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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1916
Page
2
Regal Dental Offices managed by KH Clark at 1405 Tira, with third party cor. care details are limited in the fragment.
Arch bishop John Lancaster Spalding in Peoria Illinois is seriously ill from heat and a general decline. Family and the attending physician fear for the outcome as he has been bedridden for ten days. He is 76 years old and very feeble.
A thief entered the Olmstead hotel office during the night clerk’s absence in Cleveland and stole two tin cash boxes containing 1 916 dollars. Police investigated the burglary and sought clues to the suspect’s identity.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Ladkey Hooey wife of Dr L E A Hooey occur at 3 p m Wednesday from the Bonney-Watson chapel following her death after an operation at Minor hospital She leaves Dr Hooey and a daughter Frances Josephine age 5 years 8 months.
Sidney Reed on East 55th street fought off a pocket thief by thrusting pins through bills in his roll. The would‑be picker vanished as Reed alerted others after the attempted theft in Cleveland.
James E. Munson secretary of the trustees asks for a receiver to take over the affairs of J. R. Grant Co. wholesale grocers located at 1106 West ern Ave. The firm is reported to be indebted about $25,000.
Forty Canadian letter carriers were hosted by 160 local mail men after their Vancouver convention. A Willard hotel banquet Monday night featured Mayor Gill Immigration Commissioner White and organizational executives as speakers. The Postoffice band performed and a double quartet sang.
Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce scheduled a discussion on cooperating with federal mediators to ease waterfront labor conflict. Commissioner Blackman urged action to influence employers to shift their stance. Lean Morrow Lewis filed in Juneau as socialist nominee for Alaska delegate to Congress.
A narrator recalls a middle September vacation spent alone and sewing. A bond seller visits, shares a life story, and asks to call, revealing a lonely, country upbringing. He argues a home-like atmosphere tempts a man toward marriage and decency, while a homeless woman risks social judgment. A police warning disrupts their attempt at courting and the man leaves. The piece teases further installments in The Star.
Vernon Ormaby a street car motorman at 708 Bell Apt told police on Tuesday he caught a man peeping at his home window Sunday morning and knocked him down with a blow between the eyes.
Aug 22 three posses scour the country for a red bearded bandit who robbed W H Katabrook of the Gold Dredge Mining company of gold dust worth 2500. Katabrook sped home with the gold in a package when the bandit leaped into the road fired a revolver and forced a stop before fleeing into the woods.
Manuel Bonilla former minister of the Interior under Madero declares Carranza a foe of Mexico and urges unity of factions for a new revolutionary Lagalistas party. U.S. secret service monitors activity in El Paso and Juarez as Bonilla seeks support in New York.
London reports the British submarine E23 scored a torpedo hit on a Nassau class German battleship. The 960 crew ship, about 18,602 tons and 451 feet long, was believed sunk after initial damage and later attacked again by E23 as destroyers escorted it toward harbor.
French troops pushed their lines on both sides of the Somme during the night with gains toward Clery on the north bank and the capture of trench elements southwest of Estrees and east of Soyecourt in a formal announcement.
Miss Laura Hopkine leads the queen race after 9 thousand votes. Edith Farstow tops the juvenile division with 30 thousand votes. Little Elleanor Danks of 4212 Latona Ave enters in the Hispatian honors. Metropolitan Building Co. offers cash prizes for entries from schools and individuals, adding to trophies and a $100 Ad Club gold award.
Queen Victoria nurses wounded soldiers who have returned to England amid the Portugal royal line upheaval. Her mother Queen Amelie accompanies her as Victoria, eldest child and only daughter of Prince William of Hohenzollern, ties to the Kaiser’s family are noted.
Ralph Meats of Hutte Montana is hospitalized with two bullet wounds after being robbed by three men who lured him into a saloon basement last night. He says the assailants claimed to be policemen, then attacked and shot him twice during the robbery.
Louise Davis a 14 year old heiress to a $100000 estate seeks to block guardianship moves by probation officers and Cincinnati detectives. The juvenile court began proceedings after she secured a restraining order prior to a full hearing. In a second note, William Martin's sister found a Bible containing a hidden stash totaling $710 from her grandfather's estate.
Falcon Joslin of Seattle addressed a Dawson audience Monday urging enactment of a dry law at a local prohibition meeting.
Corporation Counsel Caldwell filed suit in superior court Tuesday against Logan and Fred Billingsley to collect 34.65 for electricity furnished their two drug stores Stewart Street Pharmacy and Night and Day Drug Store, both wrecked by police. Deputies served warrants for the arrest of the Billingsleys on liquor possession charges with intent to sell.
A German salient projecting into the British line between Thiepval and Pozieres surrendered after repeated attacks. In other sectors, British offensives were repulsed according to official reports.
Regina Aug. 22 Four former members of the Saskatchewan legislature were found guilty by the commission on charges of conspiracy and bribery. The convicted include J A Sheppard speaker and S R Moore who took money for liquor licenses, along with H C Fierce and C H Cawthorpe.
Elmer Anderson, a Finnish immigrant, walked past 106 Broadway at 11 p m Monday when two men shouted for him to raise his hands. One fired a revolver but Anderson wrested the gun away. A second thug struck him with a pipe, leaving him unconscious as bystanders intervened. The thieves took 1 50 from his pockets.
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