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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1911
Page
2
A Detroit physician promotes a fat reducing mix claiming the ounce package can be taken after meals with peppermint tea to slim without exercise. He asserts the formula aids digestion and clears skin while letting users eat normally.
In Portland on December 14 United Press reports 12 year old Francia Clifford donated skin from one leg to save his grandmother Mrs John Condon who was hit by a car and left with crushed legs and torn skin. Doctors feared knee bending loss and planned further skin grafting from his other leg.
Captain Elliott C. Hadley, lighthouse keeper at Baker's Island five miles offshore, appeals to the Salem school board to send a teacher for his three children. He declares he is a U S citizen and that the government demands his children attend school, urging the board to act.
A hoaxer placed an ad seeking a wife drawing about 100 replies from women in Wroble area. About 20 young women gathered at a street corner in De, Pennsylvania, each assuming she was the only respondent. The prank caused a comic, embarrassing scene for those involved.
Plans were accepted in San Francisco for a memorial tower of the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. The tower will rise 850 feet, making it the world’s tallest building aside from Paris’s Eiffel Tower. It will be a permanent structure and returned to the city after the exposition ends.
SAN FRANCISCO December 14 The bribery case against Eugene Schmitz former mayor of San Francisco for taking sixty thousand dollars from street railways and twenty thousand from the gas company will be brought to a conclusion on Saturday The district attorney office announced they will press to trial at once or dismiss Schmitz attorneys served notice a week ago they will use a sixty day clause in the law to delay if desired
Tugs race to reach the steamer Delhi stranded on a reef near Cape Spartele. The ship carries about $1,000,000 in mail and bullion as a gale rages and fears grow of further damage.
Dispatches from Berlin report the deposed Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid critically ill in Constantinople after being moved from Salonika prison. Recovery chances are described as slim.
Harvard football men hold back on electing a captain next year as players recover from injuries. Capt. Fisher bears a black eye and teammates show facial blemishes from recent games, delaying the usual formal selection.
In San Francisco Harold Levy 16, son of juror Jacob Levy, was revealed as a key defense witness in the Otto C. Jossen seduction case. Judge Lawlor dismissed the jury and ordered a new panel after confirming the conflict of interest.
Lard has more than doubled. Flour and tea cost a trifle less than formerly. The item notes reflect price shifts in common staples.
Special dispatches from St. Petersburg say Persia plans to dismiss W. Morgan Shuster, the American treasurer general, and to indemnify Russia for losses linked to his fiscal reform. The report is unconfirmed and doubted in London.
London reports from December 14 detail a Co operative Wholesale Society survey noting a 25 percent rise in flying costs since 1898. The report also shows bacon and ham near doubling, butter up from 23 to 26 cents, and cheese higher by two cents.
In Paris on December 14 M Faili eres president of the republic has a double who proudly resembles the illustrious figure. He imitates the president in dress wearing a blue tie with white spots and walks daily in the Champs Elysees and Faubourg Honour with two nephews. The real president also traverses the same route with two household members. Citizens raise hats as the double and nephews pass and he answers salutations.
Rufus Sanderson of Anacortes searches for his wife and three children who vanished two weeks ago after he left for work. A rumor says the mother may have taken the children to Seattle to place them in a home, possibly under her maiden name Ethel Lake. Gus Sanderson, grandfather, seeks information and can be contacted at 619 Siet N. or via The Star office.
King George presided over a grand review in Delhi with 61 000 British and native soldiers and levies marching past the royal pavilion. The event directed by General Bir O Moore Creagh included three infantry divisions, three cavalry brigades, 1000 volunteers and 7000 Imperial Service troops despite plans for 100000 men being trimmed by weather and transport issues.
A U S grand jury in Indianapolis opened a secret investigation into alleged dynamiting plots tied to the McNamara arrest and confession. Only government employees may approach the grand jury room within 300 feet as Detective William J. Burne is expected to be among the first witnesses.
Washington dispatches report that a majority of Republican national committeemen acknowledged a serious error in rejecting Borah's proposal to back primaries in states without mandatory primary laws. Separately, Henry Ehlen's home at 6010 22nd Ave. was destroyed by fire last night, with the hydrant six blocks away and damages around 3000 dollars, insured for 2500.
In Everett Washington police and Seattle officers search for a smooth faced shabby youth who robbed the Riverside branch of the Bank of Commerce taking 1500 dollars. Bookkeeper F Kroeger stood helpless as the gunman demanded cash and fled down an alley with the loot. No clues yet in this daring daytime heist.
A prototype aero car sits on the trestles at the Bleriot works in Paris built for Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe. It resembles a luxury taxicab with large monoplane wings and a rear motor a 100 horsepower Gnome engine. The driver sits outside with a spare seat on the left. The body accommodates four passengers with cane sprung seating.
A cafe on Tenth Street and Becond Avenue showed a woman's enamel gold watch found in the crop of a twenty five pound turkey. The bird was part of a Walter Jennings Vermont poultry shipment. The chef reports a bulge in the crop during dressing and retrieved the watch.
Denver officials plan a full investigation into the acquittal of Mrs. Gertrude Patterson for the murder of her husband Charles A. Patterson. The Bar Association will summon Prosecutor Benson and Judge Hilton as it reviews possible improper means in obtaining the verdict.
Fourteen hours after her husband died in Laurel Delaware Mrs Mary E Collins died from grief. The couple both over seventy years old had lived together for more than fifty years and will be buried in the same grave.
The German cruiser Siemen left Norfolk for Santo Domingo but turned back after realizing its barber was left ashore. The Bremen contacted the German consul, who chartered a tug to locate the barber. The tug met the Bremen off Hatteras and delivered the barber to the ship.
Four men in a Pittsburg hotel bar watched a large turtle, destined for soup, grab a twenty dollar bill from a man who claimed it was doped. The turtle chewed the bill before the man could intervene, drawing quiet amusement from onlookers.
Springfield high school students who waylay peers with girls at social functions and remove their socks will be expelled if identified. The faculty issued the decree after numerous complaints.
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