Seattle red light district injunction delays operation
Judge Gilliam denies immediate closure of the restricted zone but orders a temporary injunction. The Seattle district remains pending a permanent ruling after a hearing, with Mayor 61 directing sex workers to vacate by November 1. Shomo Lodovic Tupper and others face future petition outcomes from the Public Welfare league.
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Seattle
Red Light
Mm Gill
Wappenstein
Seattle Brewing & Malting CO
R. Sig Levy
Harry P. M’keown
Sparkman Charles Berryman
Ludovic Dallagiovanna
Rogelet
Charles W. Shomo
Big Hat
Gilliam
Shomo
Lodovic
Woman Seeks Five Weeks Salary in Street Confrontation
Miss Tillie Emmerton accuses Remsen Valencia president of Mer Adjustment Co. of owing five weeks pay totaling 42 pounds. She confronted him on a city street to force payment, prompting a crowd until a patrolman intervened. Valencia unavailable at his office. case set for October 24 before Justice Carroll.
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PRS
Times
Aes
Valencia
Adjust Y
Tillie Emmert
Remsen Valencia
Mise Emmerton
Alaska
Justice Carroll
Second
Union
Weather forecast for Seattle area
Fall tonight and Sunday night expect easterly winds across Seattle and surrounding vicinity.
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Seattle
Vicinity
Recall Petition at Church Doors in Seattle
The Public Welfare League will circulate recall petitions at Seattle churches tomorrow. It is expected to add over a thousand voters to the signers list seeking better conditions. The league has not chosen a candidate to oppose Hi Gill and will decide before next Wednesday. The group is nonpartisan and nonsectarian and urges signers to suggest mayoral candidates for the executive committee to consider.
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Seattle
Public Welfare League
Hi Gill
League
Zerwekh
Ketchel Shot In Missouri Ranch Ambush
World middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel was shot in the right side at R. P. Dickinson’s ranch near Conway Missouri. The attacker named Hurd fled to the hills as a posse searches for him. A special train carried Ketchel and doctors to the scene.
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United Presse
Springfield
Stanley Ketchel
R. P. Dickinson
Dickinson
Conway
Ketcher
Hurd
Dickerson
America dirigible cross Atlantic voyage underway
Atlantic City reports Walter Wellman and crew starting the America on an attempted trans Atlantic voyage. The wirelessed update notes the airship heading northwest with all systems functioning, while a hurricane threat prompts efforts to warn ships and urge northward maneuvering.
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United Press
Atlantic City
N. J
Walter Wellman
Melvin Vaniman
America
Atlantic Ocean
New York
Wellman
Cuban
City va Country Life contest closes Monday night
The Star announces the City va Country Life contest ends Monday night with prizes of $25 in gold and theatre tickets. Readers are urged to participate and submit entries now for a chance at the award.
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City Va
Country Life
Hard Working Woman Recalls Hillman Land Scheme
Petra Peck of Algona Washington testifies about being lured into buying land from C D Hillman with false promises of a big mill and steady work for her husband. She paid 25 dollars for an option and 175 dollars more for a contract, only to learn the four acres were actually ten lots under two acres and no Hillman mill existed.
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George W. Peck
Hillman
Algona
Anderson
Lorman
Petra Peck
Joan HH. Perry
State of
Washington
Seattle
The Star Coupon Honored At Arcade Hall
The Star advertises a coupon to be presented at Arcade Hall for high school students and townie attendees with a fee. It mentions the Pacific Lyceum Bureau and that the coupon requires payment of fifteen cents for students and twenty five cents for others.
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Pacific Lyceum Bureau
Hil Toni
Igh
Towneie
I the
Star
Note on admission prices for event
Admission information indicates 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students. coupon activation is required for the quoted rates.
Entertainer Edmund Vance Cooke at Arcade Hall
The Star invites all to tonight's event at Arcade hall Seconday and Union starting at eight. Edmund Vance Cooke, the poet of Nineteen Hundred and NOW, headlines an all ages show. A coupon printed in The Star covers half the admission price, worth 25 cents at the door.
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Edmund Vance Cooke
Seconday and
Union
Federal Indictments in Alaska Land Frauds
Tacoma fights to host federal case on alleged Alaska coal land frauds in the Bering Lake district. Indictments name Cornelius Christopher, George Simonds, Charles Munday, Earl Siegizy, Algernon Stracey, Archie Shields. Possible second indictments rumored. defendants unnamed.
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Tacoma
Cornelius Christopher
George Simonds
Charles F. Munday
Earl C. Siegizy
Seattle
Algernon G. Stracey
Vancouver
B. C
Archie W. Shields
Cordova
Bledser Found Guilty in Fort Lawton Assault Case
Nathaniel Bledser, a Black soldier, convicted of assault in the second degree for attacking Mrs. Amanda Redding at her Fort Lawton area home on June 4. After a short jury deliberation, he admitted guilt days after his arrest. the prosecution stressed the confession amid alibi claims and witness identifications by Mrs. Redding and her two daughters.
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Nathaniel Bledser
Amanda Redding
Fort Lawton
Bledser
Vanderveer
Woman Doctor Killed in Speeding Car Crash in Portland
Dr. Edna Timms, a noted woman physician, was instantly killed when a car driven by her chauffeur Walter Christianson, traveling about 70 miles an hour, struck a street car at 19th and Flanders in Portland Oregon while en route to an emergency. Christianson was fatally injured or badly hurt.
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Portland
Edna Timms
Walter Christianson
19Th
Flanders St
Timms
Christianson
Homeliest Woman on Stage Impresses in The Lottery Man
Miss Vivia Ogden, famed for the homely title, stuns Moore audience in The Lottery Man. The old‑school character actress, praised for her stage presence, recalls beginnings with Booth, Barrett, and McCulloch.
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Miss Ogden
The
Moore
Portland
Beig
John Ogden
Cleveland
John Essier
Clara Morris
James O'Neill
Effie Essler
Booth
Barrett
McCulloch
Grace George
Uncle Tom
Eliza
Little Eva
Bloodhounds
Enoch Arden
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