Startling facts light the Seattle telephone franchise battle
The Star exposes a tangled fight over Sunset McGroarty and Hunt Seeley franchises in Seattle. It details council votes, backing by seven members for McGroarty, suppression of a maximum-rate bill, and attempts to block Seeley Seeley Hunt while permitting Automatic Co. construction. The mayor’s veto and subsequent council action are noted, along with inquiries into stockholders and transfers to Sunset Co. and the city’s control of poles and lines.
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STAR
Sunset Telephone Co
San Francisco
Jacob Furth
Automatic Telephone Co
McGroarty Co
Aman Rabonabone Co
McGroarty
Beeley-Hunt
Cortions
McGroarty Dim
Fran
Sunset Co
Seven Council
Hunt - Seeley Syndicate
Hunt-Seeley
Eock
4 Automatic Co
Automatic Co
Mr. Seeley
Mr. Hunt
o@roarty
Usgal
Groarty
Seattle
Corcil
Committee On Corporations
Blake
Byers
Crichton
Muldoon
Murphy
Navin
Parry
Rude
Taylor
Vincent
Benjamin
Rinehart
James Wes
Humes
Me Qgr Party
Board of Public Works
Moroarty Co
Beattie
Seeley-Hunt
Seeley-Hunt Co
Seeley and Hunt
Humphrey
Corporations Committee
McQroarty
Furth
Sonnet Co
Sunset
John 8
MecGroarty
Bunset Co
Telephone Co
Hidden hand of a monopoly revealed in Seattle council
Long report traces how councilors Blake Parry Vincent and others shaped franchise battles between McGroarty Blankner Seeley Hunt and Sunset Co over Seattle telephone rights. Mayor veto and board actions fueled a tense struggle with efforts to block Automatic Co poles and lines amid fears of private monopoly.
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Muldoon
Vincent
Miake
Byers
Crichton
Navin
Rude
Seeley
Moeee
Grant
Winter Hardships Linger In Nome As Crime Rises
Nome report notes scarce winter mining activity and flat prices. The text describes a desolate season with high crime, need for guards on coal piles, disturbed grub caches, and widespread hardship among settlers. It also mentions a Seattle colony and a home wedding at 403 7th Avenue North officiated by Rev W I Edmons.
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Seattle
Mr. Mary &. Webster
7Th Avenue North
Eimonds
Alice M
Hamilton Day Murder Trial Opens in Minneapolis
The Hamilton Day murder case goes to trial as jury is seated. Prosecutor Boardman delivers opening remarks while Miss Marie Flagle, center of gossip, defends her role and denies authoring any fatal story. Day, 26, from a wealthy New York family, was a polo favorite with a reputation for sportiness.
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Minneapolis
Boardman
Frank H. Hamilton
Marie Hagle
Day
Europe
Hamilton
Miss Flagle
Sine Hagle Ia
Young Day
Drenner
The
Times
New York
Carrie Nation Tours Kansas City and Midwest Crusade
Carrie Nation arrives in Kansas City with a group of women to denounce saloons. She delivers a Bible quoted sermon, says she seeks destruction of illegal joints, and plans to continue to Des Moines Chicago Muscatine and Popeka with promises of storefront closures and sales of photographs.
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Emerson
First Christian Church
Des Moines
Iowa
Mra. Nation
Muscatine
Chicago
Popeka
Mrs. Elizabeth Winsor Dies at 88 in Seattle Home
Mrs. Elizabeth Winsor, mother of Richard Winsor, died last night at age 88 in her Seattle residence at 2102 Sixth Avenue after twelve years in the city. She left eight daughters and sons, all living in Seattle. Funeral is set for the necro afternoon at the residence. Butter Montana reports Brown shot and killed him while sleighing. A small passi.
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Eliizabeth Winsor
Richard Winsor
Winsor
Seattle
Mont
Feb. C
Ge Brown
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W Vincent
McCgreary Co
Sunset Telephone Company
Suneet Co
Serv-Hunt
Stuneet Co
Sealon
Bers
Beattle
Corporations
Blake, Parry and Vincent
James
Automagic Co
George Danworth
Lea
Thomson
Mr. Little
J. Youngs
Cplmen
Superior Court
Catata
Cedar River
J. M. Frink
KB. FP
Tremper
Gee
F. Meacham
W. WH. White
Bill White
W. J. White
Etreet Railway
Milly
Railways
Billy” White
Mr. Byers
Byerss
Conaista
Ama
CGR
Ohio
Birmingham
Ala
John 8. McGroarty
Himself
George
Blankner
McGroarty and Blankner
Blake Byers
Keel 4
Aine
Seeley & Hunt
Taylor Rude
Nays
Counet
Friends of Mo
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New Automatic Co
McGrearty Co
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the Automatic Co
Seeley- Hunt
Firet
Sena
Byere
Mr. McGroarty
Pennsylvania
Nome
Ctoria
B. C
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Amur
Dawson
Tal
Smasher
Kanbas City
Carrie Nation
Topeka
Wichita
Kan
Mra. G. Co
Bramwell
Council Bluffs
Mia
Nation
California
Stunner & Co
Pike St. Groceries and
Adams & Blanchard
Second Avenue
Hinckley Block
Hockenbothen
Price
Thirty-first Avenue
Yesler Cat
Herbert
Acheuerman
Wiret Avenue
Cherry
Lowney
Chocolates
Stewart & Holmes Drug Co
First Avenue
Cherry St
Ela. Coms
Spikes and
Econ
Enos
Vvahiely
San Diego Fruit Comp
Pike Street
Frank E. Adams
Colmen
Tel Blue
Seatys
Moran Bros
Engine and Ship Builders
Steel and Wood
Clay Eversole
Oxford
Cascade Laundry Co
Third Ave
Main St
Uptown
Delicatessen
A. Prudhommeaux
Pike Stree
E. Winsor
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