Tatoosh Island Lighthouse Station World of Actives
The captain and family occupy the keeper’s home while assistants and weather forecasters live in neighboring houses. A wireless station, towering masts, and singing wires anchor the site. Visitors from Neah Bay, Makah reservation, coast guard, and cannery workers frequent the island, especially during salmon season when ships fill the surrounding waters.
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Cowan
Neah Bay
Makah
Coast Guard Service
Revenue Cutters
Banka
Umatilla
Instans Relief Patent Medicine Ad
For sour acid stomachs gas and fermentation of food a teaspoonful in a fourth of a glass of hot water usually gives instant relief Sold by all druggists in powder or tablet form at 60 cents per bottle.
Archbishop Leaves City on Knights of Columbus Tour
With the Knights of Columbus supreme council closing session on Thursday, many representatives began departing the city for sight-seeing trips around the area, signaling an orderly wrap to the event.
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Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus
Order
Knights Receive Papal Greetings From Rome
The Knights of Columbus supreme council meeting heard a cable from Pope Benedict XV sending best wishes for the national convention. The message, dated Rome August 4, stated the Holy Father gave apostolic benediction to bishops priests officers and worthy knights attending. Cardinal Gasparri signed as Papal Secretary.
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Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus
Benedict XV
Rome
Holy Father
National Convention of Knights of Columbus
Cardinal Gasparri
Knights and officials tour Bremerton and Seattle events
A large delegation of knights and ladies visited Bremerton navy yard to tour battleships. In Seattle 2,900 attended a ball at the Hippodrome honoring supreme council delegates while a Metropolis roof garden dance occurred. Malcolm Douglas spoke on Alaska at the Press club theatre amid related entertainments. About 2,000 signed up for an automatic boulevard ride.
The Lighthouse Keeper and the Fatal Night at Neah Bay
Sailors and a lighthouse crew endure a brutal night at sea near Tatoosh Island. Captain Cowan recalls his son Forrest and others lost when a halibut dory capsized in a rogue wave, the undertow dragging them away as a final farewell.
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Capt
Cowan
Forrest Cowan
Neah Bay
Capt. Cowan
Cook
Ringbolt Rock
Pan American meeting seeks Mexican peace and 1913 US plan
Washington hosts a secret conference as Secretary Lansing and U S Mexican Investigator Paul Fuller discuss ending the Mexican civil strife. Ambassadors of Argentina Brazil and Chile and ministers from Bolivia Uruguay and Guatemala attend. A time limit for factions to settle is set with a joint stance on supporting Carranza or Tagle depending on Mexican agreement.
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Washington
Lanelry
Mexico
Lansing
Paul Fuller
Wilson
United States
South America
Argentine
Brazil
Chile
Bolivia
Uruguay
Guatemala
Carranza
Tagle
Madero
Husband of slain woman to go home
Sena fonta Manzi, 512 Marions 1, identified the body of his wife found in Schmitz park as his spouse. He announced that once the slayer is captured he will sell his peanut and popcorn wagon on Third Ave between Seneca and University and return to Italy. He noted they were married six years ago in Naples and came to the United States shortly after.
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Senafonta Manzi
Marions
Schmitz Park
Third Ave
Seneca
University Sta
Italy
Naples
Commissioners to Spokane for Eastern Washington business inquiry
Arriving here at 4 this afternoon George Robles and W J Harris federal trade commissioners will leave for Spokane at 7. Will H Parry of Seattle a commission member will accompany them and Commissioners J E Davies and FE N Hurley will meet them at Spokane where an inquiry into business problems of Eastern Washington will be held.
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George Robles
W. J. Harris
Spokane
Will H Parry
Seattle
Commission
J. E. Davies
FE. N. Hurley
Washington
Famous Teacher Visits Seattle En Route to Oakland
Mies Grace Strachan, Brooklyn NY school superintendent and National Education Association candidate, completed a nine year campaign for higher teachers salaries. She passed through Seattle Wednesday evening on the way to the NEA convention in Oakland California.
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Mies Grace Strachan
Brooklyn
N. Y
National Educational Association
Seattle
San Francisco
The
Educational Association
Oakland
Four Women Ticket Agents Tour O W R N Terminals
Four of America’s only woman ticket agents visit terminals of the O W R and N Co as guests of the Transportation club. The group includes Miss Estelle Macauley of Portland Miss Olive E Lender of Spokane Miss M L Baker of Walla Walla and Miss Edna Flynn of Seattle.
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America
Transportation Club
Estelle Macauley
Portland
Olive E. Lender
Spokane
M. L. Baker
Walla Walla
Edna Flynn
Seattle
Masked bandits rob Des Moines store in armed hold up
Deputy sheriffs and police fail to locate six masked bandits after they robbed the Rudberg Barnes general store in Des Moines Tuesday night. The robbers fled in an auto found several miles away and later returned to W G Karch.
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Rudberg-Barnes General
Des Moines
W. G. Karch
Itsh Ave
Spoiled cocoanut barrels burned at Westlake Market stand
State Pure Food Inspector Adams seeks an ex pressman who delivered six barrels of spoiled cocoanut to Oscar Lucks at Westlake Market. Lucks signed a waiver for the consignment and it was burned.
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State Pure Food
Adams
Oscar Lucks
Westlake
Lucks
Red Front Clothing Co to Sell $30,000 Stock at Public Auction
The Red Front Clothing Co at 1510 First Ave Seattle announces immediate sale of its entire $30,000 stock. Items include men’s suits from $10 to $40, fine hats, shoes, underwear, shirts, hosiery and neckwear. Doors reopen Saturday August 7 at 10 a.m. for a sensational price cutting event opposite the Public Market. Watch tomorrow night’s Star for details.
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Seattle
Red Front Clothing Co
First Ave
Vicinity
Atrocities Report As Armenians Face Turkish Repression
Dated July 29 from Dedergatch Bulgaria reports Armenian deportations in Asia Minor, confiscation of property, and family separations under the Young Turk government. Armenians drafted for Gallipoli, women and children left vulnerable. Ambassador Morgenthau seeks German and Austrian aid to avert renewed massacres.
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Dedergatch
Bulgaria
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Young Turk
Constantinople
Asia Minor
Gallipoli
Dardanelles
Morgenthau
Germany
Austria
Think Kaiser Will End War Soon
Berlin reports a belief that the war may end before winter after the Warsaw capture. Kaiser Wilhelm to meet ministers, fall program set before Aug 17 Reichstag, with a campaign seen as paving early peace. Germans claim Allies exhausted. Russia weakened. western fronts static. Dardanelles unresolved. Bulgaria pledges neutrality.
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Warsaw
Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm
Reichatag
Russia
England
France
Belgium
Germany
Dardanelles
Balkan
Bulgaria
Hulet M Wells Elevates to Labor Council Presidency
In a warm contest the final ballot stood 54 to 60 as Hulet M Wells of Electrical Workers Union No 77 defeated Ed T Levi, former Central Labor Council vice president and Waiters Union business agent, after three ballots. Wells was installed immediately.
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Hulet M. Wells
Electrical Workers’ Union
Ed T. Levi
Waiters’ Union
Central Labor Council
Wells
Gill
George F. Cotterill
A. E. Parish
R. L. Proctor
The
Carpenters’ Union
F. A. Rust
James Duncan
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Bagdad
Ee Grunbaum Vert Niture
Sleepery
Woodhouse-Grunbaum Furniture Co. Inc
Hollywood Lunch and Soda Peountain
Pike St
Adv
Frye’s Markets
U. S&s
Drophead Singer
Drophead Wheeler & Wilson
Drophead New Home
White Sewing Machine CO
Eons Ave
Main
Tatoosh Light
Fred Boalt
Tatoosh
Janet McKenzie Hill
Boston Cooking School Magazine
Jaques Mfg. Co
Cho
Eisurated Magnesia
SALE
Kaiser
BY Carl W. Ackerman
Hague
Dr. Shark
Shark
Dental Combine
Edwin J. Brown
Ss. Tis
First Avenue
Union Block
Blore
Second Ave
Iceland
Labor Council
Chinist
Reinhold Loewe
Ida I. Levi
Reading
T. F. McNamara
Baker
Havana
Alaska Railroad Commission
Anchorage
City Opticians
Northwest
Third Avenue
Pike and Pine Sts
Lincoln Hotel
Ferry
Hotel Roy
Kearny
Alamo Inn
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