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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1912
Page
8
The Farnum Bailey circus announces Cleopatra as the feature on August 21 and 22. The spectacle required 500000 dollars, with 1250 east workers and 350 horses involved in the production.
Reports on Dr Delon F Wilcox chief of the bureaus of franchises for the public service commission of the Flat District visiting City Hall with Commissioner Val entine to discuss municipal and state control of franchises. Also brief items note Maud Powell returns to Washington PA for Titanic funeral services and odd local quips.
A list of venues including Moore-Dark Metropolitan Louisiana Lou and Orpheum Emprose Pantages Grand vaudeville and motion pictures. Clemmer Melbourne feature photoplays and vaudeville acts.
Tulare California August 13 Frank Randall a winery employee is in critical condition from wounds with a pocket knife in a suicide attempt. Investigators say temporary insanity sparked by gossip among fellow workers who linked his name to a nearby woman. Randall is described as educated and of higher social standing than his job.
Twenty miles by hand car to catch a train in time for marriage in Walla Walla. Roscoe Duff of Clyde and Jesele Carter of Rule, both teachers, were wed after the auditor was roused and a license issued. The couple began their romance in Kansas before moving west to teach.
In Wilcox Virginia on August 13 nine thousand coconuts were dumped into the Ocmulgee River as spoiled goods from a Confederate reunion. A Macon merchant had bought the supply to profit from coconut pies but sold fewer than a dozen.
Seventy six? No, sixty six candidates will take oral examinations tonight at 6 20. The written tests were completed two weeks earlier.
City officials will gather Saturday at the proposed stadium site in West Seattle as guests of the West Side Women's Improvement Club. The visit aims to review planning details and engage local residents in the project.
Phil N. Ashmun editor bound over to superior court on libel charge brought by County Commissioner Hamilton. City license committee weighs lowering picture theatre licenses as movie men demand relief due to small houses’ inability to pay 260 dollars yearly. In Portland Henderson arrested. taken through streets wrapped in a blanket. Southeast Portland residents accuse Southern Pacific of whistle blowing against city noise ordinance.
In San Francisco a thief entered John Knebel’s grocery store and paused at the whisky shelf before abandoning the scene with three missing bottles and an untouched cash register.
Inland Navigation company new steel steamer Potlatch completed a successful trial run on Saturday with an average speed of 14 knots. Charles A. Myers a Seattle pioneer died at his Georgetown home aged 56 after 50 years in Seattle. Funeral set for Tuesday noon at Georgetown undertaking parlors.
A mixed update notes two more scows for Washington Tug Barge Co. built by Ballard Marine Railway, totaling nine scows this summer. Also reports a Yeomen installation in Russell hall Pallard, and light local items on theater, Chautauqua elocution, Tillikume meetings, a death in East St. Louis, Native Washington initiation, and a cable accident with injuries at 1st Ave and Washington.
In Los Angeles Alt J. C. Smith reports his bulky family horse named John was stolen after six months of the animal refusing to leave the stable. Smith told police the thief made no inquiries and offered a steady job for the man who did it.
In Long Beach California an elderly woman caused a stir by removing her shoes while in a car to ease her feet and walking away in stockings. The event followed Father O'Brien of Our Lady of Good Help church returning home after a ten week East trip.
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