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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1911
Page
8
In a playful courtroom poem, a narrator ridicules aggressive anti-trust crusaders who break Standard Oil into pieces. The speaker argues the fractured trusts become one in effect, and that the ultimate beneficiary remains the consumer while aims center on paper, wheat, and steel.
Local observers praised Lombardi Grand Opera Company for La Boheme at the Moore with a fresh cast. Manuel Salazar as Rodolfo and Ida Fass as Mimi stood out among strong soloists. Adalgisa Giana’s Musetta drew praise for sweetness and stage craft.
A list of grocery prices at Western markets shows German breakfast cheese two for five cents, limburger and cheddar varieties, butter, eggs, sausages, and assorted produce priced per pound or sack. The notice promotes The Bon Marche as a Christmas store with Western Collection Co located at 423 N. Main, phone 6169.
The Seattle poultry show features smaller flat coop concepts for hens and tiered chicken housing. Birds are displayed in refined coops while spectators enjoy the exhibit. Secretary Charles Burnett Jr plans 500 fresh-laid eggs donated daily to the Tuberculosis association if approved.
Moore The Lombardi Opera Co presents Carmen. Metropolitan hosts Dark Wednesday night with a male glee club. Seattie features Dave Lewis in Don't Lie to Your Wife. Lois performs La Tosca. Orpheum Pantages Empress offer vaudeville and Grand shows with motion pictures.
Pittsburg December report states most of the $50,000 in jewels stolen from Mrs. Wm. Thaw Jr.’s home last winter has been recovered. Mrs. Thaw paid $20,000 for their return. The Bon Marche advertises women’s $50 tailored suits for $20 Thursday.
A large assembly met at the Green Lake school last night under the Home Economic club auspices. A women's Maces meeting occurred this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church with Rev Matthews addressing religious and civic questions. Thomas Corson of Seattle died at Victoria yesterday after an appendicitis operation.
The keel of the Sol Due to be renamed Queen of the Sound was laid by Moran Bros for Inland Navigation Company without ceremony yesterday. It is planned for service start June 1.
A Seattle section meeting of the American Mining Congress will be held at the Arctic club tomorrow noon. Mrs Corinne Wilson, a real estate broker, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S district court yesterday with liabilities of 10064.49 dollars. The N P North Coast Limited will run straight through to Chicago after December 17, no longer terminating at St Paul.
The December 13 1862 report recalls the Fredericksburg assault in which Lees Confederate lines repelled Union soldiers. Casualties reach about 1500 dead and 9000 wounded with one third of Union troops on Marye’s Hill. Burnside sought further fighting next day but cooler heads prevailed.
The Wisconsin Republican chairman Kenneth Mackintosh and W R G Willcox address the University Community club at the university branch library tonight to discuss the municipal plan report. John C Lawrence, chair of the public service commission, spoke to Pilgrim Congregational church men last night about a telephone monopoly idea and Seattle. F Walden will lecture at the YMCA on How the Tree Grows explaining plant life and growth.
Members of the Trinity Parish Men’s club will hear RK. HM. Thomson discuss his plane for the port of Seattle. A dinner precedes the address at 6 16 in the church crypt.
Forty Australian boys sent by their government and one American will arrive Friday. They will be met at the depot by 150 Broadway students and escorted to the M. M. A. where Mayor Dilling will address them. Monday evening the boys will give exercises at the Broadway school.
New York reports Mrs. Lilian E Garden seeks alimony from 1883 settlement at 12 weekly. Chicago notes divorce bid over absence of bath. Other items include electric sidewalk causing shoppers pain in Chicago, gold deposits near Fort Snelling, G A R election in Ballard, Caruso’s donation to Missiano’s widow, and a roller polo debut in St. Louis.
Basement Salesroom displays women’s kid gloves in white and tan and black with self color stitching at 85 cents a pair. Kids’ kid gauntlets in tan, lined or unlined, finish with deep cuff at 1.00 a pair. Children’s golf gloves in navy red brown with fancy backs and mittens in white red blue pink at 25 and 35 cents a pair.
OMEN S INITIALED LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS come in a wreath design boxed in six for 1 00. CHILDREN S INITIALED HAND KERCHIEFS are white with colored borders in a gift box for 15. WOMEN S SHEER LINEN ALPINE EMBROIDERED HANDKERCHIEFS and Swiss border designs are 15 each. WOMEN S SHEER SHAMROCK LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS six in an attractive box for 75.
Outing flannel gowns in pink or blue and white stripe patterns priced 50 and 75 cents, long and full with feather edge or embroidered scallop neck details. LONG FLANNEL ETTE NEGLIGEES $1.50 in Empire style with square collar and patterned border. Blanket cloth bath robes and outing flannel undercoats also offered. Basement Satesraq.
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