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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1911
Page
6
Classified item notes a request by Adolf to obtain a special pipe for Osgar. The notice reads as a brief personal inquiry seeking arrangement or purchase details and potential fulfillment by local sellers or contacts.
Rome August 23 Vatican physicians report Pope Pius X is recovering well. He has been allowed to leave his rooms and attend to duties, and his condition is described as steadily improving and satisfactory after recent sickness. He walked in the Vatican grounds without special fatigue.
Mrs Mary Yoxall named as defendant in a breach of promise case for 5715 filed by Dr W T Thompson an Alaska Indian school teacher. She denies any promise to marry and asks for 1000 damages for defending the suit.
The Beacon Avenue paving project proceeds after the contract to P. J. Mc Hugh, the lowest bidder, was awarded. Earlier a hold was lifted when a city engineer’s cost estimate was deemed unnecessary by majority property owner support.
The Playgrounds Association prepares a massive event at Alki Point next Saturday for about 10 000 children. The Native Sonus will host a clambake while the park board serves hot dogs and lemonade. Local merchants donated prizes for athletics. Two bands will play at the picnic and beach. Free transport to and from the beach is being arranged with tickets issued from the playfield and park board offices.
In St Louis a funeral drew 2000 mourners for Anna Sylvania Tobin known as the sunshine girl whose winning smile helped avert multiple strikes. Reports from other cities include a slipper ending a knife fight in Atlantic City and assorted odd brief notices from New York Chicago and Evansville.
An itemized report from Seth Farnsworth of Chicago to Mayor Shank shows Farnsworth lived on $82.58 a year in Indianapolis. Major expenses include fowl at $21, clothing four sets at $2.50 each, hats, shoes, room rent 40 cents weekly, socks 96 cents, collars 1.44, underclothes 2.80, and laundry 13.00.
Fragmentary OCR item records prices and terms for butter and bee products with scattered figures. Mentions Oregon Ranch and local Bees with unclear dates or entities.
A Seattle telephone operator describes the voices heard over the wires as life in tabloid form. Individually they seem trivial but together they form a moving picture of daily events and conversations.
Mrs Hemitus Van Rooy of Antwerp traveled 12 000 miles to Montreal to have her husband arrested on desertion. After seeing him she relented and withdrew the charge, agreeing to forgive and forget. The husband had left Antwerp with another woman, who was widowed the morning of their departure.
Cable advices received yesterday report a smallpox epidemic raging at Rampart House on the boundary line between Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
Aug 23 reports say the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre yesterday and a Francewide hunt is under way. Police monitor steamers and stop any suspicious vehicle while detectives search every nook of the Louvre as officials reopen the gallery and near certainty grows the frame and glass were left on a back stair.
Next Saturday Port Madison reservation hosts an annual style celebration of Chief Seattle s birthday with song and story. C B Pickerell plans details with H EB Seattle supporters promoting homage by taking the Hyack steamer from Pier 4 at 10 am and returning at 6 30 pm. Rev Pather Gard of the Suquamish mission will deliver a Chinook Jargon address.
The chamber backed building a new court house and buying the balance of the Cedar river watershed. It supported funds for an isolation hospital and a bridge over the waterway while opposing the Providence hospital site as an art museum location.
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