Plot to blow up Irish office and treasury halted in London
Scotland Yard announced a counterplot by Sinn Fein and Bolsheviks to ram two taxi cabs packed with explosives into the Irish office in Monpoly Whitehall and the treasury building. Aimed to trigger mass chaos with armed attackers, the plan was linked to others tied to Lord Mayor MacSwiney’s hunger strike. Police claim several arrests and ongoing inquiries.
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Scotland Yard
Treasury
London
Sinn Fenners
Wall St
New York
Financial District
MacSwiney
Brixton
Evening Standard Oday
Mac ‘Swiney
Irish Office
Monpoly
Whitehall
British Cabinet to Consider Ireland Riots and Reprisals
Reports from Dublin say steps are under way to end reprisals amid West Clare threats to burn Kilkee Kilbrush Carrigahole Doonbeg and Kilmihill and other villages. Seven wounded in a Dublin riot as troops and mob clash and Belfast sees scattered rioting.
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London
Dublin
Preas
Leaflee
Kilkee
Q Kilkee
Kilbrush
Carrigahole
Doonbeg
Kilmihill
West Clare
Athenry
County Galway
Belfast
Dublin Castle
Hot Scrap Looms for G.O.P. Chairmanship
Lively contest for the state chairmanship gathers around the Republican State Central Committee meeting at the Butler hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Contenders include Charles Hebberd of Spokane Harry E. Gilham and H. A. Walker of Seattle.
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Republican State Central Committee
Butler Hotel
Charles Hebberd
Spokane
Harry E. Gilham
8. A. Walker
Seattle
World Series dates altered by national commission
The national commission, meeting in Chicago, changed the World Series schedule. The first game will be in Brooklyn on October 6, with games also on October 6 and 7 before moving to the American League city that wins the pennant. If needed, games 8 and 9 occur in Bryn Mawr and the National League city respectively, with Game 9 slated for October 16.
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Chicago
National Commission
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Bryn
Prices drop across Midwest as auto firms cut costs
Willys Overland cuts car prices by 100 to 200 dollars. Studebaker also slashes prices by 125 to 200 dollars. Chicago hotel men plan to curb living costs amid price discrepancies cited by Russell J. Poole. Potatoes sell wholesale 1.50 to 2 a hundred pounds. fruit and tomatoes near prewar levels. Seven lake steamers head to Michigan to speed housing construction. building delegates plan January meeting to craft a national program.
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Chicago
Russell J. Poole
Poole
Middle West
Studebaker Corporation
Stewart Motor Company
Hudson Motor
Michigan
Lithuania aids Bolsheviki amid Archangel executions
Archangel authorities executed fifteen alleged participants in an anti soviet plot. Lithuania called on patriots to arm for defense against a possible Polish invasion. A separate dispatch reports Lithuania pledging to allow Bolshevik troops to use its territory to attack Poland under a Russia Lithuania peace treaty.
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London
Archangel
Moscow
Riga
Washington
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
United States
Baltic
Plot to Throw 1919 World Series Involving White Sox Revealed
Investigations by Comiskey and Ban Johnson led to grand jury probes into alleged fixing of the 1919 World Series. The narrative outlines a supposed plan to bribe White Sox players with $100,000 to lose to Cleveland, with payments staged around the first two games.
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Cincinnati
Commiskey
John MocGraw
New York Granta
National Baseball Commission
Brooklyn
Cleveland Indiana
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland
White Sox
Believe Cure for Leprosy Found Promising
Honolulu reports apparent success using chaulmoogra oil in treating chronic leprosy. Four months announce expansion of work to Kalaupapa leper settlement. Thirty six patients parolees from the receiving station will be observed for one year under parole terms.
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Honolulu
Kalaupapa
T. H
C W Carkeek Seeks Divorce Amid Frame-Up Claims
Charles W. Carkeek, president of the Master Builders' association of Meattlio, accuses his wife Anna J. Carkeek in a divorce case claiming she engaged another man and endured a frame-up. He says a stranger entered their Ballard home on September 20 with three others. she fled barefoot to a neighbor. About 50 000 in assets are involved.
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Charles W. Carkeek
Master Builders’ Association of Meattlio
A. Wy
Bia
Anna J. Carkeek
Tle
Mra. Carkeek
Carkeek
Wiest Ave
N. W
Ballard
Singer Sues Ex-Husband for Slander in 1918 Remark
Mary L. Singer sues ex husband Thomas Singer for 90000 dollars alleging slander in Judge Walter M. French's court. The claim states a remark on October 15 1918 that she lived with him six months before they were married. Singer denies the remark.
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Mary L. Singer
Thomas Singer
Walter M. French
Karl G. Rice
Charles& Gleason
Singer
Three Alaska Planes Lost Raise, Fear On Expedition
Aita Sept 28. The fate of three U S aerial expedition planes over Alaska causes grave concern as no word has been received for days. Plane No 4 led by Lieut Rosas Kirkpatrick with pilot J C English reached Edmonton from Allia B C and will depart for Saskatoon on Thursday.
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Edmonton
Aita
United States
Alaska
Allia
B. C
Toe Banks
Lieut
Rosas Kirkpatrick
J. C. English
Saskatoon
Seattle Bar Association Dinner Meeting Wednesday
The Seattle Bar association will hold its quarterly meeting and dinner at Blanc's cafe Wednesday at 6 30 p m. After the meal a vote on affiliating with the State Bar and a new constitution will take place. Senator Jones will address the gathering on the shipping bill.
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Seattle Bar Association
Blanc’s Cafe
State Bar Association
Jones
G O P Orators Set for Seattle Address by Nobina
After speaking in Spokane on October 2 Col Raymond Nobina will deliver an address in Seattle under the republican state committee auspices. Prominent GOP figures to be heard include Senators Kenyon and Borah former Beveridge Hede Brumbaugh and Dr Charles W Flint of Cornell University with date and hour to be announced.
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G.O.P. Oratory
Spokane
Raymond Nobina
Seattle
Republican State Committee
Committee
United States
William Squire Kenyon
William E. Borah
Idaho
A. J. Beveridge
Indiana
J. Adam Hede
Minnesota
M. G. Brumbaugh
Pennsylvania
Charles W. Flint
Cornell University
Cement Trust Delays Halt Seattle Paving Projects
Judge William Hickman Moore, head of the council streets and sewers committee, said Seattle’s paving programs are stalled due to the cement trust failing to deliver material. He accused the trust of diverting cement to state projects and backing the Carlyon road bill.
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Seattle
Cement Trust
William Hickman Moore
Council
Moore
Services to Be Held for Joseph Harter
Christian Science funeral services will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Fremont chapel of the Home Undertaking Co. for Joseph Garfield Harter who died Monday at Swedish hospital. He was chief clerk in the construction department of the Pacific Telephone Co. He lived at 7037 16th Ave. N. FE.
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Christian Science
Fremont Chapel
Home Underarking Co
Joseph Garfield Harter
Swedish Hospital
Harter
Pacific Telephone Co
16Th Ave
N. FE
Sunrise Surprise After Beach Car Ride
Andy Martinez rode to the beach with two strangers to watch the sunset. The strangers took his watch, leaving him to wake in time to see the sunrise above San Francisco.
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Nyway
San Francisco
Andy Martinez
Missing British sailor Harold Cussold sought in Plymouth case
Harold Cussold a British sailor who disappeared after being paid off the steamship Endicott last April is being sought by the British and Foreign Sailors Society. He is 21, 5 feet 10 inches, fair, blue eyed. Information to special deputy customs collector Mary Blackwood at the federal building. Burney Talley 25 a Lindberg lumberworker disappeared September 3. father in law C G George 1733 W. Geth St seeks him.
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Harold Cussold
Endicott
British and Foreign Sailors’ Society
London
Plymouth
England
Blackwood
Federal Building
Climsold
Burney Talley
Lindberg
C. G. George
W. Geth St
French Airman First In Race At Etampes
Sadi Lecointe won the 186.4 mile Gordon Bennett aerial race at Etampes France with a time of 1 hour 6 minutes 28 seconds. Capt Ragnam of England was set to fly again later seeking a faster time. American pilots Howard Rinehart and Rudolph Schroeder completed portions before dropping out due to engine trouble among other entrants Kirsch and De Romanet also failed to finish. The event carried a 10 000 franc Bennett cup and smaller prizes with overall title stakes for America England or France to claim the cup this year.
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Etamper
France
Sadi Lecointe
Gordon Hennett
Ragnam
England
Lecointe
Kirsch
de Romanet
le Cointe
Howard Rinehart
Schroeder
Romanet
Rinehart
H Rinehart
Rudolph Schroeder
Women at Jersey polls vote in first state wide primary
TRENTON New Jersey September 28 With women at the polls for the first time voters chose Republican and Democratic nominees for Congress the state senate the house and numerous county offices in the statewide primary today.
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Jersey
Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Congress
House of
Funeral Draws Thousands to Olive Thomas Memorial
A massive crowd attended the funeral of Olive Thomas in New York at St Thomas Church. The service was led by Dr Ernst M Stires with Jack Pickford present, while police struggled to maintain order as mourners surged at the church doors and along Fifth Avenue. The coffin was surrounded by pink orchids and flowers, including pieces from the Ziegfeld Follies and Mary Pickford, and camera shutters clicked as the procession moved to the hearse.
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New York
Olive Thomas
Paris
St. Thomas’ Church
Fifth Ave
Ernst M. Stires
Jack Pickford
Thomas
Mia. Thormas B. Vankirk
Miss Thomas
James Duffy
Owen Moore
Mary Pickford
Morrison Pinher
Mixa Thomas
Miss Pickford
Sister Mary
Young Special Agent Koleski Found Dead Near Aberdeen
Aberdeen Sept 28 a search uncovered the body of Nicolas Koleski a young special squad officer found blindfolded and shot in a shallow grave south of Aberdeen His remains were in a woods area searched after he trailed alleged whisky operators He had worked two weeks in plain clothes for the police and had made several arrests marshalling in court prior to his death
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Aberdeen
Nicolas Koleski
South Aberdeen
Koleski
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Bureau of Missing Relatives
Miss Thoman
SLAIM
Oy Sewlek Penpieal Relief Committee
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