Street Car Franchise Sparks Ballard Debate in August
Waking hot controversy grips Ballard as residents clash over a new street car franchise. Leaders from 14th Avenue push petitions while Ballard faction cites tax burdens and renters’ control. Ballard Elks lose baseball game in Tacoma 12 to 4, with Woodworth charged for a tough sixth inning and Campbell injuring his knee on a foul tip.
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Corporations Committee
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John A. Preble
14Th Av
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Star
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Et St
J.T. Arm’ Strong
F. J. Hemnen
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Ballard
Lthay
Ballard Elks
Tacoma
Woodworth
Campbell
Poisoned children case at St Joseph and park gates
In St Joseph Missouri Carrie Sanders aged 41 reportedly fed morphine to five of her ten children the sixth escaped but neighbors intervened She confessed A dead child and four survivors were reported She also took morphine and cut her throat but is expected to recover The park gates will be opened for the season with no admission after 30 days behind bars for prior habituality and Emil Stestrom was rearrested for further charges
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ST. Joseph
Carrie Sanders
Florence
Polson
Release City Amusement Park
Hallard jail and local incidents loom in Ballard notes
Hallard jail records show repeated drunkenness terms with a likely 90 day sentence. A fatal Fourth of July fall from a Western House window linked to a drunk state is recalled. Funeral services held for Louis Dallin, body found in the bay, originally thought murder. Silver wedding celebrated by Frank and Mrs Johnson with telegrams from Michigan relatives. The Ballard fair featured 1000 Norwegians in native dress celebrating their day, as utility projects for street lighting are planned at a ward budget near $80,000.
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Hallard
Stestrom
Emil
Louis Dallin
Bay
Diecent
Graham & Engemann
Frank Johnson
West Gilet St
Michigan
Ballard
Steamer Ella Drama On Mexican Coast Quarters
In port from Central America the steamer Ella faced a macabre scene as a steer bought cheap near a Mexican port went berserk aboard. An alligator and parrots caused chaos while the bosun tried to kill the animal with a sledge hammer. A German sailor ultimately intervened as the steer thrashed, threatening the deck and crew amid the pandemonium.
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Mexico
Central America
Ella
Hans
Belzing
Hane
Ben
Mexico City
Picnic party struck by streetcar. one dead
In Portland on August 26 a streetcar hit a wagon carrying picknickers on Williams avenue upper Albina line. One man, William Harker the Oregonian engraver, was killed. a driver and two passengers were fatally injured, while four others were badly bruised. The wagon returned from a picnic at Columbia Slough.
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Portland
Albina
Fragmentary incident report on trapped victims under wagon
A damaged OCR fragment describes a collision where a car stopped with a wagon and a person trapped underneath. The description notes it required lifting the car end to free those imprisoned, with victims pinned underneath until extraction could occur.
Wife Beater Is Killed by Wife in Hotel Fight
Dr Walton Lampe was shot in the head and fatally wounded by his wife at the Holland hotel in San Francisco. Mrs Lampe, arrested after the act, said her husband had abused her and accused her of relations with her former husband, Dr P Burney. The couple, married six months, had a troubled union and she held him for an hour after wounding him while urging him to retract his accusations.
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United Press
Ban Francisco
Walton Lampe
Holland Hotel
Lampe
P. ©. Burney
Lampes
Auto Hit By Train And Five Die In Crash
Five residents of St Louis were killed when their automobile collided with a Ross Island passenger train near Creve Coeur Lake. Theodore F. P. Witte Jr. aged 33, Mrs Kitnge, Miss Halcyon Campbell, and Frederick O. Witte died at the scene. The car, traveling at speed, was driven up an embankment and could not be heard or seen by the train crew as it approached at forty miles an hour.
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ST. Louis
Ross Island
St. Louia
Theodore FP. Witte
the Witte, Jr
Kitnge
Mise Halcyon Campbell
Frederick O. Witte
Creve Coeur Lake
Theodor Witte
Noted College Band to Perform at Seattle Norwegian Day
St Olaf College Band of Northfield Minnesota will arrive in Seattle to participate in Norwegian Day. The event features a Viking landing pageant at Lake Washington shore and two concerts at the exposition amphitheatre. The band has worldwide renown, including performances in Europe before the king of Norway.
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St. Olafs College
Northfeld
Minn
Seattle
Monnday
Lake Washingley
Exposition
Europe
Norway
Norwegian Winging Socretioe
Young Man Swims Lake Washington Feat Recalled
Harry J. Allen, 19, son of contractor W. T. Allen, swam about four miles from Madrona Park to Medina in two hours and twenty minutes. The feat, not seen since the era of the Indiana, is described as a notable crossing. McNicoll denies report about Canadian Pacific railway remarks at the Butler Annex.
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Harry J. Allen
W. Tt Allen
Lake Washington
Indiana
Madrona Park
Medina
Young Allen
M'Nicoll
D. McNicoll
Canadian Pacific Railway
Butler Annex
Railroad magnate praises exposition during visit
A railroad magnate praised the R E Y P exposition during a visit yesterday. He noted an excellent working agreement with Canadian Pacific and several American railroads, and spoke highly of the event and its organizers.
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Canadian Pacific
Chocolate Cake Recipe Fragments
A fragmented recipe lists ingredients and steps for chocolate and white striped frosting cake. It mentions sugar butter eggs sour milk soda flour boiling water vanilla and a striped icing technique. The text is incomplete with unusual symbols and missing quantities.
Ione Man Burned and Firefighter Hero in Big Blaze
A fatal early morning blaze destroyed a block of wooden buildings on Werternay between Heneca and Univeralty wie. One man died, a patrolman named Hagen saved others, and the fire caused about 4000 dollars in Lehmann Bros. losses plus additional damage to a Great Northern saloon and a Pacific Fruit Express freight car. Approximately 10,000 spectators watched as Hagen heroically dragged the injured and weighed down by debris to safety before the flames overwhelmed the area. The body of an unidentified man, believed to be McDermott, was recovered from the ashes and remains were taken to the Worthington Undertaking establishment.
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Gre
Werternay
Heneca
Univeralty
Igae
Lehmann Bros
Antiante
Lehmann
Frantz & David
Pacific Fruit Express
Boukone Grain Company
Hagan
Great Northern
Atari
Ye McDermott
Megheterworth & Bons
Coram Snyder
Shave shop chatter and pastry notes amid stray fragments
A wartime style clatter of barber shop chatter and odd kitchen notes. The scene shifts from a shave to salon offers then to a muffled pastry recipe with measurements for a currant loaf or cake including flour sugar cream and spice, all in a jumble of incomplete lines.
Million Will See Fair Next Month
President Chilberg predicts September will be the biggest month of the fair as attendance climbs toward a million. Next week features Beattie day Taft day and a packed program with Holland Wisconsin and Japan day among others including musical events and a Destruction of Mexico exhibit.
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Chilberg
Beattie
Holland
Michigan
Direct Legislation League
Wisconsin
Smith Family
Mexico
San Francisco
Dairy
Prince Rupert
Japan
Ernest Fowler Named Head Coach at Queen Anne High
Ernest Fowler, a University of Colorado alumnus who helped coach Lincoln High football in the fall, has moved to Queen Anne High as head coach of athletics. He is regarded as a good man for football and track, and Queen Anne is expected to field strong teams under his supervision.
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Ernest Fowler
University of Colorado
Lincoln High
Queen Anne High
Fowler
Queen Anne
Paralyzed Telegraph Victim Fails to Improve in Tacoma
Mins Mandel Stearns the young woman shocked by an electric phone call has grown worse, with both left arm and leg paralyzed and lacking sensation, and medical experts say recovery could take weeks or months. An unrelated recipe fragment appears in the text, listing ingredients and baking steps for a cake with visual details about measurements and methods.
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Tacoma
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