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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1916
Page
4
Harry Page known as The Louse, rounded up with The Gorilla and his gang, will be returned to Spokane where Dr. W. T. Seeley will sign a complaint. The Louse reportedly talked with Seeley when his wallet containing $130 was stolen.
William Graham D K MacDonald J 3 Long and L T Bushnell report the International Association of Rotary Clubs meeting in Cincinnati. They note the 104 degree heat there and praise Seattle business methods as being on a very high plane at the weekly Rotary club luncheon.
The report lists ducks hens and turkeys with weights and prices. It notes good sized squabs, old roosters and dressed hogs with price ranges, indicating a daily market snapshot for livestock and poultry.
Liberty starts a three day engagement with Lieut Danny U S A and Enid Markey in a romance on the Mexican border. The Strand shows Daredevil Kate with Jane and Katherine Lea while the Alhambra features The Ne er Do Well acclaimed for its story by Rex Beach. The Coliseum presents The House of the Golden Windows with Wallace Reid and Cleo Ridgley and Clemmers shows River of Romance with Harold Lockwood and May Upper. The Colonial screens A Wall Street Tragedy starring Nat C Goodwin. The Mission offers A Son of Neptune and The Secret of the Night plays at the Class A theater.
Warning shouts failed to draw attention of Mr and Mrs Swan as a driverless delivery truck broke from its stand and sped down University street. Mrs Swan was pushed through a plate glass window with cuts and bruises while Mr Swan received minor injuries from a struck Fender. Wheelock, the truck owner, said brakes were locked when he left the vehicle.
Corporation Counsel Caldwell advised the city council that the city has a legal right to enact an ordinance requiring persons who start fires or refuse to comply with building regulations to pay the cost of fighting those fires.
A column prints inquiries and answers about monthly birthstones, a blackberry cordial recipe, a sardine terminology discussion, a seventeen year old's career dilemma, religious demographics of Germany and France, gold chain skin staining, and the Italian phrase con amore meaning with love. The exchange preserves era tone and addresses reader questions with concise guidance.
Milo Root was elected president for the coming year of the Western Washington Federation of Improvement clubs at the sixth annual convention. Professor Herman A. Brauer of the university bureau of municipal research spoke at the closing session, and Secretary Cotterill of the park board exhibited.
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