Griffiths challenges Gill in Seattle mayoralty race debate
Griffiths accepts Gill's challenge to a public debate promising to meet anywhere any time by Saturday night. He interrupts Gill at Green Lake warning him to stop lying about family. Ole Hanson campaigns for Griffiths with two speeches. A reference questions Gill's decency amid vice prosecutions with DA Clay Allen and Prosecutor A H Lund leading the case.
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Green Lake
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Liberty Theatre
United States
Clay Allen
A. H. Lund
Political clashes at Green Lake mayoral meeting sparks clash
At Green Lake a heated mayoral rally interrupted by Austin E. Griffiths Jr. who accused Mayor Gill's statements as lies. Gill retorted and pressed his charges while Griffiths called the mayor a political maniac. The scene followed by legal notice that police refuse to cooperate with prosecutors on vice cases.
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Ted
Star
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Green Lake
University
Austin E. Griffiths
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Gill Griffiths duel debate set amid campaign clashes
Mayor Gill taunts Austin E. Griffiths and calls for a debate at Dreamland rink Monday night as campaign tensions rise. Griffiths accepts but demands time, place, and the right to choose, stating he will speak anywhere by Saturday night and criticizes Gill’s newspaper as one sided.
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Green Lake
Gill
Austin E. Griffiths
Griffiths
Dreamland Rink
Griffitha
Seattle
Farmers pursue man in murder case near Nampa
In Nampa Idaho on March 2 posses of farmers chase Ernest Hardenburg alleged to have killed the husband of his former wife nine miles from the city.
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Nampa
Idaho
Ernest Hardenburg
Hodge's Men Raid Baths for Contraband Liquor
Scott Malone led deputies who raided the Imperial Turkish baths on Fourth Ave between Pike and Union for contraband liquor. Eighty bottles of beer were seized and eight hundred empty bottles found. A special investigator bought liquor there on Wednesday night for a dollar per quart. no arrests were made and Prosecutor Lundin plans to sue the proprietor.
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Imperial Turkish Baths
Fourth Ave
Pike and
Union Sts
Bath
Lundin
Gust Christensen Sues Over Liquor Law in Habeas Corpus
Guet Christen, held 323 days for liquor sales at the Whitehouse hotel, petitions the superior court for habeas corpus claiming the city liquor ordinance is unconstitutional and conflicts with state laws. He says the restraint on liberty is illegal and drastic.
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Whitehouse Hotel
Superior Court
German Seaplane Raid Kills Baby in England
A German seaplane bombed the southeast coast of England at night, dropping four bombs in heavy mist. The attack mangled a baby fatally and damaged several houses, including the rear sections.
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London
England
Baby Born to Eleven Year Old Girl in San Bernardino
In San Bernardino on March 2 a seven-pound baby was born to Simona Abila, an eleven year old girl. Surgeons call the case a phenomenon as Simona stands four feet tall and weighs 80 pounds.
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San Bernardino
Simona Abila
Simona
War on Waste Slogan Aims Household Economy Drive
The Housekeepers alliance of Washington D C led by Flora McDonald Thompson launches a campaign to help mothers and homemakers learn economy as part of a national war on waste.
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Housekeepers’ Alliance
Washington, D. C
Flora McDonald Thompson
Gill Intervenes With Police Chief In 1914 Immorality Raid
In July 1914 Mayor Gill confronted Police Chief Griffiths after a raid on a house of ill fame conducted under a warrant. Griffiths refused to resign immediately, later staying until September. Crane, a graft figure, was indicted after Griffiths left, with crimes tied to payments from fallen women in 1914.
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Griffiths
Ilfame
Gill
Felix Crane
Frye
Frank Hammond
Walter Metzenbaum
East
Crane
Paul Schuman
Maniac Holds Off Deputies With Rifle in Oregon City
William Klinkman a 25 year old farmer is confined in a padded cell after two days of evading arrest on an insanity warrant armed with a rifle and revolver. He claims knowledge of the 1911 Hill murders near Ardenwald and may be tied to the case though no arrest has been made.
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U. S
Clay Allen
Alfred H. Landin
Oregon City
Ore
William Klinkman
Klinkman
Ardenwald
William Hill
Senate Grapples With Wilson on Armed Ships Policy
Washington March 2. Senate debate over Wilsons stance on armed merchant ships intensifies as Stone and Lodge clash with Gore and Borah. Advocates warn of passports, neutrality laws, and potential war while the White House seeks a showdowns vote and awaits congressional action.
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Congress
Wilson
Senate
Stone
Foreign Committee
Sen
Lodge
Lincoln High Boy Goes Overseas to Join British Army
Dudley Coddington 18, Lincoln high school student and son of Arthur Coddington, withdraws from school Thursday to enlist in the British army hospital corps at Victoria for overseas service.
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Dudley Coddington
Lincoln High School
Arthur Coddington
North
40Th St
British Army Hospital Corps
Victoria
Famous exile returns from Siberia in Russia
Catherine Breshkovsky, noted Russian revolutionist who helped the 1907 American woman suffrage campaign, has returned from Siberia after the government lifted life exile. She is 72, feeble and nearly blind, now in Petrograd.
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Catherine Breshkovsky
Siberia
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