Quito on the Equator Surrounded by Snowy Peaks
The article presents Quito Ecuador perched 9 200 feet above sea level with high volcanoes like Cotopaxi and Chimborazo. It notes its cool climate, rugged steep streets, mule transport, and its history as an ancient city before Spanish conquest. It also mentions a future journey to Panama before heading home.
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Quito
Ecuvador
Equator
Ecuador
Tropics
Chimborazo
Cotopaxi
Antisana
Cayambe
Six Prisoners Break Jail in Lewis County
Six inmates escaped from the Lewis county jail just before midnight led by Frank Parmenter jailed for forgery. They used a stolen bar and a general taken from the wall to smash tail locks and created a hole to break out.
Eyres fire injures firefighters with recoveries ahead
Firemen injured in the Eyres fire last Monday night are rapidly recovering. Captain Martin Bresnahan and Pipeman Fred Bayne face several weeks in bed, while others expect full recovery in 19 days. Loss estimated at 85,000 across Eyres Transfer Co and surrounding properties. County clerk Sickels prepares the annual lawyers directory and asks attorneys to submit names.
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Eyres
Martin Bresnahan
Fred Bayne
Eyres Transfer Co
Caine & Grimshaw
Lowman & Hanford
C. M. Shaw
Market Prices for Fresh Meats and Grades
The Markets column lists average prices for fresh meats by grade. Prices shown are for first grade only and reflect freshness and general quality standards used by local retailers.
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Rai
London Police Graft Probe Faces Strong In Food Criticism
In Dallas on April 26 a report claims Booker T. Washington leads a northern funded plan to buy the International and Great Northern railway to run a negro controlled line with negro labor and white passengers. A temperance insurance firm plans to insure Inebriates at half the rate of sober patrons with a pledge to abstain from liquor.
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London
Syme
Pole Department
Dallas
Tex
Booker T. Washington
North
International & Great Northern Railroad
Theatres Showcase Nightly Programs Across City Venues
Moore Marie Dressler in Tiles Nightmare at Grand Theatre. Seattie-Landers Stevens company performs Lion and the Mouse. Lois presents Why Smith Left Home. Star features Two Thieves. Alhambra screens The Absent Boy. Orpheum Majestic Pantages run New Vaudeville programs.
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Moore
Marie Dressler
Seattie — Landers Stevens Company
Lois
Smith
Star
Alhambra
Orpheum
Majestic
Pantages
Poor They Love Rich They Fight Milwaukee Marriage Struggles
In Milwaukee on April 24, Thomas Berninger age 72 and Celestine 65 appeared in divorce court after 42 years of marriage marked by poverty and rising conflicts. Thomas accused cruelty while Celestine denied that claim blaming his drinking. the judge reserved decision.
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Milwaukee
Thomas Berninger
Thomas
Celestine
Cudahy and Miss Brewer Quietly Wed in San Mateo
Edward Cudahy son of the late Michael Cudahy and Leonora Brewer were quietly married shortly before noon yesterday at St Matthews Catholic Church San Mateo Archbishop Riordan officiating.
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San Francisco
Edward Cudahy
Michael Cudahy
Chicago
Packer
Leonora Brewer
San Mateo
St. Matthews Catholic Church
Archbishop Riordan
Cottages Ready for TB Patients In Town
Eight cottages erected by the Anti Tuberculosis league on land donated by H C Henry will be ready for patients before week’s end. Mrs E Robinson and Miss Gertrude Strowbridge will have charge. The cottages will house 100 patients.
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Anti Tuberculosis League
H. C. Henry
E. Robinson
Gertrude Strowbridge
New Women’s Free Employment Office Opens in Liberty Building
The City Employment Office for Women will locate in the Liberty building opposite the post office. Positioned in the district with private employment agencies, it is expected to reduce their profits drawn from the limited earnings of working women seeking jobs.
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Women's Free Employment Office
Liberty Building
Post Office
Traveling con man fleeces travelers on Kansas City to Omaha run
A smooth confidence man posing as a rich goat rancher offered lucrative positions to traveling salesmen on trains between Kansas City and Omaha. He then negotiated loans pending receipt of alleged telegraphic money orders, fleecing multiple victims.
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Omaha
Kansas City
Cook Carrying Opium Detained Aboard Steamer
Second cook Wa Sing of the steamer Iroquois was arrested by Customs Inspector Bailey for possessing opium. His hearing was scheduled for 10 o'clock today.
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Cook
Wa Sing
Iroquois
Bailey
Film listings and new features at Alaska-Odeon theatres 1911
The page advertises multiple films at Alaska and Odeon venues including Cord of Life Western drama How the Office Boy the Gore and The Cowboys on t Son irquit Demonstrations showings run for three days with many comedies and dramas such as The Phony Prince Zululand and At the Sword's Point Also listed are Salome portrayals in Herodias and various travel and newsreel items World’s Events of the Day Taken in Europe is noted among offerings.
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Alaska
Seattle
the Gore
Twin Towers
France
Mies Ventura
Odeon Theatre
Paris
Salome
Diadem
New Butler
Rickshaw
Detective
Slim Jim
Jack Wilson
Ideal
Spriggine
Odeon
Lubin
Zululand
Riley
Sword’s Point
Freddie
Washington
Europe
Ecente
Com
Young Hawaiian in detention over cholera carrier claim
Honolulu reports a physically perfect Hula, a young Hawaiian, kept in close confinement as doctors say his body harbors millions of cholera bacteria. Federal authorities will hold him indefinitely until there is no danger of spread.
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United Free
Honolulu
Mary
New York
Hula
Hulu
City council pressures Calhoun on Rainier car line progress
Rainier valley residents applaud as the city utilities committee urges Corporation Counsel Calhoun to push the municipal street car line. An injunction blocks Rainier boulevard grading while a separate right of way question near the old city limit awaits action.
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Rainier Valley
City Utilities Committee
Council
Calhoun
Crawford
Rainier Boulevard
Rainier Beach
Danworth
Old City Limited
Griff Fithe
Erickson
X. Hall
No Waiters Needed Here
A Seattle business agent of the Waiters union argues that stories claiming a shortage of competent waiters are false. He says wages cited are exaggerations and that skilled restaurant help can be found by applying to the Cooks' or Waiters' union.
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Seattle
Cooks’ Or Waitern Union
Unionists seek stay on Los Angeles picketing case denied
In San Francisco on April 26 the state supreme court denied a petition from union men of Los Angeles to stay proceedings on picketing charges. They argued no city ordinance barred picketing at the time of arrest.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
State Supreme Court
Plague Death Toll Surges in India Central Provinces
Official figures show bubonic plague deaths in India's central provinces reached 96,484 in March, with February fatalities at 42,509. The data reflects escalating mortality during the outbreak.
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London
India
Perjury Charged Elopers Can't Divorce
Bristol Tenn April 26 Reverend Alfred H Burroughs known as the marrying parson says he married over 5000 runaway couples in ten years and traces only five divorces claiming his work produced no parental consent for many unions and alleging perjury in some cases.
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Elopers
Bristol
Tenn
Alfred H. Burroughs
Tennessee
Mother Seeks ten Thousand in Son's Death Case
Mrs Hertha Draft sues Seattle Lighting Co contractor G A Persson and hotel owner N W Brightman for 10375 damages over her son's December 24 death by asphyxiation in a Pacific hotel room. Alleged three fourths inch pipe cut by contractor, gas company not repaired after notification.
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Charles Drafs
Pacific
Hertha Draft
Seattle Lighting Co
G A. Persson
N. W Brightman
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Metropolitan Tower
Commercial State Bank of
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Odd Fellows
Will H. Morris
Fred Graham
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Francis B. Clarke
Spokane
Just
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Edison
Victor
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Eee R. & G. Corsets
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