Prince-impersonator Pondexter feared fraudster in Seattle case
Deputy prosecutor reports that an alleged Kove doctor and magician known as Pondexter used “prince” as a costume to fool patients in the 1918 Seattle sanitarium case. He reportedly posed as Hindu royalty, performed banjo tricks to charm women, and promised divine healing while defrauding parents of King Auburn girls.
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CG Pondexter
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Prince
San Francisco
Claypool
Oakland
Mary Millson
Seattle
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Pool
Pondexter
Auburn
Prosecutor's
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Slovakia Wrestles With School Language Rights
Slovaks in Czecho Slovakia struggle to implement native education after centuries of Magyar rule. A national policy debate highlights names and places as Slovak schools, universities, and books gain ground while tensions with earlier rulers persist. Thousands of Slovaks abroad return home as demands for education in Slovak grow amid political change.
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Slava
Czecho-Slovakia
Feason
Vitatoslav
Victor
Gyor
Austria
Budapest
Aria
Slovakia
Etephanek
Tion
America
Whistling Dick and the New Orleans Levee Encounter
In a dawn New Orleans levee scene Whistling Dick, a veteran tramp, slips from a box car near Algiers as a city policeman keeps watch. The exchange includes a wary meeting on the street, a brief music lesson, and a warning to avoid further trouble before dawn breaks over the river trades.
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Doubleday
Page é@ Co
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
Whistling Dick
Soo
Chalmette
Algiers
Mary Anna
Pick
New Orleans
Glrod
Lafayette Square
Nixcumious Dunes
Fritz
Madame Orleans
Whistling Dick Escapes Plantation Christmas Night
Whistling Dick eludes Boston Harry and crew after a plantation plot to burn cane and rob the house. He sabotages the scheme with a note wrapped in a stocking, warns the gang, and flees at dawn across fields and levees into the river country, earning a night's rest on Bellemeade premises before slipping away at daybreak.
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Whistling Dick
Jack
Chalmette
Ile
Sir Peregrine
Pah
Swella
Mello
Incinnati
Siena
Habitation
Boston
W. D
Pete
Blinky
Goggles
Indiana Tom
New Orleans
Eyster
Boston Marty
Heston
Sonny
Boas
Leisure Clase
Pilinky
Borton
Will
Boston Marry
Roston
Boston Harry
Mor
Carlemus
Bellemeade
Lupiter
Mare
Venus
Loader
Wesley
Reever
Maurice
Cain Field
Hous
Whistlen
Beelemeade
Harry
Pellemeade
The Warbler and the Levee Whistle
A small brown bird pauses on a levee path to hear a wild whistle that recalls birdsong and artful composition. The bird swoops to chase a wriggling worm, while the distant whistle fades, leaving the level scene quiet and contemplative.
Moose Lodge Plans Membership Drive
The Seattle Moose lodge will launch a campaign January 1 to add 300 members and raise a temple fund of 150000 dollars. Life memberships await those who recruit 26 new members along with cash prizes.
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Seattle
Judge Gay Leaves $57,264.96 Estate
The estate of the late Wil son R. Gay former superior court judge totals 57 264 96 with 25 000 in real estate 7 500 in stocks and the balance in personal property inventoried in superior court Thursday afternoon.
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Gay
Wilson R. Gay
Superior Court
Chemists Work On Flashless Powder For Night Artillery
Scientists are developing a flashless powder aimed at making artillery discharges invisible at night. The project seeks to reduce visibility of muzzle flashes and suppress night-time signaling during combat.
Naval supply proposals due for equipment deliveries
Proposals will be received by the Bureau of Supplies and the Navy Department in Washington DC until 160 o clock A M January 1 1921 for delivering padlocks sheet steel pneumatic hoists and electric traveling cranes to Nav RC Puget Sound Wash. Apppr fo poems to the Supply Officer ard Puget Sound Bureau of Suplies and piccounte Samuel McGowan Port General of the Navy.
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Bureau of Supplies
Navy Department
Washington
Puget Sound
Wash
Bureau of
Samuel McGowan
Porat
Navy
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Lieuincade Plantation
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Sion
Mascagni
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Banorre
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Seattle National Bank
Second Avenue
Columbia
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