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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1916
Page
5
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets touted as a vegetable liver and bowel aid to replace calomel. Advert says they create a bright complexion and improved energy, claim no dangerous after effects, priced at 10 and 25 cents with a large number of boxes sold yearly. Also lists assorted agricultural products with prices.
Miss Veronica Williams running a hotel news stand in New York is surprised when Pedro Pineri, back from Mexico City, offers a 50 peso Carranza note for an evening paper. He adds another note and tells her to keep the change if any.
Nellie Nichols, famed comedienne, headlines the week at the Alhambra in vaudeville. Orpheum and Palace houses showings include Naughty Rebecca at Moore and a Ballet Russe program with Experience. A Help Wanted act joins Orpheum Vaudeville and other musical offerings at Oak venues.
Grand Os-KoMon stars in a Sunday program with Allen Strickfaden and company offering a comedy sketch Her Own Mother. The Southbecks sing a novelty act and Florence Merritt performs. Also features The Diamond From the Sky chapter and a $10,000 prize for the best ending of the photo. ALHAMBRA liners Nellie V. Nichols opens with Will Some One Name My Nationality. Multiple acts follow including The Five Belgian Girls and Tiny Burnett. London-styled vaudeville continues through the week at various Seattle venues.
A. B. Farquhar of York, Pa says postwar rebuilding will boost demand for American machinery in France and Belgium. He notes German destruction and urges France to buy American equipment while also reciprocating by purchasing superior French products. He predicts strong postwar trade if US firms seize the opportunity.
The Moore theatre at Second Ave and Virginia St will be leased to the Washington Hotel and Improvement Co and show traveling theatrical attractions. George Hood, assistant general manager of the Northwestern Theatrical Association, continues as manager.
The inquiry explains pasha as a Turkish rank and notes there are several pashas. It confirms Belfast shipyard is larger than Cork's. A reader asks for Christmas gift ideas with a graded price list ranging from 5 to 1 dollars for practical items and books.
Frances Louise Tracy Morgan widow of J. P. Morgan is reported critically ill at her Highland Falls New York summer home. The quiet former New York socialite, mother of four and grandmother of eleven, had shunned publicity since her 1865 marriage to the famed banker.
Charles F. Brummett, a Renton area farmer, sues King County for $2 075 over the stallion King Bee the horse valued at $4 000 before June 15 last broke a bone spavin after a fall through a defective Renton Junction bridge in King County court filings.
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