Fire devastates Portland exposition building and surrounding areas
A July Portland fire killed two people and left six missing as flames swept the exposition building on 4th Street and nearby structures. The blaze destroyed the Multnomah club and surrounding homes, with extensive damage to the brick Hiewland hotel and two adjacent apartment houses. Firefighters battled the blaze for hours, while sailors aided from ships docked nearby.
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Mao
Ton Beliding
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Mat M. Weet
den and
Delmonte
Ines
Price
Mgere Expedition
Tumbles to his death while picking cherries
Leonard Gehring assistant superintendent at Seattle Brewing and Malting Co. fell from a tree limb onto a cement walk in his front yard dying of a fractured skull. His wife and two children were on the porch. Gehring had long served with the brewery and was named as a future successor to Bapt Mueller. He belonged to Georgetown city councils.
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Leonard Gehring
Seattle Brewing and Malting Co
Gehring
Mable At
Man slashes throat during revival service over money
William Seemet, 23, wounded himself with a razor at a Corvallis Oregon Apostolic Faith mission while a prayer for wandering youths was underway. He told police he robbed his mother to fund drinking. he was captured by congregants and rushed to City Hospital where doctors said he would recover. A letter from his father urged him to return home. Seemet had worked for Chittenden Logging Company.
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Te Te Tonger
Corvailix
William Stemet
Seemet
Apostolic Faith Mission
Jackson
Teaay
Seermet
Weather forecast notes fair conditions tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for fair skies with light westerly winds tonight and Friday. No precipitation expected, with comfortable temperatures and calm to mild conditions across the period.
Doctor rescues Seattle boy from execution in Central America
The 19 year old Sands, once a Broadway High School student, was captured by Madris forces led by Gen Ilias in Principala. He faced a drumhead court martial but was granted unconditional parole after demanding medical aid for a sick commander. Sands’ parents live in Mukilteo with no word of his fate.
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Sands
Principala
Gwen
Ilias
Venus
San Jacinto
Madris
Bright
Hergheim
Seattle
Irias
Mukilteo
State Department
Washington
Sandala
United States
Broadway High School
Benefit planned for widow of Dr Powers at Philadelphia event
A benefit is planned in Philadelphia to support the widow of Dr Mike Powers following a prop and field day exercises hike park event. The fundraiser aims to raise over 37000 dollars and to become an annual affair.
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Mike Powers
Philadelphia
Gambling in Seattle and the Mayor’s Gamble
Seattle voters elected Hiram C Gill amid gambling in the city. The Star and other papers now condemn the evils and demand casinos close for the new mayor, while critics say the public chose gambling with Gill and must face the consequences.
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Seattle
Hiram C. Gill
Gill
The
Star
Mr. Gill
William Hickman Moore
Judge Moore
Crippen Murder Case Rivets London Anew
London reels from the Crippen murder case as investigators link two bodies to an old Islington house. Mrs Hawley Crippen, a singer, is dead and her husband, an American dentist, faces murder charges amid a vast police dragnet across Europe and America.
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Continents
Hawley Crippen
London
Whitechapel
Islington
Crippen
Anti Vice Association Loses Tenderloin Suit
The Anti-Vice Association dropped its injunction bid after the property owner plaintiff accepted offers well above affidavits' claimed value. Attorneys prepared affidavits, but the man sold or leased the property instead, ending the case and prompting a search for another interested party.
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Anti-Vice Association
Tenderloin
Plaine, Tucker & Hyland
Suffrage Meeting Anticipated In Beattie Club Session
The Beattie Suffrage club will meet tomorrow at 2 30 PM at Mrs Trumbull’s home at 10th Ave N and Morrison St Miss Groening of New York will speak Maude Breele will recite The meeting follows a day of bank clearings recorded in Tacoma Portland Spokane totals with balances and transfers noted across cities.
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Beattie Suffrage Club
Mont Calme French Cruiser to Visit Seattle This Summer
Advicer to R De Lobel Mahay says the French armored cruiser Mont calm will reach Seattle on July 26 and stay until August 10. Commanded by Rear Admiral De Castries the ship will host a reception for officers prepared by the Alliance Francaise.
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Montcalm
Seattle
de Castries
Alliance Francaise
Star Day at White City Madison Park
Announcement invites visitors to Star Day at the White City in Madison Park with one star coupon and one ticket admitting bearer to any attraction. Coupons cover gal lery shooting, Japanese ball game, Ferris wheel and rides all day and evening. Clip coupon to save nickel.
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Madison Park
Lery
Coupon admits bearer to White City on Star Day
A coupon prints admission for five cents to White City and all attractions on Star Day Friday July 15, allowing bearer entry to the grounds and events.
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White City
Interior Department Patronage and Press Control Exposed
A Collier's Weekly excerpt cites a Sandpoint Idaho land office official detailing how notices favored Republican papers and punished dissenting outlets. The letter accuses the Interior Department of steering advertising patronage to favored editors, with broader implications about Ballinger and party influence.
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Collier's Weekly
Ballinger
Interior Department
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
United States
Heyburn
George FR. Barker
Eeg
Sandpoint
Sires
Department For the Register of the Land Office
Coeur
Drunk Canadian laborer hanged himself in city jail
Fred Bryan aged 38, a Canadian laborer, was jailed for drunkenness on the waterfront and hanged himself with a belt strap in his cell. Assistant Jailer Roeester found the body shortly before midnight. Corning had passed an hour earlier.
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Fred Bryan
Roeester
Corning
Bryan
Canada
Tacoma Mayor Seriously Hurt In Elevator Incident
Tacoma reports Mayor Vance Fawcett severely injured when the city hall elevator started up as he stepped in. He suffered a broken rib a bruised neck and leg injuries with heart region pains. Hospital and officials assess the accident and related transit proposals move forward with owl cars on main street lines.
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Vance Fawcett
Libby
Fawcett
Central Labor Council
Valentine
Seattle Electric Company
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