Peirce Praised by King County Bolo Club Backers
The text credits John G. Peirce as head and shoulders above rivals with support from the King County Bolo Club and 16 veteran organizations boasting over 6,000 members. It notes women's clubs backing his campaign, plus broad business and labor backing, and cites his Philippine Islands service and steady council voting record as factors in his favor.
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John G. Peirce
King County Bolo Club
Peirce
The Week at the Theatres
Theaters in Seattle feature Rose Melville in Sis Hopkins at the Empress and Pantages Vaudeville shows with Marty C Lyons and the Girl I Love act. The new bill includes Texas Tommy dances direct from San Francisco, Helen Pingree and company, Ralph Moore and Mae St Clair, Sally and Hussy, and Rapell the European juggler.
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Seattle
Rose Melville
Sis Hopkins
Empress
Pantagee
Orpheum
Grand
Alaska
Marty C. Lyons
Ture
Ager Pantages
Sannelece
Helen Pingree
Company
Ralph Moore
Pretty Mae St Clair
Sally and
Hussy
Rapell
Alaska the Great Wonderland on Moore Theatre Screen
The Arctic cold comes to Seattle as Beverly B Dobbs presents his tourographo log Alaska the Great Wonderland at the Moore theatre for Monday and Tuesday evenings. He traveled ten years to film Eskimo life gold dredging polar bear hunts walrus schools and mountain scenery deep in the North.
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Arctic
Moore Theatre
Beverly B. Dobbs
Alaska
Dobbs
Seattle
North
Barnum hypnotist at Seattle theater thrills with routine
At the Seattle theater a matinee Sunday features Barnum the hypnotist. A pressman lumberjack carpenter and ex steamboat hand imagine themselves tight rope walkers and attempt balancing on imaginary wires. Six or eight men imitate monkeys but when the full cast feels like a circus troupe the show amuses the audience and eases worries.
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Barnum
Seattle
Hon Tamer
Paris duo Gougeta to make American debut at Olympia
A yearlong stint at the Olympia theatre Paris by Les Gougeta and two Parisian musicians concludes with their American debut. Phil Bennett will be heard in the old time memercade famed by Pete Baker and Charles T. Ellie. Two comedians Charles Merritt and Winfield Douglass will comede.
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Les Gougeta
Olympia Theatre
Paris
Phil Bennett
Pete Baker
Charles T. Ellie
Charles Merritt
Winfield Douglass
Will Comede
At the Pantages. More musical comedy of the tab-
A brief note from the Pantages theater hints at another musical comedy show in the ongoing run. Details are scarce in the fragment, but the venue continues its string of light entertainment.
Lyceum Presents Dante's Inferno Film Despite Comments
Able effort at the Lyceum succeeds with the moving picture Dante's Inferno after prior public discussion last November. The program continues as planned despite earlier controversy.
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The
Lyceum
Louise Dresser Set to Sing at the Orpheum Next Week
Star readers recall De Wolf Hopper at the Orpheum and note Louise Dresser returns next week with Paris fashions and singing. The program features La Somnambule pantomime, The Darling of Paris, a ten person cast, In Old New York by Harry Beresford, The Five Farrell Sisters feats, Van Hoven as The Dippy Magician, and Ernie and Mildred Potts in a bag punching singing and dancing novelty act.
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de Wolf Hopper
Louise Dresser
Orpheum
Dresser
Paris
New York
Harry Beresford
Farrell Sisters
van Hoven
Ernie
Mildred Potts
Big Poultry Show Tuesday Opens at 1512 Third Avenue
The first annual sweepstakes poultry show opens Tuesday at 1512 to 1516 Third Avenue. More than 1,200 birds from California Oregon Idaho Utah Washington and British Columbia compete in blue lined sanitary coops. Prizes include silver cups and trophies valued over 1000 dollars, led by the Potlatch cup valued at 150 dollars with an enameled Potlatch Bug replica.
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California
Oregon
Idaho
Utah
Washington
British Columbia
Thest Poultry Association
Third Avenue
Man Forces Man to Eat Check in Anaheim Incident
In Anaheim California on February 3 Mons Entevere cashed a check for Martin Lopez and later learned it was worthless. Before about 100 spectators he forced Lopez to return the coin and eat the check in a shocking display.
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Anaheim
Cal
Mons Entevere
Martin Lopez
Lopez
Otway Pardee Seeks Tax Reform In Municipal League Fight
Otway Pardee leads a campaign in the Municipal league advocating a free collection of garbage with costs shifted to all property owners. He earned support from over 20 improvement clubs and aims to ease home taxes by exempting houses personal property and factory tools, drawing on his long civic involvement.
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Otway Pardee
Municipal League of the
Sidney
Iowa
Colorado College
Seattle
Pardee
Leites Talks Socialism at Seattle Commercial Club
Mark B. Leites, socialist, warned that growing inequities could spark a clash between workers and employers rivaling biblical floods, saying blood may replace water. The cigar dealer and Commercial club member urged support for the tellers’ cause, triggering considerable discussion at the club.
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Mark B. Leites
Seattle Commercial Club
Leites
Commercial Club
Picture of Dorian Gray heads Empress lineup
At the Empress a dramatized version of Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray will be shown next week. Ward Davis presents the production with Miss Elsie Creacy as lead woman noted for beauty. Sydney Grant, a New York monologist, also appears in the lineup.
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Dorian Gray
Empress
Oscar Wilde
Ward Davis
Elsie Creacy
Wilde
Sydney Grant
New York
Grace Frame Sues Missing Husband for Support
In San Francisco on February 2, Mrs Grace Frame age 16 seeks support from her missing husband, 17, who is father of her 7 week old child. The case highlights a novel divorce suit with the young bride as plaintiff.
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San Francisco
Grace Frame
Pink tea notes auction bid wins San Francisco mansion
Mrs. Win Smith O Brien hosted a pink tea at her San Francisco mansion on February 3. Guests were entertained as bids were placed and Edgar Frank secured the house.
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San Francisco
Not Enough Babies Prompt Appeal in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on February 3 the demand for babies exceeds supply. The president of the Crichtenton home appealed for more infants to match with childless applicants seeking placements.
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Los Angeles
Crittenton Home
News of the Day Condensed for Busy Pros
Items include T. M. Smith alias Davis jailed six months for impersonating an officer to defraud Mrs Harrington. National Canners’ association to meet in Rochester may come to Seattle. W Phelps injured boarding a streetcar. Pacific Coast Gtamp Worker won city contract for street signs at 20 cents each. Recall election writ for city council tied up. memorial services for Mrs Col French set. Dowling injured in auto back kick incident. Single Tax debate draws 250 at Lakewood. Dr Hubert Carleton to visit. orthopedic hospital finds expansion unaffordable for now.
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Ee T. M. Smith
Davis
Dr. Prop
United States Reclamation Service
Mra
February 3, 1863 news snippets and notices
A collage of brief items from Feb 3 across cities. Lincoln politics captions, Annapolis candy ban for midshipmen, a 12 year old boy’s gun tragedy in Passaic, a moving picture scare in New York, a painter’s pledge and death, a Philadelphia elopement, Longfellow quote, a blind railroader’s sight restored in Erie, Taft dinner talk in Washington, a Atlantic City birthday gift of $100 bills, and a funeral procession to Kelly’s Island.
Law in Wall Street Pays and Other Oddities
The report notes Frank 8 Black’s shift from debt to wealth after backing Roosevelt for New York governor. It mentions Miss Bouteli’s law career and a claimed net gain of one million dollars. It also covers Princess Cherfia facing an unwritten law defense in Excypt over a murder claim. A taxicab mix up ends with a jail stay before identity is remembered. Arnold Amerika ships goods to Liberia for trade with natives in exchange for ivory and gold. Ex governor Hob Taylor warns Tennessee society in New York to avoid politics.
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Wall St
Frank
Cherfia
Wadolla
New York
Arnold Amerika
Liberia
Happy Valley
Hob Taylor
Tennessee
Tennessee Society of New York
Chinese sailors return queues in show of support
In Portland Oregon a group of about 40 Chinese sailors aboard a British bark sent their queues back to Shanghai to the rebel headquarters to express sympathy with the Cifiere revolution. Judges later sentenced a man to five days after he admitted stealing a dollar for bread.
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Portland
Shanghai
Walter Ham
Tatwell
Jack the Pincher bandits on bicycles in Jose, February
In Jose California on February 3 a bustling scene formed as several women cried out about being pinched by a man on a bicycle. The crowd gathered amid the commotion with questions about the incidents and the police.
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Jack the Pincher
Ban Jose
Cal
The Letter Read and Unread in Winter Trade Tale
A poet recalls Berton Hearty’s aging tale of a buyer and seller. The narrator laments unread letters about winter needs such as coal and a rubber coat. A misread note leads to a missed bride and a moral about reading correspondence in business.
Wedding in Ichang Described by Missionaries
A public wedding in Ichang described by missionary observers. The account, translated by Loo Sing the head steward, notes a ceremony with local converts and a foreign bride and groom, including details of attire and music.
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Ichang
China
Bili
Loo Sing
Hong Name
Oscar Brulap
Lucile Eran
Parish Campaign Tour Draws Small Turnouts Across City
Thomas A. Parish spoke at FreMont to about 50 attendees in a sparsely attended campaign. He also addressed Kirkwood hall 25 people Kidd's ball Green Lake about 60 and Mountain View station 75. Hi Gill drew about 200 at Dugdale hall Rainier. Chandler pursues comptroller with broad support while Merryfield promotes fund transfers to save city money. Caldwell targets corporation counsel as Hastings follows Parish with campaign literature as audiences wavered.
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Thomas A. Parish
Fremont
Pageee'’s Hall
Parish
Kirkwood Hall
Green Tate
Green Lake
Mountain View Station
Hi Gill
Dugdale's Hall
Rainier eBadh
Walla Walla
Frederick
Chandler
Charlies F. Merryfield
Beacon Hill Improvement Club
Hugh Caldwell
Lake Improvement Club
Fred W. Hastings
Hastings
Rogers Quash Motion Challenges Grand Jury Indictments
Rogers counsel filed a motion to quash alleging that the grand jury true bills were not indictments. The motion seeks to strike names of witnesses and timeliness aspects as the case returns to the superior court.
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Los Angeles
Rogers
Dow
Timony
Superior Court
Petaluma youths hurt as electric car crashes into school
In Petaluma California Tillie Baker and Smith are injured when an electric car crashes into a school building. Tay Sebastopol aided bystanders to stop children from jumping from windows. Authorities report several students suffered injuries. details remain limited.
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Petaluma
Cal
Tillie Baker
Cents Academy
Smith
Petal
Garay
Tay Sebastopol
GES
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