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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
3
An unclear early ad promotes Swissco as a remedy for hair loss dandruff and scalp sores. It offers a sample at 82 cents and a dollar per bottle with a sales pitch urging trials before buying. The fragmentary text also mentions hair thinning eyelashes and facial hair concerns.
A humorous tale follows Jimmy as he starts with the intention to eat a turkey, fruit cake, and pumpkin pie at noon. He eats with confidence, then doubts himself, and finally realizes he cannot finish all the remaining dishes yet still devours a substantial amount.
San Francisco report says Mrs. Newton B. Clemenson, 45, wife of a noted Presbyterian minister, fled a Napa sanitarium on Monday night scantily clad with four steaming rugs. This marks her second escape and searching parties scour the area.
The Hawaiian American Steamship Co offers to carry mail via the Panama Canal for 5000 to 7000 dollars a year, challenging the proposed 750000 dollar subsidy. Officials in Washington see the move as an attempt to bar independent lines.
Russell was confirmed by the city council to succeed Capt. George W. Hill as port warden after being appointed by the mayor. Several waterfront petitioners opposed the appointment while council members voted for confirmation. Also in Portland, statistics show 127 city employees fell to loan sharks in October with 13 garnishments served on the auditor.
Uniontown Pennsylvania reports Miss Lucy Beech Johns the only woman deputy in the United States will wed John C. Grier of Pittsburgh on December 1. Johns was appointed Fayette county deputy sheriff by her father Sheriff Peter A. Johns in January. She wears a solid gold badge and carries a mounted police revolver. The wedding will be held at the Johns home in Uniontown.
Israel Alexand Symmons London's newest poll judge defines nagging as the constant reiteration of a truths in a quarrel between man and wife The remark follows a debate stirred by a domestic dispute in London on December 1.
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