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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1906

Page

7

Freed Wins The Season Ball Pass Contest

The article chronicles a literary competition won by Mine Ethel Smith and George Reed’s chapter, detailing judges verdicts and prize value. It describes Reed’s emotional reaction, public acclaim, and a post contest scene with laurels and a note announcing the outcome.

Freed Pus Bal Gaines Ttort Ethel Smith Sani George Arcade Mtyte M Reed Mine Smith Vorel

Read Gor Marker Gives Free Car Ticket Offer

A fragment notes a promotion promising a free car ticket with an oral measure or editor’s service. The text is unclear but suggests a promotional event spanning several Fridays and a Saturday. Further details are unreadable.

Guernsey hit by five mile earthquake shocks

London dispatch reports five mile earthquake shocks felt on the island of Guernsey with no damage observed. Local residents felt tremors but there were no injuries or structural impacts recorded.

London Guernsey

Mystery death would have netted Soler large profit

New York May 1. If Charlie Soler who was killed at the Staten Island home last Monday had lived and not sold out by Saturdays close he would have cleared about 80 000 valuable profit and could have restored securities gambled with H M Rogers.

New York Charlie Soler Hhe Btaten Teland Con H. MH. Rogera

Virginian Hero On Duty Saves Shipmate In Turret Fire

In Virginia, Lt. John Milton Hodgins is hailed as a hero after he shoved W. King to safety as powder burned in the turret of the battleship Kearsarge. He then urged others to evacuate before permitting rescuers to reach him, saving lives at the cost of severe burns.

Prise Gore Nafford Breweville Ethel Cine Sheales Lt Redfern Virginia John Milton Modgina Battleship Kearsarge Kearsare John Milton Hudgins W. King Hudgins John Milton Mudgine

Local grain trade and odd rural incidents headline state news

The report notes buyers paying 6 3/4 dollars per hundred pounds for cattle feed in Colfax and predicts a price drop. Pendleton sees a hen die of a broken heart after a fright while attempting a cure. Echo reports women halting gambling efforts. Spokane highlights cereal crop woes and coyotes found in Hen Day Gulch. Aberdeen features a summer fashion description for a child’s blue chambray frock with embroidery and accessories.

Wenatchee River Rises as Echoofer Kapada Declines Offer

The Wenatchee area reports rapidly rising river levels and a local note that Echoofer Kapada has received a Tunisian government offer for a mood job with the Russian navy, including six lieutenant selections, which he declines. Ritzville notes spring Democratic county candidate filings.

Echoofer Kapada

Park bonds delayed again due to ordinance error

City council will introduce repealing and new ordinances to correct wording directing the comptroller to call bids for park bonds. Officials seek a special session to pass both ordinances and enable advertisement by Wednesday for bids due June 28, with interest rates set not to exceed four to five percent per annum. The January ordinance capped sale terms and the bond sale ordinance set interest at not to exceed four percent, creating the discrepancy.

President pledges anti spitting crusade in federal buildings

Government employees who spit on the floors of federal buildings or offices may face summary criminal penalties as the administration promotes a new rule. The plan, ordered by the president, aims to curb tuberculosis spread and enforce hygiene in official spaces.

Washington Departmente

Woman Robbed of Purse in City Center Transit

Mrs. Carpenter arrived by train from Coupeville yesterday and was robbed of her purse containing $15 while walking from the depot to the New Hampshire Wick hotel where she registered.

Coupeville New Hams Wick Hotel

Refugees in San Francisco Camp Amid Rain Aid Rationing

Cloudy skies and rain dampen morale as thousands of homeless refugees continue in San Francisco. 144000 people receive daily rations while about 100000 could pay for meals when supplied. Oakland feeds 20000 as refugees are moved to camps under army supervision. Three hundred streetcars operate as water restoration in the burned district is expected within a week.

Ban Francisco Debria Oakland Herkeley

April birth numbers show Seattle healthy with low deaths

The Seattle Health Officer reports 160 births and 102 deaths in April. The city’s death rate is 7.56 per 1,000 based on 160,900 population, with 3 railroad deaths, 2 fractures, 1 drowning, 2 fire deaths, 5 suicides, 1 murder, and infectious diseases including diphtheria scarlet fever typhoid and whooping cough.

Seattle Roosevelt Ludlow

Lost bicycle report and Bargains at Bartell's Drug Store

Frank Jones reports the loss of a bicycle to police from 760 Mast Lakely. The page also advertises Bartell's Red Cross Drug Stores with weekly savings on syringes and powders, featuring Fairfax Fountain Syringes and Goodyear fountain items, plus truss and medical supply notices.

Frank Jones Mastlakely Bartell Red Cross Fairfax Fountain Goodyear's Mnaud Pinaud Roger & Gallet Bowen Woodbury Jioney

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