Seattle City Faces Damages Claim Over Sidewalk Fault
Attorney Elmer Todd urged a jury to find for Charles Arthur McGovern in Seattle damages suit seeking 20006 dollars. He condemned process servers who stage lawsuits against the city and mocked city lawyers while Judge Tallman presided after a near week trial. A 12 year old boy and several ten year olds testified about a fall from a defective railing near a 16 foot gulch during a fight among birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Todd
Scott Calhoun
Charles Arthur McGovern
Seattle
United States
Todd
Gay, Brady and Moran
Coal famine threatened as Seattle faces price hikes
The Star reports Seattle households face coal price increases amid claims of a looming shortage. Investigations from New Castle to Lawson show mines along the Pacific Coast shipping much output to California and Alaska, with limited local production and many workers needed to meet demand. Two-thirds of output still goes to domestic use, while substantial coal is sent to San Francisco and Nome.
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Seattle
Star
A of the Star
New Castle
Franklin
Lawson
California
Alaska
Prines
Pacific Coast Company
San Francisco
Mfc Coast Company
Howse
Newcastle
Black Diamond
No. 14
Seattle Electric
Renton
HGH SCHOOLS IN DEBATE
Satire High School held a meeting to choose five students to represent the school in a statewide debate. About 32 teams are expected to participate. The winning team receives 100 dollars donated anonymously. The topic is the best method to upbuild the American merchant marine through shipbuilding. The Seattle Ballard winner will face the Auburn Kent winner in a subsequent match.
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Satire High Schoo
Aed
Aes
Seattle
Beattie Christian Endeavor Plans 5000 Delegates Certificates
The convention committees of the Beattie Christian Endeavor society plan to issue over 5,000 delegates certificates within two weeks. Each certificate has a value of $1 and is designed as share stock to raise funds for the convention guarantee.
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Christian Endeavor Society of Beattie
Freemont Druggists Fined For Untaxed Liquor Sales
Roy Nelson and T W Lough of Freemont were morning fined 56 dollars each by Police Judge Gordon for selling liquor without a license. The cases were appealed and a decision will depend on a similar case in the superior court. The defendants argue they may sell liquor for medicinal purposes without a physician's prescription.
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Roy Nelson
T. W. Lough
Fremont
Jaodge Gordon
Couple’s Wedding Day Tragedy Stuns Lowell
Copeland fatally injured in a Stanwood accident Sunday night died at O. and Allen hospital. He was to wed Mies Maud Hoss of Centralia soon. The body arrived in Seattle and will be shipped to Lowell Michigan. Bonney Watson Co. handled arrangements.
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LN. Copeland
Stanwood
O. & Allen Hospital
Mies Maud Hoss
Centralia
Seattle
Bonney Watson Company
Lowell
Mich
Mrs Lillian Stevens Re elected WCTU President
Mrs Lillian Stevens of Portland Maine was re elected national president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Hartford Connecticut today.
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Stevens
Scripps Telegraph Service
Hartford
Conn
Lillian Stevens
Portland
W. C. T. U. Today
Drunken Shooting at Maple Valley Dance Hall
J. P. Rutledge, intoxicated, shot at Charles Martini during a dispute over Ada Nelson at Pete Brennan’s Maple Valley dance hall last Saturday night. Rutledge fled to the county jail, claiming he acted in a drunken stupor after a quarrel. Bob Hodge, deputy, took him into custody and interviews noted the feud between Rutledge and Martini going back years.
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J. P. Rutledge
Maple Valley
Pete Brennan
Rutledge
Charles Martini
Ada Nelson
Bob Hodge
Blackfoot
King County
Mar
Eastlake Avenue Widening Sparks Property Dispute
Property owners on Eastlake avenue dispute widening the street to 40 feet. The board of public works paused paving while negotiations continue. Claude Ramsay mediates a plan to set back the street to the desired width and let contractors proceed, with owners to settle sidewalk width.
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Eastlake Ave
Board of Public Works
Claude Ramsay
Apartment House Will Occupy Entire Block
Architect L Pomerants unveils plans for a lottery apartment house to rise on the first hill between Spring and Marlon streets and Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. Griffith Co. owner HM Griffith backs the project in the Alaska Building. The block will hold about 100 apartments with two rooms up, plus bath, kitchen, dining room, hall and central court with surrounding lawns.
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The
Star
L. Pomerants
Northwest
Pacific Coast
Spring and
Marlon Ste. Tenth and
Eleventh Ave
Ite HM
Griffith
Griffith Co
Alaska
Melody Choir Betate
New York
Reynolds Promises Action as County Prosecutor Candidate
Democrat Charlies A. Reynolds tells The Star he will earn his salary in the first months and seek to stop warrants for cigars melons candy cakes lunches meals and rent for county officials. He says he will pursue repayment and end improper expenditures and ensure funds are spent legally.
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Charlies A. Reynolds
The
Star
Byublic
William Plankinton Will Leaves Funds for Hospital
The will of the late William Plankinton provides 5 million dollars for Pastavant hospital if his son is born as a male heir. A male heir was born today to the wife of William Plankinton at Pastavant hospital in Milwaukee.
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Scrippe Telegraph Servier
Milwauker, Wie
William Plankinton
Pastavant Hospital
Train wreck blamed on river thugs in Atlantic City
Chief of Police Maxwell announced thugs may have wrecked the Sunday train to spite Bridge Tender Daniel Stewart who has faced frequent threats from assailants. The probe centers on a pattern of hate driven harassment.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Maxwell
Daniel Stewart
Stewart
War toll rises as 66 feared dead in water disaster
Report notes 14 missing after a waterway catastrophe and a total death toll that may reach 66. Authorities expect full recovery as the search continues.
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Hed
Auctioneer Heavily Fined Over Jewelry Sale Incident
A case before Police Judge Gordon involved A Krugman who earned $100 this morning in a dispute over misrepresentation of jewelry sold in a Second Street store between Spring and Senecasta. The items included a watch and an item described as a mn purchased by Smith for $7. Smith claimed the watch was gold filled but found it gold plated and set in a Regina music box. The matter was appealed.
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A. Krugman
Gordon
Spring
Senecasta
Smith
Regina
Reports of Negro region exaggerated in Piavana
Reports from Piavana on October 20 state that the earlier claims about events in the region were exaggerated and not supported by later information.
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Scripps Telegraph Service
Piavana
Negro Region
Machine ruled county convention nominating unfit candidates
The piece denounces King County Republican nominating candidates it labels unfit. It accuses County Commissioner Dan R. Abraham of illegal billings and personal expenditures charged to taxpayers, AL Rutherford as a tool of a bribed ally, Sheriff L. C. Smith of graft and gambling ties, and seven Republican legislative hopefuls named by the Civic Union. It details alleged embezzlement, false swearing, padding, and favoritism in county finances, notes soaring taxes, and criticizes a proposed courthouse lease and failed bond issues.
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Dan R. Abraham
AL Rutherford
King County Good Roads Association
P. J. Smith
L. C. Smith
The
Civic Union
George A. Piper
E. M. Williams
Joseph Lyons
Republican Machine
King County
Commission of
Board of Equalization
District Road
James P. Agnery
County Court House
George Lamping
al Peoper
Halloween Rumpus Threatens Stingy Neighbor’s Orchard
A rustic speaker vows reckonin with a stingy neighbor named Simon Kiser over apples and chores. He imagines tricks to scare the man, from jack o lanterns to wheelbarrows and a hidden pump, haunted by the moonlight and dawn.
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Simon Kiser
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Ite Geattle Lines
Frank R. Leet
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