Seattle sanitary fills hailed by health chief after tour
Health Commissioner H M Read defends the city’s garbage disposal by sanitary fills as safe and economical. Mayor Callwell and city officials toured 16 dumps and heard that garbage mixed with ashes or dirt, laid in layers and covered with soil, oxidizes within six months. Read cites riparian fills and boulevards built from garbage, noting savings for homeowners and citing San Francisco and Kansas City as others using the method.
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Seattle
Callwell
H. M
Read
Reed
Kansas City
San Francisco
Frisco Men Win Huge Oil Stake in Alaska Race
A San Francisco syndicate led by R. D. Adams defeats a Standard Oil expedition in a race to locate a vast petroleum lake in Alaska between Point Barrow and Demarcation point. The lake, valued at millions, rivals Canada’s Mackenzie fields in size and promise.
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San Francisco
R. D. Adams
Alaska
Standard Oil Co
Nome
Mountain
Coast Line
B. J. Thane
W. W. Johnson
Thomas R. White
Charlies W. White
Dining Car Prices Return to Normal Levels
Claude W. Meldrum of the Great Northern received Thursday the new dining car price schedules. The dollar steak and the dollar table d hote are back, and the Jumbo potato has dropped from 25 cents to 15 cents.
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Claude W. Meldrum
Great Northern
Army Pier Fire Causes Million Dollar Damage
A fire at Army Pier No. 5 in New York caused about 1,000,000 in damage. Officials credit shifting wind with limiting spread and saving the Hoboken waterfront. The U S Leviathan was partly burned and 5,000 flag draped caskets of American soldiers awaiting transport were at risk. No persons were injured.
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New York
Army Pier No. 5
Hoboken
Meet Mr. A Duck and Wife They Ducked and Got Caught
A. Duck and wife vanished from Woodland park eight days ago and were later found near Greenlake shore. Officials report the two white ducks planned a summer escape, leaving their fenced pond and clipping their wings. Investigations seek underground passages to prevent future escapades.
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Mr. A. Duck and Wife
Wanda von Kettler
A. Duck and Wife
A. Ducck
Woodland Park
Greenlake Bath
Green Lake
Mount Rainier climbers end eight day trek in comic wardrobe loss
A Spokane Seattle and Tacoma party traversed Mount Rainier’s west and north slopes then descended via sliding. Their ascent left them with ruined trousers seats after a mile long bobsled descent, the worst hit being a Northern Pacific official’s daughter who patched her seat with adhesive plaster and a blue bandana.
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Spokane
Seattle
Tacoma
Mount Rainier
Avalanche Camp
Steamboat Prow
Winthrop Glacier
Mystic Lake
National Geographic Magazine
Lanky Chaps Win at Ballard Picnic
Lanky Chaps defeat Ballard’s fatman’s team 9 to 8 at Woodland Park Ballard picnic held Wednesday under Ballard Commercial club. All Ballard businesses closed. three municipal street cars provided free ride. Stevens I. Miller of the College of Business Administration spoke. Prizes awarded by Ballard business men.
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Ballard
Woodland Park
Ballard Commercial Club
Stevens I. Miller
College of Business Administration
Cornerstone Laid for Moose Temple
Hundreds of lodge members and state representatives attended the cornerstone ceremony for a $100,000 Moose temple to be built at Eighth Ave and University St. The event took place Wednesday night as the cornerstone was laid.
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Eighthave
University St
Cook Brought Back Here Under Arrest
Mike Lain, 34, a cook, was brought back to Seattle Thursday to face grand larceny charges over allegedly passing a forged $30 check on Union Bakery. Lain was arrested in Olympia Wednesday.
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Mike Lain
Cook
Seattle
Union
Lain
Olympia
Japanese Guest Leaps From Hotel Window to Die
Ishizuka a Japanese man commits suicide at 7 30 a m Thursday by leaping from the Adams hotel fourth story room at 515 Maynardet, after cutting his throat and stabbing himself. He died at City Hospital. He left two notes addressed to hotel and restaurant proprietors mentioning going crazy and paying his bill in the other world.
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Ishizuka
Adams Hotel
Maynardet
Togo
Maynard Ave
Brumfield Lawyers Seek Change of Venue in Murder Trial
In Roshburg Oregon on August 26 lawyers for Dr. R M Brumfield accused of murdering Dennis Russell prepare to ask for a venue change as publicity and local familiarity threaten a fair trial. Authorities found a straw bed near Sutherlin and a Galgary letter signed by Russell cited as a possible confession describing the car accident.
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Roshburg
Ore
R. M. Brumfield
Dennis Russell
Brumfield
Sutherlin
Galgary
Dennia Russell
Thirty-Third House Opened by Pantages
The Sard Pantages theatre in Kansas City is completed and ready for opening on Thursday. Designed by B. M. Priteca of Beattie in Renaissance style, the new show house costs about $900,000 and is managed locally by Pantages.
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Pantages Theatre
Sard Pantages
Kansas City
B. M. Priteca of
Beattie
18th Engineers Banquet Plans in Seattle
The 18th engineers of Seattle and the Northwest, the first volunteer regiment to serve in France, will hold a banquet at the New Washington hotel on Saturday night, August 27, to commemorate their arrival in France in August 1917.
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18Th Engineers
Seattle
Northwest
France
New Washington Hotel
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Myrtle Reed
Moose Temple
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New Trial City
Dr. Brumfield
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BON Marche
Putnam
Goodyear
Men’s Athletic Union
Madras Union
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