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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
3
Senior class at Broadway High will stage The Lion and the Mouse Friday night in the school auditorium. Other news notes report injuries from a mine blast near Bremerton and local election rumors in Charleston.
The piece touts hair tinting as popular and safe with the Brownatone product. it frames tinting as harmless and easy for readers seeking simple cosmetic improvements. The article emphasizes accessibility and suggests confidence in the technique.
Arthur E. Goodwin extols Seattle’s Pike Place Market as the greatest farmers market in the West where producers meet consumers daily with no middlemen. He argues public markets offer low prices through cooperatives but warns that too many such institutions could erode private enterprises and market viability.
Edwin J Brown decries official lawbreaking and mob action in Beattie Seattle and King County. He argues enforcement is selective and politicized, condemning violent destruction of property and urging a return to orderly justice and public responsibility.
The Labor Department report to Congress denounces the use of armed thugs to quell labor disputes as a threat to industrial peace. It urges federal intervention if local forces fail and notes mediation has settled most disputes. Secretary Wilson supports collective bargaining and notes naturalization and voting law flaws, calling for public homesteads and a larger employment bureau.
Dr Percival V Allen, who recently escaped from county jail where he served a one year statutory sentence, is charged by Justice Gordon with first degree murder in the death of his wife Anna Danielson Allen. She died in a Seattle hotel on July 15 with trace amounts of strychnine found in her body. Detectives report Allen and accomplice Harry Gardner have fled and are not in custody.
Pasquale Cappuct a Georgetown hardener filed a $2,000 damages suit against Joe Desmond for an alleged April assault. Trial opened in Judge Tallman’s court with Cappuct testifying that Desmond lashed him with a whip while he hauled a load of fertilizer. Desmond disputed Cappuct’s account.
Viscount Kato and followers attack Count Terauchi as unconstitutional premier. The antigovernment campaign rises toward a climax at the imperial diet opening December 28 with Kato’s Kenneikal party driving the push.
Three hundred employees and their families attended the Standard Furniture Christmas entertainment hosted by the Cinderella club on the store's second floor. The program featured employee talent, contributed numbers, and lantern skits tracing the company’s 65 year history. Elizabeth Newman, club president, distributed gifts while impersonating Santa Claus from the large Christmas tree.
Ad promotes Cascarets as a 10 cent laxative for all ages. Claims to cleanse liver and bowels, cure biliousness, headaches, and bad breath. Promises clearer heads, better tongues, and rosy skin after use. Instances mothers can give to sick children without gripe or sickness.
A persuasive dental ad urges why decaying teeth invite germs into the body and offers services from graduate dentists with state board certificates. It promises low prices, full guarantees, and free examinations to assess needed work and costs.
A local notice directs readers to the correct location for the Krory Ree Reattle's Lending at 1405 Dwird Ave near the Peoat office. It specifies the directions from TPhira and Union and emphasizes reaching the right place.
Sixty million people live in dry areas, 85 percent of the continental U.S., while distillery output rises. Bootlegging persists despite enforcement gaps, and cities like Seattle Cambridge Brockton and Battle Creek show local dry status ahead of state laws.
A resolution to form a joint house senate committee to investigate spending to influence the presidential election was offered by Representative Hastings of Nebraska. An appropriation of 100000 dollars is asked to cover probe costs.
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