Boalt Recalls McWatters Mike and juvenile court pionee r
Fred L. Boalt describes meeting Judge Addams of Cleveland at the National Conference of Charities and Correction. He recalls McWatters Mike, a once wayward youth turned department manager, and contrasts outcomes with other "official fathers" like Bill Colver and Hill as he reflects on trying to reform neglected boys.
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Boalt
Charities
McWatters
Mike
Fred L. Boalt
McWatters Mike
Judge Addams
Cleveland
National Conference of Charities and Correction
Chicago
Addams
Callaghan
Euclid Heights
Jimmy
Lavigne
McWatters’ Life Store
Bill Colver
Colver
Cleveland Press
Hill
Charley
Mill
August
Balkans War Deepens as Balkan States Clash
The Star wires report fierce Balkan fighting with Greece and Servia pushed back by Bulgarian forces. Weekly losses around 40,000. battles cover 45,000 square miles. Servians retake Kivolak amid heavy casualties and scarce medical aid. Other dispatches recount violence in Douglas Arizona Guaymas and a Florida lynching incident, plus an apparent murder-suicide in Kansas City and an Italian murder in Bloomington.
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Star
London
Greece
Serviat
Balkan States
Kivolak
Telegraph
Balkans
Cudihee Fights Recall. Court Hears Petition
Inudge Dykeman signed an order directing County Auditor Phelps to show cause next Friday July 11 why the sheriff should not be restrained from preparing recall petitions. Attorney Walter Fulton represents Sheriff Cudihee, with charges filed by Glenn Hover of Renton and Ballard strikers alleging malfeasance and misfeasance in office for aiding strikebreakers.
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Inudge Dykeman
Walter Fulton
Cudihee
Phelps
Glenn Hoover
Renton and
Ballard
Six-Story Omaha Packing Plant Burns in South Omaha
A major blaze destroyed the six-story Omaha Packing Company plant in South Omaha just after noon. The valued buildings, worth over 500000, appeared unsavable. A note mentions ongoing fringe fashion trends for women amid the incident.
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Fy United Prees
Wire
Omaha
Omaha Packing Company
South Omaha
Seattle Tornado Hits Madison Park Area
A strong tornado swept through Madison Park yesterday in Seattle. It toppled trees and damaged garages and roofs, ripped a cupola from the pavilion, split a pool hall roof, and capsized a sailboat on Lake Washington with three boys rescued by a steamer. Mrs. Howard fell into the lake but was reached. The weather man called the event rare and unexplained.
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Seattle
Madison Park
32Nd Av
Madison At
Lake
Washington
37Th
Madison
Red Rock
Paul W. Howard
Belvedere
Madison St
Women Plot to Burn Up London
Scotland Yard reports a suffrage plot to burn London with phosphorus bombs dropped by French aviators. Several aviators refused the plan and alerted police, according to the Evening Standard.
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London
Scotland Yard
Evening Standard
English Channel
Transparent Skirts and Flesh Tights Debut at Paris Event
Paris society crowd at the Prix de Drags in Auteuil showcases daring summer 1913 fashion. Designers favor diaphanous gowns with low necks and bare arms, lace dominates, and new velvet kimono bodices with front and back draping appear. The spectacle centers on women wearing transparent lace skirts and theatrical tights drawing attention from fashion observers.
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Paris
Auteuil
Runs in the Family Descendant of Leicester giant Lambert
Miss Alice Lambert of Leicester weighs 560 pounds on her 21st birthday and is described as a descendant of the famous giant Daniel Lambert who weighed 729 pounds. The Alabama normal school curriculum is set for a radical change adding rural sociology biology domestic science domestic art library methods school gardening and agriculture through club work.
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United Press
London
Alice Lambert
Leicester
Daniel Lambert
Alabama Normal School
Bunco Witness Exposes Sleuth Conspiracy Case
In San Francisco on July 7 Louisana Rovigo testified in District Attorney Fickert's office that he perjured himself under the direction of Wim A Mundell, manager of the Pacific Division of the Burns agency, in the conspiracy cases tied to the convictions of Detective Sergeant Arthur Mac Phee and Patrolman Charles Taylor. Rovigo claimed to have paid graft money directly to the two defendants.
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San Francisco
Wim. A. Mundell
Pacific
W. J. Burns Detective Agency
Arthur MacPhee
Chas. Taylor
Fickert
Louisana Rovigo
Banco
St. Louis
Rovigo
Husband Beating Suspect After Bible Reading Refusal
South Bend reporter says Charles Duval attacked his wife for refusing to read the Bible. He is under arrest on assault and battery charges. Authorities may seek a lunacy commission amid a sudden religious fixation. Separate note mentions new school subjects in public education including swimming lessons sex hygiene aviation and wireless telegraphy.
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South Rend
Ind
Charles Duval
Duval
United States Bureau of Education
Suspect tells gruesome murder spree including Pearl Bryan
Simon P. Helfenstine, held in Los Angeles on suspicion of murder, confesses to a series of killings across Ohio from 1896 to 1908 and links the famed Pearl Bryan case. He claims to have killed multiple victims, describes details that officers find convincing, and says he was married recently to Elizabeth Newton.
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Los Angeles
Venice
Pearl Bryan
Cincinnati
Simon P. Helfenstine
Helfenstine
Ohio
Ohio River
Walling
Jackson
Helfen
Dedricke
Bellefontaine
Toledo
Frank Tyrell
Lima
Joseph Finicky
Tar Flat
Springfield
A. C. Fletcher
Earl Butler
Kenton Pike
Fletcher
California
San Francisco
Elizabeth Newton
San Augustine St
San Jose
Hell Centre
Pennants Coupons No 8 Offer From The Seattle Star
Four consecutive coupons numbered from The Star plus 15 cents entitle the holder to a 65 cent pennant. A different pennant each week. Pennants mailed for 5 cents postage. Bring or mail to The Seattle Star 1307 Seventh Avenue near Union Street.
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Star
Seattle Star
Seventh Avenue
Union Street
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American Club
Jacksonville
Fla
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Cherry
Clay County
Florida
Henry Sanders
Henry
Tahlequah
Okia
Matthew Sanders
Will Johnson
Peter Canello
Bloomington
Jean
X Oa
Samuel
Denver
Vencentall Palacio
Kansas City
Frank Bailey
Maizie Edwards
Bailey
Maizie
Zowie
BUNCO
Hubby
Stock Exchange
Liverpool
Nogales
Witer
Hyatt-Fowella
4Th and Pine
A. B. Johnson
Maynard Av
Tacoma
Carl Arvidson
Colman
Steve
J. A. Mutr
Brooklyn
Col Angier
18Th Ave
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Bremerton, Wash
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