Betty and Sarah Lead May Birth Names in Seattle
A Seattle register details May 1920 births noting 580 new arrivals and a busy city health department. Registrar A. A. Breymer records trends in baby names, observing a preference for short, traditional names and the continued use of biblical names with occasional modern flair.
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Travis
Seattle
Beattie
Stork Express
A. A. Breymer
City Health Department
Breymer
Smith
Woodrow Wilsons
John Pershing
Hunter Liggette
Evangeline Booth
Joan
Victory
Greymer
Plan Skips On Ravenna Line Invoked For Trial Run
The plan introduces skip stop service on the Phinney Avenue streetcar line from Monday, with cars stopping only at demand points or spaced intervals. Small triangular signs mark stops, and officials expect faster trips and reduced energy use for riders to the university district.
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Phinney Ave
Thomas F. Murphine
Public Utilities Department
Ravenna
University District
Phinney Line
Hartson Takes New Job as Assistant to Corporation Counsel
Capt. Nelson T. Hartson, a former Armistice veteran of the 316th ammunition train, took the oath of office as assistant to Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meier after returning from service in France. He was appointed earlier to handle street railway affairs. previously, he practiced with his father, Millard T. Hartson, in Hartson and Hartson.
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Nelson T. Hartson
Walter F. Meier
France
Silat
Hartson
91St
Argonne
Toul
Meier
Millard T. Hartson
Hartson and Hartson
California Hotel Syndicate Secures Seattle Site Options
The California Hotel syndicate led by D. M. Linnard has four options on a Seattle site but no final choice yet, per Maj. J. F. Douglas of the Metropolitan Building Company. The group closed negotiations for a 400‑room, $1.6 million hotel in Tacoma and controls a major Portland hotel.
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Altho
California
D. M. Linnard
Seattle
Maj. J. F. Douglas
Metropolitan Building Company
Tacoma
Portland
West Seattle pupils lead Friendship Bond drive
Jack Mage of La Fayette school captains the West Seattle district in the Friendship Bond drive to raise funds for homeless and fatherless children in war torn Europe. Seattle students organize and solicit subscriptions with medals for top teams as the campaign extends through Sunday.
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Jack Mage
la Fayette
West Seattle
Seattle
France
Europe
Cash Shortage Delays Pay for DA Office Staff
Cash ran out in the United States district attorney office leaving stenographers clerks and other employees without pay while officials received checks. Assistant district attorney Miss Charlotte Kolmitz says wages may not arrive until July 1 as Congress has exhausted the appropriation and works on deficiency bills. Unless cash is borrowed from other departments the employees must wait.
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United States District Attorney's Office
Charlotte Kolmitz
Congress
Escapes from U S Officers Over Gold Sum
Bert Barkley, arrested for attempting to smuggle gold, fled a Del Monte hotel room after a guard left him unguarded. Federal officers in Blaine and Seattle had tailed him for weeks as he planned a border crossing toward Vancouver, B C.
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U. S
Blaine
Bert Barkley
Seattle
Barkley
United States
Vancouver
B. C
del Monte
Bet Frame-Up Claim Lands 19-Year-Old in City Stockade
Vernon Brandwick, 19, labeled as a laborer, drew 30 days in the city stockade and a $100 fine after a police court sentence. Detectives Byrnes and Landis arrested him near First Ave and Senecast on a complaint by Gust Stebener of the Rainier-Jackson hotel alleging a $250 horse race bet frame-up.
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Vernon Brandwick
John B. Gordon
Brandwick
James Byrnes
Jack Landis
First Ave
Senecast
Gust Stebener
Rainier-Jackson
Stebener
Spokane
Seattle
Albert Haglin
Maj Carroll Describes Fighting Spirit At Memorial Night
Maj John E. Carroll spoke Friday at Evergreen lodge No 2 AOUW memorial meeting in the Arcade building recounting his war experiences with the old Second Washington under fire. He has been a member of Evergreen lodge for more than 13 years.
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Washington
John E. Carroll
Evergreen Lodge
A. O. U. W. Memorial Meeting
Arcade Building
Wagon Wrecker Hits Light Pole in City Cluster
O. C. Veble of 204 Pine Street drove a wagon for the Seattle Box Co. and struck a cluster light pole at Fourth Ave S and Main Street Saturday morning, snapping the base. City light department cleared the wreckage. Veble was not held.
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O. C
Rail Men's League to Meet in Seattle June 8
The Seattle council of the Railwaymen's Welfare league will hold its main meeting in Foresters' hall at First avenue and Stewart street on Sunday, June 8. The propaganda committee will convene Monday, June 2, in room 407 of the Seaboard Bank building, and the executive committee will meet Wednesday at 7 o'clock in room 620 of the Railway Exchange Building.
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Railwaymen of
Washington
Seattle
The
Railwaymen’s Welfare League
Foresters’ Hall
First Ave
Stewart St
Seaboard Bank
Railway Exchange Building
Boldt's Uptown and Downtown Venues Cited
The note lists Boldt's establishments at 1414 3rd Ave downtown and 913 2nd Ave, suggesting a pair of venue locations in the same city. The text references both sites without additional context or dates.
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Boldt's
Truth Lies at Bottom of the Well
An aphoristic note suggests truth hides at the bottom of a well, a metaphor about anglers avoiding deeper truths. The piece emphasizes caution in seeking clarity, using rural imagery to warn against shallow approaches to knowledge.
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Betty
Sarah
Sue
Williams
Ine
William
Bill
Wilhelm
Berlin
Betty Ann
Mary Jane
Nancy
Ephraim
Filijah
Moses
Aaron
Noah
Jason
Ruth
Phoebe
Martha
Hepzibah
Violet
Ron
Lily
Pansy
John
Mary
Chicago
Bershings
Woodrow
Ravenna Line
Murphine
Phinny Cars
Ietation
Cello
George Rogovoy
Royal
Corporation Counsel
Liberty Bonds
John E. Price & Co
Hege Ridg. Telephone Main
Frederick & Nelson
Maj. Carroll
Rail Men’s League
Farmer
Aurora
A. E. Engel
Eagle
Engel
Public Schools Medical Department
Iectures
Stevenson Smith
University of Washington
Derick
Nelson
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