Horner Promises Quick Reform for Seattle Corporation Counsel
Thomas R. Horner, Seattle candidate for corporation counsel, argues reform can be swift and certain through the office. He says the counsel appoints the city attorney who handles police court work and can curb third degree abuses. Horner cites jail-condition studies and calls poverty a root of vice and crime, suggesting economic cures would reduce crime. He spoke at Harmony hall last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas R. Horner
Corporation Counsel
Seattle
Horner
Harmony Hall
Man seeks confession for tuberculosis treatment in prison
Albert Blunt 23 of Canon City says he lied to confess to a crime to stay in the penitentiary and obtain humane treatment for tuberculosis. Since arriving last May he has gained five pounds and credits Warden Tom Tynan with his care, hoping to finish his sentence by May 1913 and be cured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Blunt
Canon City
Colo
Blunt
Tom Tynan
Grand Junction
Tynan
Paul K. Mohr Emerges as Seattle Labor Candidate
Paul K. Mohr is organized labor's candidate for the city council. He attracts broad support beyond union workers and is a widely known Seattle labor leader active in municipal work. Mohr helped secure the recall amendment to the city charter and is described as a forceful speaker and keen student of municipal problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul K. Mohr
Organized Labor
Mohr
Seattle
Local Candidates Debate At Renton Hill Club House
A crowd gathered at Renton Hill club house last night as candidates debated municipal issues. H. V. Meyers urged voters to hear both sides while T A Parish faced a cool reception. Edin J. Brown and others planned further appearances with a straw vote showing Wells 160, Cotterill 162, Gill 80, Parish 69. Co W Smith impressed at the Quiz congress with detailed public question positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Parish
Renton Hill Club
H. V. Meyers
Wells
Cotterill
Gill
Parish
Rantaway Teases Irish Players About Retirement
The Boston Evening Transcript quotes Rantaway saying he plans to retire aged 48 after being tired of taking hits. He tells an old friend he will be missed if he leaves.
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Rantaway
Rantawnay
Boston Evening Transcript
Advice on Selecting a Wife With Merit and Thrift
The speaker urges慎慎 doubly to think before marriage and to choose a partner who is wise thrifty and steady. If the girl meets high standards of gentleness kindness patience and reliability she is worth the love otherwise the speaker doubts the match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anre
Rehearsals Begin For Girls Home Benefit Program
A benefit program for the Girls Home and Training School at Kaverma Heights the Metropolitan on February 20 has begun rehearsals. The third day of the poll show opened last night running from 10 a m to 10 p m due to large attendance over three days. First regimental parade of the cadet corps occurred on the university campus that morning. A swarm of bees disrupted Dr Cook's Hopkinsville lecture and stung him in the neck. Seventy three university students were dropped for exam failures.
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Kaverma Heights
Metropolitan
Dr. Cook
Hopkinsville, Ky
Pillow Takes Command Fort on Cumberland River
A February 9 1882 note marks Gideon J Pillow assuming command of a Confederate Fort on the Cumberland River as Union forces under Grant approached within a mile. The item recalls Grants remark about Pillow and notes a concert at Pleasant Valley Presbyterian church tonight featuring local and downtown talent.
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Gideon J. Pillow
Cumberland River
Pillow
Grant
Gideon
Gen. Grant
Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church
24Th Av
Bertona St
The
Storm Approaches Vancouver Island With Strong Winds
A storm nears Vancouver Island bringing increasing southeasterly winds that rise to high levels and later shift to the southwest, affecting coastal areas and maritime conditions.
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Vancouver Island
Women’s club opposes high school domestic science expansion
The Women’s Commercial club went on record against extending the domestic science department in the city high school, fearing full provision of each school. Invitations were issued by T H Martin for a Pacific Northwest immigration convention in Tacoma January 21 and 22, seeking delegates. D H Gilman protests a $5 000 assessment for a rising bridge at 23rd Ave and W Garfield St, plans to sue the city for 50 000.
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Women's Commercial Club
T. H. Martin
Tacoma
D. H. Gilman
Streets and Sewers Committee
Smithcove
23Rd Avy. W
Garfield St
Thermometer talk and cold day questions spark lesson
The scene opens with a teacher asking how to tell temperature differences between winter days. A barber’s boy adds that very cold weather keeps people from getting haircuts, while a separate note mentions Elks from Chicago traveling to Everett for an athletic smoker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Everett
Secret process to make foods from petroleum discovered
Pittsburg experts report a laboratory breakthrough at the University of Pittsburg unveiling a secret method to produce several food varieties from petroleum. In Chicago, a panic at a moving picture house ended after a chorus of songs as a cry of fire sparked a crowd scramble but was soon controlled.
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Pittsburg
University of Pittsburg
Chicago
Dixie
Pet bull dog guards chickens in Asheville coop
Archibald Greer refused 500 dollars for a bulldog that cages his chickens in a coop and releases them only after their daily egg quota. In East St Louis, yeggmen bound the night watchman and robbed a safe of 1100 dollars at a packing plant.
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Asheville
N. C
Archibald Greer
ST. Louis, Mo
East St. Louis
Mount Coropuna Flag Victory Reported by Miss Peck
Miss Anna Peck, noted climber, tells suffragists she planted the Joan of Arc Suffrage League flag atop Mount Coropuna in southern Peru, a 21 000 foot peak. In Chicago Dr E J Greenfield of Wichita unveils a metal root tooth project intended to be grown into the jawbone.
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New York
Anna Peck
Joan of Arc Suffrage League
Mount Coropuna
Peru
Chicago
E. J. Greenfield
Wichita
Metropolitan-Dark Theatres Run as Vaudeville Circuit
A fragmented listing shows Metropolitan Dark, Seattle shows and venues like R B Barnum hypnotist, Pantages Vaudeville, Orpheum Vaudeville, Grand Vaudeville and motion pictures. The note outlines a vaudeville circuit with multiple houses in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan
Seattle
R. B. Barnum
Emprese
Pantages
Orpheum
Educational cowardice blamed by Rev. Thompson
Rockford Illinois February 9 Reverend T B Thompson Congregationalist accuses schools and colleges of educational cowardice for accepting Andrew Carnegie's bounty. New York February 9 James B Duke plans to resign as president of American Tobacco Co to chair British American Tobacco Co Limited. Also New York reports Frank H Harris elected vice president of the Chicago and Albion Railroad Co.
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Rockford
T. B. Thompson
Andrew Carnegie
New York
James B. Duke
American Tobacco Co
British American Tobacco Co., Limited
Frank H. Harris
Edwin Hawley
Chicago and Alton Railroad Co
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Evelya Wet
Eddie Norman
Ballard Ave
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F. N. Fairbanks
Rallard Ave
Fillmore
McDonald’s Hat Store
Third Ave
Madison
Spring
Juanita
Acre
Harris
Lake Washington
Juanita Hay
Madison Park
Kirkland- Seattle
David P. Eastman
Lowman Building
Harcey
Brussels
Harcey Furniture & Carpet Co
Pike ST. Corner
Fifth
Dodgers
George F. Cotterill
Kidd
Innocent
Pen
Hi Gill
Congress
Georgetown
Hmulet M. Wells
Caswell
Sahil
Mountain View Station
Kirkwood Hall
Green Lake
Edwin J. Brown
Bard's
Co. W. Smith
Shaner & Wolff
Millinery CO
the Wonder
Miss Agatha
Showalter
St. Louis
Brestin
Philadelphia
Mary Garden
Tarrytown
WN. Y
Fox
Lillian E. Small
Normal College
Little Rock, Ark
J. J. Gox
Jackson, Tenn
Ollie Katterer
Ernor Donaghy
Martin
Ithaca
N. Y
Presti Schurman
Cornell
Pro
Albert Cartoon
Cory
Lord Byron
Earl Myers
Piper & Taft's
Kansas
Reno
Los Angeles
Union League Club
Frederick & Nelson, Inc
Peter Thompson
New House
Firat
Washington Birthday
Washington
Hildren
Saseeti
Frederick & Nelson
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