Ambulance needs in Seattle prompt call for covered wagon
The Seattle Star reports Dr. Churchill's plea for an ambulance after a woman was left in his office awaiting transport to Seattle General Hospital. With the patrol wagon unavailable, the patient rode exposed in the open wagon, prompting calls to end the unsafe practice and install a covered ambulance. The piece also discusses a labor shortage across the country, noting high demand for both skilled and unskilled workers amid prevalent strikes.
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Churchill
Iit
Lt #o
Cully
Seattle General Hospital
Seattle
Chehalis City Votes No On Limits Reduction
A Chehalis city election on August 16 rejected reducing city limits and removing Riverside addition and farming tenders. Only 107 votes were cast with the measure failing in a three fifths vote, while growers report hops sprayed and the wet weather may boost harvest though picking will be late. Lumber output in Lewis County drops due to car shortages though bow cars are plentiful but flats are scarce.
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Chehalis
Riverside
ST Fr
Lewis County
Four-Footed Performers Exhibit by Prof Gentry
Prof Gentry and his dog and pony company to exhibit under canvas at Second Avenue and Battery Street for four days starting August 21. Matinees daily at 2 39 p m. The show features over 200 trained animals in a popular and highly regarded performance with varied acts.
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Prof. Gentry
Second Avenue
Battery Street
Gentry
New Transports for Philippine Service
A Washington dispatch reports four more transports to carry troops and horses to the Philippines. Vessels Puebla Helgian King Columbia and Charles Nelson will supply space for 9 555 men with two or three to be loaded at Seattle. The Garonne to depart soon and the St Paul is due tonight. Lieut Col Werner and troops C FE F expected in Seattle with horses to be loaded on the Garonne tomorrow. Port Albert and Victoria sail in late August.
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Washington
Philippines
Puebla
Columbia
Charles Nelson
Pacific Coast Company
Northern Pacific Steamship Company
Dedwell & Co
Alaska
Seattle
Seattl
Garonne
San Francisco
Werner
Spokane
St. Paul
Port Albert
Victoria
Victori
Carrie
Reb
Stlington
Automobile gun carriage under construction in Duryea
Duryea company builds an automobile gun carriage for Maj. Davidson of Highland Park Military Academy. Three wheeled, weight about 1000 pounds, fires 400 rounds a minute from a 44 cal gun mounted over the front wheel, powered by Duryea propulsion, to be tested for Army interest in Washington.
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Prorta
Duryea Company
Davidson
Highland Park Military Academy
Washington
Duryea
Money Begging for a Claimant in Boston
Lee A. Higginson & Co in Boston hold 65000 dollars collected by the Volunteer Aid Association to aid Spanish war wounded. With the war ended the funds have no owner and sit idle. Bankers lack authority to redirect the money to Philippine troops.
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Boston
Mass
Lee A. Higginson & Co
Volunteer Aid Association
Philippines
Nebraska to fight trusts in state court action
Omaha Aug 17 Tomor row the State of Nebraska will commence a fight on all trusts doing business in the state and will expel them with the aid of the courts Attorney General Smith will begin in district court here a petition to eject the Standard Oil Company from the state alleging it is a trust restraining trade and violating state and national law
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Smith
State Officials Slowed Walla Walla Penitentiary Expansion
Washington Senator Turner pressed Interior Secretary for action on expansion of the Walla Walla penitentiary. The department said delays stem from Washington officials not deciding on use of funds and plans, and offered to forward existing plans if requested.
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Washington
Turner
Secretary of the Interior
Walla Walla
Interior Department
Department Ie
Lumber Trade Booms Amid Strong Coast Demand
The lumber market shows rising prices and high demand with the Pacific coast trade booming. The Weat Coast lumbermen report a 18% car trade gain over 1898 and a favorable outlook for a strong year. Logs stay firm coast wide. shingle mills may close two months, but fall trade should be enormous. Jim Cummings returns to Laberty after 25 years, facing an old horse theft indictment from 1874, now unlikely to be pursued.
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Weat Coast
Puget Sound
Gray's Harbor
Coust
Tacoma
Muckley
Carstons & Fark
Beattie Itte
Manila
Laberty
Jim" Cummings
Janws
Clay County
Cumming
United States
Eureka Springs
Ark
Wittrock
Adama Eapressa Company
St. Louis
Anti-Goebelites Nominate Kentucky State Ticket
The Kentucky anti-Goebelites held a state convention in Lexington and named a ticket headed by Governor John Young Brown. Other nominees include Maj. P. P Johnson for Lieutenant Governor and Lawrence P. Tanner for Attorney General, with delegates from 119 counties and a plan to use the Democratic emblem despite disputes over nomination legitimacy.
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Lexington
Johna Young Brown
Jefferson
P. P Johnson
Fayette
Lawrence P. Tanner
Owensboro
Frank A. Pateur
Caldwell
John C. Droege
Kenton
Edward L Hines
Warren
Durrant
Jessamine
G. W. Vandevere
Lincoln
Louieville
Goebel
Italeo
Campaign to expel religious orders in Spain agreed
In St Sebastian on August 17 the Republican and Borialiat party formed a coalition to campaign for the expulsion of all religious orders from Spain.
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ST. Spbastian
Spain
Republican
Borialiat Partiean
Liens Filed on Lumber Firms in Tacoma
In Tacoma on August 17, the county auditor recorded liens against Sargent Logging and Van Horn Lumber for 16 carloads of lumber at Buckley and Tacoma mills bound for the steamer Port Albert to transport government mules to Manila. Total liens about 499 dollars. An additional 42 liens target the same 16 carloads at Tacoma, tied to Carstons & Earles, also for Port Albert. Liens followed the Van Horn Lumber company receiver appointment last Saturday.
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Tacoma
County Auditor's
Sargent Logeing Company
van Horn Lumber Company
Buckley Mill
Teoma
Port Albert
Whier
Manila
Carstons & Earles
College to Tacoma as Whitworth Chooses Mason Property
Tacoma August 17 Tacoma's Whitworth college moves closer to reality as the Presbyterian board accepts the Mason property offer and a suitable lease and library option are pursued A wealthy eastern donor has contributed 50000 to establish the college with campus alterations and dormitory preparations under way for a late September opening and orderly operation with preparatory and college courses plus arts and music departments.
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Tacoma
Presbyterian Board of Aid To Colleges
Mason
Whitworth College
Ih, & Johnston
Citizents
Chicago
Hoard
Amid Aphorisms a Collection of Maxims
A dense compilation of quotations on conduct wisdom courtesy and timing from Arnold Napoleon Gar field P merrcon Horace Greeley Quintillan Franklin Magoon and Fenelon. The phrases urge action restraint politeness and steady resolve across diverse voices.
City crews delay sewer work after heavy rains
Superintendent of streets and parks notes heavy rainfall hindered sewer progress as contractors halted work city wide. John Lamb returns from two week Olalia hunting trip while Katherine Stream and James take two weeks vacation. City hall painters and paper handlers finish two weeks on site.
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John Lamb
City Water Department
Olalia
Lamb
Mies
Katherine Stream
Mission stalled as mayor on hunting trip delays office set up
Report notes Mayor Humes currently hunting near Olympia and expected home by Wednesday. Within days the Free Labor bureau will split its ladies and men's departments. Work to assemble offices once occupied by Mayer Humes of the Indian department began this morning.
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Humes
Olympia
Free Labor Bureau
Mayer Humes
Iadion Department
Preston urna and Nellie Huckina Wed Quietly at Home
Mr Preston Urna and Miss Nellie Huckina were married at the bride’s parents home 1624 Main Street with Rev KB M Han-Jat Jr officiating. The couple, longtime local musicians, left on the steamer North Pacific for two weeks in British Columbia and will settle in Seattle afterward.
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Mins
Nellie Huckina
Mra M
Muckins
Main Street
KB. M. Han- Jat, Jr
Mra. Hurne
Thin City
Cheten
Victoria
Pritieh Columbia
Seattle
Stage People and Plays Set for New Season in New York
The season will feature Maude Adame as Peg Washington and Fay Templeton with a New York theater company next season. Henrik Ibsen? the dramatist worked as a druggist. Conan Doyle’s Halves and a Jewish drama A Daughter of Jugea by Joseph Hatton will be staged. Ada Rehan hospitalized. Arthur Rehan discharged in bankruptcy. New York opens with Miss Hobbs at the Lyceum September 7. A King and Poet and other adaptations loom. Countess Elise de Tourney to appear in Mary Stuart Romeo and Juliet Macbeth. Captain Dreyfus becomes hero in The New Martyr opera. Sag Harbor Polk by James A. Herne to debut in November. Louis James–Katheyn Kidder–Hanford tour from September 1 at Alvin Millsboro, then to Baltimore, New York, Washington and west to the Pacific coast featuring Winters Tale.
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Henrik Sbeen
Conan Doyle
London Garrick
Jugea
Joseph Hatton
Nance O'Neil
Eisa de Tourney
United States
Mary Stuart
Macbeth
New York City
Dreyfue Ts
Giovanni Vaccari
Alfro Bula
Padua
James A. Herne
Sag Harbor Polk
Liebler & Co
Mr. Herne
Long Island
Lea Harbor
Louis Jamen- Katheyn Kidder
Charles B Hanford
Alvin Theater
Millsboro
Baltimore
New York
Washington
Pacific Coast
Echo post office established in Stevens county
Walla Walla county wheat yield expected to reach 3 500 000 bushels. Coyotes killed 19 turkeys belonging to Mrs C F Scheiber at Coulee City. Twenty two cars loaded with beef cattle shipped from Davenport to Omaha. Harvest hands in great demand across Eastern Washington amid tramp presence. M and Riges killed a large cougar at Gribble Prairie near Walla Walla. first cougar seen there in 25 years. Sheepman Hil Pate experienced a whirlwind tearing apart two hay stacks along the creek.
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C. F. Scheiber
Coulee City
Davenport
Omaha
M. & Riges
Gribble Prairie
Walla Walla
Hil
Pate
Means to Kill All Her Enemies in Dearborn
Dearborn, Aug 17. Mrs Nellie L Montgomery wife of a farmer near here shot and fatally wounded Mrs Clivia Colier yesterday evening in retaliation for alleged lustful remarks she heard. Montgomery, jailed, vows to continue killings until hanged and names as future victims those who testified against her in a trial at St Joseph for slander.
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Dearborn
Nellie L. Montgomery
Clivia’ Coliier
Thinetty
Mra Montgomery
St. Joseph
Pullman Seeks Gold Cure For Diplomania
George M Pullman left New York for a West Plains institute to try the gold cure for diplomania saying he aims to “make a man of myself.” Sanger Pullman did not accompany him as expected. Special sale note paper offered by Denny-Coryett Co.
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New York
George M Pullman
West Plains Institute
Sanger Pullman
Auction sale at New York Jewelry Emporium draws free ring gifts
Auction sales daily at 7 30 p m offer New York Jewelry Co stock of diamonds watches jewelry and silverware at 817 Second avenue. Free diamond ring and ten presents to attract attendance with ladies seats reserved by Korn Drug Co Pitth and Pike Diesel ple Ppechaliots bone ike 2 Buy a 6 acre tract Moore Inv Co
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New York Jewelery Co
Emporium
Second Avenue
Korn Drug Co
Pitth
Pike
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