Seattle's Great Ship Canal to Link Puget Sound and Lake Washington
The plan envisions a 25 foot deep canal 75 feet bottom width and up to 150 feet surface width linking Puget Sound with Salmon Bay Ballard Fremont Rose Lake Union and Lake Washington. Locks 825 feet by 80 feet will raise and lower ships to pass into the lakes funded by 2.276 million dollars with dredging and land work at Ballard Ross Fremont and the University district. Completion is set for about 1914 per the army engineers.
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Lake Washington Canal
Minnesota
Puget Sound
Salmon Bay
Ballard and
Fremont
Lake Union
University District
Union Bay
Lake Washington
Capitol Bill
University
United States
Ballard
Ross
Sey
Army Engineers
Ing
Miss Alice Corning 16 Died at 1024 Fifth Ave N
Miss Alice Corning age 16 daughter of C A Corning died at the family residence 1024 Fifth avenue North yesterday. The note mentions several local items from a period newspaper page with political and social notes.
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Alice Corning
C. A. Corning
Av. N
Yukon navigator returns from Amazon rubber boat study
Capt. E. E. Brown, former Yukon navigator, returns to Seattle after three years near the Amazon river area. Fourteen steel boats are being built at Pittsburgh for this work, and Brown has employed 25 federal Yukon navigators to operate the fleet.
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E. E. Brown
Yukon
South America
Amazon
Seattle
Big River
Pittsburg
Rown
Yukon Navigators
Washington State Art Association Plans Gallery Space
Directors approved a 6000 square foot venue purchase including a mezzanine at 2415 1417 Fifth Ave for use as exhibition rooms. The move was decided yesterday by the association’s directors.
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Washington State Art Association
Salmon shipment from the North valued at six hundred thousand
The steamship Seward of the Alaska Steamship Co. brings the largest and most valuable salmon shipment ever from the North. It contains 120000 cases valued around $600000.
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Steamship Seward
The
Alaska Steamship Co
Gilman to Lecture on The Coming Change at Labor Temple
Charlotte Perkins Gilman noted economist will deliver an evening talk at the Labor Temple. Her subject is The Coming Change and she will address social and economic issues.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Labor Temple
City Seizes Profitable Raid on Chinese Fan-Tan Games
City auditors report raiding Chinese fan-tan games yielded 420 dollars added to the treasury after a brief trial. Eighteen players and two Japanese were fined 25 dollars each for gambling, Ah Sem paid 100 dollars for conducting the game, and cops collected 80 dollars. State Senator Dan Landon pled guilty in the Celestials case as sentences were announced and gamblers departed.
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Eigh Chinese
Ah Sem
Dan Landon
Indian starvation threats rise as irrigation work halts
Press reports Shoshone and Arapaho tribes near starvation due to halted government irrigation projects and crop failures, sparking fears of violence against white settlers. Separate items note Oscar Jackson confessing to a bank robbery tip in Portland and railway conduct issues amid a lawsuit by Mary Purnheil against the Pullman Company for 10000.
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Lander, Wyo
San Francisco
Oscar Jackson
Portland
Brazil Students Boost Cornell Attendance For Coffee Boom
Ithaca N Y October 25 Pros perity in the coffee industry is given as the reason for the increased attendance of students from Brazil at Cornell. Last year there were two this year fifteen.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Brazil
Cornell
Nestor sells Westlake block for 175000 in fast market
The Nestor building on Westlake Avenue between Pine and Olive streets was sold by owner T J Nestor the Alaska miner and cap ital, for about 175000 It marks a second large real estate deal this month following the Lyceum theatre property sale on Monday Nestor plans improvements for the triangular lot bounded by Westlake Sixth and Virginia streets
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Nestor
Westlake Av
Pine and
Olive Sts
T. J. Nestor
Alaska Miner
Capitaliat
Lyceum Theatre
Seconday
Westlake
Sixth
Virginia At
Two Local Boys Missing From Bainbridge Island
Marion Price age 12 and Ernat Noles age 11 disappeared from their homes on Bainbridge Island a week ago. They left in a 16 foot dory and investigators fear they may have drowned. police are seeking information and requests civilians to help search.
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Marion Price
Ernat Noles
Oak Harbor
Bainbridge Island
Lasso Hero on Point Bridge Saves Drowning Man
Pittsburg reports Captain Frank Lier once famed for lariat throws saved a life after a man named Harry Cow fell overboard from the Lorena. Lier cast a skiff, lassoed Cow, and pulled him aboard as 800 onlookers cheered on the Point bridge.
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Pittsburg
Point Bridge
Frank Lier
Harry Cow
Lorena
Lier
Paradise of Mahomet opens at Moore theatre for three nights
Grace Van Studdiford stars in the Paradise of Mahomet opening at the Moore theatre tomorrow evening for a run of three nights after previously starring in Red Feather. The piece comes to St Joseph via Newark according to the press agent. In police court here August Carrado a deaf mute pleaded guilty to a charge of swearing to his wife in sign language and was fined ten dollars.
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Grace van Studdiford
John McCowan
Paradise of Mahomet
Wee Grace van Studdiford
Moore Theatre
Newark
ST. Joseph, Mo
August Carrado
The Week at the Theatres
Moore stars in The Flirting Prince at Metropolitan with Mirsi Hajos in The Spring Maid Seattie Hilly Clifford performs in The Girl the Man and the Game Loise features The Clansman at the same house Alhambra shows Dark Orpheum Vaudeville Empress Vauderville Pantages Vaudeville Grand Vaudeville and motion pictures on the bill.
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Moore
Metropolitan
Mirsi Hajos
Seattie
Hilly Clifford
Loise
Alhambra
Orpheum
Empress Vauderville
Pantages
Washington Monument Crumbling at Its Base
The Washington Monument in Washington D C the world s tallest shaft shows crumbling outer walls with sedi ment deposits seeping from its interior The structure built in two stages 1848 1852 and 1877 160 feet added faces trouble from the early 19th century filling which used rubbish and old cement while the upper portion remains strongest Interpretive notes credit Prof G P Merrill National Museum as the source of the assessment
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Washington Monument
G. P. Merrill
National Museum
Sheriff Seeks Reward for Capture of Calivin Suspect
Tacoma reports Frank Calvin who surrendered to Lewis county Sheriff Uruquart after a week long manhunt for the shooting of Mrs. Vivian Irvine at Haronville. Calvin claims the county offered a $150 reward and commissioners hesitate to pay. The chase incurred heavy costs for deputies and transportation.
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Tacoma
Frank Calvin
Vivian Irvine
Haronville
Uruquart
Lewis County
Calvin
Bee Hive Principle Imagined By Massachusetts Minister
The Rev. John Dooley of Great Barrington Mass says if society followed the bee hive principle there would be no millionaires or paupers or criminals as everyone would work for the community like bees. He notes he has kept bees for 30 years.
Marriage Plea and Plot Twist Between Jawbacks
A fragment shows Mrs Jawback accusing her spouse of marrying out of pity and Mr Jawback retorting that everyone does now, reflecting a domestic dispute exchange uncorked in a gossiping public page.
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Capitol
Bacar
Queen Anne Altill
Mach
Sratey Con Metro
Jrare Junvewsin
Uniav Fay
National Monetary Commission
Washington Hotel
Phi Alpha
William McAdoo
New York City
Noo Yawk
New York
Queen City Club
Renton Hill Club
F. E. Seixas
Dex Moines
Wash
Committee On Harbors and Public Grounds
Sterling Price
Missouri State Guard
Springfield
Price
Good Templar
Dolphin
Shakan and
Santa Ana Canneries
United
New Recess Club
Knickerbocker Trust Building
Atlanta
Pullman
Mary Purnheil
Pullman Company
Lasso
Washington, D. C
Potomac
Frederick & Nelson, Inc
Dacement Salesroom
Ancy Allsilk
Banement Yalesroom
Hildren
Hasement Peale
Salexroom
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