Drama in Stagg Brainerd Kidnaping Saga Captured
A long, reflective column on the George Stagg and Betty Brainerd baby kidnapping case. It charts public reaction in Tacoma and Seattle, the judge’s final stance, and a plea for pardon and rehabilitation, arguing George Stagg should be released after paying his debt.
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Bobby Stagg
CTS Stad
Grek
Betty Brainerd
George Stagg
Edith Cunningham
George
Star
Tacoma Times
The
New York
Tacoma
Etty Brainerd
Miss Brainerd
Stagg
Tom
Altho
Washington
George T. Stage
Sné
Editor's Mail Presents Calls for Safer Gifts and Gloomy Crime Views
The Star prints letters urging parents to avoid guns for Christmas and favor constructive gifts, arguing weapons corrupt youth and cause cruelty. Readers also debate crime links to unemployment and question harsh punishment in Isom White and Ruth Garrison cases, urging clemency and reform.
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the Star
Isom White
Eta
Washington
Ruth Garrison
State of Washington
Gov
Hart
L. Christie
Obesity advice offer via personal leaflet
A reader asks about reducing obesity and a forthcoming leaflet is offered in return for the person’s name and address. The reply promises to mail educational material on obesity.
Inquiring Reporter asks if readers would vote saloons back
A series of reader opinions on whether to restore saloons shows mixed views. Thomas Weston and Walter Weedin favor cautious enforcement and limited reopenings, while J Douglas Tracie and Ward oppose saloons. Respondents cite legality, temperance, and personal taste.
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Thomas KK. Weston
Harrison Oto
Underwood
Walter W. Weedin
6Th Ave
J. Douglas Tracie
Hudson At
Ward
14Th Ave
Bayview
What Seattle Facts Do You Seek in This Query
A set of questions references Seattle topics: a building on a cow pasture, a Civil War veteran city council member, municipal light and power business volume, rainfall comparisons with New York and Boston, Seattle's population rank and telegraph business volume, and five Pacific salmon species.
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Seattle
Municipal Light and Power Plant
New York
Boston
U. S
Beattie Western Union
Go Half Way to Happiness in a Dime Thrift Lesson
A 1929 article riffs on thrift and effort with lines urging readers to “go half way to meet it” and to cast off doubt as “Fortune is around the ben.” It ends with a quip about Santa Claus as a leading citizen if he heeded Ben Franklin’s thrift advice.
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Santa Claus
Ben Franklin
One Object in View
A man rides a street car and a dog joins to follow him. As other dogs converge the dog ignores them and keeps its sole aim on the master and the car. The tale urges singleness of purpose as the path to success, using the dog as example.
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Ofty
Mitchell IM. Kessler
Smith
Denver
Hank Clay
Bill Collector
Any &Us
Joe Smith
Ed Palmer
Sena
Steenth Joe
Mayor Caldwell
Hen 1
Ole Hanson
Fohm Alten Poindexter
Priscila Harding
Marton
Dixon
Montana
Wouldst
West
Priscilla
Eid
John
Priscilla Harding Gay
Society For the Exchange of
Canadian
Edmund Vance Cooke
Manchester
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Council of the United Commercial Travelers
Edith Stagg
Stagg-Brainerd
Harding
League of Nations
Chile
Manila
Coun d'Elat
Everett True
Mister Smithcey
Youves
Arvo
Citt
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Trew T
Annie M. Burgess
American Humane Associaon
Belfair
Wash
Ruth Garrison and
Isom Wilite
Tyre
Safe Mids
Horlick
Avoid
Infante
Leveside
Sindicaenechia Educats
Wien Ert
BY Roger W. Babson
United States Navy
Bradbury
Union
Wm. L. Hughson Co
East 404
K. Pike St
Alfred G. Ayerst, Inc
Broadway
Denny Way
Ponte
L. M. Cline Motor Co
Kenwood
E. 45Th St
Clark-Baker Motor Co
Tenth Ave
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