Roadhouse Deaths Stir Town After Fatal Joyride
A car plowed through a Georgetown roadhouse bridge killing Goldie Porter and Mabel Johnson. The driver, drunk, died later. two other victims hospitalized. Coroner set inquest for tomorrow. The scene links roadhouse profits to the deadly crash and mourning mothers.
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Georgetown
Goldie Porter
Mabel Johnson
Roadhouse
Roadhouse Cash Register
Gay
Mise Mabel Johnson
Mise Goldie Porter
Miraculous L ourpe For Many In Car
A street car filled with sightseers bound for the Exposition crashed on 14th avenue near Wallingford Avenue, demolishing a Mexican restaurant and injuring about 50 people. The motorman and conductor were hurt but survived. James Hull died an hour after. Ambulances rushed the injured to Emergency Hospital as witnesses described a chaotic scene and a great crowd gathered outside.
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Wallingford Av
James Hull
East Tacoma
P. F. Winslow
E. W. Melendy
A. W. Lundborg
Woman Writes of Love but Sues for Divorce
In San Francisco on September 24, Mabel Porter Pitts Carey, a writer of love poems, is accused by her husband James A. Carey of finding an affinity in C. Le Roy Childa, a San Francisco News Letter literary figure with wife and two children. He counters her cruelty charge with a claim she follows Ferdinand P. Earle’s affinity fad, citing details about times places and soul mates. Mrs Carey authored verses about love and forgetting bindings and remorse.
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San Francisco
Mabel Porter Pitts Carey
C. Leroy Childa
James A. Carey
Ferdinand P. Earle
Bay Cities
Carey
the Times
Placea
Bellows in Serious Condition After Electric Shock
H. Bellows, electrician in the city lighting department, received a heavy electric current from a live wire yesterday afternoon. He is in Beattie General Hospital with serious injuries and burns. Bellows resides at 932 29th Avenue.
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H. Bellows
City Lighting Department
Beattie General Hospital
Bellows
29Th
Sheriff to Close Georgetown Roadhouses After Fatal Accident
Maj. John Stringer, chief deputy, says Sheriff Hodge will enforce the law in Georgetown if local officials fail. He cites a fatal Thursday automobile crash and accuses roadhouses of allowing liquor sales after hours and to minors. Stringer warns closures and jail for violators if authorities do not act.
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Hodge
Georgetown
Anarohie
John Stringer
California
Prishe
Maj. Stringer
Stringer
Sheriff's Office
LaFollette Refuses To Be Read Out Of Republican Party
Senator LaFollette in LaFollette's Weekly editorial rejects Taft's claim to expel Republicans who voted against the tariff bill. He says no individual, even the president, can eject representatives from the party and that voters retain the power to decide the party and tariff issues. The piece criticizes Taft for backing Tawney and calling for downward revision in party promises.
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My United Press
Madison
Wis
LaFollette
Taft
Winona
Republican Party
Tawney
Taft to Speak in Mormon Tabernacle Salt Lake City
President Taft altered his schedule to speak at the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City Saturday morning, instead of Sunday. Ministers criticized the change but did not influence his decision to keep Sundays free from official duties. The Taft party, aboard the Mayflower, was due to arrive in Salt Lake City later. Senator Smoot joined the entourage at Helper en route.
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Price
Utah
Preat- Taft
Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake
Jentile
Taft
Salt Lake City
Helper
Smoot
Japanese poachers found not guilty in Alaska trial
Thirty Japanese seal poachers arrested on the west coast months earlier were acquitted by a federal court jury in Juneau. They were turned over to immigration officials for deportation. Attorneys Ray of Valdez and Maloney of this city defended the defendants.
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United Press
Juneau
Alaska
Cewt
Ray
Valdez
Maloney
Dying P F Winslow and Many Hurt in Seattle Area
A list of injuries follows a disaster near Seattle with P F Winslow severely injured and Mrs T M Hornada and others sustaining cuts, bruises, head or neck injuries. Names include Helen Cardwell of Portland, Annie Harrington of Maple Valley, Milton Barnes Ballard and many more affected across Washington and nearby regions.
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P. F. Winslow
Seattle
T. M. Hornada
Helen Cardwell
Portland Ore
N. E
Ernest Winchell
Greenwood
E. F. Scholl
Oakland
Cal
T. L. Walker
Dighton
Kan
J. A. Houseman
Shelton
Wash
Donna
A. P. Schofield
Council Bluffs
E. J. Harrington
Maple Valley
Georgia
Lyle Harrington
L. G. Connant
Auburn
Yeomans
Fairbanks
B. R. Matthews
Carl Castle
Napavine
P. J. Cardwell
Harrington
Michael Mayer
Uniontown
L. R. Abraham
S. P. H. Jolly
Joliet
P. E. Rainey
Milton Barnes
Ballard
P. D. McClund
Okeen
Okla
P. D. McClund, Jr
West 63Rd
Aidele McClund
John McClund
Okkeen
Walter Horner
Herkeley
Ernest Hernsiche
Leavenworth
William Watson
Ar. S
L. Jean Conant
J. M. Messinger
Frank Dovey
Vancouver
B. C
A. Johnson
Portland
Ore
William Mayer
Cora Dickinson
Arlington
Nellie Fairbanks
Walter Fairbanks
R. Dayton
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Femain
Ewangead
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We &m Incorporated
CeeRe
Axel Ander
Waa Reat Pog
Vondl Attle General Hospital
Christine Anderson
Fred Lindsay
City Hospital
Inquest
Anna M Brown
Kelso, Wash
Oast Lake
Robert Hazard
The
New York Press
Frank Hull
East
Tacoma
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