Puget Sound Firms Clash Over Seattle Interurban Rights
Assistant city counsel Hughes seeks injunction against Sound Electric and Puget Sound companies over street car franchises. The dispute centers on interurban routes through Seattle streets. no current city franchise exists for some lines, while past grants paused or expired. Proceedings aim to force terms for city street use and service stops in the corridor from Tacoma to Yesler.
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Puget Company
City of Seattle
Hughes
Sound Electric Company and Electric Company
Seattle
Puget Sound Company
Yesler Hughes
City
Tacoma
Imaginary Fox Hunt Sparks Seattle Hunt Club Stunt
In Seattle the Hunt Club staged an annual imaginary fox hunt with Clarence Booth Lamont and Robert Percy Smith leading riders down East Galer Street toward the Country Club. Spectators, including a high school girl, described costumes and the playful chase as Thanksgiving fun.
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Dorothy
Robert W. Chambers
Seattle Hunt Club
Dolly
Clarence Booth Lamont
Robert Percy Smith
Dash
Hunt Club
Bobby
Co Booth Lamont
Nevin B. Pontius
Walter Kelton
J.D. Parrett
Sunday Society
Quiet in Mexico as rebellion reportedly quelled
An official government report from Mexico City says the republic is quiet today and the uprising is practically quelled. An unofficial report claims the town of Guerrero has fallen to rebels.
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Mexico City
Galveston
Republic
Guerrero
Advance Likely in Pies and Puddings for Holidays
Washingtondate pie and pudding costs may rise due to a 107 000 ton shortage in the world market for 1910. Howard C. Hughes, son of BC Hughes, seeks to enjoin the Sound Electric Company. he is listed among principal attorneys for Seattle Electric.
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Washington, D. C
Howard C
Sound Electric Company
BC. Hughes
Seattle Electric Company
Enve Girl Stays Home After Crippen Case Iconic Telegram
Misa Ethel f, aboard the liner in England, will not leave the estate matters unsettled. She says she must remain until the property is settled and fears for safety if she seeks peace in the United States. Loneve showed Crippen’s telegram sent before his execution and said she loved him and still believes he was innocent.
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Misa Ethel F
England
Metrix
United States
Mise Loneve
Crippen
Queen of Old Frisco Gay Life Dies in Squalid Hut
A long familiar figure in Butte’s rough West Side scene, Helen McVeener known as the Queen of Old Frisco Gay Life, dies in a poverty stricken cabin after years of decline. Born in Virginia City, she later drifted from Prisco to Butte, appearing in police court, her beauty faded and health failed after weeks of illness.
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UN & Prisco
West
Wyoming St. Cabin
Frisco
Helen McVeener
Virginia City
New
Prisco
Butte
Story of the Town Near the Depot
A poorly dressed man stands near a cigar stand by the depot as two women with a baby pass. The baby waves, the elder woman notes the man crying, and tear tracks cross the old man’s face amid the street scene.
Snowstorms disrupt Union County and downed lines across Oregon
A heavy snowfall began in Union county last night and continued today. Telegraph and telephone wires to Portland from the south were prostrated for hours by a heavy snow storm in southern Oregon and northern California.
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LA Grande
Ore
Union County
Portland
Oregon
California
Maxwell Car Wins 1st Race at Santa Monica Motor Carnival
Maxwell entry driven by Earl Fancher won the opening event covering 101.02 miles in 1 hour 42 minutes 31 seconds. The race for cars with 161 to 230 cubic inches piston displacement had three entrants and Maxwell was the only finisher.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Maxwell
Earl Fancher
Boss Ruef 14-Year Sentence Upheld on Bribery Conviction
Abe Ruef former political boss is ordered to serve 14 years in prison after the court of appeals upholds the bribery verdict. The appeal record runs 2 800 pages the longest ever presented to an appellate court. Ruefs attorney claims misconduct by Judge Lawier regarding the jury after Heney was shot. Attorney given 40 days to prepare a supreme court appeal.
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San Francisco
Cal
Abe” Ruef
Court of Appeals
Ruef
Lawier
Rssistant
Heney
Morria Haas
Ruefs
Supreme Court
Suffragettes Fined and Jailed After Parliament Attacks
In London on November 24, numerous suffragettes arrested during attacks on Premier Asquith and MPs homes were tried by Magistrate De Ruben. Fines averaged five dollars. those who refused to pay were immediately jailed.
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United Prem
London
Asquith
de Ruben
Starving and Freezing on Thanksgiving Day in Greensburg
Raymond Evans reports on the Greensburg miners strike aftermath with thousands of women and children living in tents on snow covered hills. He describes hunger cold and the dire need for clothing shoes and money to build frame shacks before Christmas. He urges donations via United Mine Workers Headquarters Greensburg Pa citing thousands in need on the Great American feast day.
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Greensburg
Raymond Evans
John McCartney
United Mine Workers
Greensburg, Pa
Weatmoreland County
Pennsylvania
Irwin Field
Child Drinks Whisky, Dies in Kentucky Revival
A four year old boy, son of Mr and Mrs Lum Long in Owensboro Kentucky, found a bottle of whisky while family attended revival services. He drank half a pint and died. Authorities investigate the incident as a tragic accident.
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Owensboro
Lum Long
Dugdale Signs Star Players for Next Season
Dugdale announces future signings of Lajoie Wagner Collins and Cobb for next year. Ethel Leneve joins the Baker Stock company. Stone-Webster orders 3 cent fare in Seattle and 5 cent fare in the Duwamish valley. Seattle residents recover from Thanksgiving meals with no tummy troubles.
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Dugdale
Lajoie
Wagner
Collins
Cobb
Ethel Leneve
Baker Stock Company
Stone-Webster Company
Seattle
Duwamish Valley
Newsies Dance Night Promises Big Masquerade Party
Tonight at Les eht park the newsboys hold a masquerade dance with prizes from downtown merchants. Wag ner's band will play as the crowd enjoys food and fun, and organizer Short Engler says it will be the best ever in twenty years of events.
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Leseht Park
Betcher Life
Wagner
Engler
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