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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1912
Page
3
An old ad touts Pape's Cold Compound as a cure for grippe with fast relief from head and chest symptoms. The piece also promotes Regal Dental Offices by R. Clark, D. DO. S. manager, highlighting large clean facilities and a one price system with gold or never slip plates.
Washington headlines recount a playful clash over the inaugural chairmanship for the 1913 ceremony. Mrs chairwoman, wife of the chosen leader, gains publicity while the chairman receives limited recognition and duties. President-elect Wilson had not yet named his choice.
M Galli president of the Paris city council urged War Minister Millerand to enforce the 1892 law ensuring wheat provisioning in wartime. He warned that if war were declared Paris would be without bread in three or four days.
Archbishop Timothy Casey, recently moved from New Brunswick to Vancouver, was presented with the recently discovered Raphael painting Mary and the Infant Child. Casey, a leading Dominion art collector, has a collection valued near one million dollars as he travels to Boston.
Mrs J P Harlan of Amity Oregon was taken to a hospital in Corvallis after ten days of constant sleep. The woman now shows signs of araenic poisoning, with serious condition and weight loss but a continuous smile as if dreaming.
In St. Joseph Missouri December 10 C H Mayer a Democrat won the circuit bench in November but W K Amick a Republican refuses to surrender the seat Amick was appointed by Governor Hadley to fill the vacancy created when L J Eastin resigned two years ago Eastins term would have ended in 1914 and Amick says he was appointed to complete that term
In Crowley Louisiana two inmates died in a jail fire set to aid an escape. William Collier of Los Angeles and an unidentified companion perished in their cells. a third man escaped as the cell door burned after the blaze was put out.
Autodata drivers ignore a new traffic ordinance that prohibits passing street cars loading or unloading passengers. The article notes women drivers are most frequent offenders and highlights electric vehicles among the violators.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur hair remedy promises to darken faded gray hair and restore youthful color. It claims to treat dandruff, dry itchy scalp, and falling hair and offers a fifty cent bottle with a money back guarantee through druggists including Owl Drug Co.
Fragmentary notice recalls a past production depicting Jesus in the temple as part of a life of Christ scenes. The text hints at a retrospective show tied to Christmas programming and a film company involved in an earlier release.
Washington dispatch outlines Taft’s push for rewards for government officials and contrasts it with a senate wariness. It notes postmaster appointments, diplomats, and judges, plus campaign anecdotes about Victor Murdock, and references to Tawney Boutell Kerens Wilson Herrick as examples of political patronage and rewards.
Dr. Condon reports that Bob Moray was sentenced to hang on January 16, 1913, for shooting Virgie Mart, a Condon girl who rejected his love. He remained calm and offered that, if Mrs Shell, the sister of the girl, were jailed, all the trouble would end.
Fred Knapp, alias Fred W Morrow, a former Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. operator, was arrested on the Bear steamer’s arrival. Detectives with Pinkerton support recovered three payroll checks and $640 in cash. Knapp reportedly fled north with several pay stubs.
Paris reports medical examiners concluded Mme Beguery was a hypochondriac not terminally ill. They said her death resulted from nerves, not an incurable disease, revealing the husband head of an insurance company killed her after she asked. He surrendered to authorities.
E P Marshall reports his wife left his bed and board claiming he is not responsible for her debts. She counters that the bed was straw and he never furnished any board.
Chicago inventor Milton E. Peck reports successful tests of a spoon that cannot remain in the cup a napkin that cannot be raised from the table a finger bowl that cannot be used as a cup a knife that will not enter the mouth and a chair with legs that cannot be entwined by a diner in his December 10 release.
The page lists average cow prices paid by local commission merchants to producers and selling prices paid by retailers to commissioners. Prices vary with freshness and quality, covering meat cuts, pork products, poultry, and produce. Regional items include grapes, cranberries, lettuce, potatoes, carrots, and various grains with approximate values noted.
A historically framed home remedy claims to mix one pint sugar and water with Pinex to create an inexpensive cough syrup. It asserts quick relief for coughs, throat irritation, and bronchial issues, with a money back guarantee and instructions to obtain Pinex from druggists or direct from The nex Co. Ft Wayne.
H C Newman a Portland garage keeper wandered from home during a memory lapse caused by a head injury and was missing as police across the Northwest searched for him. He later telephoned his wife in Portland and returned with his family.
In New York on December 10 Gen. Daniel Sickles faces foreclosure as Bowery Savings Bank sues to recover $118,000 on his home mortgage. His wife and others are named as defendants while she previously helped him resist auction sales to cover debts.
Miss Le Ola Maylion appeared as attorney and quickly secured a favorable result. She presented Woelly Hiboeh Drabaeff, a Russian, with the claim he should use the name Mick Zebeck, which the court accepted as his new name and allowed the change.
Fifteen African American cotton workers from nearby farms report being held up and robbed of over $100 and valuables by two crippled highwaymen on crutches. Two suspects are in custody in Bixby, Tulsa County.
In St Louis on December 10 Robert E F Lee a business agent of a plasterers union killed Frederick Staake with a blow to the jaw. Staake died on the sidewalk after being struck and Lee was arrested.
Governor elect George H Hodges promises women will receive official appointments after Kansas' suffrage amendment passed by a large majority He says he will start by giving women some of the state offices and notes men already granted them the ballot This signals a push to place women in appointive roles in Kansas government.
The Brooklyn Improvement club debated whether widowers with children qualify for a pension. Mrs. Robert H. Tate, vice president of the Oregon Congress of Mothers, presented the mothers pension law and sought its endorsement at the Portland meeting.
George J. MacKenzie, manager of the Metropolitan theatre in Winnipeg, reports two new theatres secured for the Klaw Erlanger circuit. One venue will serve Calgary and the other Edmonton, broadening the circuit’s western distribution.
A white Wyandotte named King Pat, holder of a blue ribbon, is pampered daily at the Pike Place Market Washington State Poultry Show. He receives meticulous grooming and baths, while his brother Vandettes watches. King Pat, valued at 100 to 125 dollars, could net 500 to 1,000 dollars for his owner over his lifetime. The show displays birds from bantams to turkeys as crowds gather to observe.
Daniel Cowan Jackling arrives from Salt Lake City declaring the country will remain prosperous. The copper king of America, VP and GM of copper properties, railroads, and banks, visits Seattle to inspect a private yacht under construction at Dry Dock & Construction Co. The yacht, costing 400000 dollars, will be completed next June and be the largest on the Pacific.
An advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe pleasant digestant. It claims the remedy aids digestion, liver and bowels, reduces constipation and biliousness, and trains stomach muscles. Free samples are offered by mail from Dr W B Caldwell of Monticello Illinois.
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