Splendid Showing of Seattle Clearing House Data
Shafer, manager of the house, today noted a week over week rise in clearances totaling 2,500.991.18 with a daily average of 464. The increase reflects a broad Seattle gain rather than a boom, aligning with Pacific States trends including San Francisco, Spokane and others in the district. Seattle’s clearances exceed those of San Francisco as the strongest in the district.
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Wear Clearing House
Mnk Shafer
Seattle
Pacife
Patterson v Patterson at court over vailed stockholder receiver action
John P. Patterson sues B Patterson alleging a wife was adjudged vice to the sylum by H. McCraw who was appointed receiver of the Pacific pending a hearing for a stockholder driven action. The case involves unsettled matters and ongoing court proceedings at the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John PD. Patterson
B Patterson
H. McCraw
The
Pacific
E E. & Stockholder
Citywide Crackdown Forces Lot Machines Off Street
Machines throughout the city were removed from saloons and walls as authorities enforce a new law. Many owners stopped operation and a large number disappeared, indicating a broad compliance wave with the regulation.
Lecture on Kamp Kontent Camp Plans Discussed
The ministerial association held a morning session in CA rooms focusing on Kamp Kontent. Rev Louis J Law spoke on purpose and benefits of the camp for boys emphasizing healthful living and moral environment during a two week outing at Chautau- Vashon Island with activities including nature study and fishing. The group plans to start July 6 to August 19 and determine the final site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis J
Hyades Arrives to Load Alaska Government Cargo
The Hyades, a collier now in army transport service, is expected to moor at pier No. and load government cargo for Alaska. Longshoremen from Tacoma are delaying the loading of the cargo.
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Hyades
Tacoma
Pier No
Alaska
City Hall Notice and Local Grading Dispute
Nelson owner of a lot at Eleventh North and East Thomas files a claim with county for damages claiming city grading cut several feet below her grade. A chamber of commerce reception committee invited Humes and the city council to a visit to Pees and its tour.
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Nelson
Eleventh North
East Thomas
Chamber of Commerce
Congressional and Harbors Committee
Pees
Tour Sound
Humes
City Council
First Public Concert By Plymouth Choral Club
A new Plymouth women’s club organized a year ago presented its first public concert at the Presbyterian church. The evening featured fine choral singing, with musician Humbering 21 praised for her rightfully sung pieces. The event drew favorable social attention and showcased the club’s aim to provide public concerts and attract musical talent in Seattle.
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Seattle
Presbyterian Church
Sungint
Geo. W. Mori
Schubert Club Debut Delights With Chorus and Solos
The Schubert Club concert featured Katherine Glen singing Jane Abt and Mrs Perry Kofoed performing Elegie with refined phrasing. Harry Hanlin earned three encores for Break Break Beak and Armorer’s Song from Robin Hood. The standout moment was Chambarde’s The Sailor’s Christmas, and the club list of members is noted in full.
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Katherine Glen
Jane Abt
Perry C. Kofoed
Aswenet
Harry T. Hanlin
Geo. Morris
Chaminade
Schubert Club
P. C. Kofoed
F. A. Churchill
Grace Mildred Tarrows
J. E. McReynolds
H.W. Jack
L. C. Gilman
Mra. Co. Ww
L. T. Turner
J. K. Robinson
James Lee
Mise W. Allender
Elia Curtiss
Mabel Bushell
Mra. Christy
Mra. Doheny
Katherine Gen
Tremper
W. L. Patch
W. J. Barnett
H Miss Ham
Pageraph Brain Test Machine Demonstrated at State University
Professor Carl Seashore of Iowa State University unveils the Pageraph, a two part device with a typewriter like control and telegraph style recorder. The user selects colored keys with two fingers while an operator activates color changes and the machine logs effort time and quality on a continuous tape.
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Carl Seashore
Towa State University
Spare of Italy Recognized as Educated European Queen
The subject is noted as a prominent amateur gardener with carnations and violets among her favorites. She speaks English, French, German and Spanish fluently and is a strong Greek scholar. An admirer of Shakespeare she wrote a book on his heroines.
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Spare
Italy
Europe
Veteran Lord Norton in House of Lords Debates
The veteran peer Lord Norton takes the most active part in debate in the house of lords. He was born a year before the Battle of Waterloo and once led the London board of trade as Sir Charles Adderiey. He continues to make numerous speeches on diverse topics.
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House of Lords
Lord Norton
Waterloo
London Board of Trade
Charles Adderiey
Bikes Collide and a Rider Is Killed in Vallejo
June 14 Vallejo J L Geary a popular young man died after colliding with John Sides while both rode wheels toward Florida street Geary shouted a warning but was unable to avoid the crash and was hurled over his handlebars striking the ground and dying soon after Sides escaped injury
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Vallejo
J. L. Geary
Florida Street
John Sides
Sides
Veteran naval captain who served five reigns
Capt Cawley of the Royal Navy began service in 1822 at age 12 and remained in the force for his life. He fought at Navarino in 1827 where he lost an eye and has received a 45 pound annuity for 74 years.
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Cawley
Royal Navy
Navarino
White piano stock tie popular for golf and outings
A description of a white piano stock made from cheviot or mercerized material, favored with a turn-down collar and small linen turnover. The style features square collars and linen turnover shapes, often worn with a ribbon, replacing traditional linen turndown collars for a handsome accent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fada
Torpedo-boat destroyer Goldaborugh ready for final official trial
Marine news notes Goldaborugh taken to Puget Sound dry dock last evening for repair and readiness for the final official trial trip. Omega sails tonight for Melbourne carrying 700,000 feet of lumber. The barkentine now at South Bend with Seattle crew signed yesterday. Frederick Innes Allen named new commissioner of patents, Auburn native. Guillermo Geewein to study beet root sugar industry abroad for Chile. Chil ean official Calvino Cruz to study US instruction organization. Don’t mind Stevens Stevens’ ad on this page.
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Goldaborugh
Pugetsown Aout Station
Barkentine Omega
Melbourne
Australia
Carny
South Bend
Seattle
Patenta
Frederick Innes Allen
Auburn
N. Y
William Allen
Auburn High School
Phillips Academy
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Newark
Guillermo Geewein
Concepcion
Chill
Europe
United States
C Fllva Cruz
Fleetwing Sinks After Dock Accident at Schnabacher’s
The Sound steamer Fleetwing, built in 1908 and owned by R A Smith and Don Johnson partners, sank after an accident at Schnabacher’s dock during a hoisting of the Shirley. The vessel lower boom failed, dropping into the dock and sinking, with Carter aboard unharmed. Recovery efforts and delays to departure are expected. owners face heavy losses including personal effects left on board.
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Fleetwing
Schnabacher’s Dock
Shirley
Carter Wan
R. A. Smith
Seattle
Kingston
Don Johnson
Teller City
Smith
Messrs. Smith
Johnson
Palmer coal fields add more wealth
The Palmer coal fields extend two and a half miles with coal valued at over twenty thousand dollars. The owners lease rights to a 140 foot water fall for a power plant to light and operate the mines. Early mining shows high quality coal, comparable to North Atlantic steam coal, with estimates of 2,000,000 tons exposed and potential mining of 1998 tons daily for four years. Over 400 miners employed and production to half capacity in months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North- Testa
Coa
Seattle
Winchester Guard Tensions At Shipyard Civil Labor Picket
Report from Moran's shipyard amid ongoing strike shows machine shop and boiler maker workers staying away while leaders vow unity and no defections. Strikers claim only seven machinists at Moran's shop and note others are engaged elsewhere. nonmachinist workers are absent or misidentified.
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Moran
Yeater Tay Wan
Two Portraits on Whisky and Art by Dr Buckley
A critical note on whisky as a literary subject links to Dr J M Buckley editor of the New York Christian Advocate. The first picture extols whisky as a mingled souls of wheat and corn and as a force that stirs memory, landscape, and harvest in the mind.
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Ingercoll
J. M. Buckley
The
New York Christian Advocate
Malden
Whispered Warning In Oak Ash Whisky’s Dark Secret
The text portrays a haunted whisky as a vessel of temptation and doom, claiming it can summon demons, ruin thoughts, and corrupt the soul. It warns that deep consumption unleashes curses and moral decay, ending with a paradoxical claim of friendship toward the reader.
Six judges hear cases as summer adjournment nears in court
Six judges sat in the superior court today with two additional judges Thad Houston of Pierce County and J Rudkin. They heard cases to clear the calendars before the summer adjournment. J Mugene Jordan handled the Coulter brothers in a case involving about 1500 dollars taken from Alaska claims by Litigante Patey Quinn Arthur Gager and Roy Gager. Three youths charged with stealing and misconduct appeared before Judge Griffin and Patsy Quinn was sent to reform school while associates were held. Officer Hevan arrested the boys near South Seattle last Saturday night after they were seen acting suspiciously and linked to stolen sloops on the Sound.
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Superior Court
Jude Thad Houston
Pierce County
J. Rudkin
J. Mugene Jordan
Coulter Brothers
Alaska
Litigante
Patey Quinn
Arthur Gager
Roy Gager
Griffin
Patsy Quinn
Reform Echoo
Hevan
Seattle
Funston Kinship Ties Highlight Scout’s Education Tale
A North Carolina dispatch suggests Funston’s great grandmother was Daniel Boone’s niece and Lewie and Clark cousins. Harper’s Weekly notes such lineage may explain the scout’s restless drive to explore and report. The piece praises Funston’s record and role in catching Aguinaldo, though the Filipino leader’s fate was largely sealed.
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North Carolina
Funston
Daniel
Lewie and Clark
Explorers
Harper's Weekly
Kinling
Aguinaldo
Ex-Senator Carter’s Washington Honey Mine
Ex Senator Carter of Montana discovers a honey filled space between two story ceilings in his Washington home. Nearly a hundred pounds have been removed by the Carter family as the bees occupy the area for years. The landlord plans a claim but the Carters assert lease ownership of any honey found on the premises.
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Washington, D. C
Carter
Montana
Washington
Carters
An Ideal Gown: The Allure of the Negligee Kimono
The article extols negligees and especially the kimono as the ideal undress gown for women. It notes they require no hooks or buttons, wrap about the body, fasten with a waist belt, and can be slipped on or off quickly. It contrasts American kimonos with the full Japanese style.
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Japan
A Waler Gowns and Charity Notes in Obscure Article
A white taffeta blouse with black silk embroidery features three half inch box pleats and lace edging. Parsee philanthropist Sir Diinahan Man ockjee Petit funded hospitals drinking fountains and charitable causes, supported both Christian and fire worshippers, with New York Life Insurance offering a special Alaska rigke policy.
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Diinahan Manockjee Petit
India Jones
The
New York Life Insurance Co
Alaska
Drape Our Chiseled Nudity Debate at Y M C A Jubilee
Bishop Mallation and Borton businessmen protested the Y M C A Jubilee reception at the Howton Art Museum. They argued art promotes indecency and urged draping statues to shield youth, citing Rome and Vatican examples as precedent.
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Bishop Mallation
Borton
Y. M
Rome
Naples
America
Vatican
Nother girl thief in Lincoln Nebraska case
Dora Monroe of Cedar Mapida Nebraska, a Nebraska university student, confessed to wholesale thefts from fellow students. A trunk full of stolen goods was found in her room after a failed attempt to sell a book with the owner’s name inside. Her father arrested her and she finally confessed. No prosecution planned.
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Lincoln
Neb
Dora Monroe
Cedar Mapida
Nebraska University
Airlhee
Eeven
Shadow on Her Life
An elderly Nantucket resident recalls a single childhood disappointment about missing a street performer with a hand organ and monkey. She says such regrets linger despite many blessings and that the organ grinder never returned to the island.
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Bomefiody
Nantucket
Marite Serenity
Monkey
Olan Grinder
Veterans at Missouri G A R encampment set record ages
Henry Dermon born January 10 179 is believed oldest veteran after serving in the Seventh Michigan cavalry through the Civil War. Gilbert Van Zandt claims to be the youngest veteran, enlisting at 16 in the Seventy Ninth Ohio Infantry as drummer boy and later a dispatch carrier.
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Missouri Grand Army of the Republic
Henry Dermon
Seventh
Michigan Cavalry
Gilbert van Zandt
Nanity
Seventy-Ninth Ohio Infantry
Broderick Claims Varying Family Size Among Army Members
In a speech introducing a British army proposal, Broderick noted curious figures on families serving in the army. He cited ranges from three sons to ten sons among service members, stating counts like four, five, seven, and up to ten sons in different cases.
Mahogany Labor Drives Central American Timber Trade
Mahogany hunting is the key paid work in Central and South America as skilled workers locate trees scattered in forests. Log harvesting involves felling via scaffolds, hauling by oxen to rivers, and floating logs to tidewater for processing into logs and eventual shipment. Timber values vary from low grade stock to fancy material worth up to 2.50 per 1000 feet, with Cuba shipping mahogany to the United States before the war.
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Cuba
United States
Beard growth rate yields six and a half inches in a year
The text states that half the beard grows at one and a half inches per week, projecting six and a half inches of growth in a year. It also claims that for an eight year old man, at least 27 feet of beard must have fallen before the ragor edge.
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PP and
Down Waterfront
City Hall
Plymouth
Veteran
Marine News
Stevens & Stevens
Palmer
Winchesters
Pike St
Senta
Avé
Columbia
Hood
the Hudson of the West
Will
Yesler Dock
Hood's Canal
Hia Down
Crouse and Brandegee
Ehole
Kentucky
Hendersonville, Ky
Lex
Pike Street
Batz & Jordan
Occidental Oil CO
Monarch Oil
Golden West Oil
Corona Oil CO
Parrott
Cal
Adams
Adams Girecery Co
Yesler Way
Broadway
J. BE. Stevens
Tel. Pink
Hine
Star Paint CO
Fred A. “Co. Ae. M. Guten
RIDGE
Issaquah Coal Co
Gilman
St Telephone Main
Yesler Wat
Ohio
Steel Range
Iherl
Hiotel Butler
Marvel Clothes
Wringer
Z. C. Miles & Piper Co
Yesler Wash
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