Big Night in Seattle For Currency Bill Signing
Seattle and Washington celebrate the signing of a currency bill at the Hippodrome pavilion. Gov Lister, Mayor Cotterill and other dignitaries will speak. An 5:30 pm auto parade from the Washington hotel will escort officials to King Street station to meet the governor.
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State of Washington
Hippodrome
Gov. Lister
Cotterill
Danworth
W. Doyle
Central Labor Council
J. J. Donovan
Bellingham
A. R. Titlow
Tacoma
Daniel Kelleher
Dilling
J. W. Maxwell
National Data Examiner
Washington Hotel
Washington
King St
M. F. Backus
Spokane
Portland
Little Lost Sister in Underworld Play at Metropolitan
The Metropolitan opens a weeklong engagement of a dramatized Virginia Brooks story about a girl drawn into underworld life. A police raid climax exposes plotters and ends bleakly as the play aims to teach a vivid social lesson.
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Virginia Brooks
Metropolitan
Chicago
Creature with lamb body and fox head shocks Kent
An animal trapped in a trap near Kent shows a lamb like body with curly wool yet a fox head. The creature was sent to a zoological expert in New York for examination.
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Kent, Conn
Edward @hase
New York
Widow opens seven letters from editor. they're empty
The widow of John McDowell, once editor of Saratoga New York, paid $85 to keep seven valuable letters in safety deposit for 17 years. She opened them yesterday and all were empty.
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Winsted
Conn
John McDowell
Saratoga, N. Y
A Letter From Edna to Martha in Tacoma
Edna writes from Tacoma Washington dated April 3 1913 sharing personal sorrow over her broken marriage to D a man with multiple wives. She recalls family news and vows she will not return to him expressing shame at his actions and the pain they caused her while reflecting on an unborn child and her hopes for the future.
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Albert Dahlstrom
Tacoma
Edna Englund
Martha Dahlstrom
Edna
Jesus
Granite Falls
Everett
Dabblatrom
Babba
Martha
Granite Falla
Minnesota
Dabietrom
Hilda
Dahlstrom
Seattle
Washington
Star
Dahstrom
Wash
Mamma
Mayor Cotterill Addresses Jobless in City Hall Park
A crowd of about 2000 gathers as Mayor Cotterill speaks on unemployment in Seattle. He praises the hoboes for patience and urges federal action to study Western coast unemployment, provide work or rations, and restrict illiterate immigration for five years. He vows to push relief and seek long term solutions.
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Cotterill
Seattle
City Hall Park
King
Jeff Davis
Patrick Ryan
United States
Fights For Son Block Habeas Corpus For El Monte Bandit
LA authorities prepare habeas corpus proceedings to block Ralph Faries execution order and delay transfer to San Quentin. Faries’s father James Fariss retained attorney Wheaton A Gray, seeking a last minute legal delay while noting the bandit’s long criminal history from Seattle to Walla Walla.
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Los Angeles
Iife
Ralph
el Monte
Wheaton A. Gray
Parise
San Quentin
Gray
James Fariss
Farias
Seattle Area News Highlights include club changes and concerts
The Seattle Athletic club membership contest shifts positions as lawmakers rise to fifth. A 65 member choir led by Christopher Thornton sang at St Mark’s church. Mountaineers head to Mount Rainier National Park for New Year. Building Union forms at Labor Temple with 75 charter members. A testy incident at California bar ends with a knife attack.
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Seattle Athletic Club
Christopher Thornton
Dudley Buck
St. Mark's Church
Seattle
Tacoma
Mount Ralpier
National Park
Everett
Index
Wash
Labor Temple
Bradford Denounces Hamilton Over Franchises Dispute
Seattle corporation counsel James E. Bradford condemns County Commissioner Lafe Hamilton for alleging Bradford admitted the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. revocation clause was a joke. Bradford insists his demand for the clause is reasonable and in line with modern policy.
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Hamilton
Bradford
Siar
Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co
Hradford
Collision in Fog Paralyzes Willamette Passage
Portland December 20 A port surveyor inspected the Belgian ship Kassai at the mouth of the Willamette after being struck in fog by the steamer Northland. The Kassai lay anchored unable to proceed while the Northland returned to port uninjured and lightly damaged.
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Portland
Willamette River
Northland
Colusa Steamship Arrives Seattle From Panama
The Colusa, a new passengers and freight steamship of W. R. Grace & Co., valued at 400000 dollars, arrived in Seattle from Panama in command of Cant H J Minister.
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Colusa
W. R. Grace & Co
Seattle
Panama
Cant
H J
Large Concert Mouth Organs Auction Notice
An auction notice references mouth organ sales with prices and quantities, listing items at 320 dollars total and 1.60 per unit. Details are fragmentary but indicate a vendor offering large mouth organs for immediate purchase.
Seek Their Pay From Petersburg Cannery
Nearly $220 owed to each of the six months workers at the Petersburg Alaska cannery. Fourteen Filipino boys filed a complaint with Mayor Cotterill after reporting they received only two or three weeks of board and two weeks lodging with no wages. Also, Rev A W Leonard spoke on blazing a new year’s trail at First Methodist Episcopal church, noting an unbroken path for all who enter it.
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Melba
Caruso
Schumann
Metropolitan Opera House
York
New York
Petersburg
Alaska
Cotterill
A. W. Leonard
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Ell
Nine men held on charges after unpaid meals thefts
Portland reports nine men are under arrest on charges of vas Krancy following a string of restaurant entries where meals were consumed without paying.
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Portland
Woman crushed to death by wave in Eureka
A wave struck a boat carrying Miss Meh Blondin at Eureka California, rolling the craft and crushing her to death as she sat aboard. Authorities investigated the incident and warned of hazardous surf conditions along the coast.
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Feureka
Cal
Miss Meh. Blondin
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