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A Ruse By Any Other Name

A Ruse By Any Other Name

Arlington Buckingham Wadsworth From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The Nov. 15, 1902 issue of The Spokane Press has a news account of a well known international con artist being arrested in Australia. The writer reminds the readers this criminal had made Spokane his home at one time:   HE WAS A SOCIETY MAN IN SPOKANE  Now Arrested in Australia—Wanted in Many Places for Similar Offences.  “The following telegraphic dispatch from Chicago will…

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Notes from the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

Notes from the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

Thanks to the Friends of the Washington State Library and the Washington Library Association, I was the lone staff-person at the Washington State Library who got to sneak off to Chicago last week for the American Library Association Annual conference. Attendance was pretty good at the event (I think even more than last year), but I imagine these were mostly east-coast attendees and less folks from Washington State.  As such, I thought I would share my notes (pardon their lack…

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