Lilly Family Tragedy Sparks Dollar Club Plea
A Bellevue family faces ruin after a breadwinner, R. S. Lilly, becomes crippled by repeated surgeries. The Star urges readers to join the Dollar Club to aid the Lillys with basic needs as hospital bills mount and work proves elusive. The piece contrasts charity with philanthropy and promises further details and member names in a coming issue.
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Providence Hospital
Lilly
Philanty
Charity
Philantrophy
Star's Dollar
Star
Pene
Dollar Club Appeal Prompts Readers to Join The Star
The Star urges readers to join the Dollar club supporting the Lilly family by sending one dollar per membership. Dan Dean explains fund use and names of new members will be announced daily. Readers are invited to contribute more than one dollar to receive multiple memberships.
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Dan Dean
Lilly
Bellevue
Lillys
The
Star
Sally
Dollar” Club
Lai
Dollar Club
R. S. Lilly
the Star
Harriman Edges Hill in Puget Sound Monopoly Move
E H Harriman blocks J J Hill from control of Puget Sound routes. Harriman in talks with Tacoma Eastern to connect Portland lines to Tacoma, threatening Hill’s plan for full Columbia River access. The maneuver cements Harriman’s grip on regional rail traffic and ports.
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Pire
North
Puget Sound
BE. H. Harrigan
J. J. Hill
Himelf
Portland
Harriman
Bia & Northern People
Columbia River
Hill
Columbia & Northern
Tacoma
Tacoma Eastern
Jim Hill
Markiman
Czar and Witte Pat Heads Together
In St. Petersburg an interview between the emperor and M. Witte covers negotiations. Mrs. Witte will accompany four on a Paris trip, later to the United States. Korotovitz, ex-head of the Russian legation in Peking, will accompany the minister to America. Prices rise on the bourse as Witte is named chief plenipotentiary and the government issues 5 million paper roubles to safeguard the gold reserve.
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ST. Petersburg
Emperor
M. Witte
Fternoon
Mra
Witte
Parise
United
M. Korotovitz
Tee
Per
America
Gagette
Ude Promoted to Traveling Passenger Agent
Tacoma July 14 W H Ude city passenger agent of the Northern Pacific has been promoted to traveling passenger agent with a headquarters at Spokane.
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Tacoma
W. H. Ude
Northern Pacific
Spokane
Equitable board reshuffles as Garvin seeks evidence copy
New York officials report Attorney General Garvin failed to obtain a copy of evidence from Superintendent Hendricks in the Equitable investigation. At a directors meeting 12 new directors were elected, three resigned, and terms were set through 1906 to 1908 for various appointees including Louis Stern, Frank Weatherbee, and Nicholas Murray Butler.
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New York
Ansistant
Carvin
Robert Hunter
Hendricks
F Equitable
Jerome
Higgins
Equitable
Garvin
Hunter
Frederic Bourne
Genral Louis Fitegerald
H.C. Deling
Wallace F. Pieres
Boston
Daniel Tomkins
Charlotte
N. C
Thomas Spratt
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Louis Stern
Frank Weatherbee
Port Henry
James MacMahon
Brooklyn
Willis McCook
Pittsburg
Charlies E. Littlefield
Rock Island
N. M. Stranahan
Port of New York
Cady Herricy
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Charles Zehider
Philadelphia
Inquiry Over Tobacco Statistics Turbulence Sparks Delay
Secretary Wilson launched an inquiry into charges that the Agriculture Department tobacco statistics are manipulated to aid the tobacco trust. Pending findings, tobacco statics in several districts will be paused, though state monthly figures are to be issued Monday.
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Washington
Wilson
Statistics Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Tobacco Trust
Melville Dollar Cargoes for Nome. Skagwayner Jefferson Returns
The Melville Dollar of the Dollar line entered port Friday morning to reload general merchandise for Nome and will sail next for Alaska from Tacoma after completion. The Skagwayner Jefferson will return Saturday morning with the school teachers’ excursion party, which she carried away last week.
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Melville Dollar
Dollar
Nome
Tacoma
Alaska
Jefferson
Census Ledger Shows July Totals for 1905 and 1904
The record lists dates July 14 1905 and July 14 1904 along with monetary figures 014 170 21 794 052 96. It notes an increase over last year amounting to 120 117 26. The numbers indicate a fiscal comparison between two years.
Convict Wade Still At Large On Vashon Island
United States Marshal Hopkins notes slim odds Wade can elude pursuit as the only remaining jail breaker at large. He was sighted Thursday entering a farmer’s place at the island’s north end with a rifle clothing and food.
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Vashon Isl
George Wade
United States
Hopkins
Vashon Island
I Can Lick Any Seattle Cop Says Otto Bauman
Otto Bauman a saloon porter declared he can lick any man in the Seattle police force and will act after trouble ends. He punched a wall during a confrontation at a New Paris house when a bill of 3.90 led to his eviction. Bauman was arrested by City Detective Kasson and held at police headquarters awaiting court.
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Bellevue
Dame Fortune
Lillys
Lilly
Watt
Neek
Seattle
Otto Bauman
Kasson
Easeon
New
Paris
Bauman
Te Te
Contia
General Leonard Wood Undergoes Trepanning Operation
Reports from Pocasset Cape Cod say General Leonard Wood underwent a delicate trepanning operation to remove a bony growth on the head. The operation was successful and the general is recovering rapidly.
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Boston
Mass
Pocasset
Cape Cod
Leonard Wood
6 000-ton turbine steamer contracted for New York to New Orleans
The Southern Pacific under President Harriman has awarded a contract to build a 6000 ton turbine freight and passenger steamer, described as the largest turbine ship yet built in America, for operation between New York and New Orleans.
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New York
America
Harriman
Southern Pacific Company
New Orleans
Burglary Hits House Near Burton in Washon
John Randall’s home one mile west of Burton was broken into yesterday and two coats stolen. All the food in the house was eaten. Police suspect convict Wade carried out the theft.
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Burton
Washon
Wash
John Randall
Wade
Fourth Birthday Party For Harold Brearly’s Home
A group of children gathered at Harold Brearly’s home on East Valley Street for a fourth birthday party. They played games, enjoyed refreshments, and left pleased with the afternoon’s entertainment.
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Harold Brearly
East Valley Street
Swedish minister dodges on German fleet visit
In Stockholm on July 14 the minister of marine refused to confirm or deny reports that a large German fleet will visit Swedish Norwegian waters as a show of sympathy toward Sweden. The fleet is expected to arrive around July 20.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Emperor William names King Oscar grand admiral
In Kiel on July 114 the Emperor William appointed King Oscar as grand admiral of the German navy, a move described in local dispatches as a major naval leadership elevation.
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Kiel
William
Oscar
Gering Navy
Two Seattle Boys Walk to Lewis and Clark Fair
Two Seattle youths Junhina Rochester and Harold Lewis started a Friday morning walk toward the Lewis and Clark fair with a small amount of money to live on. They come from well known city families and the trek will be watched with interest.
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Seattle
Junhina Rochester
Harold Lewis
Peculiar Ticket Requests At City Office
City ticket agent Claud Meldrum of the Great Northern reports unusual inquiries from the public. One man asked for a ticket “forwards and backwards to Bellingham,” highlighting odd requests encountered at the office.
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North Yakima
George Donald
Jesse H. Ross
Claud Meldrum
Great Northern
Bellingham
Frawley Company Presenting Ranson's Folly at Grand
Beginning Sunday night and for two more nights T Daniel Frawley stages Ranson's Folly at the Grand. Richard Harding Davis created the drama from his story. A strong company led by Eleanor Montell portrays army life at Fort Crockett with praise from army officers.
Oldest resident of Great Britain Jas McNally turns 108
Jas McNally, born 1797 in Kings County Ireland, marks his 108th birthday. He recalls Pitt the Prime Minister Trafalgar and 18 year old enlistment in a famous campaign. Emigrated to the United States in 1866, served in the federal army, was in Washington at Lincoln’s assassination, moved to England in 1878, and since 189? housed with the Little Sisters of the Poor at South Lambert.
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Grea Britain
Jas
McNally
Wm Pitt
Trafalgar
Kings County
Ireland
United States
Washington
Lincoln
England
Little Sisters of the Poor
South Lambert
Prince Consort
Duke of Wellington
Abraham Lincoln
Gladstone
Ward Beecher
Waa
Mysterious Pike assault ends with revolver display
At the Pike restaurant on Second and Pike a fashionably dressed woman attacked a man with a beer glass, then followed him into the street and flourished a revolver in his face. A quiet youth accompanied them as they walked up Pike Street.
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Pike
Second and Pike
Pike Street
Mutiny and Executions Mark Russian Turmoil Abroad
Reports from Tiflis Odessa and St. Petersburg July 14 describe a mutiny by Russian troops killing officers near a village in Caucasia. Executions follow agrarian disturbances across Podolia Koloff Kharkoff and Kherson with leaders hanged and mutineers sent for trial. Emperor Nicholas signs commission for council president to attend a peace conference in the United States.
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Tiflis
Caucasia
URG
Sviatopol Mirsky
Odessa
Russia
Podolia
Koloff
Kharkhoff
Kherson
Sevastopol
ST. Petersburg
Nicholas
Cemiata
United States
Kavimana Hurt While Painting Roof on Main Street
A painter named Kavimana fell from a house roof on Main Street between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues on Thursday. He was seriously injured and rushed to General Hospital where his injuries were treated.
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Main Street
Ele
Twelfth Avenues
General Hospital
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