Cotterill Letter Describes Seattle Park System Vision
In a missive from Kansas City to Seattle park officials, C EN Cotterill extols a vast park network with boulevards, terraces, and river views. He notes construction funded by ten year bond assessments, no general park debt, and a separate park department with its own policing and engineering. The letter praises Swope Park as a model and urges support for Seattle’s inland city beauty.
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Park Board
Seattle
State of Gorse Cotterill
Kansas Mo
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Park Commissioners
Wash
Kansas
Park Department
Italian miner George Puratte arrested for wife desertion
George Puratte an Italian miner aged 27 was placed under arrest in the city yesterday on a charge of wife desertion. He awaits Deputy Sheriff Hodges from Ravensdale who is wanted to bring him to pending action.
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George Puratte
Arrest of 90-year-old Laborer in Spokane Desertion Case
Ernat Smith aged 90 a laborer was arrested yesterday by Patrolman Wickman and Detective Byrne charged with deserting his wife in Spokane.
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Ernat Smith
Yeaterday
Wickman
Byrne
Spokane
Public Market Prices Tuesday at Pike Place
The public market at Pike Place bustle continues with at least $2,000 exchanged. Prices listed include Potatoes 20¢ per lb, Corn 20¢ per ear, Cucumbers 5¢ per dot, Tomatoes 9¢ per lb, Apples $1 fancy per box, Lettuce 6¢ per head, and many other produce items with varied per unit rates.
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Pike Place
Military Companies Ready for Smile March at Fort Lawton
Companies K and F of the Third regiment U S A stationed at Fort Lawton are out today on a Smile march. Companies G and will go on a hike Thursday. Made trip successfully. Ralph Boyd and wife, feared missing, arrived safely yesterday afternoon from their canoe trip through Squak slough.
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Fort Lawton
Ralph Boyd
Squak Slough
Auto TN Driver Fined After Clash With Plainclothes Officers
In the early hours a parked automobile drew confrontation with men said to be beerful Beatle police in plain clothes. Officer William Jones of George Town confronted the group and was struck in the face. The chauffeur Lutes was arrested, taken to Georgetown police court and fined 25 dollars. No action was taken against the supposed officers, who were said to be intoxicated. Chief Wappenstein said he would review the matter.
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William Jones
George
Town
Aniett
Lutes
Georgetown
Wappenstein
Two Unknown Men Killed by Train Near Ren ton Junction
Two young men died after being struck by a Northern Pacific train near the Ren ton junction around 6:16 this morning. Marshal Jake Stowart found the mangled bodies lying four feet apart near the powder house. one head crushed, the other skull fractured. An unidentifiable pair with no clues, one man about 20 and the other about 17, were found with a postal card and socialist pamphlets on one. It is believed the victims were hit by train No. 64 around 12:56 a.m.
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Northern Pacific
Jake Stowart
Renton
Columbia
Puget Sound
Marshal Stewart
Mack River
Powder House
James Tachell
T. W. Franklin
Arlington
Poultry Market Sets Single Price Across Products
The Poultry Producers' union at 824 Union Ave posted one pricing rule for Hens 186 per lb Chicks spring 18¢ per lb Roosters 1 per lb Ducks ide per lb Black chicks ie per doz The president C R Cottrell defended the cooperative as a legitimate business with a single open price for producers and consumers and promised guaranteed quality for all poultry passing through their hands.
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Poultry Producers’ Union
C. R. Cottrell
Esternay
Priopc
Stonewall Jackson’s Granddaughter Elopes in Southern Romance
Atlanta reports Julia Jackson Christian, granddaughter of Gen Stonewall Jackson, elopes with Edmond Preston amid parental accusations of impure blood. W B Christian, a Seaboard Airline official, chased her across two states in a special train. Preston defends his family and notes his relatives' reputations. The marriage occurs in Salisbury North Carolina as critics clash over heredity and propriety.
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Seattle Star
Atlanta
Julia Jackson Christian
Stonewall
Jackson
Edmond Pe Grog
North Cone
Lina
Alf Col. Preston
Virginia
W. B Christian
Seaboard Airline Railway
Preston
Christian
B. &. Preston
Col. J. T. L. Preston
Gen
Stonewall Jackson
B. M. Smith
Union Theological Seminary
John A. Preston
Charlotte
Miss Christian
England dismisses Rockefeller crisis as nervousness
London financiers treat Rockefeller's American remarks as light therapy for a troubled era. Lord Welby, once chancellor and senior treasury aide, argues stockbrokers' timidity fuels unrest more than Rooseveltian policy, viewing Rockefeller's stance as reflection of U S stock market nerves rather than national sentiment.
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Seattle Star
London
John D. Rockefeller
America
Dickens
Guppy
United States
Rockefeller
Roosevelt
Yanaway
Lord Welby
Treasury
Amusements at the Star theater this week
Eight new acts debut at the Star theater yesterday in a program that drew two large crowds. The lineup includes the Uye no troupe of Japanese acrobats, Freeman and Freeman in hardshoe dance, Richey Gregory's singing, Zamloch the magician, Antrim and Peters as comedians, George Lavender the monologist, and the Three Daltos barrel jumpers. The show runs three times daily throughout the week.
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Aeta
Star Theater
George Lavender
Daltos
Child Actress Leads Comedy at Lois Theater
Bera Kendall pleased a big house at the Grand last night in Swell Alexant Jones. Little Beville Mandeville stars in Who In Guilty written by a Seattle man. The child is very clever with strong support from the cast. The Four Links and other acts drew applause. A Man of Mystery runs all week at the Seattle. Earl Burgess Stock Company returns to New York after Saturday.
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Bera Kendall
Swell
Alexant Jones
Lois Theater
Beville Mandeville
Seattle
Pour Links
Rows
Wack
Hi Green
Brennens
Earl Burgess
Ruanell Drew
Burgess Co
Emma Bunting
Little Prospector
Shamus O'Brien and Muldoons Picnic At City Theatres
The Taylor company presents Shamus O'Brien set in Ireland amid Irish struggle all week at the Third Avenue venue. Muldoons Picnic is offered at the Lyric theater all week featuring musical updates and the Charles L. Young company led by John Fielding.
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Shamus O'Brien
Ireland
Sons of
Erin
Taylor Company
Third Avenue
Muldoon
Lyric Theater
Charles L. Young
John Fielding
Dig Hungarian Huzars Draw Crowds at Luna Park
The Dig Hungarian Huzar band proves to be a stronger drawing card than ever at Luna Park with daily concerts at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. The last week of the famous Whang Ho war junk exhibition is also featured.
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Luna Park
Whang Ho
Niklas Schilzonyi
Zola
Dewey
Funeral in Ballard for Miles W Dailey after mining accident
Miles W Dailey died after being overcome by dampness while digging a well on Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Whitham’s ranch near Monald station north of Ballard. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 10 at Fields chapel with interment at Crown Hill. Dailey leaves a wife, three sons and two daughters.
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Miles W. Dailey
Field's Chapel
Crown Hill Cemetery
Dailey
Elwood Mille
Whitham
Monald Station
Dalley
Milla
Greiner
Mayfield
Garrett Ay
Sloop
Earl Bogart
Crawford
Eagles
Bogart
Ballard Fire Department
J. T. Armstrong
Loyal Heights Railway Company
Broadway
Fourth
F. Tupper
Minnesota
Salmon Hay Improvement Club
King County
Carnegie Library
Ballardico
E. Marshall
Wallace
Idaho
Eighth Grade Entrance Exams Set for August in Issaquah Kaumclaw Fall City
The district schedules entrance examinations for eighth grade pupils on August 29 and 30 in Issaquah Kaumclaw and Fall City. Chicago plans a new 1000 600 opera house funded by Oscar Hammerstein to open next fall.
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Kaumclaw
Fall City
Chicago
Oscar Hammerstein
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