Girls Basketball Team Faces Armory Access Fight
The high school girls basketball team struggles this season as the armory, the city’s only playable floor, is leased to Miss Hubert for the girls’ use, blocking Coach Frost from practice. Ballard vacancy proved distant and Tacoma High and Puget Sound Academy games may be canceled. The team plans class games next month and later seeks intercity matchups.
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Frost
Miss Hubert
Armory
Belford
Tacoma High School
Puget Sound Academy
Sound
West Seattle Faces Possible Sunday Game With Phiadelphia
West Seattle football team receives a challenge from an unnamed United States ship to play a game Sunday. The report notes it is highly probable the match will be held.
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West Seattle
United States
Phiadelphia
Baldy to Appear at Old Place With Athletic Club
Baldy, famed university quarterback this season, will probably join the Athletic club at the old venue as management has not yet made a final decision. The move hinges on negotiations and scheduling.
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Baldy
Old Place
Quarterback Pick Made for Saturday Clash With Multnomah
The club selects its quarterback for Saturday’s game against Multnomah. Lonergan, the famed all American star of Multnomah, is out after an appendectomy. Multnomah weighed in at 177, Seattle at about 180, with arrival scheduled for Saturday morning for pregame practice.
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Multnomah
Lonergan
Seattle
Multnomah Boys
Pulliam Elected National League President in New Balloting
Harry C. Pulliam was yesterday chosen president secretary and treasurer of the National League of Baseball clubs. John T. Brush of the New York club nominated James A. Hart former Chicago president to oppose Pulliam, but Hart declined to run.
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New York
Harry C. Pulliam
National League of Baseball Clubs
John T. Brush
James A. Hart
Chicago
Pulliam
Hart
Wild game seized during city packing house inspection
County Game Warden Rief and Deputy Cameron seized a ton and a half of wild game in Armour Packing Company storage during a city inspection. The game is claimed owned by the Butler hotel and Burch Bros. Warrants for the Butler and Burch Bros. proprietors will be issued today and utility parties arrested.
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Rief
Joseph Cameron
Armour Packing Company
D. J. Burch
Butler Hotel
Burch Bros
Post Street
Butler and Burch Bros
Minnesota Names Earl Current Captain for Next Year
In St Paul Minnesota on December 14 Earl Current a junior was re elected as captain of the Minnesota football team for the ensuing year.
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ST. Paul. Minn
Earl Current
Minnesota
Fightin Already Charges and Countercharges Over Canal Franchises
Debates erupt over Panama Canal project with Magoon and the American government clashing with Standard Oil Inter esta Amador and allies. Cromwell linked to Panama Electric trolley plans while critics like Teller and Scott question costs timelines and feasibility.
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Washington
Standard Oil Interesta
Amador
Magoon
Atrip
Panama Electric Company
William Nelson Cromwell
United States
Teller
Colorado
Panama Canal
Scott
West Virginia
San Blas
Building collapse blamed on removal of supports
City inspectors say part of the eighth floor at the Lowman building fell yesterday while cement flooring was still green. They cite improper cement and weak work as the cause of the collapse.
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Lowman Building
Receiver Sought for McDonald & Wolff Mercantile Stocks
Stone, Fisher and Lane filed a petition in superior court to appoint a receiver for the dry goods stocks of McDonald & Wolff Mercantile Co of West Seattle. They allege a $4,000 transfer first to John McCarty, then split to Wolff Mercantile and Edwin London Dry Goods, with McCarty acting to defraud creditors, and ask the receiver seize the remaining stock in the two firms.
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Superior Court
Stone, Fisher & Lane, Et al
McDonald & Wolff Mercantile Company
West Seattle
John McCarty
Wolff Mercantile Company
Edwin London Dry Goods Company
McCarty
Parte
Propseda
Cement Hardening Delays Construction in Building
A fragment notes that a specific cement grade used in the building requires a lengthy curing period before full strength, impacting timelines.
Brooks Ad Praises Smoking Jackets from 1931
An archival ad from K. N. Brooks & Co at 1931 Ind Ave promotes smoking jackets in a social style. The notice invites readers to call and view the line, highlighting fashionable leisure wear for friends.
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Bnd
K. N. Brooks & Co
Ind Ave
Ore
K. N. Brooks & Coa
Snd Ave
Tacoma Golfers Will Come To Defend Wallace Cup
A seven member Tacoma golf team visits this city Sunday aiming to reclaim the Wallace cup trophy. The visitors bring high hopes for victory and local interest is rising in the match.
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Tacoma
Jury impasse in unfair trial case at federal court
Federal court adjourned at noon with one juror, Joseph G. Walker of Mendota Illinois, still seated. The defense had permitted three jurors, two of whom were peremptorily challenged by Morrison, leaving questions of unfairness raised by the government.
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Chicago
Joseph G. Walker
Mendota
Ill
Morrison
Coyle Wins Seattle High School Football Captaincy
Wil Coyle secured the captaincy for the coming year by a three vote margin over rival Jay Smith. The Seattle district high school football team will be led by Coyle, in what is noted as a unusually close election for the role last held by the team’s famed quarter.
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Jay Smith
Wil Coyle
Seattle
Boston Boxing Clubs Target Law Loophole This Winter
Boston clubs plan to organize six round boxing bouts under a flexible membership scheme to skirt private club restrictions. Bicycle racing remains popular with record New York Gotham attendance at preliminaries. Northwestern weighs football rule changes after holidays. final action pending. Fred W. Schwinn named captain of Town football. team aims for strong Southern League baseball under $2,700 salary cap. Bonuses and gifts for players banned. heavy fines for magnates offering 500 diamonds.
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Boston
New York
Gotham
Northwestern
Fred W. Schwinn
Costa
Taft speech cited on Wallace isthmus control
In the senate Tillman read an extract from Taft stating engineer Wallace had absolute control of the isthmus. Wallace denied the claim saying his hands were tied by red tape and Tillman urged him to come and vindicate himself.
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Washington
Senate
Tillman
Taft
Wallace
Swedish tailor Swan Swenson kills then shoots and commits suicide in California
Swan Swenson a Swedish tailor battered a woman named Marie Baptiste at her San Pedro home and shot her three times causing scalp wounds. He fled to a cottage on Long Beach where he shot himself as the marshal approached.
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Angeles
Swan Swenson
Marie Baptiste
San Pedro
Swenson
Long Beach
Congress votes to form new states Oklahoma Indian Territory and New Mexico
At a late afternoon House conference a vote of 110 to 665 approved creating two new states by grouping Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one and New Mexico and Arizona as the other.
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Washington
House Representatives
Oklahoma and
Indian Teriory
New Mexico
Arizona
Woodin Willing to Remain at County Hospital
Dr. W P Woodin, two years assistant physician at the county hospital, will appear before the county commissioners this afternoon to signify his willingness to remain in the office. The commissioners have no fault with the young doctor and want him to stay at the hospital.
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W. P. Woodin
Psychic readings and palmistry offered for destiny insights
A framed advertisement promotes clairvoyance palmistry and occult services claiming to read the future and heal without drugs. The text invites readers to consult a “perychic power” master, with full readings priced at $1.90 in person or $2 by mail, promising guidance and fortune analysis.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Froet
Ballard
Plana Fair
Tars
Dabney & Woodhouse
Pike ST
John
J. Aronson
First Ave
Sleersor
Pulliam President
Panama
Merry
J. Redelsheimer & Co
Col
Columbia St
Second Avenue
Madison
Marion
Columbia
King Bros
Sully
Woodin
BF Forest
2Nd Ave
Guy's Drug Store
Parlora
Iowa
Presser Heeche O
Bess
Llowa Butter Store
Lion Clothing House
Main St
Great American Importing Tea Co
Meg Se
Atigte
Seattieos Leading
Hones
Henry W. Savage
Pixley & Luders
Jess
Buregas
John Cort
Mgr
the Jolly Girls
Jhird Avenue Theater
Russell & Drew, Mere
Sweden
Bal'ard's New Playhouse
Princess Theater
Patsy Doyle
Gladstone
Great Weston
Kitty Walsh
Smith
Princess Scope
Mission
Star Theater
Tom Thums
Heady’s Barber Shop
First
Alaska
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