Congress aims to adjourn by next Saturday amidst Taft veto risks
Washington August 19 United Press Leased Wire Congress plans a strenuous week to adjourn by next Saturday with possible presidential vetoes as the main hurdle. The Senate will tackle a new budget bill and seek passage over any veto, while Taft's actions on the Panama canal bill and a free tolls clause loom as key decisions.
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Roosevelt Plans Week Campaign Stops in Wilkesbarre Vermont
The progressive nominee Col Theodore Roosevelt will travel to Wilkesbarre Pa on Wednesday for Father Curran ordination anniversary events then proceed to Vermont to press his New England campaign for election. A coroner's inquest into Mrs Ethan Bliss's fatal automobile crash ruled it unavoidable and cleared driver Oliver Cordz of blame.
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Theodore “Roosevelt
Wilkesbarre
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Roosevelt
Vermont
New England
Ethan Bliss
Oliver Cordz
Mra Bliss
Market Price Averages From Local Merchants and Farmers
The document lists average prices paid by local commission merchants to producers and by retailers to commissioners. Prices cover fruits vegetables and staples such as apples pears oranges and berries, along with meats poultry and grains. Notable items include Wenatchee apples at 1.76 to 3.00 and local potatoes and cauliflower with listed package counts and units.
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Kaatern Ae Segmoeny « Trevscveves
Goettling Wins Harvard Scholarship for 1912 Graduate
Will Goettling, president and valedictorian of Queen Anne High School’s 1912 class, wins the Seattle Harvard Club annual scholarship. He finished four years of study in three, led in class, and held roles as president of his class, treasurer, secretary, and debating association president. He will enter Harvard this fall for a four year course at $500 per year.
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Debating Association
Harvard
Alleged Mail Fraud Case Involving Fairbanks
Fairbanks is held on a 2000 dollar bond to answer charges of using the U S mails to obtain money from Andrew Ohlsberg. Ohlberg met Fairbanks on a train from Omaha and claimed he had funds in an Omaha bank. A letter signed Ohlsberg reportedly asked for 150 dollars to be sent. Police first arrested Fairbanks and then handed him to federal authorities.
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Ohberg
Federal
Engineer Takes Blame for Steamer Collision Incident
Assistant Engineer Edward Triplett of the Sioux says he mistook the signal to reverse for go ahead causing the Sioux to ram the pier and strike the Camano. The Camano is reported a total wreck and launches Inland Flyer and Arrow were sunk.
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Edward Triplett
Triplett
Anid
Firemen Back Double Platoon System At City Meeting
At a community meeting in Kinnear Park Attorney P. D. Hughes urged adoption of a double platoon system for firemen to lift morale, noting firefighters currently stay home for meals.
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Kinnear Park
P. D. Hughes
Darrow Faces Second Trial Date Set By Judge
Clarence Darrow is to appear before Superior Judge Hutton in Los Angeles to set a date for his trial on bribery of juror Robt. F. Bain in the McNamara case. He had been acquitted on the related charge concerning Geo. N. Lockwood.
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Bain
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Angeles
Leap from fourth floor ends in death in Boston hotel
Daniel Shields Gunning of New York, a grand nephew of the late Mrs. Leland Stanford, died in Boston after leaping from a fourth story window at a hotel. He had shown improvement at noon after an earlier incident Saturday morning and hurlled himself through the window when left alone in his room.
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United Press
Boston
Daniel Shields Gunning
New York
Leland Stanford
California
Gunning
Women Arrested in City Clean-Up of Lodgings and Cafes
A Saturday night to Sunday morning sweep of lodging houses hotels cafes and eateries led to 64 women being arrested on suspicion and charged with disorderly conduct. Of those, 39 were bailed at 60 each and 15 were held for trial while the rest were released.
Jewels Reclaimed In Two Hours After Theft
Mrs. Harriet Balch of Boston lost a handbag containing jewels valued up to five thousand dollars on a bench while customs officers searched it. Patrolman Lick intercepted a suspect, Pat McDonald, with the bag and arrested him. Balch identified the jewels and they were returned within two hours.
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Boston
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Savoy
Lick
Malin Street
Mra Hiatch
Pat McDonald
Balch
Secretary Knox Trip to Japan For Emperor's Funeral
Secretary Knox will reach Seattle Thursday afternoon then sail to Japan aboard the cruiser Maryland to represent the United States at the late emperor's funeral. If he follows a Hawaii route he would arrive after the services, prompting plans to delay his Japan stop and extend stay in Beattie.
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Beattie
Moving Pictures on Excursion Benefit for Settlement House
The Settlement House Council of Jewish Women ran an excursion to Hood's Canal aboard the inner Victoria carrying 1,500 passengers. A moving picture man captured the festivities to raise funds for a new club house for the settlement house.
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Victoria
Kirkland Ferry Resumes Service After Labor Standstill
Former engineers return to duty and former captains seek reinstatement as Kirkland ferry resumes running. East Side Commercial Club and Kirkland Chamber of Commerce protest proposed night service cut and rate hikes, arguing harm to the district across the lake.
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Kirkland
East Side Commercial Club
Pigeon Message Sent From Train Reaches Park Child
A 10 year old daughter of Dr A O Park of 3248 Edmunds WT released a homing pigeon from a train near Portland carrying a foot message. Speck the pigeon was later found at the county poor farm about 20 miles east of Portland. Aaron Fox a Troutvale merchant, took the message and promised care for the child.
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Edmunds
Portland
Aaron Fox
Troutvale
Hoodoo Ship Hazel Dollar Sails for Orient with Lumber and Poles
The freighter Hazel Dollar departed for the Orient carrying 3 200 000 feet of lumber a large shipment of poles and other merchandise Captain Ridley the sixth navigator to command the ship in the past year steers the voyage through the sound reputation for misfortune attached to the vessel
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Ridley
City Official Shifts: Pierce Named Assistant Corporation Counsel
Ralph Pierce, city attorney for three years, is appointed assistant corporation counsel to replace Howard D. Hughes whose resignation was accepted yesterday. W P Van Ruff will fill Pierce’s former post as chief clerk. KR McClinton becomes chief clerk and W D Covington takes McClinton’s former role.
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van Ruff
W. D. Covington
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Progressives Finish Organization Plans in Washington
Progressives statewide prepare for preferential primaries on September 7 after a Roosevelt state campaign committee meeting in the Butler hotel. An amended call supports county primaries in addition to state and congressional races, with a Seattle led executive committee to oversee August 29 candidate filings and required withdrawals from old parties.
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Aberdeen
Washington
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Centralia
William Moubray
Bellingham
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O. C. Moore
Arthur W. Davis
Spokane
Roosevelt Campaign Committee
Seattle
Bridgar C. Snyder
K. C. Beaton
W. T. Books
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Tacoma
Lloyd Gandy
E. Saville
C. N. Hunt
North Yakim
Booster book to showcase Seattle beauties to public
A 64 page book is set to be published by the exploitation and industrial bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. The illustrated volume will highlight Seattle’s many advantages and varied beauties for the public.
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Chamber of Commerce
Seattle
Girls in seven states seek marriage bureau for farmers
In a Missouri city a plea grows for a wife bureau after Dr William P. Cutler, state food and drug inspector, suggested city girls should consider rural marriage. Dozens of letters pour into Cutler’s office from across seven states citing a mismatch between cultured farmers and single women.
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William P. Cutler
Cutler
Cutter
Missouri
Mexican laborers cause train-passenger flurry in Los Angeles
A crowd of Mexican laborers marching to work stirred a ruckus as rumors spread of rebels approaching. An American foreman reported no danger and calmed the scene after telephone reports of excitement.
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National Piano Manufacturers promote low prices in Seattle sales
A Seattle message from Washington on behalf of the National Piano Manufacturers thanks customers for Grand Prize Awards and piano purchases at new Third Avenue salesrooms. The letter denounces middlemen, “one price” schemes, and piano trades as untrustworthy while touting direct factory sales and worker pay. It notes two statements about new rooms near Marion Street, touts Vaughan as tuner, and invites customers to visit 8 Third Avenue for bargains and trade-ins.
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Orpheum Theatre
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