Baby Cyclone Strikes Seattle Amid Strong Winds
A young cyclone hit Seattle late Thursday night and into Friday, with winds near 46 to 48 miles per hour. Awnings signs and trees fell as heavy rain flooded cellars, but overall damage was limited and residents struggled to hold on to belongings. The weather service warned the storm was moving along the coast across Puget Sound. An eastern syndicate led by William Bull of Sweet & Co plans a 400 plus mile railroad from Cadova Bay to Eagle City Alaska, with engineers surveying the route.
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Beda
Puget Sound
Seattle
Eastern
William Bull
Banking House
of Sweet & Co
Cadova Bay
Eagle City
Alaska
Brooks Hats and Local Stores Promote Prices
Newspaper notice advertises Brooks hats at two dollars and other local merchants offering bargain prices. It mentions E N Brookes & Co at 1381 24 Ave and references Iowa Creamery, Cowper Store at First and Pike, and Olympus Cafe planning remodels with reopening around October.
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Brooks
E. N. Brookes & Co
Iowa
First
Pike St
New Law Delays Transfer of Prisoners to Walla Walla
Sheriff Smith complains that a new law prevents immediate shipment of ten long term prisoners including Jack Chesterfield to the penitentiary. Walla Walla officials were notified only Monday, but no warden word arrived by Thursday afternoon. He denounces Hildebrand and alleges the system delays transfers, leaving inmates in the jail awaiting orders.
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Walla Walla
Hildebrand
Sheriff Smith
Jack Chesterfield
Court martial resumes in case against Captain Berry
The court martial of Captain A. P. Berry of the Tenth Infantry resumed this morning in Vancouver Washington. Berry is accused of reaching into the room of Lieutenant Mack's wife while serving as captain quartermaster of the transport Sheridan en route from the Orient for San Francisco. Many witnesses attended the proceedings.
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Vancouver
Wash
A. P. Berry
Tenth Infantry
Mack
Sheridan
Orient
San Francisco
Milwaukee officers clash as civil action targets alleged graft
Proprietor Henry Mockley accuses Patrolmen Ribbach and Ryan of bias and extortion over a June 64 dispute. James Farrall sues in superior court claiming 640 dollars was seized and not returned. The case stemmed from a report about a strange transaction and a police investigation that followed.
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Milwaukee
Henry Mockley
Ribbach
Ryan
James Farrall
Moran Brothers Company
Ferrall
Mockley
Delaney
Farrall
Milwaukee Par
Carleton
Garfield School forced to abandon building after mass truancy
In Tacoma on October 6 the Garfield School faced near total student absenteeism when a nearby pack house bench caused illness among children. The board of education ordered the building abandoned and arranged free rides for students to the Emerson School both morning and afternoon.
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SCH
Tacoma
Garfield School
Educa 4Tlon
Smerson
Bankers to form local chapter of Hank Clerks
Bank employees from the city will gather Friday night in Telkw hall Alaska building 14th floor to organize a local chapter of the American Institute of Hank Clerks. It is expected that more than 150 bankers will join and all city bank officials and staff have been invited. PF Kaufman of Tacoma and Mayer Nallinger will speak.
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Telkw Hall
Alaska
American Institute of Hank
Kaufman
Tacoma
Washington State Bankers’ Association
Mayer Nallinger
Bremerton Note Says Barclay Leaves for Boston with Family
Barclay former commander of the Puget Sound Davy Yard aton leaves for home in Boston next Wednesday. Paymaster Ryan of the United States Navy accompanies him to secure supplies for Puget Sound and Mare Island yards including hardware lumber metals packing and miscellaneous articles.
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Barclay
Puget Sound
Davy Yard
Boston
Ryan
U States Navy
Mare Island
New 36 Foot Wall Planned for McNeil's Island Prison
A new stone wall 36 feet high will replace the wooden barrier at McNeil's Island federal prison. Colonel Cecil Clay of the Justice Department and U S Marshal Hopkins chose the design after last summer's prisoner escape and will add a hospital wing to confine life prisoners.
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Federal
McNeil's Island
Cecil Clay
Department of Justice
Washington
United States
Marshal Hopkins
Drayman Leader H J Moreland Dies at 42 in Seattle
H J Moreland president of the Seattle Drayman's association died Thursday afternoon at age forty two. He leaves a large family of eighteen children four sisters and an aged mother in Rochester New York. Born near Peterborough Ontario he had worked in draying with his brother in Seattle for twenty years.
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H. J. Moreland
Seattle Drayman's Association
Rochester
N. Y
Peterborough
Ont
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Olympus Cafe
Yerxa
Ise
A. Yerxa 4& Sons
Esale Grocers
Occidental Street
Slill
Albert Hansen Semging Wargues
Tet Avenue
W. B. K. Hutchinson CO
Clothiers, Seconi and
Unio
H. Lewis
Es & Rosenberg
Firet Avenue
Cation
Carleton Engpres
Bremerton
Plymouth Shoe CO
Second Avenue
Thie Gale
Plymouth
Plymouth School
Regis
Pric Little Boys
Eric Youthe
W. L. Douglas
Plymouth Shoe
Chicago
Wilson
Dean
Allcock
Price
Carter
Bartell'’s
Louis
Terbert's
Dr. Hood
Bartels
Hind
Lubin
Woodsbury's
Packer
Red Cross
Goodyear
Bartell
Coesees
Wilso
Wilson” Er
Standard Furniture Co
L. Schoenfeld & Sons
Firat Ave
Bist Ave
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