Seattle mill worker falls four stories in sleep
James Deal, 53, found unconscious in the alley behind the Diller hotel at 6 am. He apparently fell from his fourth floor window while sleeping. He suffered a head gash and bruises but is expected to recover. Police note no alcohol involved and the room showed no disorder. A silver watch and $190 were found on him.
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Diller
First Ave
University «T
James Deal
City Hospital
Deal
Fred Milla
Mills
Alki Point finds old Indian skeleton in discovery item
In Seattle notes the city reports an old Indian skeleton found at Alki Point while other items mention post office ink needs, Easter bonnets, a W A C courses opening, and various city and court notices. Maj. Clift Andrus to instruct artillery corps. rail lost and found noted. race to Alaska speculations and Rotary club remarks appear alongside local political and legal snippets.
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Alki Point
Railway Lost and Found
Clift Andrus
W. N. G. Artillery Corpa
Kincaid
Blanc’s
Auto Orhers
Second Ave
Campus Commons
Marine Corps
Northwest
A. B. Pan
Wicon
Waldo
George D. Beaumont
Seattle
U. & Marshall
Alaska
Alex Myers
Cheasty’s Haberdashery
Board of Public Works
Cedar Palla
J. C. Lindsey
St. Louis
John Valanano
Charlies
Chamber of Commerce
State Geological Survey Office
Pullman
George F. Nicholson
Bergdoll Arrest Sought by U S Officials
March 23 Washington reports the United States demands Germany surrender Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the Philadelphia draft dodger and seeks release of two Americans Carl Neuf sergeant and Frank Zimmer Justice operative who attempted to capture Bergdoll. Officials say formal notes were not sent but strong demand is made. Blanton calls the sentencing a disgrace to 5,000,000 World War I soldiers.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Bergdoll
Carl Neuff
Frank Zimmer
Department of Justice
Rena
Neuf
Zimmer
Tence
Department
Harding
Texas
Blanton
Our Pet Peeves on Poll Tax and Recall
A reader vents anger at taxes and a poll tax as the main grievance. He condemns road hazards and high license costs while urging the recall of officials tied to taxation. The letter ends with a plea for reform and relief from burdensome levies.
About to Hang He Demands War Bonus
Salem Oregon March 23 Society to my Jack Rathie but first he must pay him his bonus 25 months war service He wants his money for his moth He is under conviction for the murder of Sheriff Till Taylor of Pendleton He has written the Washington state auditor for the bonus due him from that state.
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Salem. Ore
Society
Jack Rathie
Rathie
Till Taylor
Pendleton
Washington State
Lost Tot Found After Father Reaches Doorstep
An anxious search in the financial district ended when a year old girl named Eleanor Berney was found waiting in a doorway for her father, W. C. Berney, who, aided by police, hunted the area after she vanished from the Western Union office at 113 Cherry Street. The family lives at 703 Columbia Street.
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Lost Tot
Daddy
Financial
Eleanor Berney
W. C. Berney
Western Union
Cherry St
Berney
Columbia Et
Cardinal Gibbons in Critical Condition at Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons remains critically ill at his Baltimore home with medical staff and family watchers at his bedside. Reports say his condition worsened Sunday night and has shown no improvement since.
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Baltimore
Maron
Cardinal Gibbons
Man Arrested After Wild Running Gunfire Report
Mrs. Lendhner reported a man firing a gun in the neighborhood Tuesday night. Pa patrolman F. E. Hugo arrested 26 year old laborer Fred Perrose and booked him on a drunk and disorderly charge.
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Lendhner
Jackson Jr
Fred Perrose
Romance at the Seaside Ends With a Narrow Escape
Marie Lawless recovers from a near drowning after a sea accident then forms ties with Feathers as Chris, her husband, flirts with Mrs. Heriot. Marie's health returns and she plans a golf outing while Chris distracts himself with social diversions and hidden poems.
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George Chester
Pritieh
Mies
Marie
Christopher Lawless
Dakera
Chris i
Fix
Abe
Chris
Feathers
Husbands Warned by Reporter in Domestic Exchange
A husband is ridiculed for flirtations with clerks while his wife dictates shopping hats and outfits in a department store scene. The pair clash over who chooses the clothing and who bears the burden of appearances.
Electric Trains in Collision Injures Several in Portland
A head on collision between two suburban electric trains last night near 99th Street and Woodstock Avenue on the Mount Scott line left one man, conductor ER R. Conroy, in the hospital and several others with minor injuries. A defective block signal is blamed for the crash.
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Portland
Sereral
ER. R. Conroy
99Th St
Woodstock Ave
Mount Scott
Harding designates Lt Colonel Sherrill as military aide
President Harding appoints Lt Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill as his military aide in Washington. The move places Sherrill in a key military advisory role during the administration.
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Sherrill
Harding
Washington
Clarence O. Sherrill
Lineman Sues City for 10000 Damages in Street Car Crash
Mike R. Plastino, 23, a telephone lineman and former soldier, sues the city for 10000 damages over injuries from an alleged street car accident. The suit was heard in Judge Tallman’s court on Wednesday.
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Mike R. Plastino
Bootlegger Fined and Deputy Fired After Inquiry
Paul St. Clair pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing liquor and was fined 150 dollars by Justice CC Dalton. Deputy Phil Yolt was temporarily dismissed as a special deputy sheriff and Sheriff Matt Starwich later made the dismissal permanent following the inquiry into Boothlegger St. Clair’s operations.
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Paul St. Clair
Edgar Barr
Phil Yolt
St. Clair
Justice of the Peace
CC. Dalton
Yolt
Matt Starwich
Police Identify Man Killed by Car Near West Waterway Bridge
Police identify the victim of a Tuesday night hit and run on Lake Bu Rien Street as Shoestrings Johnson, 64, who lived on a houseboat along the waterway. He died from a fractured skull about two hours after the collision. Johnson was well known to police.
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Lake Burien
West Waterway
Johnson
Family Escapes as Fire Destroys Home
Fire at 2030% 43rd Ave N destroyed a family residence after an overheated stove overheated at 2 30 a m. Roy Weigel and his wife barely saved their two children and themselves. The house and contents valued at 750 dollars were totaled. Insurance partially covered the loss.
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43Rd Ave. N
Roy Weigel
Weigel
Pastor Forfeits Bail in Public Court Case
The Rev. Mr. A. G. Murphy forfeited a $5 bail in police court Tuesday afternoon on charges of impersonating a public officer. Casper Rick of the health department accused him of trying to boast stall keepers in the Pike Place public market.
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A. G. Murphy
Murphy
Casper Rick
Health Department
Pike Place
Two U S Detectives Jailed in Germany Over Bergdoll Case
Two American detectives associated with U S military forces were sentenced in a German court to terms in a German prison for allegedly usurping police powers while aiding Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the American draft resister. Neaf received months for the additional charge of shooting a German girl in Bergdoll s car Zimmer got six months Bergdoll testified a crowd hissed at the Americans and boasted of punishing them Bergdoll later toured the town in a limousine and was named a district food administrator
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Mosbach
Germany
United States
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Carl Neaf
Franz Zimmer
Neaf
Bergdoll
Zimmer
Ing
Baden
The Drying Dilemma of a Yeomalt Beachcomber
A Bay Island old salt once famed as a bucko mate on the San Francisco run faces a moral test after a keg drifts ashore at Dead Man s Point. Religious conversion battles with craving as a 10 gallon cask proves to contain pickles, not whisky, ending the temptation without sin.
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Aileken Claire
Bay
Dead Man's Point
Yeomalt
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Rolling Bay
Bainbridge Island
Fort Lawton
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