Mapleine shipment to Boston cited by local merchants
Local merchants note that Crescent Manufacturing ships 2000 cases of Mapleine valued at 20000 to Boston, proving the city can supply demand. A steamer’s wake broke a cable lifting the sunken Tampico, allowing it to slip and take on water again. Moore Investment bought the southwest corner of West and Borenavy from Thomas Carstens for 40000. Seattle college students presented a creditable Santiago at the Moore, and an informal gathering for the Seattle Prefontaine Knights of Columbus opens this evening.
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Boston
Crescent Manufacturing Company
Tampico
Moore Investment Company
West
Borenavy
Thomas Carstens
Blockaded Passes and Maritime Incidents Across Nations
May 30 1861 dispatches report the Brooklyn and Powhatan blockading passes near New Orleans with the schooner Mary Clinton captured for cargo profits. The Edrie schooner seized in Canadian waters. Destruction Island fog leads to Missourian locating Umatilla reef by submarine bell. Washington warns penalties for tariffs filings by June 9. Everett reports electrocution death while repairing a line. New York notes a disputed marriage and census Alaska population. Oakland reports memory loss en route from Buffalo to Seattle. Other items include a Oklahoma jury verdict on buttermilk, a Cleveland elopement, a suicide attempt, a large funeral hearse, bankruptcy filing, and Harvard bequest for travel abroad. Yale expedition seeks Inca ruins in Peru.
Birthday Party for Mabel Hite Draws Kansas City Lights
The Kansas City, actress Mabel Hite celebrates her 26th birthday with a jolly party attended by baseball fans and theatrical figures. Memories of Mike Donlin, the Giants star, loom as a bright tie between sports and stage in this festive note.
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Mabel Hite
Kansas City
Mike Donlin
Mabel
Mike
Consent Needed to Move Gen. John A. Sutter’s Body
Washington reports that two relatives residing in Mexico must consent to transfer the body of Gen. John A. Sutter from Lititz Pennsylvania where he is interred to Fort Sutter California.
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Washington
Mexico
Johbh A. Sutter
Lilitz
Fort Sutter
Seattle considers site for juvenile detention home
The Wardall resolution offering 15 acres on Beacon Hill to the county for a detention building was referred to the harbors and public grounds committee. Some members favor a 10 acre tract instead of 15.
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Seattle
Wardall
Beacon Hill
Harbors and Public Grounds Committee
City Council Adopts Resolution on 150 Condemnation Cases
The council, without committee referral, asks the city engineer and corporation counsel for all information on 150 condemnation cases pending in court. A temporary wooden trestle on 12th Ave will be replaced next year by a steel superstructure.
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Corporation Counsel
Orpheum Theatre Highlights and Acts Review
Theatre notes from the Orpheum and Pantages circuits recounts scenes and acts. Edward Abele and Charlotte Lander are teased figures while German comedy stars discuss politics and real estate. The Bellelaire brothers Adonis and The Fellow and the Girl on the Bench perform. Albert Hole sings briefly. The Lon dons Ace aerial act and Poor Dancing Huge impress. Jackson's Honeymoon and Pearl and Roth offer acts. Pantages bills feature the Fadettes Poston orchestra and Frank McRae with Will Hart and others ending with music and dancing.
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Orpheum
Edward Abeleos
Charlotte Lander
Bill Shakespeare
Abeles
Lander
Raymond
Caverly
Steen
Bellelaire Brothers
Adonis
Jarvis
Harrison
the Majestic
Lew Hawkins
Londons
Caron
Herbert
Jackson
Sommers
Storke
Pearl
Roth
City moves to consolidate phone systems in West Seattle
The city council adopted a resolution to compel Independent Telephone Co to install service in a West Seattle territory. A franchise clause requires service for 10 or more potential customers within a mile radius, which was met by applicants but denied due to lack of funds. The issue was referred to the council after appeals to the public utilities department failed.
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Independent Telephone Co
West
Seattle
Public Utilities Department
Council
Britishier Gets One of Our June Brides
A brief item notes a British couple securing a June wedding arrangement with attention to the husband’s speech as a notable moment of the ceremony.
Public Works Board to Let Garbage Contracts Tomorrow
The board of public works will open bids for garbage collection contracts that will run until the city can take over the service. Protests continue citywide against planned incinerator construction. William Haney of Worthington Indiana attempted suicide in three ways. his wife stopped a revolver, a bartender blocked poisoned beer, and a policeman pulled him from car tracks.
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Board of Public Works
William Haney
Worthington
Ind
Former Senator Davis Granted Divorce Over Silent Spouse
Lincoln Davis, former state senator and owner of the Diller hotel, obtained a divorce after his wife Edna Dunmore Davis refused companionship and spoke to him for days. Mrs. Davis, living in Spokane, denied the charges and resumed her maiden name.
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Lincoln Davis
Davis
Edna Dunmore
Spokane
Diller
No Foreign Name for American Song Bird
Henry W. Sav age has selected her for the title role in the opera The Girl From the Golden West to be presented in English next season on tour. No fancy names for this youngest of American prima donnas, not even a Mile or Mme. It’s the voice, not the name, that brings fame, says Miss Showalter.
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Henry W. Savage
Golden West
Mme
Miss Showalter
Took Dynamite to School
BROKEN BOW Neb May 36 Jimmy Sloggett nine years old will be taken to the reform school tomorrow by his father a laboring man of this place Here is what Jimmy has done in the last few weeks Took a revolver to school and shot at the teacher who had reprimanded him the day before Two days later appeared at the schoolhouse with a stick of dynamite and was with difficulty prevented from blowing up the building Hid in the warehouse of a grocery store and threatened to stab the clerk who ordered him out Broke into a confectionery store Sunday and robbed it of tobacco and candy The boy professes no regret for any of his acts
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Broken Bow
Jimmy Sloggett
Reform School
Jimmy
Drowned 13-year-old Ora Richardson in Kansas River
Ora Richardson, 13, of the Kansas Masonic Home, drowned in the Arkansas River at Wichita after slipping into a deep sand-pump hole. Onlookers, older boys, laughed when he cried for help as he struggled in the water.
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Wichita
Kas
Ora Richardson
Kansas Masonic Home
Arkansas River
Ostermoor Mattresses in Stock at Varied Sizes and Prices
List shows full size Ostermoor mattresses in several tickings and weights with prices from 15.00 to 19.00, offered as one or two part sets. Itemized options include blue and white ticking tan striped ticking blue art ticking satin striped ticking and French edge. Peete pear Wiese.
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Ostermoor
Peete Pear Wiese
Russia
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Bloomington
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Leslie Carter
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Yale
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Jessie Krogstad
Belles of Washington Society
William A. Burton
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Moore Theatre
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de Matiner
Ike
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Pricee
Edna Blanche Showalter
Curry Optical Co
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Max Pieman
Kir
LOIS
Main
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Actadeek
Four Londons
Pantages Theatre
Jando
Caroline D. Nichols
Directrem
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Heston
Coliseum
Frederick & Nelson, Inc
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Ornade
Ostermoor Mattresses
McCray
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Rayo
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Frederick & Nelson
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