Increasing Port Commission Membership Debate Proceeds
A 10 day period remains before the port election as opponents push to expand the port commission from three to five members. They argue the current board is controlled by a “gang” of real estate interests on Harbor Island, while supporters warn against expanding to evade the electorate and note past fights against a perceived theft of public funds.
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Plunderbund
Port Commission
Harbor Island
Chamber of Commerce
Play Fair Yourself Judge Gary Attacks Income Tax Tone
The piece questions Judge Gary’s stance on the income tax calling it a class war misrepresentation. It argues the tax shifts burden and contends the steel trust seeks to exploit workers while denying them bargaining power. It urges fair play and implies reform.
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Gary
Steel Trust
Ier
Where Does Woodrow Stand on the Sherman Prohibition
The piece weighs Wilson's stance on barring funds for prosecuting unions under the Sherman act in the sundry civil bill. It notes Taft veto grounds, argues Wilson interprets congressional intent, and contrasts a legalist view with a broader purpose while lampooning other political figures and timber land dealings.
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Wilson
Taft
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Garden humor and political snipes in a mixed page
A jumble of quips and notes including a garden hose pun with Mrs Pankhurst, references to Nat Goodwin and a pending divorce, a judge returning a bribe note, and chatter about a rubber tired Duggy farmer. It blends satire, court jests, and brief local items from the day.
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Nat Goodwin
Questions That Mr. Gray Cannot Answer
A collage of Q and A items and jokes from a period column. Questions range from where to buy a rubber plug hat to how to cure a wife who talks in her sleep. The piece blends playful riddles with brief notices and an advertisement tease.
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S. McA
Circle Circle Club Sees Rapid Growth in Coast
The Star Circle club, among the coast’s largest, received 20 membership letters this week from boys and girls. Readers praise The Star and submit poetry and drawings as part of the club’s Sug gestion Contest, which ended Friday at 3 PM with 55 entries and Jessie Raines of Sultan as winner.
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Circle
Uncle Jack
Circle Club
Bremerton
Carl Baughman
Wash
Jessie Raines
Sultan
Olga Langhand
Oak Harbor
Jennie Rude
Soyt Av
Anna Wagner
Pine St
Pine At
Olga Langsmnd
Hoyt
Mary Lusk
Lynden
Letha Ducoman
W. 57Th
Ruby McDonald
Wangonh
Mary Kiens
Sedro Woolley
Grace de Witt
Terry Av
Florence Holcomb
Tenth
Marshall
Lansdale
Hamilton
Cecil Hamstock
Bellevue Pl
Dear Uncle Jack and the Greatest Invention Thought
A reader asks about the world’s greatest invention beyond steamship and automobile. The letter hints at pondering innovation and the impact of technology on society.
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Jack
Contest Suggested by Jessie Raines Wins Weekly Prize
Jeesie Raines, the Sultan girl, wins the Circle's weekly prize for the best contest suggestion. Her letter requests a motto contest for the Circle and notes the Checlette prize of a pound box of candy. Milas Raines is out of town, delaying the prize award.
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Jeesie Raines
Jeasie
Uncle Jack
Jessie Raines
Checlette
Milas Raines
Prize Fight In Bruin Town Captured By Artist Verbeck
In a forest edge scene the Wandering Brother battles Father Bruin while Grandma Bruin and many others watch. Artist Verbeck drew the amusing, illegal spectacle so readers can see the bears’ varied expressions as town animals react to the fight.
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Tilly
Traddies
Tommy Bruin
Grandma Bruin
Brain Town
Bruin
Bruin Town
Wm Sage shoots boss in Pennsylvanian ticket office
Pittsburgh dispatch reports at noon a clerk named Wm Sage, angered by wages and missed promotion, shot and killed Jas McNair, chief ticket agent, fatally wounded Ralph Pauley, the chief clerk, and escaped.
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Pittsburg
Wm. Sage
Pennsylvania Ticket Office
Jas. McNair
Ralph Pauley
Cattle buyer J H Phirman dies in Redding
J H Phirman aged 56 a cattle buyer from The Dalles Oregon died in Redding California today of heart disease His body will be sent to The Dalles according to his brother Ed C Phirman The Dalles newspaper obituary tone with precise names and locations
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Redding
Cal
J. H. Phirman
Dalles
Ore
Ed C. Phirman
Dammitt Seeks Change of Name Says It Brings Worry
Orlando Dammitt of Elmstead North Carolina has begun legal proceedings to change his name claiming his unusual surname causes distress. He cites jokes and awkward moments at social events and lodge meetings when his name is read aloud and misheard as a prompt.
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Elmsford
N. C
Orlando Dammitt
Dammitt
O. Dammitt
Convict Verg Seeks Quiet Life After Escapes
A Paris report recalls Verg a convict who escaped Devil's Island Guiana and was captured in Paris after a long trail. He had been sentenced in 1909 to eight years but fled after two, built a boat to Dutch Guiana, then boarded a steamer to New York and found work in a private investigation agency. Best modern outside rooms in Seattle 25c to 50c Stewart House nearby.
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Paris
Verg
Devil's Island
Guiana
Dutch Guiana
New York
Stoker
Seattle
Stewart House
West Stewart
Pike Public Market
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Flim
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Washington Title Insurance CO
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Gannon
Vandalia
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Johny
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Mt. Vernon, Wash
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Union City
Arthur Monroe
Port Townsend, Wash
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Old Bruin Town
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Fifth Ave
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Centennial Best
Lour
Seattle Pen CO
Third Ave
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N. Schwehm, Mgr
Harrison &T
Terry AY
Hardtack
Panama
Pacific Coast
Ballard
Washington
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Geo. A. Johnson Co
Fifty-fourth Street
Western Pattern Works
First Avenue South
Elliott
Pacific
Seventh Avenue
American Portable House CO
Rattan Furniture Mfg. Co
Sixteenth Avenue West
Pacific Ornamental Iron Works
Quigen Anne
Republican St
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Sidney
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