Fatal head on crash injures six near Twelve Mile House
Portland Ore Aug 6 Six persons two possibly fatally hurt are in local hospitals after a head on collision on the phase line road near the Twelve Mile house. The injured include A Brady driver with a fractured skull Maydie Merrill owner of Twelve Mile house concussion of the brain M Maguire son of Bakeronian theatre owner cut and bruised. Mr and Mrs Haley Portland sprained ankles T Bilyou automobile maker cut by glass. The two vehicles were going at top speed when they met, catapulting several occupants through the air.
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Portland
Ore
Loent
Fase Line
Twelve Mile House
Thie Elty
A. Hrady
Maydie Fred T. Merrill
M. Maguire
Bakeronian Theatre
Haley
T. Biyou
Cut Oy
Omas
W. M Tyler
Oldsmobile
Brady, Merrill, Bilyou
Portland Lodges Win at Woodmen Exhibition Drill
Portland lodge No. 107 led by officers in the Woodmen of the World events at the exposition Amphitheatre. Webfoot lodge No. 65 captured first place while Seattle No. 246 finished third as about 5,000 attended the fair’s Woodcraft activities.
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Portland
Exposition Amphitheatre
Yas
Webfoot Lodge
Prize for Best Float in Pageant of Pay Streak Day
The owners of the most outstanding float in the parade of all nations on Pay Streak Day will receive a premier prize. The event promises an international spectacle with diverse nationalities and natives from U.S. dominions. The celebration coincides with openings in the Pacific region linking the Philippines and Alaska to American enterprise. Carrie L Barnard sues Bamwel D Barnard for divorce in Purble Colorado citing his mining fortune.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Philippines
Alaska
Pacific
Amerian Enterprise
Purblo
Colo
Carrie L Barnard
Bamwel D. Barnard
West
English girl driven mad by desert ordeal in Tonopah
Miss Helen Rope, a cultured English girl visiting her miner brother in Lusing, endured three weeks alone in the desert without food or water. After a search by her brother, she was found insane and taken to Tonopah where doctors hope for recovery. She is known as an accomplished musician and speaks three languages. The report also notes a soda fountain explosion in Chicago injuring Gustavus CalTan.
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United Press
Helen Rope
Miss Rope
Lusing
Tonopah
Contem porary history of Harry Thaw and trial
A condensed recount of Harry Thaw's murder of Stanford White in 1908, his trials and appeals, costs incurred, and his transfer between facilities. The summary notes Capetown shore events involving the Maori and the Waratah search, and Chicago crime trends linked to heat.
Street Car Strike Paralyzes Evansville Transit Service
Evansville faces a stubborn street car strike as workers and Southern Indiana Traction Co fail to settle. Mayor John Nolan and officials meet with company leaders after the mayor’s mediation trips, but workers demand higher wages and retain work under old conditions. The city’s services and amusements suffer as sidewalks wear and parks remain closed.
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Marshall
John Nolan
Nolan
Lackey Boyt
Evanaville
Indianapolis
Kvaneville
Jettidale
Evansville
Ind
Aus
Aternoon
Rune
United States
Copper River and North Western Railroad Lands Record $50 Million Mortgage
Attorneys filed a fifty million dollar mortgage in Cordova Alaska to secure a fifty year five percent gold bond issued by the Copper River and North Western Railroad in favor of Standard Trust Company of New York. In New York urgent appeals seek 10 000 men from Minnesota and North Dakota for harvest work at two dollars to two dollars and forty cents daily.
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United Press
Cordova
Alaska
Copper Hiver & Northweathers Railroad
Standard Trust Company
New York
Aug
Minnesota
North Dakota
Boston Harbor Scenic Cruises and Laborer Ads
Boston Harbor offers affordable land and harbor tours with 10 cent daily terms. Free Friday and Saturday voyages entice residents while laborers are sought for the Boston Harbor operation. Free tickets available at Hillman’s office in Times Block and via Venus steamer contacts. Sunday Venus runs free to Bremerton with two trips at 10 AM and 2 PM, Monday trip to Baratoor.
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Bremerton Heights
Bremerton Navy Yard
Sam
Navy Yard
H. B. Kennedy
Colman Dock
Seattle Homeseekers Co
Cherry St
Bremerton
Oregon
Boston Harbor
Ucketa
Batter
Rice m
Venus
CD. Hillman
Times Block
C. D. Hillman
Washington
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Gal Oren
Hehron
Chicago
Gustavus Cal- Tan
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Madison Square Garden
New York City
Ward
Thaw
Dowling
Matteawan Asylum
Broadway
Matteawan
Supreme
Ity United Press
Capetown
Cape Colony
South Africa
New Zealand
Capehtown
Durban
United Frey Chicago
Hoffman
White Plains
Justice Mills
Jerome
Southern Indiana Traction Co
Prac- Healy
Indiana
J. J. Nolan
Olympia
PICA
Latte
Ronee
Boston Great Northern Pacific
Great Northwest
University
American Gentleman Tailors
First Avenue
Postal Telegraph Building
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