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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1903
Page
2
New York children braid lace into watch guards, a vogue spreading citywide. Makers adapt ribbons and laces into colorful guards while sales rise for veils and car coverings as fashion shifts with street trends and practical use.
An advertisement portrays the Dyspeptic as hopeless and ill, then touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a natural, safe remedy that acts on food digestion like a healthy stomach. It promises relief, restored health, and happiness, with a price of 50 cents a bottle sold by druggists.
The text lists a luncheon menu including fried scallops , cheese wafers , rye muffins and butter , celery salad and cocoa. It notes scallops are in season but tastier later, and advises selecting non bleached specimens and frying in hot fat with onion parsley pickle and mayo onion sauce. It also describes a Royal Wedding Cake for Princess Alice and Prince Andrew with three tiers, sugar ivy decorations, orange blossoms, and a six foot stand forming a striking centerpiece.
The Stage presents Ben Hur Ten Mur the grand spectacular drama drawing the largest crowds in Grand Opera history this week. Spectacle and chariot scenes rival the east though acting fades beside the production. Audiences travel from neighboring towns to see the much discussed spectacle first staged in New York three years ago. Looking for a Wife at the Beatle theater offers a toned down farce with less bustle than press notices suggest.
The program features several clever vaudeville acts and runs for the remainder of the week plus a Saturday matinee. The show promises varied entertainment and lively performances.
The play A Minister's Son runs four more nights at the Third Avenue theater with a Saturday matinee, drawing both older and younger audiences.
The steamer Discovery remains unlocated with no news from the missing passengers. The Hertha, from Valdes and Cook Inlet, arrived with 1o passengers including Captain B Shaw and A G O Maddern. The Bertha carried 100 tons of copper ore and 90 tons of fish.
Lieut. Bilse, once obscure on the Franco German frontier, writes a revealing novel about army corruption in a garrison town. The book, In a Garrison Town, leads to six months imprisonment and dismissal from the army. The work portrays officers as cowards and cheaters and is understood to satirize Bilse's own regiment.
An advertisement from Dr Shoop offers his Rheumatic Cure on a one month trial for five dollars and fifty cents. He claims the remedy removes the disease cause from blood and aids even long standing cases, promising a refund if unsatisfied and suggesting contact by postal request for his book.
A Northwest store touts second-hand organs from $15 and pianos from $1% upward. It advertises a wide range of instruments including talking machines and accordions, with specials on new odd styles and sample pianos at savings up to $100. The Simplex Piano Player is highlighted as ready to entertain customers.
Dr A DP Mitten reports to the board of public works that a contractor has altered his corner property at Pourteenth Avenue and East Union Street. He claims a one foot subsidence near the sidewalk and fills in front and in the alley, with the building used as a bulkhead.
Mrs Kate Waller Barrett arrives in Seattle to lecture on the society's work at the Seattle theater Sunday afternoon and evening. The venue is offered by Florence Rosetta and Manager Howe with Roberta to begin her engagement that day. A reception at the Occidental hotel will follow hosted by the P OB Club Queen Anne Literary Club and city ministers. Barrett praised the Phinook Institution for its location and management.
Thomas Mason filed suit in the superior court for $25 000 claiming an electric shock while a patient at Beattie General Hospital. He says a nurse wrapped him in an electric blanket and left him. someone turned on extra voltage, leaving him permanently crippled.
James Brown and an unnamed man were seen carrying a trunk from a southern location to the waterfront shortly before midnight. Patrolmen Landwehr and Roesier confronted them. Brown’s partner dumped the trunk and fled, Brown was captured and jailed.
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