Mysterious Sailor Delivers Newsletters to Seattle Postmaster
John Sailor, intent on informing Seattle postmaster George F. Russell about current events, sent weekly bundles of news clippings for two years. Russell sought help from the sheriff after bulky letters resumed, storing them as evidence in case Sailor was prove troublesome.
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George F. Russell
Seattle
California
John Sailor
John
Russell
Sheriffs Office
Biblical flood scene as runaway wagon hits hydrant in city
A runaway team crashed into a high power water hydrant in the business section, soaking a crowded area and driving residents for cover as San Francisco reports a deluge-like scene.
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San Francisco
Police chase ends with burglar leaping through window
In San Francisco on September 1 Miss Ida Musco vitz, a large Russian domestic, chased a burglar with a ps and rolling pin. The thief leaped through a window to escape, losing his balance and escaping with injuries.
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San Francisco
Ida Muscovitz
Undertaker Wives Panel Rules on Yamamoto Death
In Lodi California on September 6 twelve women jurors all wives of undertakers ruled by verdict that Hide Yamamoto a Japanese man died due to accidental cause.
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Lodi
Cal
Hide Yamamoto
Traffic halted by escaped tar antulas and centipedes
In Los Angeles on September 6 a procession of tar antulas and centipedes escaped from an insectorium. The fleeing insects halted traffic on Granday as horses balked and two women became hysterical before attendants captured the fugitives.
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Los Angeles
Granday
Judge Ronald to address engineers meeting in Chamber of Commerce
Judge J. T. Ronald will speak at a Pacific Northwest Society of Engineers gathering in the Chamber of Commerce room this evening. Col. H. B. Moon, former Fort Lawton commandant, died in Washington, D. C., this week. word came to Haga A. Moon of Portoloy Park.
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Pacific Northwest Society of Engineers
Chamber of Commerce
J. T. Ronald
Mexico
H. B. Moon
Fort Lawton
Tenth Infantry
Washington, D. C
H. A. Moon
Pautleroy Park
Turnbull Loses Assembly Bid as Magazine Plant Burns
Rupert B. Turnbull, defeated candidate for the assembly, faced misfortune as his magazine plant Scenic America burned at Ocean Park while election officers counted him out.
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Pasdena
Cal
Rupert B. Turnbull
Assembly
Scenic America
Ocean Park
Riverside Balloon Incident and Local Notices
Riverside recounts a captain balloon at Ocean Park fire that anchored to a trolley line causing 20 minutes of traffic stoppage. Los Angeles reports two chess players interrupted by firemen and a sarcastic police directive. Oregon and Seattle notes cover bankruptcy petition for Maple Valley Lumber, a retired officer arrest prank, Snoqualmie pass highway data, and Great Northern business expansion.
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Riverside
Cal
Ocean Park
Los Angeles
Special Sale on Hair, Skin, and Personal Care Items
A local advertisement lists specials on beauty and hygiene products including Fau de Quinine Danderine Sutherland's Hair Grower Capillaris Graves' Tooth Powder Sanital Tooth Paste Pebeco Tooth Paste Oriental Cream Sanitol Cream Woodbury's and Peroxide Cream Holmes' Frostilla Piper's Extracts Mary Garden Perfume Squibb's Talcum Fuller s Earth Bathasweet Mum Twenty Mule Team Borax Witch Hazel and more with discounts ranging from 6¢ to $1.49 per ounce or bottle.
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Danderine
Sutherland's Hair Grower
Capillaris
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