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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1915
Page
5
A first person account describes the Green Room as a long running gambling joint in Seattle open to police awareness for two to three years. The narrator details craps play, slick tricks, slide-away shuffles, and other con games used by gamblers while asserting most local houses are crooked.
Mayor cites cooperation with police and lists gambling joints blamed on Lundin's deputies. He names clubs at 209 Fifth Ave, 307 Third Ave, 1616 Third Ave, 713 First Ave, and others, asserting underworld access and frequent gambling at various rooms and joints.
Charles Lux John Weaver and Ernest Dougherty fishermen arrested as fish commission confiscates two boats for poaching in American waters near Point Roberts using British Columbia licenses.
London reports wide scale naval engagement near the Gulf of Riga as German Baltic squadron presses toward the Russian defenders. Petrograd says German fleet of about ten dreadnoughts and battle cruisers fought Russians while minefields are being cleared. one or two German ships damaged, an unconfirmed Stockholm report claimed a cruiser sunk.
Berlin August twenty first. Brest Litovsk, Russian field armies base, is forecast as the next fortress to fall as Austro German forces approach from the south and west. Novo Georgiewsk fell, and troops redeploy eastward to join Prince Leopold's Bavarian command against the fortress.
Galveston reports bread as the greatest need while relief proceeds. An emergency water supply is active and 183 deaths are listed. Fewer than 100 missing. most believed to be found. Estimated damage totals $50,000,000.
New York reports five passenger liners en route to European ports are believed to be passing the submarine war zone near England. The Red Star liner Lapland with over 200 aboard is expected to dock at Liverpool today. Shipping circles reel after a dozen ships sunk in two days and the White Star freight steamer Bovie is reported sunk but arrived safely at Liverpool.
Petrograd Aug 21 Russian anti aircraft gunners shot down a Zeppelin heavily laden with bombs en route to Vilna. The crew was captured and the air attack announced today.
Warning readers about kidney failure and urging prompt action with Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. Claims long-standing Holland origin since 1696 and promises money back if relief is not felt. sold by lowl Drug Co.
Washington officials hold cautious hope that the Arabic attack by German naval forces may not break relations with Berlin. Officials await Berlin explanations and official reports from Ambassador Page before any action. The White House cautions against deliberate disregard of American rights and seeks to determine if the act was intentional.
London reports indicate two American passengers, Mrs Josephine Bruguier of New York and Dr Edmund Wood of Janesville Wisconsin, are the only Americans missing after the torpedoing of the White Star liner Arable. In all, 54 aboard may be lost with 40 crew missing as survivors begin arriving from Queenstown.
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