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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1916
Page
3
Paula recalls a dinner where seven men and five women sat with a hostess niece who worked as a restaurant checker. The table included vaudeville robbers a shoe clerk and a Follies star Miss Flossie Tolman. A loud showgirl audience mocked a “perfect lady” and called out social pretensions.
Senator Miles Poindexter arrives Friday at 8 p.m. to a Seattle welcome by a large delegation. He will be escorted to the Dreamland pavilion where he opens his campaign for reelection with George H. Walker likely in charge. A brass band and fireworks will accompany the reception in honor of Washington's independent senator.
War Office reports heavy British casualties in failed advances north of Ovillers and through the Foureaux forest. In El Paso a Mes saan railway eight hour day is instituted as part of improvements for workers, while unrelated personal diary excerpts describe social tension and workplace ambition.
Basil M. Manly argues in a five part series that Justice Charles E. Hughes favored railroads over homesteaders in two Supreme Court land cases after joining the court. The cases involved Weyerhaeuser v Hoyt and broad railroad land claims, with dissenting voices by Day and Harlan.
Surgeons said C. R. Broughton assistant chief engineer of the Southern Pacific would recover from injuries after a gasoline car he rode collided with a work train in a tunnel 25 miles from North Bend. His right leg was so crushed it had to be amputated.
A private exhibition of the 11 part Ince screenplay Civiliza tion was shown at the Metropolitan last night for prominent citizens and officials. An augmented orchestra accompanied the screening. The picture is described as the zenith of cinema art.
The Sunday program features Pauline Frederick in Zara at Rex and Charles Ray in Honor Thy Name at Liberty. William Farnum leads The End of the Trail at Strand with an all-star Colonial lineup following. Coliseum presents Gates of Divorce as Blanche Sweet and Owen Moore star, while Clemmer showcases The Tarantula and Common Ground. Notorious Gallagher headlines Alhambra with Marguerite Snow. Hobart Bosworth stars in The Way of the World at Mission with Dorothy Davenport in a tale of marriage and society.
Walter Edwards supervises Dorothy Dalton and William Deamond in a deserted island tale by Lanier Bartlett. The trio faces isolation and hidden danger as their resolve is tested amid rugged shorelines and scarce resources.
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