Ex Mayor Cotterill Defends City Utilities
Former Seattle mayor George F. Cotterill urges support for city owned utilities, defending costs and credit. He cites Seattle lighting costs per mile and per square mile, contrasts with Chicago New York Philadelphia and Boston, and claims municipal utilities save taxpayers millions annually without higher taxes. He argues Seattle needs no outside guardianship and touts water, lighting, and railway as public triumphs.
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George F. Cotterill
Seatsie
Ieity
Seattle
America
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Shieves
Banke of
Cotterill
Puget Sound Traction
Theimr
Washington
Municipal Railway
Olympia
Thrift as a Key in Child Education Emphasized
An editorial urges parents to share thrift responsibility with teachers and to model saving habits for children. It cites opening savings accounts with Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank as a practical example for families to encourage financial discipline.
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Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank
Dexter Horton
Unknown bicycle rider near death after city collision
An unidentified cyclist is in critical condition at a city hospital after being hit by N. L. Beagle, an auto driver, in the city. The incident prompted hospital treatment and police involvement.
Supreme Court to rule on mining tax law
Reuters report lists a series of recent events including US Supreme Court review of income tax law as applied to mining companies, a Berlin death of James Creeiman, a fatal coal mine crush in Great Falls, a secession crisis in Butte, and other international and regional incidents.
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U. S. Supreme Court
James Creeiman
Berlin
Edward Gerber
Great Falls
Mont
Harry Robinson
Seceding Miners’ Union
Thomas Monroe
Butte
Chins
Netherlands
United States
Bowling Green
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Maine
North Dakota
Carolyn Wilson
Chicago
Germany
Michigan
Oregon
Worgen
Harry Carr
Cashmere
Leavenworth Court Room
High Jinks to Open at Moore Theatre for Week
Arthur Hammerstein presents High Jinks at the Moore theatre starting Sunday night. Rudolph Friml provides a tuneful score, with plot by Otto Hauerbach about a magic perfume causing hilarity. The farce follows a Parisian nerve specialist, a jealous husband, and a mistaken wife with Stella Mayhew leading a 68 member chorus.
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Arthur Hammerstein
Moore Theatre
Rudolph Friml
Otto Hauerbich
Madame Sher
Paris
New York City
Stella Mayhew
Pantages Bill Opens with Star-Studded Variety Lineup
The Pantages new bill opens Sunday afternoon featuring Harry B. Cleveland and company in Mum's the Word. Also on the program are Robyns in David Berg, On Crocodile Tale by Menomee Aiken, Pierce and Roslyn in A Whirl of Melody, Love Insurance Agent by Wright and Davia, Williams brothers in a singing and dancing novelty, Will M. Cressy and Blanche Dayne with Sam and Kitty Morton headlining, Maria Lo and chorus in tableaux, Mae Melville and Robert Higgins in Cervo, a piano accordionist, Harry Watkins contortionist, Bertish strength act, George Lagoon orchestra, and Jacobs' motion pictures.
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Pantages
Harry B. Cleveland
Will M. Cressy
Blanche
Dayne
Sam
Kitty Morton
Cressy
Mr. Cressy
Maria Lo
Mae Melville
Robert Higgins
Harry Watkins
Bertish
George Lagoon
Jacobs
Two American Nurses Accused as Spies in France
London report says two American nurses with British Army units in France were detected acting as spies and “effectually dealt with.” Nursing Mirror notes rumors of female spies abroad and at home, citing Lord Kitchener’s discovery of news leaks at Southampton and the four culprits, including two nurses who were sent inland for lack of discretion.
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London
Mall
France
Nursing Mirror
Lord Kitchener
Southampton
Ode to the Jitbus Man
Poem by Helen Brown humorously lists misfortunes from hair in butter to wrecks and delays and urges readers to laugh it off when fate or a broken vehicle causes trouble or a police stop. It charms with light verse and abrupt, playful rhymes about everyday mishaps.
Demand Grand Jury In Chehalis Bank Collapse Case
Chehalis February 1 Superior Judge Rice is considering a petition from Centralia bank depositors who were hard hit by the September failures. The group seeks the calling of a grand jury and the appointment of a special prosecutor.
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Chehalis
Rice
Centralia Bank
First Presbyterian clubs hold annual banquet and Lincoln program
The Young Men's Bible club and Men's club of the First Presbyterian church plan their annual banquet on Tuesday night with dinner at seven. Clark P. Bissett, lifelong Lincoln student and noted scholar, will respond to the toast Abraham Lincoln. Tenor Theodore Carl Johnston will sing, and Walter H. Watkins will read Lincoln's Gettysburg speech.
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N. L. Beagle
City Hospital
Men's Bible Study League
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Queen Anne Church
Forward Movement
Colonial Theatre
Esther Woodruff
Queen Anne Congregational Church
W. A. Cox
G. F. Reynolds
Montlake Park
C. P. Bissett
Lincoln
First Presbyterian Men's Club
Bender Brothers
Pribllof Islands
Bering Sea
Young Men's Bible Club
First Presbyterian Church
Clark P. Bissett
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Carl Johnston
Walter H. Watkins
Hindenburg Wins Victory as Russians Crushed
Don, February 13. Germany again celebrates Field Marshal von Hindenburg known as the Old Man of the Lakes. The Russian offensive in East Prussia is reported crushed with Russian forces driven from Konigsburg and Thorn. About 30,000 Russians captured, numerous guns and supplies seized, while German first line troops inflicted heavy losses. The Russian retreat is described as precipitous and potentially rout.
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Don
Germany
Marshal von Hindenburg
East Prussia
Konigsburg
Thorn
von Hindenburg
Will Exhume Aged Victims Of Poisoner In New York
Weatchester and the Bronx authorities plan immediate exhumations of three alleged victims from the German Odd Fellows Home at Teekahoe. Frederick Mors, an orderly, confessed to eight killings by arsenic and chloroform as testimony points to murder of senile patients. Authorities seek diary records of an attendant to show a pattern of complaints leading to deaths.
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New York
Weatchester
Bronx
Odd Fellows
Téekahoe
Frederick Mors
Hindenburg Turns German Push on Slavs In Early War
The article details von Hindenburg drawing the slavs into a trap, the German advance and flanking blows, a Russian air scout warning of danger, and a retreat ordered before complete encirclement. It also reports alleged murders of patients, a jail superintendent, and findings about Mars’ sanity and peculiar ideas.
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Allenstein
von Hindenburg
New York Gunman Captured by Frisco Police
San Francisco police arrest Charles alias Scouth Thomas, a top New York gunman wanted for the Murray Hennessy murder last October. Also taken into custody were Benjamin Hall, aline Stifter, Charles Willams, and Mark Marshall alias Dorothy Macon as they tried to enter three taxicabs in front of the Menlo hotel. Hennessy was killed outside a cafe in New York amid a gang feud.
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San Francisco
Charles
Scouth Thomas
New York
Thomas
Murray Hennessy
Benjamin Hall
Aline Stifter
Charles Willams
Mark Marshall
Dorothy Macon
Menlo
Hennessy
Sun Newspaper to Reestablish Under New Plan
Fletcher Lewis attorney for the former Sun employee announced at the Lincoln hotel banquet that the paper will be rehabilitated. The organization has full title to the plant and will sell stock in small denominations to restart publication with a new policy. former editor E. H. Welle and ex-manager A. J. Copeland are not included.
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Fletcher Lewis
the Sun
Lincoln Hotel
E. H. Welle
A. J. Copeland
Man allowed to die over inadequate medical care in C N R case
Victoria February 13. Claims that a man employed on C N R construction work was allowed to die after an accident due to inadequate medical appliances and a doctor 84 miles away were raised in the legislature by Representative Hayward. The laborer was among those who pay a one dollar monthly medical fee.
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Victoria
Hayward
Lieutenant Wolseley Wounded in Battle Front Return
A report from Vancouver dated February 13 states Lieutenant Wolseley, who traveled at his own expense to reach the front at the outbreak of the war, was seriously wounded in a recent battle.
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Vancouver
Wolseley
Olympia National Bank to Build New Home
The Olympia National Bank announced plans to construct a new building at a cost of $40,000.
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Olympia
Olympia National Bank
Prosecutor Pledges Arrests in Witness Intimidation Case
Prosecutor Lundin says arrests of police officers are likely after late information on graft charges against Paul Schuman. He cites threats to witnesses and a plot to remove them from the city before trial. One officer is named as visiting witnesses and pressuring women to retract affidavits. Schuman and cigar dealer Charles Shea remain jailed in lieu of $5,000 bail.
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Paul Schuman
Lundin
Poiceman
Schuman
Charles Shea
Leu
Wingfield Hotel Fire Destroys Tolt Building
A fire in the kitchen of the Wing field hotel in Tolt Washington destroyed the building. Loss is estimated between four thousand and five thousand dollars. Fire officials have not reported any injuries.
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Tolt, Wash
Wingfield Hotel
Heirs to sue UC for Grant Forest timber land return
Visalia reports that the heirs of Horace Whittaker, a former Dinuba rancher, will sue the Regents of the University of California to recover 320 acres of timber land near Grant Forest that Whittaker deeded to the institution.
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Visalia
Cal
Horace Whittaker
Dinuba
Regents
The
University of California
Grant Forest
Whittaker
Portland Postal Official Robbed in Union Ave Substation
Portland report says two robbers, armed with a revolver, forced Superintendent A. G. Ott to open the Union ave substation A safe. Ott was handcuffed to a mail truck while the strong box was rifled of $100 in currency and $600 in stamps after closing time at 6 15 P M. A thorough search yielded no trace of the burglars.
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Portland
A. G. Ott
Union Ave
Alder St
Ott
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