Rent Hogs Get Mayor's Goat
City officials study tenant complaints filed with Mayor Fitzgerald by Harry E. B. Smith about rent hikes and repeated leasing. Examples cite increases from 20 to 30 dollars, 25 to 37.50, and 50 to 75, with heating costs blamed. He vows an ordinance to curb profiteering and revoke leases, aiming to flush out profiteers.
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Fitzgerald
Harry EB. Smith
King County Air Price Committee
Smith
26Th Ave
14Th Ave
Dismissal Motions In Whisky Theft Case Heard In County Court
Hearings on motions to quash indictments over the disappearance of whisky from Judge Clay Allen's courtroom opened in superior court before Judge J M Ralston. Attorneys argued over grand jury legality, stenographer Williams presence, and immunity issues as multiple defendants seek dismissal and access to grand jury minutes.
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Clay Allen
J. M. Ralston
Claniam County
Superior Court
Hugh Caldwell
A. D. Williams
John Dore
Dore
Caldwell
J. H. Lyons
W. W. Conner
A. Martin
Martin
Lyons
Lyona
Williams
King County
John C. Higgins
T. H. Patterson
Williama
Allen
Matt Starwich
Stewart Campbell
Fred A. Brown
Roy Murdock
Oscar Springer
Palliff George Gay
Charles G. Heifner
F. G. Nichols
W. W. Connor
Injured Boy Shows Slight Improvement After Bicycle Accident
William Calvert Jr son of William Calvert president of the San Fishing and Packing Company is improving slightly at Seattle General Hospital after a bicycle accident Wednesday. The auto driver remains unknown and efforts to locate him have failed. Northwestern cities have been notified.
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William Calvert, Jr
Wilam Calvert
San Fishing & Packing Co
Seattle
Buy Roosevelt Memorial By Purchasing Sagamore Hill
Rev. Roy H. Campbell of Pilgrim Congregational church urged the Young Men's Republican club at the Army and Navy club rooms to purchase Sagamore Hill as a Roosevelt memorial. He said the heart throbs of the American people were represented and personified in Theodore Roosevelt.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Roy H. Campbell
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Young Men's Republican Club
Army and Navy Club
Campbell
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt Memorial
War spending could rebuild New York City twice
Estimated government munition outlay during the war would fund rebuilding New York City twice, highlighting scale of wartime expenditures.
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Uncle Sam
New York City
Stolen $60,000 Found Near Quebec
A satchel of more than $60,000 stolen from the Ocean Limited near Quebec was found in a house at St. Pierre. Peter Bercovich, counsel for Lloyds, located the cash as insurance on safe delivery. About $10,000 remains missing.
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Quebec
Que
United Press
Raihway's Ocean Limited
St. Pierre
Here
Peter Bercovich
Lloyd's
Street car drags woman ten feet on Mercer Street
Miss Prue Dumply was knocked down and dragged about ten feet by a Mercer streetcar at First Avenue and Madison Street. Motorman C. M. A. Kelly applied brakes but could not stop in time, leaving Dumply with a possible fractured rib.
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Mercer St
First Ave
Madison St
C. M.akelly
Valley St
Miss Dumply
Man Held Over Auto Theft In City Jail
Charles Fisher aged 24 is jailed on a charge of stealing an automobile owned by George M Haslan of 122 West Boston Street. Fisher was arrested at 12th Avenue and Madison Street while driving the car Friday morning by Officers L Graham and J R Moore. The vehicle contained a spare tire a spotlight and other equipment. The car was taken from a nearby garage.
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Charles Fisher
George M. Haslan
Boston St
Fisher
12Th Ave
Madison St
L. Graham
J. R. Moore
Haslan’s
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