End Month of City Operation and Plans for Street Car System
Superintendent Thomas F Murphing reports one month of municipal operation for Seattle street cars progressing smoothly. He notes ground work completed, improvements planned, and aims to cover operating expenses interest on 15 000 000 and create a sinking fund to retire bonds. Cooperative public support expected for the large municipal ownership venture.
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Thomas F. Murphing
Seattle
Uccess
Reflection of Pate Fools Him
A freak fire at the Alaska building on Second Avenue causes five window awnings to ignite across floors three to six. A citizen attempts an improvised extinguisher from a drinking glass while a fireman uses a chemical tank, prompting puzzled cheers before professionals extinguish the blazes.
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Alaska
Second Ave
Hiram M. Read
Ond
Taddie
War Fever Drives American Liberty Fund Drive
Wartime headlines describe the strain and street heat of fighting and outrages abroad as public resolve and economic support for Liberty bond campaigns rise. Citizens rally to back national defense with dollars amid ongoing Hun advances reported in the field.
Russian exile condemns Bolsheviks in open letter
Vladivostok May 10. V. Burtzoff, a Russian revolutionary of 35 years, laments exile for liberty and denounces Bolshevik rule. He accuses them of capital punishment, censorship, mass imprisonment, war, plunder, secret diplomacy, and perversion of their proclaimed program in a sweeping denunciation.
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Vladivostok
Burtzoff
Russia
Missing Woman Found After Wandering From Home
Mrs H J Lamar 44 wandered from 301 15th Ave N at 1030 Wednesday in a nervous breakdown. She crossed Capitol Hill and Lake Union bridge to the University district, then Ravenna Park where a Cowen Park street car conductor found her at 2 am. She was taken to Kenwood police station and returned home in delirious condition.
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15Th Ave
H. J. Lamar
Capitol Hill
Lake Union Bridge
University District
Ravenna Park
Cowen Park
Lamar
Kenwood
C. J. Swanson
Mrs. Lamar
Coal price drops 40 cents a ton in Utah trade
Utah coal fell 40 cents a ton to retailers today effective immediately. The decline, announced by the Jesse Knight Spring Canyon company to spur summer storage, was quickly adopted by other firms. The measure aims to boost trade and keep mines operating.
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Salt Lake City
Utah Coal
Jesse Knight Spring Canyon Company
Special Clearance Friable Linoleum and Luggage Sale
Friday features a clearance of short lengths of linoleum and Hartmann luggage trunks praised for beauty and strength. Also offered are luxurious suit cases with leather and silk linings, priced from 65 to 200 dollars, plus new shipments of cotton fabrics including ginghams and checks in various colors and widths.
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Hartmann Anama
Peruvisa
Aviator Claims Discharged Papers Pending in Theft Arrest
Los Angeles May 1 A man who says he is Lieut Melville Kavanaugh of the British flying corps is under arrest for theft of 1250 dollars in diamonds from Mrs Rose Miner of Los Angeles He declares his discharge papers are being forwarded from Vancouver B C and that he is an aviator in service.
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Los Angeles
Rose Miner
Melville Kavanaugh
British Flying Corps
Vancouver
B. C
Transport Arrives With 2,563 Yankees
The transport Koenigen der Neder lander from France arrived at Newport News with 2,563 officers and men. Included are the 117th ammunition train evacuation ambulance company 111 evacuation hospital 18 and 114th engineers headquarters army ambulance section. In Washington the following organizations assigned to early convoy include all units of the 89th division 504th engineers and multiple wagon train and engineer companies.
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Newport News
France
114Th Engineers
Army Ambulance Section
Washington
89Th Division
504Th Engineers
24Rd Engineers
62Nd Engineers
33Rd Engineers, Co
Abane
Beers and Whisky Seized in City Raid on 2200 North
Police swarmed the residence of Fred Kromquist at 2200 North 77th and confiscated 47 quarts of beer and five quarts of whisky during a Wednesday operation.
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Fred Kromquist
Printers Strike Ties Albany Newspapers
Albany printers walked out demanding higher wages causing the morning papers to appear as usual but threatening no edition tomorrow unless a settlement is reached today. The action halted presses across Albany New York with United Press reporting.
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Albany
N. Y
United Press
Photograph credit mix up corrected for Leonard Regan
The Star clarifies that the photograph of Corporal Leonard Regan, a Victory Loan speaker, was taken by the MacBain Studio at 519 Hinckley building, not the McBride studio as previously credited.
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Macbain
Leonard Regan
Victory
Star
Hinckley Building
McBride
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Baberty
Meier
Corporation Counsel
King County Young Men's Republican Club
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Ebert
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Supt. Morphine
Pate
Eatine of Liberty
Victory Loan Committee
Victory Liberty Loan
Fraser Paterson Company
H. van Auren
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Corner
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Pike
Ravenna
Fraser-Paterson Co
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Ates
Bartell 5
Bartell
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Wright
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Wampole
Hill
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Cevels
Rambro
Warner
Dresden
Colgate
Williams
Mennen
Kanner
Kanner’s Proubleedge
Twinplex
Gem
Everready Gillette
Bart 2Nd Ave
Union St
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Keren
Ted
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