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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1906
Page
3
City council members and opponents clash over issuing 1,272,000 in general fund bonds for a municipal street railway. They note past lighting bonds and argue the railway, with franchise terms and territorial division, is a steadier investment than earlier lighting ventures.
Cap Charlies F Head becomes regimental adjutant replacing Matt Gormley who is promoted to lieutenant colonel. Adj Denton M Crow from Eastern Washington battalion rises to captain and regimental commissary officer. Captain Mead, like Lt Gormley, served in the Philippines and earlier held several noncommissioned ranks in Captain Germiey s Company B.
Stock ton ca August 7 Prima Ledoux was sentenced to hang at San Quentin prison on October 19 at six in the morning and noon. She showed no emotional response to the verdict.
The Tacoma Railway and Power Company will pave the rail line on the American Lake route up to the new six pair crossing beyond Hi. Work is underway with 50 men employed on the south Tacoma section and 40 used for hauling material.
The notice advertises a book of engravings for pretty homes offered by Bonaibe to Knapp and West at 354 Cohen Building. It states the address and the nature of the publication as a decorative book.
The schedule outlines a week of military drills at Camp Tecoma with regular troope and militia in camp. August 13 to 17 features mental and drill exercises, preliminaries to grand maneuvers, and the commencement of hostilities between opposing forces with nighttime operations and continued encampment activities.
Roy Knabenshue and Dr. Julian P. Thomas completed a ballooning trip ending at Marnt Rock near Plymouth. The 225 mile journey lasted 12 hours, conducted mainly to test new ballooning gear. A typesetting error in a Fair Department Store ad misprinted sale dates as July 6th instead of August.
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