Fishermen Cut Prices as Float Market Sparks City Debate
A float market at the foot of Madison creates tension between shore and boat sellers as fishermen offer 3 to 7 cent prices while ashore merchants charge 6 to 15 cents. Health officials arrest two fishermen for under cover rules, while city leaders discuss enforcing the order to ensure cheap fish for the public.
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Madison Is
Water Front
Puget Sound
Consumer City Health Department
Health Department
Jack Denton
Netterberg
Kath
Meliride
Gil
Lundy and
Marble
Bosphorus Preparing for Attack
Athens reports preparations by Turkish officials to defend the Bosporus straits against a Russian Black Sea fleet threat. Enormous caliber guns are mounted on Scutar heights with existing fortifications as reports say Allied expeditionary forces may have landed in Asia Minor and advance toward Smyrna.
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Athens
Straits of
Bosporus
Scutar
Near East
Asia Minor
Smyrna
Lockout Cited in Seattle Waterfront Dispute
Union longshoremen in Seattle say they were locked out by several steamship companies, denying a citywide strike. The conflict stems from Vancouver B C. action and involves rotation to share work, with nonunion crews used at Pier 5 and other docks. Police guard conditions as tensions rise and potential coastwide action looms.
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Seattle
Great Northern
Pacific Coast
Alaska Steamship Companies
T. E. Barry
Longshoremens Union
Capt
Gibson
Water Front Employers Association
Vancouver
B. C
Gideon
Berry
Pier 5
Jefferson and Alameda
Alaska Steamship Co
Rearson
Stacy St
Thaw Denied Liberty and Remanded in Custody
Harry K. Thaw will not be returned to New Hampshire for a conspiracy to escape Matteawan case. Supreme Justice Page denied the motion to set him free and ordered Thaw into sheriff custody via a habeas corpus writ returnable March 19, with the case headed toward the U S Supreme Court.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
New Hampshire
Page
Thaw
Matteawao Haylum
Matteawan
Supreme Court
Owever
Supreme Court of the United States
North Phinney Club Meets With Rose Culture Program
Members of the North Phinney Improvement club met in regular monthly session at John B. Allen school last Friday evening. The program included talks on rose culture by rose growers, a blackboard demonstration of pruning methods, and musical numbers. Luna Park swimming pool opens Saturday March 20.
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North Phinney Improvement Club
John B. Allen School
Call Conference to Settle Strike
Portland dispatch reports John Keen head of the Longshoremen's union travels to San Francisco to consult with employers on settlement of the North Coast port strike. Observers say the conference could end the strike or trigger spreading to San Francisco and other ports.
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Portland
John Keen
San Francisco
North Coast Porta
Carranza Bows to U S and Lifts Progreso Port Blockade
Washington reports Gen. Carranza has yielded to U S demands and ended the blockade of Progreso Yucatan. Special agent John R. Silliman advised Secretary Bryan that the note to the Des Moines threat led to the action. The move promises no shortage of alsal, the base for binder twine, crucial for the harvest. earlier gunboat fire reports were denied.
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Washington
Carranza
United States
Progreso
Yucatan
John R. Silliman
Bryan
Des Moines
Rancher Shooting Ties Double Tragedy in Bellingham
In Bellingham on Monday night Samuel Thompson a wealthy rancher shot and killed his wife and his hired man Hugh Boyd. A sheriff's posse later found Thompson's body against a stump with a bullet wound to the heart Tuesday afternoon.
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Bellingham
Samuel Thompson
Hugh Boyd
Thompson
Without an Operation How a New Jersey Man Healed a Rupture
Eugene M Pullen of Manasquan New Jersey a carpenter rendered free from a severe right inguinal hernia without surgery after years of trusses failed and doctors warned of risk. He avoided operation by following simple guidance learned from his mother and later shared in a newspaper advertisement promising further free information to readers who write.
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New Jersey
Eugene M Pullen
Manasquan
EU Pullen
Young Puilen
Pullen
Mr. Pullen
Pantages Bill Showcases Varied Vaudeville Talent
Wire reports a Pantages bill featuring Tom and Stacia Moore with a musical patter act, Will Zimmerman performing European impersonations, Herbert Lloyd with four maids in nutty burlesque, Max Weilly and Melisea Ten Eyck in dance poses, and Armedia on accordion with ragtime and classical pieces plus the Great Americans doing a headstand on a cable.
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Wire
Tom
Stacia Moore
Will Zimmerman
Europe
Finiah
Herbert Lloyd
Max Weilly
Melisea Ten Eyck
Clagetenl
Armedia
Ameocens
The Empress McGivney Stages Dickens Sketch on Stage
Owen MacGivney performs a full one man Dickens sketch featuring Hill Sykes Nancy the Artful Dodger and Fagin in a coherent dramatic story. The act is praised as one of the week's best on the Em press bill.
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Owen MacGivney
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Hill Sykes
Nancy
Dodgey
Fagin
McGivney
Countess Szechy
Rockwell
Woods
Ethel Whiteside
Will Stop Fair for Funeral
San Francisco March 16 All exposition activities may halt for five minutes during the funeral of aviator Lincoln Beachey who died Sunday in a monoplane dip. Mayor Rolph and expositions head Moore are expected as pallbearers. A public subscription for a Golden Gate Park monument was launched. A moving picture operator shot Beachey’s fatal fall, and his company plans to show the film.
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San Francisco
Lincoln Beachey
Rolph
Moore
Golden Gate Park
Fair Grounds
Suspect Murder In Woman's Death In Oregon
Oregon City March 16 A coroner's jury returns drowning as the cause in the death of Mrs Minnie K Armstrong a bride of a month found dead in a farm well near Garfield The initial theory was suicide Investigations reveal a missing 150 from the house and murder is suspected
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Oregon City
Ore
Minnie K. Armstrong
Armstrong Farm
Garfield
Not Dead Not Yet We Sell Everything We Own
George Prancie Howe & Company advertise their store still thriving after a sale. They celebrate hearty crowds of old friends and new customers who visited and bought, signaling ongoing business activity and optimism.
Lister Signs Tuition Bill In Olympia
Gov. Lister signed 22 bills on Monday including a measure imposing tuition fees on University of Washington students. Fees are 10 dollars matriculation, 10 per semester, 19 for summer school, and 12.50 extra per semester for law students. The act redirects rental income from the Metropolitan building tract to a university building fund. Miss Berg Dill, Ugrad, to edit Republic News Miner.
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Olympia
Lister
Metropolitan
Pinex cough remedy a home made relief for coughs
A simple, inexpensive Pinex cough syrup blends 4 ounces pine extract with sugar syrup to make a full pint. It promises quick relief from dry hoarse or painful coughs and claims to loosen phlegm and ease bronchial irritation within 24 hours. The ad cites Norway pine extract and offers a money back guarantee from The Pinex Co. Fort Wayne Indiana.
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The
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
President of N. P. Here Promises North Coast Business Rise
J M Hannaford president of the Northern Pacific railway, after visiting Seattle and then Fravel Oregon, says business is on the way and expects a surge in North Coast limited traffic for the Frisco fair. Director George Baker Jr of San Francisco notes optimism about future conditions.
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N. P
Potomac
J. M. Hannaford
Northern Pacific Railway
Seattle
Fravel
Ore
George Baker, Jr
San Franci
Hannaford
North Coast Limited
Grilling of Bertha Diffley in Tacoma Child Death Case
In Tacoma on Monday afternoon Mrs. Bertha Diffley repeatedly answered "I don't know" and "I don't remember" during a cross examination as she faces charges of beating three year old Clarence Hall to death.
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Tacoma
Bertha Diffley
German warship stops Swedish steamer Gloria for convoy
The Swedish steamer Gloria carrying corn to Stockholm from Argentina has been halted by a German warship and is being convoyed to Sinemunde near the Baltic coast.
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Copenhagen
Gloria
Stockholm
Argentina
Sinemunde
Immigration officers uncover stowaways aboard Sehome Mon
United States Immigration officers boarded the schooner Sehome Monday and found two stowaways who had deserted from one of 11 German ships interned at Santa Rosalía Napa Cal March 16 George Alexander a discharged employee of Bb Wright living north of Yountville was arrested after investigation into a dynamite explosion
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United States
Santa Rosalia
Napa
Cal
George Alexander
Bb. Wright
Yountville
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