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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 31, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago In a move that shocked observers, the Spokane prosecutor charged Della Olds, 29, with first-degree murder in the shooting of her husband, Dr. W.H. …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 29, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Dr. W.H. Olds, 60, a pioneer physician in Spokane, was shot and killed in his own home – and police didn’t have to look …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 27, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Moses Brinkerhoff, one of the first conductors on the Northern Pacific railroad and oldest continuously serving railroad man in the U.S., died at his …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 26, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The Case of the Missing Lawyer was getting even more mysterious.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 24, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 50 years ago The Spokesman-Review’s movie critic, Ed Costello, was not exactly thrilled with “Rome Adventure” at the Fox Theater.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 23, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A petition was circulating to change Spokane’s form of municipal government – again.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 20, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The body of Antone Warger, 66, a Spokane landscape gardener, was discovered May 13, 1912, washed up at Seven Mile Bridge on the Spokane …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 19, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 50 years ago A float in the 1962 Lilac Festival-Armed Forces Parade featured a fire-breathing dragon – maybe a little too fire-breathing.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 18, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A pair of Spokane boys, Martin Denine and Glen Hemingway, hauled their home-built biplane to the top of a hill near Millwood and made …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 17, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The American flag and the “red flag” of the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) were creating controversy in Spokane in two different ways.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 16, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The recently fired county physician for Spokane County appeared before the county commissioners and said he intended to “fight you to the finish.”
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 15, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 75 years ago The “fastest bomber in the world” was at Spokane’s Felts Field en route to Langley, Va.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 14, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 75 years ago A detective was amazed to see a man walking down Trent Avenue carrying a load that only Superman could manage.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 13, 2012 in Idaho on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s female teachers were asked what they thought of a controversial proposal at Wellesley College to fine college girls who refused to “cut out …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 12, 2012 in Idaho on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Harold Stanley, a well-known resident of Opportunity, was fed up with a neighborhood cat raiding his henhouse. So he chased the cat under a …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 11, 2012 in Idaho on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Two Colville tribal chiefs returned from a trip to Washington, D.C., where they asked for – and received, in some cases – help with …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 10, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s postmaster made a shocking announcement: Sunday mail delivery would be halted.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 9, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Paul Worst, 26, the proprietor of the Lidgerwood Pharmacy, carefully removed his coat and hat, placed them on the Post Street bridge, climbed over …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 8, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A Spokane man bought a pistol from a secondhand store and used it to shoot a hotel landlady in what he claimed was self-defense.
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 7, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 50 years ago The Greater Spokane Music and Allied Arts Festival (which has evolved into today’s Musicfest Northwest) was in its 17th year in 1962. It opened …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 6, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The Rev. Fred Taylor of the Olivet Baptist Church gave his sermon on the evils of swearing. He said it was becoming impossible to …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 5, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Chinese girls were being sold in the U.S. for $800 as “domestic slaves,” according to testimony in a Spokane courtroom. 1
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 4, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane merchants and manufacturers were elated over the success of “Home Industry Week,” which is what today we would call “Buying Local Week.”
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 3, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spirit Lake, Idaho, announced that it would hold the Spirit Lake Chautauqua in the summer of 1912 – a Chautauqua being a cross between …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
May 2, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A Hillyard brakeman was under arrest for killing an elderly man during an argument – although he stoutly maintained that four men held them …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
April 30, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago J.B. Lister of Spokane wrote a letter to the editor complaining about an issue that today we would call “secondhand smoke.”
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
April 29, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Juvenile court Judge J. Stanley Webster lashed out at two Child Welfare League women who had been appointed as special police officers. He said …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
April 26, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 50 years ago A visiting speaker gave a Secretaries’ Day talk at the Davenport Hotel, outlining the qualities of an outstanding secretary, circa 1962. 1
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
April 25, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A Russian lumberjack named Charles Aleck walked into the offices of the Spokane Daily Chronicle, approached city editor Edward Hiram Rothrock, asked, “Are you …
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Jim Kershner’s this day in history
April 23, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s police commissioner summarily removed the “stars” (badges) from two “special police women” after they gave an interview about the city’s “social evil” problem … 1
