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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1914
Page
3
The advertisement promotes Mentaltem as a cure all for aging and illness. It claims the physician’s methods provide health happiness and success, inviting readers to attend free consultations at 860-2 Haight Ridg Cor rad and Pine with lectures and demonstrations.
Calvin Rutherford declares his irrepressible bid against Bob Hodge on the progressive ticket. He previously ran for congress two years ago and has a history as a street preacher and jail protestor, citing his outspoken stance in local politics. A Republican smoker tonight at the Press club features Mayor Gill and entertainment.
A letter from Walla Walla to the State Federation of Labor warns of a new Stop Look Listeners scheme. A man circulates blank petitions with no heading and asks signatures from workers and their wives to supposedly keep Olympia petition names, allegedly to aid a paid handwriting expert challenging the Seven Sisters signatures.
Twenty four starters began the second annual reliability tour at Fourth Ave and Union St at 7 a.m. The 597.7 mile route to Vancouver and back includes stops at Everett Stanwood Mt. Vernon Bellingham Blaine and New Westminster. The top scoring car wins the $1 000 P J trophy cup. Arrival in Vancouver expected at 5 p.m.
The Home Consumers' league visited the city lighting plant yesterday and will join grocers for the annual picnic on Thursday August 20 at Wildwood Park. The league will attend the Manufacturers' fair all of next week.
In Aurora on July 31 a group of young women formed the Love Making club to celebrate romance with a Hamlet and Ophelia theme. They planned a moonlight party for Miss Elizabeth Hattcher visiting from Chicago, with many young men in attendance, though details of the bylaws remain unclear.
Daphne Pollard headlines a week at the Metropolitan starting August 30 after local success as Potlatch queen and Pollard Lili operatic star. The program blends Eddie Foy troupe songs, Jeff de Angeles in The Gay White Way, and Not at Home sketches with Maybelle Palmer, acrobats, Jax Neal, and Dick De Loris. Motion pictures begin August 23 with 6000 feet from the White Sox and Giants tour plus The Six Winning Widows on Empress bill.
San Francisco, Aug. 15. Mrs. Ollie Hagen of San Jose shot and killed Crayton H. Putnam a 22 year old automobile man in his apartments here. She refuses to talk in her cell. Police say letters among the dead man's effects indicate a love affair despite Hagen not having a divorce. One letter from Hagen upbraiding Putnam for his treatment of her was found.
The Honolulan sails tonight on her first Panama Canal voyage from San Francisco to New York Philadelphia or Boston. It carries 30,000 cases of canned salmon 10 carloads of shingles and extra freight to reach about 8500 tons. Passengers pay 160 including meals and berth.
Rex Adams presents The Night Hawks a production by I K Friedman whose writing grace the Saturday Evening Post with Woods animal act Palfrey Barton and Brown in comedy Rozella and Rozella novelty musical act Mergel and Reta singing and dancing Quinland and Richards comedy sketch headline the show at Pan tages.
An advertisement from Dr. G. J. Mernberg of Olympic View Sanitarium in Seattle promises cure for asthma and numerous other illnesses. The copy claims a 30 year asthma history cured locally, offering immediate relief and eventual cure, with names and addresses of cured patients upon request. Includes contact details Queen Anne phone 3127.
In Williamson West Virginia Aug 15 posses scour the country around Glen Alum for four highwaymen who murdered Pay master Joseph Sheler Dr W D Amick and Electrician F D Jernson of the Glen Alum Coal and Coke Co and escaped with 15000 dollars. Sheler and guards had money for payroll when attacked on the way to the mine three miles away by railroad velocipede. Two guards died at the scene. a third lived to describe the attack before dying.
The photo feature notes the Black Leopard from Selle Day now housed in Los Angeles at Belly Jungle Zoo. The leopard stalked the jungle zoo manager on its first day, but Iron barn blocked its final leap. The Western Vitagraph is filming Bage Krush Gal with Western scenery.
The listing shows animated weekly four part dramas and comedies including Blood Test Maggie s Honest Lover Recaped From the Asylum A Hidden Love and Percy H Baldwin Trifler. The items are presented as a schedule of shows across two venues with multiple genres.
The Barnum Bailey "greatest show on earth" arrives from North Yakima in 86 railroad cars and will perform Monday and Tuesday in Seattle. A Monday street parade three miles long starts at 9 a.m. from Third Ave and Republican, then proceeds via Fifth Ave North Cedar Street First Ave Jackson etc to the show grounds at Third Ave and Republican. Performances are at 2 and 8 p.m. with a vast menagerie and hundreds of performers listed among the attractions.
Snookums the baby Snookume has found a home with new father and mother. Buddy remains available as a potential home, with applicants under review. D. J. Connor, wanted in Portland for land frauds, is arrested in Minneapolis. Public service commission orders Northern Pacific to safeguard dangerous crossings near Roslyn. Three perish under a collapsing wall in a fire at Anna Illinois.
Mrs. Mary A. Roeper-Bosch filed for divorce from John Roeper-Bosch in Judge Albertson's court. She testified she shadowed him after he grew distant, noting his meetings with a store girl, trips to night school, theater, and a cafe. The judge granted $60 monthly alimony, $100 attorney fees, and custody of the children.
Seattle lumbermen rally to attract the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo in 1915. A vigorous campaign seeks to bring the organization to Seattle, noting the 1914 convention is set for Winnipeg in September and that the Hoo-Hoos unite U S and Canadian lumbermen.
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