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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1912
Page
8
Philadelphia dispatch reports baby boy Russell Bailey weighs two pounds at 12 days old. He is nine inches long and growing despite early predictions he would not survive. Bailey’s mother is 16 and under 100 pounds, with doctors noting his fingers and arms remain very small.
Vienna reports a flood of cablegrams and telegrams congratulating Emperor Franz Josef on his 82nd birthday. The monarch has reigned 64 years as Austrian head, surpassing Queen Victoria by about five months if he lives to December.
Railroad executives across the nation warn of an alarming car shortage this autumn due to Humper crop and lumbering revival. In Seattle, executive and operating officials urge shippers to speed loading and unloading to ease expected congestion.
A feature explains how girls can break a masher’s grip using jiu jitsu moves. It describes a sequence to trap and throw the attacker and injure a wrist, with a photo credited to Miwa Ai Kaehi and a note about an upcoming demonstration by the Mikado’s Royal Troupe in Seattle.
The United States government solicits bids to furnish 10 000 tons of hay and 8 000 tons of graded data for use in the Philippines. Bids opened in Col W H Miller's office of the Quartermaster's Department on September %, at 11.
The steamer Al-Ki of the North land Steamship company reached Seattle yesterday from southeastern Alaska carrying 20,000 cases of canned salmon and several hundred barrels of salt salmon and halibut.
The City of Seattle, stranded on rocks near Ketchikan Thursday morning, arrived at port yesterday and will be drydocked for examination to assess possible injuries.
Vancouver saloonkeepers joined protests over new public drinking fountains placed outside their businesses. In the past months five saloons reportedly went out of business amid the friction. In Portland George Vorster damaged hotel room furnishings claiming he disliked water. A Seattle Bremerton Machinists benefit picnic at Pleasant Beach raised funds for ill members.
Hundreds of railway workers and friends attended the service at the Scottish Rite temple for Henry Noble the engineer killed in Monday’s Milwaukee wreck. The ceremony honored his years of service and remembered his role in the rail line’s operations.
A 60-foot launch owned by G. F. Butts of the Schwabacher Co. burned off Jefferson Point last night. Fire discovered in the morning, Butts believed it extinguished, but it smoldered all day and burst out again at night. Four-masted schooners Samar and Taurus from Valparaiso docked.
Steamship St Helens of the RE Dodge Co. departed last night for northern ports with a record freight load from Seattle. The cargo includes items from toothpicks to dredges and a sizable shipment of school supplies for the United States schools in Nome Hoop er bay and Gamble.
The Delhi steamship left last night with 300 tons of mining machinery for the Canadian Klondike Mining Co. at Dawson. The King County Veterans association holds its annual picnic at Woodland Park.
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