Boys Plan Raid On Girls Dormitory At City Church
Girls visiting from across the country as Queen Esther circle members were startled when high school boys planned a raid on the church dormitory at Fifth Ave West and Garfield Street. About 80 to 100 girls were housed there when Miss Bessie Lancaster alerted police, a guard responded, and the threat was halted. Delegates of the Queen Esther circle are attending a Woman’s Home Missionary society convention.
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Queen Esther Circle
Methodist Church
Fifth Ave. W
Garfield St
Bessie Lancaster
Queen Eather Circle
The
Woman's Home Missionary Society
Vancouver tops pacific northwest marriage licenses
Vancouver issued 183 marriage licenses in September, including 127 to Oregonians, underscoring the city as a Gretna Green of the Pacific Northwest.
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Vancouver
Wash
Pacific Northwest
Submarines No Longer A Peril War Claim
Washington reports remarkable claims that British countermeasures reduce submarine danger. It is said 70 percent of German U boats have been destroyed or captured, with airships aeroplanes and oil driven rapid scout boats and wire nets aiding detection and destruction.
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Gilson Gardner
Washington
Rapid
City Wide Child Welfare Institute Opens Monday
The Hippodrome at Fifth and University hosts a week long citywide child welfare institute led by Dr William A McKeever professor of child welfare at the University of Kangan. He urges every mother to attend and notes the program will cover child training from birth to maturity across many angles.
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Seattle
Hippodrome
William A. McKeever
McKeever
University of Kangan
Graywood Sinks. Crew Rescued Near Umatilla Reef
The steamship Graywood bound for Vancouver with ore sank off the Umatilla reef. The Hironian reported abandoning the Graywood and picked up the crew from life boats, near San Francisco on October 2.
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San Francisco
Graywood
Vancouver
Umatilla Reef
Lenay
Matson
Hironian
Seattle
Hibonian
Four Dead in White Horse Rail Yard Rampage
On October 2 Alex Geogoff a White Pass railway section hand went on a shooting spree three miles south of White Horse killing four men Foreman Patrick Winslow and section hands George Lane Tom Hokonich Henry Cook. He fled on a handcar as a posse gave chase toward White Horse.
Mutineers in Sehome Mutiny Centered on Vera Richardson
In San Francisco on October 2 officials weighed the mutiny aboard the schooner Sehome. Vera Richardson daughter of the U S consul at Sydney was named as the storm center while Captain Pretzel and young mutineer Samuel Ware offered conflicting accounts. Ware claimed the captain paraded in pajamas before Miss Richardson and the captain replied he would do as he pleased. The captain’s wife restrained him and later authorities held Ware for alleged high seas assault as they investigate his claims.
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San Francisco
Vera Richardson
United States
Sydney
Pretze
Samuel Ware
Ware
Miss Richardson
Lumber Association approves price hikes for slash grain flooring
At a Tacoma meeting of the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers Association prices were raised effective October 10. Slash grain flooring and drop siding will rise by 1 dollar while all boards increase 1.50 dollars reflecting improved conditions in the lumber market.
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Weer Coast Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Tacoma
Moore Show Promises Farces and Stage Stars Next Week
The Moore Theatre opens with A Pair of Sixes a witty Edward Peple farce starring Oscar Figman. A Henriet ta revival features Crane Rosa Arbuckle Crews and Taliaferro. Nina Morris headlines the Orpheum with The Blue Diamond. The Primrose Four vaudeville act and Empress acts headline. Pantages resumes with Hardeen at the matinee.
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Oscar Figman
Nina Morris
Orpheum
Panama
Primrose Four
Ruth Kilbourn
Adolph Blome
Mignonette Kokin
Jed
Ethel Dooley
Ethel Kirk
Billy Fogarty
Mons. Galetti
Spain
Holland
Russia
Austria
Hungary
Egypt
Lois
Moore
Pantages
Harry O'Neill
Empress
Peruna Praise From Philadelphia and Indiana Testimonial
Letters from readers extol Peruna medicine, with a Philadelphia note praising its effectiveness at improving health and a Scottaburg Indiana testimonial reporting relief from two years of nasal catarrh after using Peruna, including a line about Peruna Tablets for those who object to liquids.
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Ella Minkell
Scottaburg
Ind
Peruna
Cascarets Headache and Digestive Aid Ad
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a remedy for headache colds liver and bowels. It promises breath freshening relief from indigestion coated tongue and sour stomach with a 10 cent box and notes ease for children without gripping.
Additions Liven Evening at Lois With Irenes and Cine Acts
Irene West's Royal Hawaiian Sex tet from New York Winter Garden headlines an evening at the Lois with 14 member Lois Honeymoon Girls musical comedy act. Other numbers include Alexander Patty & Co and ventriloquist. The third Neal of the Navy serial and first run motion pictures in the Lolscope complete the program.
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Lois Mats
Gedman
Shadowgraphiat
de Bara
Lester and Hines
Irene West
Royal Hawaiian
New York Winter Garden
Alexander Patty & Co
Mabel Johnston
Longworthas
Neal
The
Navy
Pathe
Lois
West, Wilson and
James
Emerald B. Thompson & Co
Carl and
Lita
Man
Maid
Big Loan Fully Subscribed in Allied Loan Drive
New York, Oct. 2. Subscriptions to the $500,000,000 loan to the allies poured in rapidly and the loan was announced as oversubscribed. The Dupont Powder works reportedly subscribed $30,000,000 alone. Morgan & Co. is swamped with subscriptions, ranging from numerous small inputs to several large sums.
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New York
Dupont Powder Works
Morgan & Co
Gunboat Princeton Heads for Last Cruise Dismantling
The gunboat Princeton began its final voyage today and will be dismantled at Bremerton after reaching the port. Dr. W M McCoy, a noted physician, died at Wenatchee from appendicitis.
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San Francisco
Princeton
Hremerton
W. M. McCoy
Wenatchee
Happy Wednesday Bargains Arise From Seattle Merchants
A group of Seattle merchants plans to make Wednesday a joyful day by offering enticing bargains. The first installment will appear in Tuesday night’s Star as part of a watch and wait campaign to boost midweek happiness.
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Seattle
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Edward Peple
With Oscar Figman
SRD & Madison
Orphrum Theatre & Realty
M. Magesten, Jr
Nm Francisco
Burton
Martin Beck
Nina Morris and Company
John Villa
Jed and
Ethel Kirk and
Galetti
Mats
the Winter Garden
Royal Hawaiian Sextette
Dexter Horton
Che
Skipper
Atara
Bronson Howard
Willam H. Crane
Thomas W. Rosa
Maclyn Arbuckle
Laura Hope Crews
Henry Miller
Mabel Taliaferro
Polly
Circus
Tex Weatherford
Kemp Sisters
Espe
Dutton
Fay Monde
Hardeen
King of the
Joseph Brooks
Laur WO Hope Crest
Auaferro
James J. Ryan
Arthur S. Hull
Edward Poland
Malcolm Bradley
J. H. Huntley
Rosalind Coghlan
Zeffie Tilbury
Zadie Appleton
Hy Wincbell Smith and
Victor Mapes—bastled On
Tronsen Howard
Chicago
Portland
Henrietta
Nighten
Balcrony
Boc
Mra
BBC
Everly
Fifth St
Philadelphia
Pasaya
Hranh
Valli Valli
Chas Chaplin
Inet
Evans
Columbia, Lrd and
Union
Saramouil
Donald
Brian
Harold Macgrath
Mr. Brian
Miss Adda Gleason
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