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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1909
Page
2
Clerk Robbing the Mail: Seattle Post Office Scandal
Four inspectors using lookouts tracked George H. Coonce city distributing clerk as he pocketed thirty letters. Coonce confessed stealing letters last July when a raise failed to arrive. He admits taking more than $1,000 in cash, burning letters money orders and checks at his home. Authorities had traced widespread letter losses for months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Pres
Spokand
Wash
George H. Coonee
Coonce
Calary
Railroads to Spend Vast Sums to Meet Traffic Demands
President W. Brown of the New York Central and Hudson River Railway announced a campaign of extraordinary expenditures. The company has placed contracts for 26 million dollars of locomotives and cars and plans to spend about 60 million more, plus 50 million for terminal improvements in New York, to reduce grades, straighten curves, and lay new rails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
W. ©. Brown
New York Central & Hudson River Railway
Wanted for Shortage in Merchants Express Case
Detectives Phillipe and McPhee and Patrolman Bergstrom yesterday arrested Charles Adams 40 who is wanted at Mt Vernon N Y in connection with a $400 shortage in big accounts with Merchants Express company Adams was traced to Seattle through correspondence with his Mt Vernon friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Phillipe
Mc.Phee
Bergstrom
Charles Adams
Mt. Vernon
Merchants’ Express Company
Adams
Seattle
Roosevelt Birthday Noted By Oyster Bay Neighbors
Oyster Bay residents recalled Theodore Roosevelts 51st birthday yesterday keeping birthday books. In a magazine piece he calls himself an elderly gentleman with a past that includes rheumatism. President Taft was 52 on September 16. Friends did not hold a formal celebration.
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N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Roosevelt
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