Mayor of Cleveland says S E Co lied gas then ride to morgue
A man identified only as Ned, about 30, died by his own hand from gas in a Crockett street lodging. A note to a wife named Ned explained the breakup and suicide. The dead man’s second name is Linmark. Mrs Hamilton and the landlady found the body in the morgue. Albert Smith appeared on a memorandum book, but no other identifying details were found.
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Crockett Mts
Ned
J. R. Hamilton
Crockett Apartments
Linmark
Firemen'’s
Marine Union
Albert Smith
Cleveland Ad Controversy Sparks Seattle Ad War
Mayor Baker denounces Seattle Electric Co ad as wholly false about Cleveland’s street railway. The piece links a decade of political fighting to service declines, cites improved fare and transfers after resolution, and notes Baker’s call for correction to Seattle press.
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Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Ohio
Seattle Electric Co
Seattle
Board of Arbitration
Injunction Fails for Puget Sound Electric Tariffs
The Puget Sound Electric Co. failed to obtain an injunction in federal court to block the Washington Public Service Commission from enforcing its established tariff rates between Seattle and Tacoma. Judge Neterer dismissed the petition as the state rate decisions, upheld through superior and supreme courts, stand.
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Puget Sound Electric Co
Seattle
Tacoma
Neterer
State Public Service Commission
A Woman Scorned Faces Four Criminal Counts
H B Fowler owner of an East Olive Street garage is jailed in Seattle on four charges bigamy kidnapping contempt of court and perjury. Prosecutors will try perjury first then send him to Reno for kidnapping and contempt of court then to San Jose for the bigamy charge. Fowler married Belle Brook in June 1913 after divorcing his first wife Nona Fowler in 1913. The case follows the trials sparked by the first wife’s discovery of Washingtons remarriage rule. Fowler awaits a busy legal journey across three states.
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H. B. Fowler
East Olive St
Fowler
King County
Reno
Nev
San Jose
Cal
Seattle
Ber
Belle Brook
Nona Fowler
Washington
Bruskevitch elected councilman in Seventh Ballot
640 voters chose Harry Bruskevitch on the seventh ballot to fill the late Thomas Parish seat in Sherbrooke. He is 26, married with two children, former Columbia City councilman, now head of Pioneer Rent & Collection Co, Seattle resident of 11 years.
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W. A. Burleigh
H. P. Fish
Jessie E. Martin
Hruskevitch
Seattle
Columbia City
The
Pioneer Rent & Collection Co
Americus St
Columbia
Goings On at Loyal Heights Dance Hall with Golden Gardens Crowd
A Star Artist and Reporter visit Harry Whitney Treats Golden Gardens Loyal Heights dance site. The piece notes Sunday dances mix of ages couples and society, with a spiral stair descent to the pavilion and informal courting rituals under the moonlit trees.
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Harry Whitney Treat
Loyal Heights
Vic
Golden Gardens
Seattle
Treat
Wall Street
Harry
Ke H. Whitney
Flannigan
Trent
Lodge
Oakland man gets probation for fake check case
A. W. Henning of Oakland received 14 years probation after confessing to a fictitious check incident tied to a drunken episode in Seattle. Judge Murphy praised Henning for clearing the matter. In a separate incident, Samuel Dupuis, 42, collapsed and died from heart failure on Fifth Avenue near Pike and Union streets.
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Oakland
Cal
A. W. Henning
Henning
Seattle
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Murphy
Samuel Dupuis
W. 62Nd St
Fifth Av
Pike and
Union Sts
Judge threatens contempt cite for Good Templars crowd
Judge Humphries denounced Mayor Cotterill and Good Templars for contempt of court after an open air meeting criticizing him. He warned that resolutions by the mayor’s group to defy the judge amount to contempt and vowed to act, while praising a personal friendship with Cotterill.
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Humphries
Cotterill
Good Templars
Humophries
Temperance People
Women's Societies
Anarehy
Mogeber
The Tragedy of Old Mac Fock in Philadelphia
A tale of Mac Fock a Chinese immigrant who found success in Philadelphia after being smuggled from Canada. He returned to China for a visit, was arrested in Seattle, declared not a citizen, and a federal judge ordered his deportation back to China. The piece contrasts Americans preconceptions and fate.
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Old Mac Fock
Philadelphia
Mac Fock
Steen
America
United Tes
Canada
East
Mac Fool
United States
China
Mae Fock
Seattle
Neterer
Commissioner of Immigration
Hearing set on Rev. O L Mason indiscretions case
A five elder and six clergymen commission named by the Los Angeles presbytery will open a hearing into charges against Rev. O L Mason of the First Presbyterian Church Long Beach. The hearing, to be held behind closed doors, follows a high church statement that Mason confessed to certain charges. The article notes broader education topics in Europe.
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Los Angeles
Woman in custody linked to Hydah hotel shooting
Police remain puzzled by the Hydah hotel shooting of John B. Nevin as Mrs. Bertha Howarton, held in city jail, maintains the event was accidental. Howarton, formerly married to Walter A. Howarton, is a dressmaker who lives on North Lake Ave.
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John B. Nevin
Hydah
Nevin
Bertha Howarton
Treasurer Missing in Stevenson as Funds Remain Unfound
A. Fleischhauer, treasurer of Skamania County and president of the Bank of Stevenson, vanished after a Portland visit. Despite books being correct, investigators have not located him. the June 12 promise to reveal his whereabouts was not kept.
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Stevenson
Wash
Schaul
A. Fleischhauer
Skamania County
Portland
Fleischhauer
Bank of Stevenson
Portland Bread Labels Move To Standardize Loaf Weights
City Sealer of Weights and Measures Jones drafts an ordinance to require all bakers to label each loaf with exact weight. Current loaves range from eight to sixteen ounces, prompting action to curb price and size disparities. In San Francisco, a separate ordinance creating three women protective officer roles advances to print, setting ages 21 to 35 and detailing officer duties.
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Portland
Jones
Frisco
San Francisco
Council Judiciary Committee to Hear Ticket Sale Ruling
The council judiciary committee will discuss Councilman Griffiths' resolution directing the corporation counsel to seek annulment of the recent federal decision restricting ticket sales on cars. It calls for appeals and petitions to the state public service commission, plus enforcement of the straphangers' ordinance and an expanded Fourth Avenue line extension.
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The
Council Judiciary Committee
Councilman
Griffiths
Corporation Counsel
State Public Service Commission
Star
Seattle Electric
Commission
Bradford
Traction Company
Fourth Av. S
Jackson
Holgate St
American consul wounded in Spain as patent dispute arises
Huelva Spain August 26 William J Alcock American consular agent injured by a Spaniard named Berrano who believes Americans stole patents to a significant invention. The assailant appears to be deluded about the ownership and has inflicted a knife wound.
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Huelva
Spain
William J. Alcock
Berrano
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Star
Ferry addition and Lake Burien line debated at club meeting
At the Commercial club meeting the question of adding a second ferry on Lake Washington will be discussed along with reasons for adopting the Lake Burien car line. An illustrated lecture on Good Roads by U S government expert Samuel Lancaster will be a highlight of the evening.
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Commercial Club
Lake Washington
Lake Burien
Samuel Lancaster
U. S
Couple Charged With Kidnapping In Oregon Case
In Heppner Oregon August 26 authorities lodged C K Slater and his wife of Portland on kidnapping charges. They allegedly forcibly took the two children of the woman from the home of the grandfather D H Grabill at Tone.
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Heppner
Ore
C. K. Slater
Portland
D. H. Grabill
Tone
Pennants Offered By The Seattle Star
Four consecutive coupons from The Star plus 15 cents earn a 65 cent Pennant. Minnesota Pennants are available now. Pennants can be mailed for 5 cents extra per pennant. Submit or mail to The Seattle Star at 1307 Seventh Avenue near Union Street.
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Minnesota
Seattle Star
Seventh Avenue
Union Street
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