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  April 12, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago F.J. Kline, the wealthy president and manager of the Lamb-Davis Lumber Co., was sent to the Eastern Washington Hospital for the Insane after a …

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  April 11, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The seniors of Lewis and Clark High School were seeking the loan of a baby.

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  April 10, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A “pretty Finnish maiden,” Miss Fulda Aarl, 20, and her brother John, 10, disembarked from a train in tiny Winona, Wash., in the Palouse …

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  April 7, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The Chicago Grand Opera arrived in Spokane to present its spectacular production of “Thais” by Massenet at the Auditorium Theater.

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  April 6, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Elizabeth H. Christian, the first female lobbyist in the state, filed a detailed expense account of her stint in Olympia – and The Spokesman-Review’s …

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  April 5, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A “maniac” named A. Carlson had vowed that every time he met a “rabbit, a lion or a woman,” he must kill them. 1

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  April 4, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The Northern Pacific Railroad gathered together “40 Negro waiters, all of whom boast vocal accomplishments,” to entertain the passengers on its North Coast Limited … 1

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  April 3, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Fred “Pug” Miller, 17, was the leader of a gang of boys who stole a motorcycle from a garage and spent all night on …

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  March 31, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago A mystery surrounding the death of Myrtle Moode, 22, a stenographer, was solved – but only partially.

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  March 30, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The Spokesman-Review editorialized over the importance of music as a vital factor in building a city. Commerce and business are important, said the editors, …

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  March 29, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The divorce trial of M.C. King, a pioneer Spokane lawyer, and his wife revealed plenty of provocative details about the family’s bizarre domestic life.

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  March 28, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane postal officials acted on a tip and opened up a parcel mailed by William Milson, 40, of Spokane, to President Woodrow Wilson.

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  March 27, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Belle Baker, a vaudeville comedienne who was appearing at the Orpheum, didn’t have an easy path to the stage.

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  March 26, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago “Little Rock Charlie,” aka Charlie Floyd, exhibited “the coolness of a dime novel desperado” in two daring robberies.

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  March 24, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago A crowd estimated at 10,000 lined the banks of Spokane River to watch a group of young athletes – slathered with goose grease against …

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  March 23, 2013 in City on Page A7 From our archives, 100 years ago About 80 Japanese residents of Spokane were preparing a big show at a makeshift theater in Trent Alley: a melodrama titled “Kilaleatome.”

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  March 22, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s commissioner of public safety, Z.E. Hayden, made a startling proposal: that the city’s police force should no longer enforce morality on the city.

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  March 21, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane was planning a massive celebration for a landmark event: the arrival of a new “transcontinental” passenger train into Spokane from the east.

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  March 20, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago What caused John Bozinski, 14, to froth at the mouth, tear off his clothes and become what police described as “a regular maniac”? 1

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  March 17, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago One of Spokane’s most prominent Irishmen was not wearing any green on St. Patrick’s Day 1913.

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  March 16, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago A 63-year-old Spokane widower, H.C. Parker, took out a want-ad for a wife and received more than 100 applications.

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  March 15, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 year ago A committee of the Commercial Club of Coeur d’Alene was pursuing an intriguing idea: forming a new state from the northern counties of Idaho.

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  March 14, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s first all-woman jury “did not attempt to keep back tears when they witnessed one of the tragedies of real life, a mother sentenced …

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  March 13, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s park system acquired a new jewel: Minnehaha Park.

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  March 11, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Noted black educator Booker T. Washington was the keynote speaker at the Spokane Chamber of Commerce meeting.

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  March 10, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The Sunday entertainment section cast a skeptical eye on the newest moving picture fad: talkies.

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  March 9, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago “You, tall boy, can you walk properly in a skirt? Try this one on and let me see you walk across the room.”

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  March 8, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane University, a new institute of higher learning, announced that it had bought a tract of land in the Spokane Valley.

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  March 7, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A new springtime carnival, pageant and civic celebration was being organized in Spokane.

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  March 6, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane police Officer Fred E. Goddard, 29, was in the Logan Bar, showing off his new Colt automatic revolver. He was demonstrating how the … 1

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