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This day in history: Coroner’s jury picked for police shooting review. Temperance group condemns displays

The Spokane chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union criticized Spokane’s department stores for window displays featuring “whisky flasks and cocktail mixers,” the Spokane Daily Chronicle reported on Dec. 9, 1925. The newspaper also reported that the East Washington and North Idaho Baptist Convention was considering purchasing Conkling Park, a summer resort on Lake Coeur d'Alene. The convention's assembly grounds at the time were at "Weonahome" at Wolf Lodge Bay and were considered too small. The Conkling Park land was expected to cost $16,000 for 100 acres, including a hotel for 50 people, a "fine beach" and 11 cottages. (Spokesman-Review archives)
By Jim Kershner The Spokesman-Review

From 1975: A six-person coroner’s jury was selected to hear evidence in the police shooting death of Craig S. Jordan, 17, a Lewis and Clark High School student.

During jury selection, all jurors were asked if they were aware that Jordan was Black and the police officer was white. All of the jurors were white.

About 20 witnesses were expected to testify.

A coroner’s jury was selected to hear evidence in the police shooting death of Craig S. Jordan, 17, The Spokesman-Review reported on Dec. 9, 1975. (Spokesman-Review archives)
A coroner’s jury was selected to hear evidence in the police shooting death of Craig S. Jordan, 17, The Spokesman-Review reported on Dec. 9, 1975. (Spokesman-Review archives)

In other news, the Whitman College student government passed a resolution granting women students the “right” to ask men out on dates.

This would give women “a chance to express a preference, which is not easy to do now,” said the resolution.

The resolution added one other provision: Women must pay for a date they initiate.

From 1925: The Spokane chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union roundly condemned Spokane’s department stores for window displays featuring “whisky flasks and cocktail mixers.”

The group claimed that these merchants “have joined, either deliberately or unconsciously, a nationwide plot to encourage the use of strong drink and are violating the spirit of the Prohibition law.”

They demanded the removal of such articles.

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1968: Douglas Engelbart demonstrates in “The Mother of All Demos” the computer system NLS (oN-Line System) to a live audience in San Francisco, showcasing for the first time the mouse, word processing, windows, hypertext links, video conferencing, real-time collaboration and other modern computing concepts.