Rents Rise as Seattle Business Districts Fill Empty Stores
Real estate voices say ground-floor vacancies in Seattle vanish and rents surge past prior year levels. A Klondike era migration boosts demand, with First Second and Third avenues crowded, leaving few suitable blocks and driving up prices while merchants report solid sales.
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Seattle
Klondike
Second Avenue
Wee
Firet
Second Avenues
Fourth Avenues
Pike Street
Second
Third Avenues
First Avenue
Upper First Avenue
Rubberneck origin traced to Vallejo constable tale
The Washington Post recounts how the term rubberneck originated in Vallejo California from a town constable once a traveling circus performer. A Mare Island marine dubbed him rubberneck for nosing around, and the nickname spread via San Francisco to the coast and East.
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Vallejo
Cal
Baltimore
Napa River
Mare Island Navy Yard
San Francisco
Mare Island
Fret
Washington Post
Ice substitutes and snow for home freezing
A Washington Star interview recounts housekeepers stockpiling snow for ice cream and custards. A woman notes three weeks of snow cream production with barrels packed for future use, claiming snow freezes faster and uses less salt than ice.
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Washington Star
Highly Paid Choir Singers In New York And Westminster
Two New York women head the world’s best paid choir with annual earnings of 4500 and 9000 dollars. Westminster Abbey’s male chorus members earn wages from 400 to 600 dollars a year.
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New York
Westminster Abbey
Secret conference on forming national rival telephone system
In St Louis a secret meeting gathered Gen Manager Hanford of Kinloch Telephone Patrick Kean of an independent New York Exchange and Charlie Aldrich counsel for the Hiinets Telegraph and Telephone Company They discussed plans for a giant rival to the Hell Telephone Company with cheaper rates in St Louis Detroit Indianapolis Cleveland and possibly Boston.
Cost of Living in Venezuela
An analysis of Caracas living costs for potential immigrants. It notes high rents of 8 to 9 bolivars monthly, groceries and flour priced steeply, scarce varied vegetables, and limited ready-made clothing. The piece cites lodging, meals, clothing, wages, transport, and hotel rates to illustrate the expensive social life for newcomers.
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Caracas
Spain
Italy
Venezuela
United States
Aie
Costa
Venesuela
The Foreigner's Mistake in Local Outlook
A brief excerpt contrasts American happiness with a foreigner’s misperception. The Indianapolis Journal notes Americans’ springy steps reflect a “cake-walk habit,” framing national mood as buoyant yet questioned by observers.
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Indianapolis Journal
Scrap With a Possum Ends In Attack On Dame of Street
Mrs. A Doolittle an aged Street car township resident living alone heard a struggle near her chicken house last night. She fought the animal with a poker and sustained deep injuries to her face hands and body during a half hour battle before reaching her home. A huge opossum lay dead nearby in mud and snow. The 8 year old is in serious condition.
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A. Doolittle
Jury Awakens as Judge Warns Sleepy Juror
Judge Wheaton A Gray of the supreme court commission presided over a criminal case in Freeno on a warm day. After a long prosecuting counsel argument he noticed a juryman asleep and urged the jury to wake up and listen to the court's instructions.
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Wheaton A. Gray
Supreme Court Commission
Freeno
San Francisco
Tacoma Insurance Man Ames Sought Across Alaska and Mexico
The Tacoma Evening News reports George Ames, former Minneapolis Tontine Life Insurance local manager, fled Tacoma after $2,000 in arrears. Deputy Maloney tracked him through Alaska to Juneau Skagway and beyond, with sightings in Sitka Wrangel and other towns. Authorities fear he will evade capture by heading to Mexico while employed on Mexican railroads.
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Georges Amen
Seattle
Tacoma
Maloney
Ames
Juneau
Skagway
Byron Young
Sitka
Wrangel
Copper River
Allin Country
Dawson
Minook Creek
Koyukuk
Alaska
Bennett
Wrancel
Bitka
Northern Pacific
Tacoma-Beattie Bicycle Boulevard Company
Vanderbilt
Receiver, & Wreck
Mexico
Lhat
San Francisco
Mex
Geome
Sherif
Mike
Port Angeles to Olympia Rail Line Proposed by City Leaders
Port Angeles leaders C W Cushing and J C Atkinson announce a new railway project linking Port Angeles with Olympia or another Northern Pacific point. The Port Angeles Eastern already under construction is described as a Great Northern ferry connection at Everett. The proposed route may run along Hood's canal or toward Gig Harbor, with a surveyed line to Port Hadlock and Port Angeles noted as direct, flat, and free of grades.
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Tacoma
C. W. Cushing
J. C. Atkinson
Port Angeles Railway Project
Port Angeles
Olympia
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Everett
Hood's Canal
Gig Harbor
Gie Harbor
Port Hadlock
Chinese Etiquette Mismatches Highlighted by Russian Study
The Russian press notes Chinese views on European manners. It cites that Chinese hosts keep hats on indoors and place the chair of honor to the left, contrasting with Western etiquette in social settings.
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Nueskil Viestnlik
Hunting In Cuba Promises Fashionable Sport Ahead
Cuba is hailed as a great game country with diverse quarry. Deer and doves frequent openings at dusk and dawn, snakes provide mottled skins for trophies, wild boars roam dense brush, and wild dogs and colorful birds abound. Guinea hens brood along streams and thickets. Stray outlaws may add to hunting excitement in coming years.
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Cuba
Stowaway on the Texas Now a Naval Apprentice
Thomas Watson, at 14, stowed aboard the battleship Texas before the Battle of Santiago. He served with the Texas crew during the war, briefly hid on deck, and impressed officers with his conduct. Returning to New York, he seeks regular navy enlistment and may win rapid promotion as a naval apprentice.
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Newport
Santiago
Philip
Texan
Department
Texas
Thomas Watson
New York
Navy
Ingersoll Cigar Advised By Regulars
An uptown cigar store famed for Brevas cigars has seen frequent ownership changes and declining quality. The latest manager switched to 10 cents per cigar from two for a quarter, prompting a regular to quip that Ingersoll is right after all. The customer warned there won’t be any cigars there after.
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Ingersoll
New York Telegram
How To Brew Tea
Tea lore notes that steeping should be brief and second brews may improve flavor. Chinese practice allows a first quick steep then reusing leaves for a milder second infusion, which doctors may call a stimulant to the nervous system when prepared properly.
Miner’s Treasure Fever Trashes Cabin and Farm
In Carmel near the Howe and Highland county line, two hundred men raided the late Richard H Butler’s rickety log cabin after his death, tearing down the chimney and floorboards in a feverish search for buried wealth rumored to exist on his 1000 acre farm. No treasure was found and authorities seek heirs to determine if the property passes to the state.
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Chillicothe
Caremet
Littl
Howe
Highland Counties
Richard H. Buttner
Carmel
Butler
Six Papers for a Cent Scheme Plagues New York Newsies
A Sun account describes a nightly con by a young man in the Houston Street Bowery area offering six papers for a cent. He targets diners by promising six copies to elicit sympathy, knowing customers will buy only one, paying a few extra cents. The proprietor calls it a profitable ploy among newsboy schemes.
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Nowaboy
Houston Street
Bowery
Newsies
New York Sun
Mouse Encased by Frost In Granary Incident
In subzero air, Allen Armstrong found a mouse trapped between a warm moisture and cold iron wedge in his granary. The mouse became lifeless as the frost wedged it, a stark example of nature’s cold restraint.
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Mercury
Allen Armstrong
Washington Post
Shore Aoses Delightful Home Play Delights Critics
The Minneapolis Times notes James A. Herne's old fashioned dinner drama Shore Aoses. A turkey dinner in the second act charms audiences and may provoke laughter or tears depending on sentiment. It promises to whet appetites even for those with poor appetites.
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James A. Herne
Minneapolig Times
Custom in Detroit Rumor of Bermudas Trip
A Detroit family planned a winter trip to the Bermudas but an unforeseen event delayed the journey. To maintain the facade the household pretended departure, dismissing servants except one and shifting residence to rear rooms. A visitor, seeking confirmation, was told the mistress was in the Bermudas, and the handmaid affirmed the ruse.
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Detroit
Bermudas
Barmudiz
Mudis
Shure
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