Georgetown Water Fight Sparks Eight Inch Main Plan
The South End Improvement club of Georgetown petitions to block selling the private Georgetown Water Company and urges the council to lay an eight inch main and gravel several streets. Members cite inadequate pressure and aging wooden piping, claiming fire risk and high insurance costs.
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Georgetown Waters Company
South End Improvement Club
Georgetown
Ity
Water Company
Seli
South End
Town Corporation to Transfer System to Water Department
Representatives of the company told Thursday’s utilities committee that the town corporation will turn over its system to the water department as part of the recompense.
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Town Corporation
Many Water Department
Utilities Committee
Auto Driver Sought in Fatal Street Car Crash
Coroner W H Carson asks to contact the auto driver who transported Margaret McFarland to her home after her sister Charlotte five was killed at First Ave N and Boston St by a street car. Beattie Audubon society shows Finley reel of birds and animals at Colonial theatre Saturday at 7 19 a m.
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W. H. Carson
Margaret McFarland
Charlotte
First Ave
Boston St
The
Beattie Audubon Society
Colonial Theatre
Black Beauty Drawing Contest Opens for Under Sixteen
The Seattle Star in partnership with Dive Mouse theatre manager John Hamrick invites all children under 16 to submit drawings of Black Beauty. Prizes total 100 dollars with $50 first $20 second $10 third and ten $1 awards. Entries judged by age limit 16 and later prize announcements.
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John Hamrick
Dive Mouse Theatre
Anna Sewell
Lilian
George Raw
Seattle
No U S Action For Railways
President Harding will leave any immediate steps in dealing with the railroad situation to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Railway Labor Board after a two hour White House conference with IC C Chairman Clark and RLB Chairman Barton. The White House denied that Harding intends acting directly and said measures would go through the proper agency. No further conferences with railroad executives or labor representatives have been arranged.
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Washington
Harding
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railway Labor Board
White House
EF. FE. Clark
E. W. Barton
Excitement Kills Portland Bailiff
PORTLAND Ore March 31 Thomas E B Fisher bailiff in the circuit court at Portland died of heart failure induced by excitement over a boxing match at the Milwaukie arena last night He was in apparent good health until moments before his death and was carried from a dressing room by friends Mickey Dempsey and Baby Byrne were in the ring at the time Fisher collapsed
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Portland
Ore
Thomas EB. Fisher
Milwaukie
Mickey Dempsey
Burglars Bind Couple Fight Looted Home
Portland reports two masked burglars bound Frank Kaltbrun and his wife and raided their house at dawn. They escaped with over $3,000 in valuables after scouring from roof to basement.
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Portland
Frank Kaltbrun
Auto Starts Itself Plunges Over Bank
Dr. F. W. Bushman was at a patient when his auto on King Street near Lake Washington suddenly careened forward. The brakes failed while the car stood idle, sending it 40 feet over an embankment and wrecking the vehicle. Bushman was uninjured.
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F. W. Bushman
King St
Lake Washington
Girl Arrested in Raid Is Very Ill
Four men were arrested in a raid on 710 Pine street. Misa Angot Moe, 25, was taken to city hospital in critical condition. Bessie Shank, 28, was charged with being the landlady.
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Pine
Misa Angot Moe
Bessie Shank
Judge Neterer to Hold Bellingham District Court
Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer to preside in Bellingham for several days starting Monday. He will then move to San Francisco on April 18 for a month to continue court while District Judge Dooling is absent. Three armed men seized a meat route, made deliveries, collected $1,000, and fled from Chicago.
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Neterer
Bellingham
Jeremiah Neterer
San Francisco
Dooling
Chicago
St Paul Apartment Rent Cut Talk at Commodore Hotel
A 25 percent rent reduction was discussed for Commodore hotel apartments in St Paul but few agents have lowered rates. Officials expect summer changes though no shift has appeared yet. In Olympia Major Lang of Seattle was named supervisor of buildings and grounds. Chicago reports 52 miles of docks with rail facilities.
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St. Paul
Minn
Commodore
Olympia
Louie M. Lang
Seattle
Amwunes
Chicago
Will of Actress Anna Held Filed in King County
The will of late actress Anna Held who died in New York on August 12 1918 was filed in King County Superior Court for probate by executor Charles F Han lon of San Francisco. The document names Mina Weld as the chief beneficiary with a $5460 claim and Miss Ida Carrera Held’s daughter receives $200 until age 26 when the residue passes to her. The will notes contemporaneous filings in France and the United States due to beneficiaries in Southern Europe with Held’s jewels clothing and furniture described as part of the estate baseline.
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Anna Held
New York
King County Superior Court
Charles F. Hanlon
San Francisco
Mina Weld
France
United States
Europe
Willa
Buy Cotton Shirts and Socks Proclamation Adopted
Oklahoma City March 31 The slogan Buy cotton shirts and socks replaces Buy a bale of cotton as war era effort to boost southern cotton use Signers include J Th A Robertson A A Taylor Pat M Neff Arthur M Hyde and Lee M Kue The proclamation will run as a nationwide newspaper advertisement.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
South
America
J. Th. A. Robertson
Oklahoma
A. A. Taylor
Tennemmee
Pat M. Neff
Texas
Arthur M. Hyde
Miasouri
C. —— Arkanma
Lee M. Kue
Horne Becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain
In London on March 71 Sir Robert Horne succeeds Austen Chamberlain as chancellor of the exchequer. Branley Baldwin takes over as financial secretary to the treasury, replacing Therne in the board of trade role.
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Robert Horne
Chamberlain
London
Board of Trade
Austen Chamberlain
Exchequer
Therne
Branley Baldwin
The
Treasury
Sober but attorney disputes Hochm’s drunkenness
In police court Thursday Harry Hochm denied being drunk but his lawyer Judge W. Bell contradicted him. After a conference the court ruled Hochm had been drunk and he paid a $10 fine.
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Harry Hochm
W. Bell
Hochm
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