Presidential Preference Ballot Drives Seattle Voters
The Star invites city residents to vote in a presidential preference election next Saturday to gauge King County sentiment. Voters must provide their names to ensure a representative ballot, but names will be destroyed after votes are counted. Ballot boxes will be at Bon Marche Fraser Patersons New York barber shop White Building barber shop Sanitary market Westlake market Pike Place market Shafer Bros Hatton Oliver Cheasty haberdashery.
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Fraser-Paterson’s
New York
White Building
Westlake
Pike Place
Shafer Bros
Hatton & Oliver
Cheasty’s Haberdashery
Steamer Roanoke Sinks Off California Coast Tragedy
The Roanoke sank off the California coast near Port San Luis after a giant wave. Three survivors remain, among seven dead sailors, as lifeboats drift amid cold seas and limited food and water for those in the lifeboats and wrecked hold. The dynamite cargo and other explosives fueled the disaster.
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Cal
Roanoke
Point Buchan
Joseph F. Erbe
Manpez
Charlies Rouetiro
Port San Luis
Sons Learn of Parents Death at East Oakland Party
In Oakland on May 11 the two sons of Capt. and Mrs. Richard Dickson, of the doomed Roanoke, learned their parents were dead during a young people's party. The youths, barely 21, were stunned as news arrived from Capt. T. Tonneson, a former Roanoke shipmate. Also named as lost is Carlo A. Belgrano, Fremont high student and Sigma Phi Epsilon member, whose father Francis N. Belgrano is vice president of the Italian Popular Bank. he sought adventure and rode as freight clerk aboard the Roanoke.
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Oakland
Richard Dickson
Roanoke
East
T. Tonneson
Dickson
Carlo A. Belgrano
Fremont High School
War Bulletins and Front Reports From Europe
Rome reports a French submarine destroyed an Austrian munitions transport off Albania. Paris notes a night German attack northeast of Verdun repulsed with bayonets and grenades. artillery fighting continues near Meuse. Salonika records brisk northern Grecian front artillery. Bulgarians reinforce south of Monastir preparing for an Allied assault at Ilorina.
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Albania
Paris
Verdun
Meuse
Salonika
Monastir
Ilorina
Woolworth Visits Seattle Amid Nervous Health Troubles
F. W. Woolworth arrives in Seattle after a nervous health episode and a prior order to rest in Tennessee. He owns the Woolworth Building and oversees more than 850 stores. talks of expanding Northwest presence and possibly enlarging his Aberdeen store. He plans to meet Northwest managers before departing.
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New York
Seattle
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Taft's Springs
Ned
New York City
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Aberdeen
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Pacific Coast
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Long Island
Washington Hotel
Society Woman Shoots Self in Chicago Tragedy
Mrs Annie Baker a Spring Grove society matron was found dead on Lake Drive with multiple bullet wounds. A note said ill health caused her act. The incident occurred today in Chicago.
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Chicago
Annie Baker
Spring Grove Society
Lake Drive
New Fight Started to Bar Jitneys in Seattle Streets
A petition is being circulated in Seattle aimed at barring jitneys from streets where streetcars operate. If enough signatures are gathered, the measure would prompt council consideration of an ordinance restricting jitneys to certain streets and hours and imposing fare limits. The proposal also covers passenger safety, equipment rules, lighting requirements, and a 2 percent gross-receipts tax parallel to street railway taxes.
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Seattle
New York City Chamberlain Quits Over Unnecessary Post
Henry Bruere resigns as city chamberlain citing the job as an unnecessary position. A Wisconsin educator advocates gum chewing racks in schools enabling pupils to check their gum between chews.
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Henry Bruere
New York
Wisconsin
Girl Diagnosed With MOVIEITIS in Court Case Context
A 15 year old girl in Pater son court faced a diagnosis labeled MOVIEITIS after she cut her hair to resemble a cowgirl and damaged multiple rooms at her place of employment.
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Paterson Court
Love Priceless No More Judge Halves Jury Award
Judge A W Frater of Seattle reduces a jury’s $25,000 verdict for loss of love to $12,500 in a case involving Mrs. Carola B. Jones and her former husband Tom C. Jones. He proposes a new trial condition: accept $12,500 or face a new trial. the ruling hinges on the legal value of love and family ties.
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Frater
Carola B. Jones
Tom C. Jones
Tom
T. B. Jones
A. W. Frater
Seattle
Nation's Champion Father at 91 Governs Large Kentucky Family
In Whitesburg Kentucky neighbors claim the country’s champion father is 91 year old “Uncle Bob” Bates father to 24 children. The eldest is 54 and the youngest 3 with over 100 descendants. He lives by strict rules, favors daughters who stay at home, and prescribes sassafras tea for colds. He owns much of the Rockhouse Creek area and is a bank director worth about $100000.
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Whitesburg
Rockhouse Creek
Bob” Bates
Bob
Kentucky
Lewis gun story contrasts US rejection with European adoption
Kenneth W. Payne details how the Lewis machine gun, an American invention, became Europe’s most effective rapid fire weapon while the U S Army officers allegedly shunned it. Russia Canada and Germany secured guns, leaving the United States behind as the war’s pivotal weapon circulates abroad.
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Kenneth W. Payne
Washington, D.C
United States
Europe
Russia
Canada
Germany
United States Army
Robbers Loot California Store payroll at Yellow Aster mine
Cracksmen escaped with about $10,000 in gold and several thousand dollars in checks after looting James Illingsworth's store at Ransburg on the desert. The payroll was for the Yellow Aster mine.
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San Bernardino
Cal
James I[llingsworth
Ransburg
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