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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1915
Page
5
Details describe a catastrophic hurricane near Galveston with 100 deaths across multiple Texas towns. The Pelican rescued 75 people from a broken Causeway while ships and dredges suffer. Martial law remains. relief efforts organize as losses hit $62 million in the South.
The War Department orders food bedding and tents rushed from Ft Sill and Ft Leavenworth to Galveston to aid Gulf storm victims. Cooperation with the Red Cross is planned and supplies will also be sent from New Orleans and other posts including Ft Wingate Brownsville and El Paso. General Bell at Texas City reports heavy government losses with cavalry mounts washed away and equipment ruined.
Aug 9 reports place 46 fatalities in Galveston and Virginia Point with twenty drowned at Virginia Point. The Causeway Hotel is declared collapsed. Sixty guests were inside the hotel during the disaster.
The Walsh led report to Congress condemns private armed forces used against unions, urges revoking foundations and using funds for public works and workers’ benefits, and places blame for Colorado violence on Rockefeller interests and management. It aligns with the Manley findings and names J B Lennon James O Connell and A B Garretson as endorsing members.
Reports from Galveston recount 26 deaths among hotel guests and ongoing wreckage. Debris blocks streets as authorities guard against looting with special police on duty. Losses in the district estimated at 15 million dollars as the disaster unfolds.
Survivors report the schooner Lydia Deering driven off course in a Gulf storm. Capt Murphy and three crew members drowned. six survivors exhausted with two driven mad. The United Fruit steamer Bluefields is also reported missing.
Reverend J P Taylor bishop of North Dakota is guest of Mrs Elinor Thorne at 725 20th Ave N while in town.
A vintage column promotes spurmax face lotion to fade freckles and tan, claiming smooth white skin and a lasting complexion without powder. It also advises a canthrax shampoo that dissolves in hot water to remove dandruff and oil, leaving the scalp clean and hair glossy and fluffy.
The congress rivers and harbors committee tours the Celilo canal and locks on the Columbia near The Dalles. Government construction cost surpasses $4,000,000. The party travels to Celilo by train and heads back to Portland tonight, with plans to reach Seattle on Monday.
Delta Tau Delta alumni in Seattle plan to welcome J. B. Curtis national president and 100 delegates arriving from California for the Frisco convention of the order on August 28 and 29.
Mrs Mill presents a nut cake recipe from the Boston Cooking School Magazine. Janet McKensie Hill, editor, endorses the recipe as one of the best all around cake formulas, noted for simplicity and reliable results for every home.
Recipe excerpt for EC Nut Cake with nut meats, milk and flour steps, baking details and a chocolate icing. Includes instructions for beating whites, folding in nut meats, baking time, and a note offering a free Cook's Book with colored certificate via KC Baking Powder.
British dispatches from London report German plans to move a corps north after Vilna to strike at Petrograd while Austro German forces push on Brest Litovsk. Paris notes French gains on the Notre Dame de Lorette front. Submarine attacks sink two freighters Wilson Miner Zerbine and Thornfield. British troops land at Sulva Bay as severe fighting continues at Gallipoli with heavy losses.
Nearly 500 Seattle Elks leave by special train to attend the tenth annual Elks state lodge convention in Bellingham. The two day affair is led by Ted Daken W W Bane and H H Griggs with Bert L Swezen serving as parade master.
King and Pierce county commissioners approve trading 6.9 acres of old river bed to John Bortano and others in exchange for 6.75 acres needed for a new channel. A dredge will be purchased for 3000 dollars by the two counties to aid the river improvements.
Nell Pickerell wearing men's clothing was acquitted Thursday of second degree burglary as Justice Brinker ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict.
Gen. Carranza acknowledges receipt of the peace proposal from the United States and Latin American envoys. The note suggests this may be his final reply on the proposals, signaling limited further contact from his side. Villa replies with a friendly note promising to aid in uniting factions and restoring peace.
Police Chief Lang seeks to elevate his office to the first floor of city hall after departments move to the new courthouse. He proposes relocating the police court to the southeast first floor, moving the detectives offices, and bringing the woman's protective division into the building. A committee of Councilmen Haas and Erickson and Lang will report back Friday.
A. H. Trosper and wife of Coeur d Alene Idaho travel by car toward the San Francisco exposition carrying 8570 Buffalo nickels to cover all trip expenses. They saved the coins for two years and include a camping outfit in their journey.
A fragment notes The Hollywood Lunch and Soda Fountain at 212 Pike St Advy. No further details or events are provided in the readable text.
A green canoe with a trolling line, a woman's brown hair switch, and a ribbon was recovered near Point No Point by the San Juan Fish Co. fleet. Police were told a woman who had been fishing for salmon may have been in the craft and is feared drowned.
Announcement details Dr Edwin J Brown DDS at 713 First Ave Union Block Seattle advertises dental services with evening and Sunday hours for working people and a contact phone listed.
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