Bachelors Respond 10 Xmas Gall Collecting For Fund
The Star office sees steady gifts for the Bachelors Christmas Fund as Seattle bachelors rally to aid children who lack Santa gifts. Donors include John McCulloch who gives $6 and shares orphan boy memories, John Kelly’s donor of $2, and an unnamed donor who provides $5 plus a contribution to Rev. White Hass of a mont.
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Star Office
Seattle
John McCulloch
John Kelly
Pike St
Star
Wite Hass
Ae Mont
Congress pointed to invest slave evil in city report
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a Prommittes report about an organized group in the city, alleged to work with Chinese and Japanese girls and other nationalities, with mentions of prostitution and crime. The text is incomplete but implies law enforcement concerns and public notices.
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Congression
Prommittes
Heney Plans Arizona Lecture Tour Before Christmas
Francis J. Heney, the former special prosecutor in graft cases, will tour Arizona visiting Tucson Nogales Fisbee and Phoeniz before Christmas. He will lecture at each stop and may publish magazine articles on his investigations afterward.
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United Press
Mooson, Ariz
Francis J. Heney
Tucson
Bugins
Fisbee
Phoe
Hener
Pancisco
Lec Oe
Maga Fation
Fon
Man Left Crippled Heir to $25,000 After Kindness
In Philadelphia on December 15 Alexander, a man who inherited $25,000, aided a cripple on a street car. After helping her to the sidewalk the man asked for her address. A regular car followed and, in a separate incident, Frank Day of Indiana died recently.
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SPHIA
Dee
Alexander
Frank Dayuth
Jag Cure For Jag Turmoil Reported At Local Drug Store
Dec 15 report from Foertmeyer store describes vanilla ice cream claimed to sober drinkers by absorbing alcohol. Meyers asserts regular customers use it to calm intoxication. Text notes confusion over exact mechanism and local reception.
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United Press
ATI
Foertmeyer
Meyer
Arbuckle rivals in weighing dispute on the docks
A report notes ongoing weighing disputes at the docks involving Arbuckle competitors and government disclosures. Attorney Stimson is cited amid settlement talks linked to the Mercury project and back payments totaling 5,572.
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Voitea Vrees. Ly
Arbuckle
Hérican Suga
Mday
Wasmiade
Stimson
Tecom Dds
Uncle Sam Aids Seattle Bachelors In Christmas Drive
George Russell and hundreds of Seattle postal workers mobilize to help destitute children have a merry Christmas. The carriers including bachelors and married men with children will report cases of need to Russell who will pass details to The Star.
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Uncle Sam
Seattle
George Russell
Santa Claus
Russell
Santa
Velocipede rider drowns after fall in bay near Seattle
James Kennan a machinist helper fell from a railway velocipede along the Columbia and Puget Sound tracks into the bay south of Boo kanear and drowned last night. The tide carried the body toward West Seattle Beach as workers prepared the recovery. Kennan and electric lineman F Lureey were riding the velocipede at high speed.
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Columbia
Puget Sound
James Kennan
Bookanear
Palace Hotel Rises From Ashes After Rebuilding
In San Francisco the newly rebuilt Palace Hotel will open tonight after three years of work. A banquet for about 800 state notables is held with Gov. James N. Gillette presiding. Public access starts tomorrow as San Francisco resumes a landmark hostelry.
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San Francisco
New Palace Hotel
Tta
James N. Gillette
Pacific Coast
The Loan Shark: A Portrait of Greed and Despair
A harsh meditation on the loan shark portraying him as a despised predator who profits from misery. The piece likens him to a parasitic spider, accusing him of preying on families in hardship while society shuns him as unclean and merciless.
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Brotherhood of Man
Swiss minister's wife stirs Washington society
Mme Ritter, wife of Switzerland's new minister to the United States, is described as young and pretty. Her presence is expected to charm Washington social life and enhance diplomatic circles.
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Mme. Ritter
United States
Switzerland
Washington
Death of North Yakima Laborer Gone Quietly
Jack Renehan a laborer died in Beattle Hospital after a brief illness. He left three small children in North Yakima who await news of their father. He had drifted into the city weeks ago and knew no one here before he fell ill.
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Jack Renehan
North
Yakima
Renehan
SLED CRASH KILLS ONE HURTS SIX IN LAFAYETTE TRAIN COLLISION
A bobsled dash down a hill in Lafayette ends in a wreck when the sled crashes into a moving Wabash locomotive. Frank Krumpe, 16, dies from injuries. six others are seriously hurt with some possibly dying, eight more injured lightly.
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United Press
Lafayette
Ind
Frank Krumpe
Court Clerk Admits Big Embezzlement Train Wreck Toll 12 Dead
Court clerk and embezzlement case juxtaposed with a deadly wreck on Southern Railway No. 11 near Greensboro. Twelve killed, about forty injured as a 25 foot plunge into Reedy Creek occurred after the train crossed a trestle. Conductor George Cable heroically reached a station after the crash. Notable names include George Gould and Jay Gould aboard, engineer and fireman among the dead.
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Charlotte
N. C
Southern Railway
Reedy Creek
Greensboro
George Cable
George Gould
Jay Gould
The
Washington
D. C
John A. Bradnax
A. Holcomb
Mount Airy
Edward Sexton
Denton
N.C
A. P. Cone
Richmond
D. C. Nolan
H. White
Flagman
R. H. Russell
Intruder Breaks Into Grand Jury Room
The grand jury reports a break in during the weekend aimed at removing incriminating documents but no items were taken. Bailiff Martin found the room disordered and evidence of entry, yet the jury recovered nothing usable and sought guidance on publicity.
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Lable
Grand Jury
Martin
Gillam
Barnett executive admits no improper deal in tenderloin sale
FE T Barnett & Co. general manager Louis Church Armstrong admits Detective L K Church and Prosecuting Attorney Vanderveer would have earned a commission if the tenderloin property sale in the new district had succeeded. He says the firm did not secure the Plummer street option and that Church had no financial stake, only information from conferences. Burlingame arranged the option and listed his name in advertising.
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A. T. Armatrong
FE. T. Barnett & Co
L. K. Church
George W. Vanderveers
Church
BE. T. Barnett & Co
Armatrong
Plummer St
Burlingame
Ed. T. Barnett & Co
Stolen Gold Brings No Happiness
Hyman Epstein, former Williamsburgh Brooklyn private banker, surrendered in New York court saying his conscience forced him to return. He admitted taking more than $60,000 two years earlier and asked for a chance to repay depositors in full. He plans to plead guilty at trial.
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United Press
New York
Hyman Epstein
Epstein
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Just a reporter but many a man of wealth has gone
An obituary of Louie B. Sefrit a Seattle reporter age 35 36 short years whose life as a recorder of events is praised. He worked nine years in Seattle and faced temptations with honesty and charity. He died leaving behind friends and a city that misses him at the great city desk making his final assignment.
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Seattle
New York
Paris
Louie Serrit
Louie Sefrit
Journal of Time
Eliternity
Louie
Embezzlers Head and Tyrer Arrested After County Theft
Charles E Head, a clerk in Justice Carrolls court, confessed to embezzling 2400 dollars from county funds over several weeks. Tom Tyrer, chief auditor employee, was arrested as his accomplice after Head revealed the partnership and half profits. Both men deny future claims, but Head has repaid much of the shortage.
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Justice Carroll
Charles E. Head
Head
Tom Tyrer
Auditors
James P. Agnew
Matt Gormley
Hodge
Tyrer
William Hanna
John E. Carroll
Hanna
Justice Court
Otto Case
Wil Hanua
National Guard
37Th
N. Tyrer
Columbia St
Boullion and Hodge Put Forward for Clean City Government
Letter from P. BE. praising A V Boullion and Bob Hodge for risking their jobs to do right. Exhorts editor and readers to support their election for a moral, capable city administration.
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Star
Dr. Matthews
Boullion
P. BE. W
A.V. Boullion
Bob Hodge
Leonard Wood Named Army Chief of Staff
Secretary of War Dickinson announced Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will succeed Maj. Gen. J Franklin Bell as army chief of staff. Gen Bell will retire next April.
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Washington
Dickinson
Leonard Wood
Department of the Fast
J. Franklin Bell
Army
Gen. Bell
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C. E. Head
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