Ravenna Park Closed After Tax Dispute With Electric Road
President Beck of the Ravenna Park association announces the park is closed as a protest over Sunday access and taxes. The Third Street and Suburban streetcar company offered concerts and side shows, but Beck refuses unless park proceeds are shared. gates are shut and a watchman monitors entry.
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Ravenna Park
Third Street
Electric Road
Sylvan Nooks
Street Railroad Company
The
Beck
Ravenna Park Association
Park Association
Heck
Gilmore Party Prisoners Reported By Dewey
Washington May 1 The Yorktown boat crew including Gilmore are prisoners at insurgents headquarters according to Dewey. Manila May 1 Filipinos hold sixteen prisoners including Brent Gilmore and ten Yorktown cutter crew. MacArthur sends rations and delicacies under a flag of truce and proposes prisoner exchange.
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Washington
Dewey
Yorktown
Gilmore
TI Am
Manila
Brent. Gilmore
Luna
MacArthur
McKinley Pays Compliment On Dewey Victory Anniversary
President McKinley sent a congratulatory message to Admiral Dewey marking the anniversary of the victory. He praised the fleet, its officers and men, whose brilliant accomplishments mark an epoch in history and will live in world annals.
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United States
Captain Rockefeller Missing in Philippines Action
A May 1 dispatch reports Captain Rockefeller of the Ninth Infantry missing since the 28th near Caloocan in the Philippines. A search found private papers two and a half miles forward on the 29th, suggesting he may have lost his way and been captured.
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Washington
Otis
Rockefeller
Ninth Infantry
Witte
Caloocan
Private letters allege British hostility to Germans
The FMRI reports May 1 private letters from Apla cneylenive of DMcrimination describing intrigues against the Germans on all sides. The British consul is regarded as especially hostile to Germany, signaling tension in diplomatic channels.
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FMRI
Tribesmen Fight As Macabebe Prisoners Routed
In Manila on May 1 fighting intensified as Macabee tribesmen pressed Mac Arthur lines. Five Tagalog prisoners were rescued from Macabebe hands near CeJumptt before execution, according to reports.
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Manila
MacArthur
CeJumptt
Seattle Inklings and City News Items
Seattle community notes include a driving club meeting at City Hall and a fatal illness of Mary Frances Wray. Reports cover a Beacon Hill reservoir cleaning, Puget Sound marine insurance losses, and legal permits for power lines and buildings. Local crimes, courts, and business activity are summarized with insurance, licenses, and council travel.
Education Gaps and Mountain Folklore Echoed in 1997 Query
A narrator recalls a test of numeracy with a mountain hunter and discusses education and time, noting the misalignment between modern concepts and rural understanding. The anecdote touches on 1997 and 1897 meanings and includes a Georgia mountaineer remark on Spanish war rumors and a Vanderbilt family marble tale.
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Georgia
Atlantic Monthly
Seattle calls for grand welcome for Washington volunteers
Citizens from schoolchildren to merchants urge a monumental homecoming in Seattle after the Philippines service. Officials including Capt. Willard and Clerk G. L. Case back a gala reception with fund raising, a lakefront feast near Madison Street, a mock battle, and a Fourth of July celebration to honor the soldiers and aid their postwar jobs.
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Star
Washington
Philippines
Beattie
W. J. Colbett
I. A. Nadeau
G. L. Case
Seattle
Madison Street
Frank P. Boelger
Soldier Boys
Great Ticket Sale Draws Seattle Crowds in Historic Event
The advance sale for the Bostonians in Seattle set a record with nearly 2000 tickets sold by 1 PM. Early buyers slept in line, aided by blankets and camp chairs, as the first delegation led by Neddy Gleason arrived after 7 PM the previous night.
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Seattle
Eboys
Neddy" Gleason
County Officials Call for Bids and Court Decree Noted
County Auditor Eventon authorized to invite bids for interior painting of the county hospital. A twenty day notice is ordered for the Bosarths to take custody of their abandoned child Alice Basarth. Rev H D Brown served notice. Judge Jacobs signs decree designating Seattle Daily Times as official city newspaper for 1899. M F Smith and others petition for road along G N R K right of way near Miller Creek to 600 feet southwest of Favorite Creek at the Cascades. Reviewers appointed: John Maloney Skykomish F Wegener Beattie and County Surveyor P D Hamiin.
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Eventon
A. J. Bosarth
Alice Basarth
H. D. Brown
Nerve
Jacobs
Superior Court
Seattle Daily Times
M. F. Smith
Board of County Commimaio
Miller Creek
Favorite Creek
Cascades
John Maloney
Skykomish
F. Wegener
Beattie
P. D. Hamiin
Larceny Charge for William Walker and Smoke Stack Safety Plea
William Walker a laborer is jailed on petit larceny charges and accused of selling stolen goods to A Kohn a secondhand dealer on Railroad Avenue. The Golden Rule Bazaar asks the city council to require owners of large smokestacks to install spot arresters citing nuisance from the Colman building stack.
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William Walker
A. Kohn
Railroad Avenue
Golden Rule Bazaar Company
Colman
Alaska Geographical Society Meet in Denny Hall
The Alaska Geographical Society will hold a meeting in Denny Hall this afternoon at 2 20 oclock to commemorate Dewey s victory. Ad greases will discuss Alaska exploration by Capt. Glenn, government explorers, Mr Welle and Mr Jekey who have traveled through little known parts of Alaska.
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Alaska Geographical Society
Denny Hall
Dewey
Alaska
Glenn
Welle
Jekey
World hoax and casino profits fill distant pages
A Pan‑European tale questions a Moscow to its time hoax about Andre and two companions in a Kraendarehk cabin, suggesting it may be a deliberate fabrication. The piece cites speculative mine‑owner intrigue, telegraph scams, and cautious government probes, while also noting Monte Carlo’s staggering two‑month profit boom and odd, terse anecdotes from London and Berlin society.
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St. Petersburg
Andre
Kraendarehk
Asia
Wilde
Steppe
Antess
Monte Carlo
London
New York
The Call For Plain Living To Mend Marriage Delays
The Washington Post argues that young people delay marriage due to fashionable lifestyles and that parents must fund marriages. It condemns idleness among daughters without fortunes and urges return to thrift and domestic economy to reduce bachelor and spinster hardship and immorality.
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Baltimore
Washington
Washington Post
King Mumbert Chooses a Vegetable Diet and Fruit Favorites
King Mumbert lives on vegetables and fruits with Bordeaux water and bread. Doctors ban coffee. He feels best with bread potatoes and oranges. Peaches are his favorite. The queen, attempting vegetarianism, ultimately gives up, preferring a generous diet.
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Mumbert
Zola in Exile Shares Daily Life and Resolve in England
A La Liberte representative visits Emile Zola at his English exile home. Zola speaks off the record about his day from morning work to evening reading and translation, seeks secrecy about his location, and notes his patience through exile while predicting the affair’s end by late June. Sportmen hunt wild ducks on the Potomac as flocks of mallards and whistling ducks return.
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Quang Wa
Third Avenue
Reed
la Liberte
M. Zola
England
Dreyfus
France
London
Nana
Ste. Pelagie
New York Times
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Ique Rand Eare
the Park Association
Third Street Electric
Gilmore Party
McKinley
Capt. Rockefeller
City Hall
Mary Frances Wray
Samuel Way
Rainier Heights
Beacon Hill
Puget Sound
Kingston
Iigo
Topeka
Met
William T. Baker
Noqualmie Palle Power Company
Board of Public Work
Cedar River
Fourteenth Avenue
Nicholas Walker
Sixth and
Jackson
Providence Hospital
Charles Flinger
Excelsior
William Efaw
Tisai Pehrenbacher
Ben ot @eattie
Luther H. McNeal
Pic Lake
Mable Barker
Victoria
J. C
Carl Otto Ons
Inga Johannesen
Christian Brown
Mary Givens
EB. Lee
Chicamo
Maud & Frederick
Much A. Terry
Axe
Theodosia McManter
Clear Lake
San Francisco
B Simmons
Thirteenth Avenue
L. Jacobson
Eighteenth Avenue
D. W. Bowen
Internal Revenue
Everett
Whatcom
Anacortes
Inspector Morrisey
Boston Polices
City
Morrisey
Olympia
John Foye
Boston
James Hoge Jr
First National Bank
Enat
Backwoods Education
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Evermell Qi
Virginia City
Bostonians
Vewsboys
New York Sun
Grant, Jr
Admiral Dewey
Merbert P. Beers
Green Farms
Conn
Fred Dunham
Reniter
Southport
Chronicle
Ninecom Poop
Ahmed Effendi
Berlin
Col. Funston
Kansas Regiment
Spelger & Hurlbut
Pike Street
Star Paint CO
Moran Brothers Company
Buetnese Mining
Worthington
Mosher
Roberts Ware
United Bates Metallic Packing Company
Golden Rule Bazaar Co
Firet Avenue
Snoqualmie Falls Power Co
Gilman
Renton
Second Ave
Main St
Fpownine, Hopkins & CO
Cenasse Brokers
Bailey Building
Wash
Portland
Tacoma
Walle Walla
Vancouver
Clay Eversolm
Opticien
Buffalo Legal Tender Developing Company
Buffalo Hump
Republic
Dexter Horton Ting
Ptt Bertt
Bex
W. T. A. Nicho & CO
le Roi
John E. McManus & Son
Second Avenue
Coon Bros
Tims
Sporsmen
Potomac
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