Names and middle names of Seattle city officials revealed
A quirky audit of City Hall reveals the full given names of many officials. Comptroller Harry W Carroll is actually Harry Winans Carroll, while County Treasurer William Waldorf Astor Gaines and others disclose lineage in their middle names. The piece traces genealogies for clerks, attorneys, and council members, noting how private identities surface in public roles.
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Chesterfield
Harry W. Carroll
Harry Winans Carroll
Carroll
Winans
Bronx
New York City
Old Broadway
W. A. Gaines
William Waldorf Astor Gaines
John D. Carmody
Carmody
John Daniel Carmody
John
Charles E. Claypool
Charles’ Clasatcy
Ethelbert
Maton
W. D. Lane
Warren Panforth Lane
Danforth
Lane
Oliver T. Erickson
Theodore
Seattle
O. T. Erickson
William Hickman Moore
Hickman
William Hickman
William
William Wilson Moore
Kentucky
Wilson
L. O. Shrader
Man Tunneth
Lenhart Otho Shrader
Saxony
Shrader
Otho
Robert B. Hesketh
Robert Bruce Hesketh
Scotesman
Ewing M. Street
Ewing
Matthew
Alpheus Feldh Haas
Likewine
J. Prp
Agnew
James Peter Agnew
James
Harry Bolton
Thomas Henry Bolton
Thomas Floyd
United States Naturalization Officer
John Speed Smith
United States District Attorney
Chancellor
Robert Chancellor Saunders
Ben L. Moore
U. S. Disttrict
Benjamin
Bulgarian Premier Attacked by Reds
Copenhagen dispatch reports the Bulgarian premier was attacked by Reds in the capital city as political tensions rise. Police responded quickly and the premier remained unharmed, with investigations underway into the incident and its motives.
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Reds
Premier Stambulinski Attacked Amid Balkan Cabinet Shakeup
Semi official Sofia dispatches report Bulgaria’s Premier Stambulinski attacked by Bolsheviki en route from Sofia to Belgrade. No injury confirmed but government said to have resigned and socialists reforming the cabinet.
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Stambulinski
Bulgaria
Bolsheviki
Sofia
Belgrade
Symphony to Play Requests at Meany Hall
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra performs a crowd pleasing program at Meany Hall featuring popular numbers requested by the public. Highlight is Mendelssohn and Peer Gynt suite with Charles Tryner performing a horn solo. No reservations on popular concert nights. arrive early for seats.
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Meany Hall
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Seattle
Charles Tryner
Eeenes Grieg
Ana
Anitra
Bedouin Marriage Rite Ends With Blood Spilled on Sand
A Bedouin wedding is completed when the bridegroom slaughters a sheep and spills its blood on the sand at his father-in-law’s threshold. The act marks the ceremony’s conclusion.
US Loan to Kerensky Government Amid Overthrow
The United States lent 187 million dollars to the Kerensky government, which has since fallen, leaving the future of the loan and aid unclear as political events unfold.
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United States
Kerensky
Outing Flannel Pajamas Offered at Downstairs Store Price
A group of AREED pajamas with pink and blue broken stripe pattern and frog neckband fastenings are offered at a sale price of 2.00 dollars. The Downstairs Store promotes this bargain as a worthwhile saving for shoppers.
MISSes SHOES PRICED AT 2 95 A PAIR AT DOWNTOWN STORE
Local display highlights women and misses footwear in button and lace styles priced to clear at 2.95 per pair. The downstairs store promotes budget friendly fashion footwear for the season.
Bluebird Cups and Saucers Special 95¢ Set of 6
The Downstairs Store advertises Bluebird pattern china cups and saucers in a set of six for 95¢. Also promotes single curtains with narrow windows to curtains at 75¢ each and remnant drapery fabrics in Swiss Silkoline Serim Marquisset Cretonne at reduced prices.
Long service boys sweaters offered at low prices
Oxford gray knit sweaters in sturdy cotton yarn with roll collar and two pockets. Available in sizes 28 to 34 at 2.00 dollars, 12 to 14 at 1.50, and attached sizes 6 to 14 years at 1.25. Nuturing active boys with durable design.
Handy Kitchen Jars Reduced to 25
Advertises Handy Kitchen Jars for sugar tea coffee and salt in blue and white line bordered earthenware. Describes jars six inches high and 514 inches in diameter. Offer urges purchase of a four set at 25 cents each.
Florence Upstairs Store Promises Style and Service
The ad touts competitive prices and attentive service for everyday shoppers especially women. It claims nine tenths return for further purchases and invites customers to compare ante prices with bargains while promising satisfaction. The Florence Upstairs Store is named as the provider of suits coats hats and related items.
Cicero and Caesar in a murky legal riddle
A fragment hints at a courtroom figure who guards a dark secret. The line evokes classical names Cicero and Caesar with a curved, metallic hoop metaphor suggesting restraint or protection of a concealed truth. The tone remains oblique and literary rather than reporting.
Naval Seaplane Crew Uninjured After Forced Landing
The crew of the navy seaplane .5-1L, damaged during a forced landing at Oceanside, were reported uninjured. The aircraft was en route from San Diego to deliver navy mail when the incident occurred.
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Los Angeles
Navy
Oceanside
San Diego
Inter-Allied Panel Divides German War Crimes Theatres
The inter-allied commission in Paris began assigning lists of accused Germans to respective countries for trial. Full lists have been completed and procedures fixed for the forthcoming trials of war crimes by German defendants.
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Maeterlinck
BY Eddie Boyden
Charles Barton Wood
Wood
Green
Charlea Barton
Barton
Plains
Hiram M. Read
Martin
Dr. Read
Joe Jars F. Warren
Frank
James Boys
Missour
Theodore Hiram
C. B. Pitegerald
Cecil Bernard Fitzgerald
Cecil
Ballard
Golly
Drake
Almartn Trowbridge Drake
Lewis Moore
Patrick M. Tammany
Michael
Fred CC. Brown
C. M. Scott
Charles Miles Scott
Miles
Cholmondeley
William K. Vanderbilt Jr
Maurice Maeterlinck
Vanderbilt
Waldorf-Astoria
Copenhagen
t.—Premier
United Painless
Elliott
Symphony
Meany
Boston
Begerow Trunk CO
Fourth Avenue
Pike and
Union
Palace Hip
Ee Mitchell
Mitch
Melroy
Hill & Bow Millard
Hite
Vaudeville
LA Ploure
Virginia Pearson
Bisop
Matinee Daily
Frederick & Nelson
Fifth Avenue
Pine Street
Eirr
CorrEee
Cicero
Caesar
Naval Seaplane
Arnes
Miss Dickinson
Pike Place Market
Paris
Third Avenue
Oes
Sam
West
H. C. Peters
Third Ave
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