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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
10
Paris fashion makers fear German and English styles are supplanting French trends. A committee of Paris artists and women of fashion may advise designers as eccentric models and discomfort of present styles erode French supremacy. The jupe culotte harem skirt is blamed for damaging French fashion reputation.
Byron Phelps to be county auditor after Judge Albertson ordered Quigley to name specific misconduct by election officials. Quigley failed to provide evidence, claiming a frame among 391 officials. He trailed by about 600 votes on the returns.
Mrs John Jacob Astor, widow of Col Astor, has installed a full beauty parlor in her $2,000,000 New York town house. The room includes electric massage devices for chest and shoulders, a soft cheek massager, a gold plated hollow comb with spray, a bleaching machine, and abundant manicure and coiffure tools.
The Times football team meets Ballard next Sunday for the city championship. Ballard defeated Fremont Kent Rainier Valley and Renton, while the Times demand strong play. In other news Captain Ww. C. Ross of San Francisco dies at the Waldorf Astoria from heart failure. his baggage hints at a mining background.
Albert Kroll known as the boy bandit confessed to five successful holdups. He says hunger drove his crimes and that in every case he could not obtain enough food to last even a day. Officers had nabbed him as he started to eat after a victim invited him to a meal.
President John Eschelman of the state railroad commission denounces Southern Pacific President Wm. Sproule for a San Francisco Chamber of Commerce speech. Eschelman says railroads are engineering a campaign to discredit regulation and vows regulation will continue to be effective.
Mrs. Chas. Becker wife of a former police lieutenant now in Sing Sing testified to a grand jury that in August a man named McCormick tried to extort 250 dollars by offering to secure favorable testimony for her husband.
Pittsburg dispatch reports scores of occupants were rescued from Library Place as a blaze destroyed the building. About 200 people were inside when the fire broke out. a falling cornice injured nine, including four firemen and one policeman.
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