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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1901
Page
4
The spring mood returns as trees bud and flowers bloom. Birds sing, birds and roosters boast eggs and hatchlings while families clean house and children play marbles. The article notes the season’s warmth, new growth, and Easter anticipation across rural and urban areas.
Miss Sarah Truax, leading lady at the Grand opera house, performed Camille despite her father’s illness. She boarded a special train to Cleveland then Lake Shore for Chicago, aiming to reach by Sunday morning for her father’s funeral. The piece notes church services and Christmas season music across local congregations.
Easter Sunday in Seattle featured clear skies and warmer air as worshipers filled churches in spring attire. Immaculate Conception hosted high mass with elaborate ceremony and choirs under M J Hobitzell. St Mark's Episcopal and Trinity Parish also reported grand floral decorations and large congregations.
The preacher teases the bridegroom about matrimony while the bride explains the union is already binding. She reveals the groom has given her deeds to property totaling more than $40,000, surprising the crowd.
Evening program at the Rainier Grand Café features the Aeolian Grand Orchestra performing from 6 30 to 6 30 and again from 10 to 12 00 p m with a varied program for guests.
Roger B Whitman son of a millionaire produce exchange member begins as assistant station agent in Indian Territory after Columbia College and music box interests He serves in the naval reserves and, after sunstroke, spends a year on a ranch He meets San Francisco railway president Yoakim in New York and is placed at Madill Oklahoma Then he rooms in a freight car at the end of a new spur hoping for transfer to St Louis offices and a clubhouse life
The General Siglin captained by Johnson sails from Seattle as the first Cook Inlet bound schooner of the season. The sturdy vessel loads hydraulic mining machinery for Turnagain Arm Mining Co and ships cargo for Bun Rice, Hope, Palmer, and Resurrection Creek trading outposts. The United States Mercantile Co prepares extensive supplies for the Bun Rice port and Hope post as northern commerce expands.
The store touts steady patronage driven by quality prices and reliable goods. It promotes items such as Wiedom's Robertine toothpaste powder tooth brushes Violet Cream and Hinds Honey Almond Cream, with regular price points and durable options highlighted to attract customers.
A ship will take a group of men bound for mining ventures at Cook Inlet. The engaged passengers arrived from San Francisco yesterday and will travel together with a few remaining seats likely filled by interested miners.
Ida Harman Dawnen a former Cleveland society belle is named a clerk in the general land office Washington. She was adopted daughter of the late Albert H Harman founder of Cleveland City Forge Co and was once married to a Philadelphian Mr Harman. He left her a fortune that was lost and she was divorced years ago. Senator Hanna secured the post for Mr Dawson through his daughter in law KR Hanna.
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