Landlord Extends Store Closing Sale by Twelve Days
The Amos Brown Estate Inc president allows a stay in the Panton store for twelve more days. About $40,000 of merchandise and fixtures remain to be sold with deep reductions. Flooring carpet pieces 40c a yard, wall cases 20c on the dollar, show cases 3.50 per front foot, window fixtures 10c each, mirrors half price, assorted items at half price, toys and gloves deeply reduced, and final sale terms with ten cent delivery in the city.
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Amos Brown Estate, Inc
Panton
Ford calls report on camp admission a malicious lie
Henry Ford denied a claim that he planned to join the business men's military instruction camp at Fort Sheridan. He said the report was a deliberate, malicious lie and that he never applied for admission to instruction in deliberate murder.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Business Men's
Fort Sheridan
Ford
Chicago
Ft. Sheridan
Col. Frederick
Taxpayers Fund $2350 For Old Court Records Work
King county will spend $2350 to prepare and move old court records to the new courthouse. Fourteen deputy clerks have spent two months digging through a legal document dump in the old garret to sort files that should have been filed earlier by the clerk. County Clerk Sickels calls the situation the result of years of neglect and notes the cost covers only preparation, not removal.
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King County
Garret
Sickels
Woman Charged After Drawing Revolver Near Lanigan Bridge
Mrs. Josephine Boland, 44, of Ravensdale, is jailed on charges of assaulting Otto Krohnert, a bridge builder. She claims ongoing trouble with men at the Lanigan bridge. She says Krohnert threatened her, she drew a revolver, and he pursued her with a rock before she surrendered the weapon.
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Josephine Boland
Ravensdale
Otto Krolnert
George Friend
Lanigan Bridge
Krohnert
Woman seeks divorce from jailed husband in county case
Mrs. Florence Boswell files for divorce alleging separation since June 26 as Harry W. Boswell remains confined in the county jail and has not supported her for a year, with the action set for Tuesday.
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Harry W. Boswell
Florence Boswell
Tuesay
Sport Shirt Rhymesters Compete In Limerick Contest
Monday's sunny, smoky scene hosts entries to The Star's sport shirt Limerick contest. Several submissions missed the theme, but some verses by locals like Kays Simpson and E. B. McGovern show playful office and home life with the sport shirt as the centerpiece.
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Sport
Himericksa
Star's Sport Ahirt
Iimericke
Kays Simpson
HM Gul
Carli
Ford Won't Do for Hodge He Declares
The feud between Sheriff Hodge and the county commission over a deputy car led to a standoff. Hodge insisted on a Pierce Arrow while the board offered secondhand Packard or Locomobile options and later two new Fords, which the sheriff refused to accept.
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Ford
Hodge
Commissioners
Sheriff's Office
Pierce-Arrow
Packard
E. C. Burke
C. DB. Blether
Margaret Lenora Denny
Riverton Bridge
Hamilton
Knudsen
Change of Shifts Prompts New Beat Cop On Duty
Petty crooks warned to expect a fresh patrol as quarterly shift changes take effect Wednesday. A number of sergeants will swap posts at headquarters and field stations, bringing a new beat cop into rotation.
No-Name Seattle Dentist Promises Low Prices and Pride
A dental office in Seattle touts trained graduates and state board certificates. They claim modern methods, painless operations, a written guarantee signed by the operator and owner, and $2.50 free demonstrations each morning to attract patients.
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Wus
Ealousy
Seattle
Beat Dental Colleges
State Dental Board
Hia
Hia Dental
JL. R. Clark
D, D
Manua
Free Dock Site Offered for New King County Ferry
JL L Gregory of Seacoma Beach Improvement Co proposes a free 100 foot wide dock at Three-Tree Point as King County terminal for a ferry linking King County, Vashon Island, and Skagit County. City council narrowly backed the site amid opposition from the Seattle Automobile Association and others who favor direct Seattle waterfront access. The offer includes tide land rights, no encumbrances, and a direct route to 14th Ave South with connections to local streetcar lines and Crescent Beach road.
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Three-Trace Point
Seacoma Boulevard
Lake Hurten
Crescent Beach Road
Landing
14Th Ave. S
Hearing on Puget Sound Traction Franchise
The King County commissioners adjourned the hearing on the Puget Sound Traction Light and Power petition for a blanket franchise to build and operate light power and telephone systems over southern King County. The session mainly read the proposed franchise with a crowded chamber split between supporters and opponents. If approved in the south, the company plans to seek a similar grant to cover the north half.
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County Commission
Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company
King County
Inquest Planned Over Mysterious Death Of Blacksmith Charles Arndt
With the cause of death still a mystery an inquest is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Charles Arndt a blacksmith was found burned to death in his shack and a rope was drawn tightly around his throat on Thursday morning.
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Charles Arndt
Arndt
Bloodless Battle Precedes Garua Fortress Capture
London reported the war’s bloodless action as German fort Garua in Kamerun fell after a three hour bombardment. A shell hit a dentist chair in the fort. The enemy resisted briefly before surrendering with no casualties on either side.
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London
Garua
Kamerun
South Africa
Judge Gordon Returns with Picked Up Speed
Judge Gordon, back from a hunting trip after the Olympics, fined J. M. Woodmark $50 for reckless driving on Duwamish Ave. Woodmark, driving north, collided with K. Ohta driving a vegetable wagon south. A horse was injured and shot after the crash.
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Gordon
J. M. Woodmark
Woodmark
Duwamish Ave
K. Ohta
Ohta
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