My Impressions of the Fair by A Frances Nichols
Miss Nichols recalls a six article series about her Portland trip. She praises the National Cash Register exhibit for worker benefits, details the United States government display and its life saving station, mutoscopes, a model dairy, and the Philippine exhibit. She notes the Forestry building, city lights, courtesy of guards and staff, and gratitude to The Seattle Daily Star for covering expenses.
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Portland
The
Star
A. Frances Nichols
Rainier
National Cash Register
United States
United States Life Saving Station
Topalla
Tenth Infantry
Seattle
Boston
Philadelphia
Cairo
Seattle Daily Star
Lang’s Daily Consumer Price List Items
Daily price sheet lists items including Theenatek Liquosone Peruna Castoria Pitchers Ammonia and shaving soap with various sizes. Aimed at mail and tele orders with prompt attention and a tag line that it pays to deal at Lang’s.
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Castoria
Colgate
Lang
Builders' Hardware Sale At Lang Drug Co
Colman Building on First Avenue offers thrift savings at a hardware sale. Sargent’s sash locks and beaded mortise locks feature low cash prices to build a nest egg for future needs. Spinning’s Cash Store advertises bicycles and coaster brake machines with promotional discounts.
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Sargent
Jock
Fayte
Second Avenue
Turkey Herding Prosperous Vital Industry In California
Corn ing California reports turkeys as a major livelihood in the Sacramento valley with flocks from 500 to 3000 birds valued at 2 to 9 dollars each. Turkeys roam, fed by shepherd dogs under a portable two room hut while vast shipments reach tens of thousands of dollars and a 3,000 bird band can eat a million grasshoppers daily.
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Corning
Cal
Sacramento Valley
California
Shasta County
Tehama
Glenn
Colusa
Rhode Island
Tewte
Broad word als and bands at leisure event
The passage notes wide enjoyment and learning from a leisure event. It mentions hearing and seeing many things, with the sole drawback being an inability to hear all the bands play.
Arrest of Sonny Gaskin in Ross murder case stirs White Castle links
The White Castle Iowa sheriff reports Sonny Gaskin, a discharged Keddy mill worker from Kernstown, arrested on possible involvement in the Ross murder. Officials say he traveled from Kernstown to White Castle before the crime, may have helped plan it, or could be innocent. The investigation questions whether white perpetrators used the unemployed Black workers as scapegoats.
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Sonny Gaskin
Kernstown
Ross
White Castle
Iowa
Emile Marchal
Gaskin
Drew
Castle
Gas
White Caetie
Hoss
Keriston
John D Rockefeller Opens Forest Mill for Press Humor
John D Rockefeller today opened the gates of Forest Mill to the American press for a humor fete and personally guided them about the place for an hour and a half. The event granted the joke smith freedom of the mill for the first time a convention or the public was admitted.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Forest Mill
Carpenter Henkhel Cleared in Second Burglary Charge
Henkhel, a carpenter, was acquitted of the second burglary charge after a jury found him not guilty. He had argued the tools were bought from stragglers and traded to him. He left the courthouse joyful, warning against buying tools from strangers.
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H. M. Henkhel
Henkhel
Taggart Divorce Scandal Defended by Army Officer
Brig. Gen. John F. Weston defends army life and officer morality amid a Taggart divorce scandal. He argues garrison ties foster virtue, denounces rumors, and rejects suggestions of widespread impropriety among Western posts and their families. He emphasizes trust, honor, and protective chivalry of officers toward households in frontier life.
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John F. Weston
U. 8
Washington
Posta
J. F. Weston
Child Wife Seeks Divorce in Philadelphia
Mrs Joseph Collins 14, formerly Kathe Ries, 633 McKean Street, begins divorce action in Common Pleas for desertion by Joseph Colling. The case centers on an improper marriage by a magistrate to a girl who says she never knew the man and never lived with him.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Collins
Kathe Ries
McKean Street
Bult
Court of Common Pleas
Joseph Colline
Annie Murphy
Joseph Collina
Annie Rice
Mre Murphy
Mr. Colling
Officer Clark Rewarded for Capturing Embezzler
Gus Bobba, the embezzler captured at Hotel Washington, was delivered to Chicago authorities. City Detective Clark received a $500 reward after returning from Chicago with the suspect and the cash. Clark reported most of the money was recovered and the diamond ring used in the case remained with the suspect.
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Gus Bobba
Washington
Chicago
Clark
Windy City
Bobbs
P. P. Anderson
Anderson
Arm strong committee probes insurance firms in New York
The legislature’s insurance probe met on September 6. Attorneys were denied rights before the committee and ordered to identify themselves and their representing interests. Vice President Crannin of Mutual Life testified that policy holders receive a proxy blank and that he and other officers hold many proxies.
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Crannin
The
Mutual Life
Undertakers battle over Wilkins body in Toledo case
The body of George J. Wilkins, killed in a Toledo and Detroit car crash, sparked a dispute between Detroit undertaker Albert Hicks and Toledo undertaker Al Aberle over embalming charges. Hicks sued for replevin and, after bond, was given the body. Appraisers valued the body at one cent.
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Toledo
George J. Wilkins
Detroit
Albert Hicks
al. Aberle
Hicks
Pratt
Forger Becks Fool Amateur Police and Walker Flee
John B Beck and Ewan Beck attempted to seize John G Walker a suspect in forgery. After stopping at a saloon and demanding return of $30 cashed for him they forced Walker toward Green Lake but he escaped using a bicycle. Police say the Beck brothers interfered and hindered their attempt to arrest Walker.
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John B. Beck
Ewan Beck
John G. Walker
Tuesaday
Walker
Juitioe
Becks
W. M. Grant
Grant
Green Lake
Mrs. Smith Rebuffs Vote To Favor Husband In Massachusetts
In Fall River Massachusetts on September 6 a school board deadlock persisted as Mrs Ram H. Smith refused to vote for her husband to become sub master of the high school. She said aiding his election would be a crime in her eyes and kept the four four tie unresolved all summer.
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Hubby
Fall River
Mass
Ram H. Smith
Mia Smith
Smuggling Report Flows Through Ballard Harbors
Report alleges active smuggling near Seattle at Port Madison and Magnolia Bluffs with whisky and opium landing by sloops. Goods moved by rowboats to Seattle and Interbay, while officials fail to halt the activity. Local workers blame waterfront thieves and call for stricter port oversight.
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Seattle
Port Madison
Magnolia Bluffs
Interbay
Ballard
Aged Woman Walks 275 Miles Toward Ottawa
Martha Raf, 60, walking 15 miles daily, has covered 376 miles to New York from Creston West Virginia over the Alleghenies. She aims for Ottawa Ontario to spend her remaining years. The New York Department of Outdoor provides temporary shelter while seeking transportation. Raf hopes a veteran widow pension will be granted, though she previously spent silver hoping for it.
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New York
Martha Raf
Allegheny Mountains
Creston
W. Va
Ottawa
Ont
New York Department of Outdoor
Oldier
Raf
Humboldt Arrives from Skagway with Passengers and Cargo
The steamer Humboldt of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co arrives from Skagway with 82 passengers and 25 tons of concentrates for Tacoma. Reports of a collision with an iceberg near the Treadwell mine are denied by Captain Baughman who says the vessel was barely scratched. The ship planed to depart on schedule Thursday night. The Robert Dollar of the L H Gray fleet is due Wednesday night from San Francisco.
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Humboldt
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Skagway
Way Ports
Tacoma
Treadwell
Baughman
Robert Dollar
L. H. Gray Fleet
San Francisco
Senator and Oregon Sail for Nome With Cement Asphalt
A cargo of cement asphalt and general merchandise is loaded aboard the steamers Senator and Oregon bound for Nome and scheduled to depart on Thursday.
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Senator
Oregon
Nome
Poisoning case and other briefs from September news
Telegraph briefs report Mrs. Mary Brockwell, who killed three children by poisoning, was sentenced for life today. Also noted are Kate B Jones a potential president candidate for the Women’s Relief Corps, Bishop Spalding improving, Dr. Salmon resigning, John Thompson killing his wife and father in law, Peter Achton’s bid for help for his son, Peter Ackton case, and Charles Tucker’s murder trial opening in Weston.
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Paducah
Mary Brockwell
Ife
Denver
Kate B Jones
Ilion
Women’s Relief Corps
G. EF. Friable
San Francisco
Ida Berghouse Sues David Berghouse for Divorce in Yukon
Ida Berghouse filed a complaint on Wednesday seeking a divorce from David Berghouse after alleging he ran off and left her practically penniless in the Yukon country.
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Yukon
Ida Berghouse
David Berghourse
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Marion
al Ag
Suet
Imperial Tailoring Co
John D
Taggart
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Probe Insurance
Arm
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Bishop Spalding
Peoria
Washington, D. C
D. EB. Salmon
Bureau of Animal Industry
Mobile
Ala
John Thompson
Evergreen
Belle
J. B. Cooper
Kenosha
Wis
Peter Achton
Charles Tucker
Mabel Page
Weston
Supreme Court
Heywood Bros
BIG Monarch Shoe & Clothing CO
Bet, University and Union
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