Scope of the Seattle Information Bureau overview
The Seattle Information Bureau promotes the Sound country’s welfare by distributing advertising material and descriptive letters to Eastern and Southern papers. Officials deny employing servant girls, stressing the bureau is not a money making operation but a information source for prospective settlers and local interests.
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Seattle
Moore
Bua Psa
Washington
Colum
Beattie
Fastern
Buatnens
Mastern
Bureau
Bte
Commonwealth
United States
Northwest Baptist convention opens amid devotions and lectures
The twelfth annual Northwest Baptist convention convened at the First Baptist HapTiet church with Rev J A H Johnson leading devotion and Rev L S Bowerman giving the welcome. Speakers included Rev L B Bowman Rev A Blackburn and Rev M W Miller as the program outlined evangelization, benevolence and youth outreach amid evening musical services. A separate report notes an unknown Black man was shot and killed by a posse in Spring Valley after burglaries, with suspects pursued and a belt taken as evidence.
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Fpiret Haptiet Church
J. A. H. Johnson
North Seattle
Shank
L. 8. Bowerman
First Baptist Church
Aberdeen
A. Blackburn
D. D
Portland
Ore
M. W. Miller
Puyallup
A. H. Hause
A. Hieckburn
Everett
L. J. Sawyer
First Church
Young People’s Movement
F. A. Agar
EB. BE. Rossing
W H. Gibson
Washington
Mo W Miller
A. Abbott
ENA
Spring Valley
Stores Consider Shortened Hours For Volunteer Parade Day
Businesses weigh closing for several hours when volunteers arrive to let workers view the parade and university exercises. Merchants largely favor the plan and an executive committee seeks free streetcar transport for volunteers on the celebration days.
Seattle, Rochester and Washington men seek bar admission
FE F Kienstra of Seattle Arthur Rutherford of Rochester North Carolina and A Tannton of Washington DC went to Olympia yesterday to be examined for admission to the bar.
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FE. F. Kienstra
Seattle
Arthur Rutherford
Rochester
N. C
A. Tannton
Washington, D. C
Olympia
Steel Ship Launched by Ary Sewall & Co
The Edward Bewall was launched by Ary Sewall & Co in a formal yard ceremony. The vessel measures about 260 feet overall with a 46 foot beam and 47 foot depth, built for grain trade between San Francisco and Liverpool and sugar trade in Plawall.
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Edward Bewall
Arythur Sewall & Co
Mewalle
Red Cross and Fortean Relief Plan Home Luncheon
State Red Cross meeting reports Boe kare auxiliary with $2 on hand and hopes for more within a week. Whatcom residents prepare a big welcome for Major Weisenberger, with a possible tent, reading room and employment bureau planned to aid volunteers.
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Red Cross Society
Fortean Relief Corps
State Red Cross
Boekare
Whatcom
Weisenberger
Eeter
White-ribbon train leaves for Seattle from Chicago
In Chicago on October 12 a wind-off for the white ribbon train will be held at First Baptist church to honor delegates for Martha Wash. The silver anniversary of the operation will be celebrated in October. Speakers include Mrs Clemian vice-president Mrs Marner worths superintendent of young womens work Mrs Boole national secretary New York Mrs Killa New Jersey Miss Ensign Ohio and Mrs Chambers Pennsylvania. Women will depart divinely from the church to the train at 11 o'clock.
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Mearthe
Mine Clemian
Mre Marnerworth
Mra. Boole
New York
Mra. Killa
New Jersey
Mise Ensign
Ohio
Mra. Chambers
Pennsylvania
Texas cattlemen seek compromise after schoolland suit
Austin October 12 attorneys for Texas cattlemen and their lawyers ask the attorney general to compromise pending lawsuits common in the action last week over allegedly illegally fenced public school land.
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Austin
Ten
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Lle
Woodward Re elected President at Clearing House Meeting
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 James T. Woodward, president of the Heaver National Bank, was reelected president of the clearing house committee at the annual meeting. Edward H. Perkine Jr., president of the Importers and Tract National Bank, was elected chairman of the clearing house committee.
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New York
Jamcs T. Woodward
Heaver National Bank
Edward H. Perkine, Jr
Importers and Tract National Bank
Conmium
Tee
Charges Against Col Wholey Declared Groundless
Adjutant General Corbin announced Col John H. Wholey of the First Washington volunteers faced false charges. investigations found no basis. He praised Wholey as an excellent officer and recommended promotion to brigadier general of volunteers.
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Washington, D.C
Corbin
John H. Wholey
Washington Volunteers
Wholley
Washington
Ots Haa
Girl Chewed Gum Too Much Causes Mouth Paralysis
Wabash Ind Ort 12 Mine Lete tle daughter of Daniel Stutsban Goshen is suffering from a peculiar affliction due to chewing gum. The left side of her mouth is drawing toward the ear and a physician says it is paralysis of the mouth muscles from prolonged chewing. Recovery uncertain.
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Mine Letetle
Daniel Stutsban
Goshen
Dispensary official ousted amid fraud inquiry in D C
Commissioner J H Dowthit of the state liquor dispensary was removed after a special board inquiry. Probe found large scale fraud against consumers with low grade liquor sold at high price up to two dollars per gallon. Prosecutions likely and damages suits may follow. Exhibits for Paris. Newfoundland?
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Columbia
D. C
J. H. Dowthit
Board of Control
Douthit
Paris
Harvard May Bar Out Women Debate at Harvard
In Cambridge Massachusetts Professor Barrett Wendell argues Harvard should reclaim its exclusive male domain as coeducation advances. He contends most U S colleges fund women equally and urges revocation of women’s privileges at Harvard.
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Cambridge
Maes
Barrett Wendell
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Everyon
United States
Fatal Tobacco Dispute Ends in Stabbing and Bludgeoning
In Clarksville Tennessee last night William Hackney and John Thompson clashed over a chew of tobacco at the Helen Tron furnace area. Hackney attacked Thompson with a knife and was struck with a shovel, dying a few hours later. Thompson fled to Hopkinsville Kentucky.
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Willam Hackney
John Thompson
Helen Tron Furnace
Hackney
Thompson
Hopkinsville
Hinckney
Negro Confesses to Murder in Marysville Hearing
RKR Coleman, a Black man who confessed to killing Mia James Land brook, faced a preliminary hearing in Marysville. Judge Newell held him for murder without bail. The grand jury is not meeting until late November, and Coleman was ordered moved to Covington jail for case keeping. A late afternoon telephone update confirmed his arrival at Covington jail.
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Rkr
Coleman
Mia
James Landbrook
Newell
Covington
Moran's Bid Rejected Amid Tacoma Beattle Dispute
At a chamber of commerce meeting City Comptroller Wo EL Parry reported that Tacoma and Beattle clashed over bids for transport and public buildings. Tacoma protested via telegrams while Beattle’s bid was the lowest but rejected. A Seattle public building appropriation of 1 008,000 was recommended with a new Seattle office building.
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Beattle
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Portland
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Seattle
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British contract aids canned meat shipments to Transvaal army
Chicago dispatch reports the British government set a brake on canned meat and fruit imports with Chicago packing firms. An unnamed official says a major concern won a large contract to ship canned meats to England for the army in the Transvaal.
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Transvaal
Seattle boom forecast from 1900 prospectus by Gritith
Promoter Mr. Gritith predicts Seattle will see a vast population rise and a city transformed by a new industrial boom. He foresees huge demand for housing, labor, and materials tied to Nome Nome mining and Alaska growth, with real estate values and fortunes soaring as capital flows from Nome, Chicago, and San Francisco.
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Uee
Tam
Etand
James Street
Market Quotations From Thursday Morning Prices Read
The market trends downward with a quiet grain sector and low fruit stocks. California boat unloads by afternoon likely shifting prices. listed prices include oats 20.00, barley 17.00, wheat 19.00, hay Puget Sound 37.00, butter 21 22 cents, live poultry rates, and beef hogs and lamb figures for local dealers.
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