Fourth of July tragedy and Humboldt ship gold arrival
The record notes 1912 Fourth of July deaths at 41 versus 1909 with 163. In Seattle seven injured and no fatalities. Humboldt Steamship Co ship arrived from Fairbanks and Dawson with 500000 in gold and 25000 in furs, plus 116 passengers and 15000 cases of canned salmon. A local tale tells of Bill Jones fleeing a bandit, then heroically helping save the stagecoach and gold.
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Seattle
Humboldt
Humboldt Steamship Company
Alaska
Fairbanks
Dawson
Notice to Seattle Star Subscribers on Delivery Service
Readers are urged to report delivery issues or substitutions to ensure prompt service. Contact the circulation department at the provided phone number for timely attention and resolution.
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Seattle Start
Seattle Star
Teest
Mixed Northwest Local News Fragments Show Crime and Civic Notes
Eugene report describes a coneeved theft response with lashes and restraint. Oakland gossip follows with a party plan, while a Seattle council clash over a street car stop rule surfaces. University exams and a kindergarten plan anchor local happenings alongside electrical industry meetings and Fourth of July safety efforts.
Jakey Miners Face Court Before Picketing Ban
Striking miners at Renton coal mines must show cause before Judge Crashmen Friday why they should not be enjoined from picketing. The Renton union is not recognised in the state and the company sought to appoint deputies, but Hob Hodge refused and fired two Renton deputies who would follow orders. Hodge urged miners to keep order as they protest their union’s status.
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Jakey Purth
Renton
Stainers
Hob Hodge
Hodge
Air Fleet Seen Transforming Future War
Aldershot England September 12 Air power shown during British maneuvers signals a major triumph for the aerial fleet. Military experts call the height and speed attained incalculable and say the fleet's value in war will be indeterminable over time.
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Aldershot
Eng
Money trust myth denied by Reynolds in Detroit address
Geo M Reynolds head of the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago told the Bankers association in Detroit that the money trust is a myth. He argued that concentrated power exists due to national banking laws and that bankers sought to diffuse money power but the people would not permit it.
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Detroit
Mich
Trust Company
Bankers’ Association
Geo. M. Reynolds
Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago
Reynolds
Pawed by mad horse in Kansas town
Karl Freeland is knocked to the floor and mauled by a horse driven mad by a mysterious illness sweeping the area. He was saved by a nearby worker who pulled him from under the animal. In Paris, new statistics show women at work rising by 850000 in five years with 39 percent of professions now headed by women.
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Larned
Kas
Karl Freeland
Freeland
Paris
France
Boy Survives Fall After Slipping From Train in Tipton
TIPTON Ga Sept 12 4F Past asleep Paul Inman 12 years old walked from a swiftly moving Atlantic Coast Line train here and the shock of the fall failed to awaken him he did not know of the peril he had survived until aroused by a party of searchers He bore no bruises.
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Tipton
Paul Inman
Atlantic Coast Line
Eight-Year-Olds Held on Highway Robbery Charges
In Joplin Missouri Earl Hurst and Frank McDonald both eight years old will be tried in juvenile court for highway robbery after confessing to four holdups in Carthage area. Victims included a six-year-old boy Robert Saylor and Mary Doris. About $14 was stolen, with some spent on a rifle slingshots and food.
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Joplin
Earl Hurst
Frank McDonald
Carthage
Robert Saylor
Mary Doris
Doris
Chauffeur Fuller Charged With Speeding In Fatal Crash
The father of six year old Vivian Hedstrom says Chauffeur F. W. Fuller was speeding at 24th Avenue and Madison Street when he ran down the child. Fuller reportedly did not take the injured girl to the hospital as previously reported.
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F. W. Fuller
Vivian Hedstrom
24Th Av
Madison St
Hedstrom
Fuller
Protest Over Bayreuth Ticket Prices Draws Fire
Berlin observers condemn Bayreuth seat scalping with third row seats at $6 and stalls at $45, prices soaring to $63, and a $450 ticket resold from a $25 series. Officials warn of police intervention amid Parsifal monopoly backlash. Promoters deny knowledge of illegal trafficking, citing resale bans.
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Berlin
Public Markets Westlake Shopping List
A fragmented listing from Public Markets Westlake shows items with prices including olives, sardines, anchovies, salmon, flour, prunes, apples, potatoes, peaches, corn, macaroni or spaghetti, soap, jelly, honey, and comb items. It reads like a late era grocery catalog with frequent decimals and shorthand.
Grocery Prices From a Local Market Ad
A sanitized cut of a historical grocery ad lists items with prices per unit including halibut two pounds at a nickel and various fish like salmon and rock cod, along with beans oats grapes and cheese. Quantities and prices are inconsistently spaced but reflect a mid century sale listing.
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N. Y
Cornerstone of Low Price Groceries Prominently Listed
Local ad lists a wide range of discounted goods including flour at 1.10 per sack, oats, canned tomatoes and salmon, pineapple, cocoa, prunes, coffee, halibut, shrimp, pickles and olives. Prices per pound or can appear beside each item, signaling a grocery sale or circular.
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Asenay
Haleony
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Leeach
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Matin Fleer
Moor
Odda
North Ife
the Real Bargain Center
Son Marche
Second Avenue
Pike Street
Union Street
Bill Jones
Billi Jones
Old Hill
Biene
Bill
Gerton Braley
Eugene, Or
F. J. Schofield
James Doughty
King
San Francisco
Patrick Brady
Brown
Popanns
Ald Brady
Pat
Oakland
Cal
Henry Brown Masher
Mabel George
Mabel
General Sherman
Meridan
Kennington
University of Washington
Automobile Club of
Griffiths
University Heights School
Northwestern Electric Light & Power Company
Portland
Otto von Souder
L. E. Luman
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Bayreuth
Westlake
Frederick & Nelson
China
Chinato Farm Secting
Warner’s
Warner
Women’s Cotton Union Suits
Serge
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