Beach argues for expanding regional specialization from Tacoma to Everett. He predicts a single continuous urban area by concentrating industry and farm goods flow from Philadelphia to New York and Washington to Boston, with Puget Sound becoming a 5 million plus city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett
Tacoma
W. G. Beach
America
Prof. Beach
Pittsburg
Prac
Philadelphia
New York
Washington, D. C
Boston
Puget Sound
Hot Water Cure Questioned at Hudson River Hospital
In Poughkeepsie April 20 a former bank clerk William Cavert seeks release from the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane alleging patients are forced to sit all day in hot water. Dr W E Merriam calls it a new cure for excitable patients and says it is successful. The court reserved decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
William Cavert
Hudson River State Hospital
W. Ek
Merriam
Guggenheim Divorce Second Review Hearing Begun
In Chicago on April 20 Judge Lockwood opened a second motion to review the divorce decree granted to Mrs Grace Guggenheim from William Guggenheim. The decree had been declared valid two years earlier and now faces further challenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Lockwood
Grace Guggenheim
Wm. Guggenheim
Harla Sloan-Bryant Pupil Recital Friday in Columbia Hall
The pupils of Harla Sloan-Bryant perform a recital Friday evening in Columbia college hall located at 10th avenue and E Priest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harla Sloan-Bryant
Columbia College Hall
10Th Av
E. Priest
Twins Born Last Night Stir Local Family
Mrs. Bill Gettem, wife of our fore man, is the proud mother of twins born last night. Bil says it is a typographical error. Uncle Zeke Ketchum's son Archibald has joined the army and secured a cook’s post at $13 a month. Some buyers rush to estimate future wages for thirty years then purchase a motor vehicle, Tate Watertower reported this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Gettem
Bil
Zeke Ketchum
Archibald
Tate Watertower
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Dium
Trimmeslitan
Lack, Ying
Dilling
Ohn Corbett
Wletne Raumyg
Dr. Matthews
Beatrice Hamilton
W. Anderson
Kenyon Novelty Co
Marge
Catheryn Stirton
Fanny Leake Cummings
Peter Bettinger
M. Glasgow
Peter Miller
Reynolds, Ballinger & Hutson
Supreme Court
Ltle
Jockey Club
Mabel Wilber
Merry Widow
Moore Theatre
Moore
Mabel
Miss Mebel
Charles
Ike Milas
Crichton
Woodward
Snyder
de Han
Parker
Juarez City
Garouo
Rio Grande
Rebel
San Diego
Ensenada
Simon Berthold
Alamo
Vega
Berthold
McGregor
John
Arthur
Mary
Margaret
Blanchard St. Hovel
Mother Ryther
City Light
MacMahon
U. of W
Capt. Creighton
Guggenheim
Hicktown
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