Boalt Finds Seattle Commercial Club a Mighty Asset
In a portrait of Seattle civic life, Fred L. Boalt lauds the Commercial Club as a strong asset and explains how it outgrew its Postal Telegraph building home. He compares it with the Chamber of Commerce, notes its democratic, youthful leadership, and highlights concrete achievements from harbor policy to local agriculture lectures and public amenities.
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Boalt
Commercial Club
Seattle
Fred L. Boalt
Postal Telegraph Co
Elbow
Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Gilead
Chamber of Commercce
Harbor Island
Port Commission
California
Gambler Bay
Alaskan
State
Congress
Washington
11 Killed in Race War Down South
Militia patrolled Harrison Mississippi as whites and Negroes fought, leaving 11 dead five fatally wounded and 16 hurt. Two Negroes, Wil and Walter Jones, sparked the violence by shooting Teller Warren and firing through the town, killing ex Constable Kinsley and others before Sheriff Hammett was killed. The siege lasted eight hours with posse members wounded.
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Harrison
Mies
Hurricon
Teller Warren
Wil Jones
Walter
Frank Kinsley
Claude Freeman
Fayette
Miss
Sip! Valey Railroad
Kinsey
William
Papes Diapepsia Relieves Gas and Indigestion Fast
A bold ad extols Pape's Diapepsin as a quick harmless remedy for gas dyspepsia indigestion and gastritis. It promises fast relief within minutes and urges keeping a fifty cent case at home for meals that disagree with the stomach.
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Pape
Militia Detains Suspect After Warehouse Siege
Members of the Natchez militia detrain as a posse storms a warehouse and captures Walter Jones. Jones had lost his nerve and ceased firing. a crowd then strung him up before soldiers reached the scene.
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Natchez
Walter Jones
Walter
Things Not of This Earth How MacDowell Returned to Life
In a 1908 series of sittings in Indianapolis and New York Hamlin Garland reports contact with a psychic who channels the composer Edward MacDowell. The spirit allegedly guides a piano piece titled Hungarie and a signature appears on a slate, prompting questions about immortality and the limits of psychical research.
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MacDowell
Oliver Lodge
America
Hamlin Garland
Society For Psychical Research
Garland
Henry B. Fuller
Chicago
Indianapolis
Edward MacDowell
Fuller
Jer
Dead
New York
Mra MacDowell
Edward McDowell
Edward
Mrs. MacDowell
Germany
Washington Rep backs government rail links to Alaska
Washington representative Albert Johnson endorses a U S Canada railroad approach to connect Alaska with the United States. He favors Premier McBride of British Columbia’s airrail plan and fears Japan could cut Alaska off without a land route for defense.
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Albert Johnson
Dominion of Canada
United States
Alaska
McBride
British Columbia
Johnson
Japan
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Second Ave
Madison
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Patnie
Asly
Owl Drug Co
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Ie and
Seattle Theatre
Halley & Mitchett
Wire
Famene Waller
Hig Pyag
Doarans
Union
Reliable Credit House
Cie
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W. Maxwell
Ewing
Linden
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Angereonnett Calhoun
Puget Sound Savings & Loan Association
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