Council Overrides Mayor's Veto on Vacation of Street Lot
The city council overrode Mayor Fitzgerald's veto to vacate a 10 foot strip along Valley Street and Nob Avenue. The streets and sewers committee argued the public still uses the right of way and urged restoring unused land to the tax base. Council members Moore Haas Themeon Lane Bolton voted Aye. Drake opposed. seven to one.
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Fitzgerald
Hanson
Fourth
Fifth North
Valley St
Queen
Moore
Haas
Themeon
Lane
Bolton
Drake
Moore, Haas
Thomson
Holton
Carroll
Hesketh
Boldt's French Pastry Move Prompted by Uptown Shops
A note mentions Boldt's French pastry shop at Uptown 1414 3d Ave and downtown 913 2d Ave, suggesting a shopping move or new location. The brief implies activity around Boldt's offerings and nearby addresses.
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Boldt
Frees Self Alleged Slayer of Daughter in Missouri
Robert Hicks, reputed to have confessed in Chehalis Washington three months earlier to murdering his daughter near Urbana Missouri 25 years ago, was acquitted in Hermitage Hickory county circuit court after a two hour trial. Jurors found his confession fabrications tied to mental condition. Lutia Hicks died under mysterious circumstances found in a woods patch with no inquest, widely believed to be suicide.
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Springfield
Robert Hicks
Chehalis
Wash
Hicks
Urbana
Hermitage
Hickory County
Hick
Lutla Hicks
Chinese Lovemaking by Dr Ida Kahn At Mission Congress
Boston notes Dr Ida Kahn the Chinese woman physician known as the oldest old maid in China urges Americans to adopt Celestial marriage customs with a simple courting system. She argues it would solve the mother in law problem and end the old maid era by ensuring the eldest girl marries first.
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Boston
Mass
Ida Kahn
China
Lady Animal Rights Actress Fails to Walk Out at Met Show
Mia Sanford Bertrand Ricaby, founder of the Jack London club in Seattle, leaves a theatre when animal acts appear. She notes Mr Olcott’s trained horse used in Macushla at the Metropolitan despite her dogged stance. Police horse borrowed from Chief Warren featured this week.
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Mia
Sanford Bertrand Ricaby
Jack Londen
Horace
Mr. McCurdy
British Crewmen Facing Charges In Brooklyn Court
New York December reports slateen members of the crew of the British freighter Michaels of the Booth line face charges of orderly conduct in a Brooklyn court. Mutiny charges will be lodged with the British consul as their cases proceed.
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New York
Michaels
Booth Line
Brooklyn
Consrul
Wild Elephants Rampage In Addo Bush South Africa
Smithsonian expedition reports Addo Bush elephants menacing civilization in South Africa with Maj Pretorius leading efforts to exterminate 200 elephants. Sentries warn at night as trumpeting and screaming echo through thorn jungle. Elephants stalk by scent and sound, able to drag victims from trees and crush them with powerful trunks, tusks, and weight.
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Edward M. Thierry N. E. A
Smithsonian Universal Expedition
Kenkelbosch
South Africa
Addo Bush
France
Maj. Pretorious
Smithsonian African Expedition
Addo Station
Hell
Addo
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the Hizards
Kristmas
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Contineous Daily
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Florence Billings
Mendrix Belle Isle Co
Roach and
McCurdy
Iver Trevette
Patton-Yantis-Rooney
Prank Shields
Admirasion
Seattle
U. S. Optical CO
Pine St
Batecony Nennett
Glassen
Truss
Baer
A. Lundberg Co
Third Ave
Beattie
Frees
Thierry
Bon Marche
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