Meat in Cans Seven Years Old Sold at Cut Rates
Deputy State Food Inspector W H Adams reports three local merchants and two companies sold old and decayed meat in cans packed before 1906. The charges allege misbranding to deceive buyers with Advance brand tongue potted turkey Maryland crab flakes and other products. Cases against Sulzberger & Sons J R Grant Co and Puget Sound Packing Co set for August 4.
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W. H. Adams
Sulzberger & Sons
Seattle
Johnson
White
Schwartzchild & Sulzberger
Sulzberger & Son
New York
Chicago
Kansas City
Fried
Adams
J. P. Grant Co
Puget Sound Packing Co
Washington
Maryland
Justice Brown
R. H. Codray
J. R. Grant
Seattle & Puget Sound Packing Co
Monroe Lewis
William Lewis
Mears Pursues World Record Dash by Sea and Rail
Newspaper man John Herry Mears departs Seattle at 3 45 a m Saturday for a record around the world voyage to New York Sun. He travels aboard the Maud FP from Yokohama to Seattle, aided by special trains and boats to maintain the schedule. Delays in Siberia briefly set back the plan, yet rapid travel and global support push him toward a landmark time.
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John Herry Mears
Seattle
Seadie
Yokohama
Northern Pacific
Atlantic Express
Mears
New York
London
Paris
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Jules Verne
Nelile Bly
Henry Frederick
Andre Jaeger-Schmidt
Wilson
Nationa
Nature
Russia
China
Japan
Tokyo
Riverside Ped teachers push ban on all day sucker
Riverside educators and PTA members plan to abolish the all day sucker and ice cream cone near schools. An ordinance to prohibit sale within 400 feet of a school from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. has been presented to city leaders.
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Riverside
Cal
Parent-Teacher Association
Seattle Star Pennant Offer For Readers
Clipping any four consecutive coupons from The Star and paying 15 cents earns a 65 cent pennant. Oregon State pennants are out, California pennants due next Monday. Pennants can be mailed for an extra 5 cents each. Send or bring to The Seattle Star at 1307 Seventh Ave near Union St.
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Star
Oregon State
California
Seattle Star
Seventh Ave
Union St
Prospector strike in Shushanna river area sparks rush
Report from Cordova says hundreds rush to the Shushanna river new gold strike as officials seek verification. The Star wires Katalla oil man Thorg Asbjornson for confirmation while seasoned Alaskans dispatch a Dawson miner from Seattle to survey pay dirt and assess prospects. About two thousand veterans may join the rush if his findings are favorable.
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Cordova
Shushanna River
Thorg Asbjornson
Katalla
Hia
Seattle
Heat Wave Shocks Seattle As Residents Seek Shelter
The city endures a hot spell with noon temperatures near 79 degrees. Patrols report some park sleepers suffered in yesterday's heat. no fatalities have been recorded so far, contrasting Eastern cities with higher death counts. Residents lament the heat yet accept it as preferable to cooler conditions.
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Mercury
Geattle
Seattle
Jack Irwin Takes Post as Marconi Wireless Superintendent
Soldier of fortune and adventurer Jack Irwin begins a new career as superintendent of the Northern division for Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in Seattle. His varied service includes Boer War signal corps, Zulu rebellion combat, the Republic rescue call, and early air wireless distress signals during a Wellman dirigible flight.
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Jack Irwin
Seattle
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
Wellman
Jack
Republic
Russia Declines Panama Pacific Exposition Participation
St Petersburg Aug 1 Russia announced that it will not participate in the Panama Pacific exposition following England's example. No official explanation was given in reply to the invitation.
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ST. Petersburg
Russia
England
Long Coast Autotrip Ends in City Visit
Mr and Mrs W B Bush and Mr and Mrs R R Bradley with Jack Tehen of Los Angeles completed a 3000 mile auto journey and arrived in the city last evening, stopping at the Washington hotel for the night.
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W. B. Bush
R. R. Bradley
Jack Tehen
Los Angeles
Washington Hotel
Aerial Lochinar Weds Bride After Air Elopement
Paris reports a dramatic aviation elopement as a bold aviator and a reluctant-bride-to-be fled by plane to Isay 260 miles away. The bride, eloping with the man after a romance sparked during exhibition flights, insisted she chose flight and marriage of her own will.
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Paris
Mort
Isay
Madame Melba's 25th Anniversary Pays $2500 Per Performance
A London despatch notes Nella Melba has marked her 25th operatic anniversary. The star earns $2500 each time she sings, a figure far surpassing what colleagues and reporters earn. The telegraph operator and editors marvel at the sum.
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London
Nella Melba
Mme. Melba
Lazy husbands paid for county stockade labor
Payment of $79.60 is issued to the families of George Riggs Salero Saez Herbert Abcott and C J Mayer. The men are described as lazy husbands currently laboring for the county building a stockade with the help of other prisoners.
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George Riggs
Salero Saez
Herbert Abcott
C. J. Mayer
Liner Encounters Whale During Coast Run
The Pacific Steamship Company liner Harvard 8 proceeded on its regular run after colliding with a whale off Point Sur on its last trip south. Passengers reported the whale drifted across the bows as the ship plowed at full speed, triggering visions of icebergs and wreckage on deck.
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Los Angeles
Harvard 8
Point Sur
Burglars Loot San Francisco Home of James Schwabacher
Burglars ransacked the San Francisco residence of James H. Schwabacher last night and took jewelry and silverware valued at 1500 dollars. No occupants were present, and the thieves acted at leisure.
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San Francisco
James H. Schwabacher
Meat Unfit for Humans Says State Chemist
State Chemist Johnson brands confiscated meat cans as absolutely unfit for human beings. Analysis shows the meat sour, cans corroded, and likely to cause promarine and tin poisoning. Sulzberger & Sons cans deemed oldest, packed around the Spanish American War era. label likely added by 1906, making them at least seven years old.
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Johnson
Sulzberger & Sons
White
Ben
Summer School Graduates Celebrate First UW Ceremony
For the first time in University of Washington history, summer school graduates received diplomas and degrees at a formal ceremony. Twenty one degrees and twelve nominal diplomas were awarded as the six week term closed tonight.
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University of Washington
Death of W. B. Jen a former Seattle resident
Word reached Seattle today of the death of W. B. Jen a former Seattle resident and brother-in-law of E. C. Cheasty of San Francisco. Jenkins was well known here and had previously conducted a shoe business before taking up a dance in San Francisco.
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Seattle
W. B. Jen
E. C. Cheasty
San Francisco
Jenkins
Ing
Northwest Development Hinges on Publicity Says Prof Thorpe
At a luncheon by the Young Men's Business club at the Arctia club Prof Merle Thorpe urged stronger publicity for the Northwest to boost growth. He, formerly at Washington and now with the University of Kansas, champions an efficient news bureau.
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Arctia Club
Young Men's Business Club
Merle Thorpe
Northwest
Thorpe
Anal of Washington
University of Kansas
Secretary of War Garrison Postpones Puget Sound Luncheon
The Secretary asked the Seattle Commercial Club to move the August 5 luncheon to August 6 because he cannot attend until he completes fortification inspections on Puget Sound. The event will be held August 6 in his honor.
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Garrison
Seattle Commercial Club
Puget Sound
Seattle Expands Playgrounds with 12 Improved Sites
Seattle reports 12 improved playgrounds for children and 10 unimproved ones. The New Chamber of Commerce lists six stenographers, five from Hyatt-Fowells School at F and Pine, where training shifts toward real business skills.
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Seattle
Chamber of Commerce
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