Father slays son and then kills self in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a 50 year old Samuel P. Ayres fatally shoots his 22 year old son Joseph at the Sherman hotel and then dies by suicide. Police link grief over his wife’s death to the act as the two men had recently moved from Boston and bought a ranch near Beaumont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Los Angeles
Joseph
Sherman
Samuel P. Ayres
Boston
Hatel
Joseph Ayres
Ayres
Sen
Beaumont
Wm. ©. Leeds
Italians Riot as Montreal Screens War Film
Moving pictures depicting the Tripoli war sparked a riot as Italian crowds protested in Montreal. A theater on St Lawrence Boulevard showed the film briefly before Italians tore down signs, clashed with ushers, and forced the proprietor to halt the screening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
United States
Tripoli
St. Lawrence Boulevard
Schmitz Bribery Trial Set for January 5 in San Francisco
Former Mayor Eugene E Schmitz trial on bribery charges tied to trolley cases scheduled to begin January 5. Judge Lawler approved the date at the district attorney’s request. Schmitz appeared with counsel Frank Drew who objected to delaying the case. his objection was overruled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schmitz
San Francisco
Eugene E Schmitz
Lawler
Frank Drew
Drew
Bold Bandits Rob Train Near Cherry Station
Two masked bandits held up a Southern Pacific freight train at Cherry station near Oakland early today. They robbed Brakeman F. C. Rancher of 90 dollars in cash and a gold watch before escaping. authorities believe the culprits fled to Oakland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cal
Dee
Southern Pacific
Cherry Station
Here
F. C
Married at 13 and Divorced at 18 in King County
A Kansas City Leavenworth tale shows Nellie Jane, aged 13, winning a divorce after alleging cruelty and abandonment by Byron James Peter won. She supported herself as a dressmaker and testified in court. Other divorces include Donna Michaels, Bertha Hildebrandt, and several listed pairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Fens Messee
Kansas City
Nellie Jane
Millice
Cascarets Claim Quick Relief For Digestive Ailments
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a remedy for headaches biliousness upset stomach lazy liver and constipation. It promises cleansing of the stomach and bowels overnight with no griping and discounts a box at 10 cents from druggists.
Trial for murder of little girl in O rnville California
W W Tyler brother in law of Arthur Lewis testified as chief witness in the murder trial over Helen Rumball who was found hanging at Gridley last June. He recounted being halted on the road by Lewis who cried that Helen was dead and to come at once. He located the body on a bed at the Rumball home and retrieved a board from the chimney area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ornyville
Cal
Dee
W. W. Tyler
Arthur Lewis
Litthe
Helen Ramiball
Gridley
Lewia
Helen
Rumball
Witnesses dispute room occupancy at child death inquest
Lewin accompanied the man as he stretched the corpse. Tyler challenged Dr. J. B. Turner of Gridley, first physician at the scene after the child’s death. Turner testified Mrs. Tyler was present. the defense seeks to impeach that testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewin
Tyler
J. B. Turner
Gridley
Widow Wins Court Ruling Against Coal Company
Judge Ronald refused to prohibit Anna Davies and her two babies from pursuing a $20,000 damage suit until she pays the costs from a prior case. The widow, whose husband Thomas Davies died in Cumberland mines on December 30, 1910, had gathered needed evidence and challenged the company’s restraining action. The ruling favors the widow and her children, allowing the new suit to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel BE. Preston
Willard Oh. Hilderbrandt
Hallard
Hildebrandt
Walter C. Goodley
Etta M. Goodley
Fred MacDonald
Lena MacDonald
Cordelia K. Fouts
James C. Fouts
Cassie McDonald
E. M. McDonald
Ethel M. Little
Alfred G. Little
J. B. Brown
Jane Bergina Brown
Minnie Mayfield
Herbert Mayfield
L. C. Porter
Clarisse H. M. Porter
Mary EB. Beechey
Thomas B. Beechey
Ronald
Rose Marshall Coal Company
Anna Davies
Thomas Davies
Cumberland
Sait
Babes
Brandeis Testifies On Trust Prosecution Immunity
Attorney Louis D. Brandeis told the Senate Commerce Committee that a trust might claim immunity from prosecution if a subsidiary is found to be a trust. He argued that if one component of a corporation is guilty, the entire trust could not be prosecuted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Senate Committee On Commerce Today
Louis D. Brandeis
Boston
Clapp
Brandeis
Odd Bits of News From Across The Nation
A rural mutterings laced dispatch notes Butler Pennsylvania’s famed 29 year old rooster hen the oldest in Butler county has died after a lengthy life. J W Hutchinson reports the fowl raised a hundred turkeys and many more chickens. A drunken husband in Oklahoma is killed by his son after violent abuse prompting a likely non arrest for the youth. Maria Simpson Claryman a Stephenson County resident since 1837 marked her 101st birthday in Cedarville. Sun Yat Sen departed Penang for China as China’s rebellion language shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler, Pa
Diddy
Butler County
J. W. Hutchinson
Pontiac, Al--Mra
Maria Simpson Claryman
Stephenson County
Cedarville
Prince Arthur to be viceroy in India and lord lieutenant
London reports claim Prince Arthur of Connaught will succeed Viceroy Hardinge in Delhi while King George and Queen Mary visit India. The rumor also suggests he may be named lord lieutenant of Ireland, a connection not explained in the dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hardinge
India
Delhi
King George
Queen Mary
Prince Arthur of
Connaught
George
Prince Arthur
Ireland
Captain May Gets Pardon Effort For O'Brien Worded Appeal
Captain W. P. O'Brien, returning from Honolulu, rushed to Seattle to surrender after Supreme Court denied his appeal of a five to ten year sentence. Donors from the city offer help for a pardon while jurors from his trial may be petitioned to back the governor. At the county jail he found sympathy among jailers and deputies as the seasoned seaman reflects on his act, claiming no criminal intent in the August 1 shooting of Alexander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. O'Bfrien
Honolulu
San Francisco
Seattle
Supreme Court
Puebla
O’trien
Alexander
Spokane
Quincy
Kay M
Knox says no aid needed for Shuster in Persia
Secretary of State Knox reports Congress has no obligation to aid W Morgan Shuster the American financial minister of Persia following a conference with Congressman Sulser Knox says no personal danger threatens Shusters post and no further action is required from Congress
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
W. Morgan Shuster
Persia
State Knox
Sulser
Knox
Shuster
Youngster Treated for Hunger Reunited After Island Wander
A Galveston report recounts Svearald Geo Hartman, age unknown, who vanished from a camp near Sel kirk Island after two days with panthers and other wildlife. After a two hour manhunt the boy was found alive and returned to his father despite fears of drowning in the Colorado river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Galveston
Tex
Selkirk Island
Svearald Geo Hartman
Colorado
Llane County
Star witness in $25,000 damage suit carried into court
In Tacoma on December 16, the sole key witness in Joe Belick vs. Carbon Hill Coal Co. appeared as a whitened skeleton carried by attorney Frank Nell. The silent figure revealed how Belick sustained a back injury, yet offered no spoken testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Joe Belick
Carbon Hill Coal Company
Frank Nell
Belick
Wiestling Case Stands Disbarment Status Remains
Judge Main today left the disbarment ruling against Frank G B Wiestling in effect until April 5 1912. On that date he may show cause why the disbarment should be modified. Wiestling was found guilty of using a gun to threaten backers of a prosecutor in the last campaign. He claimed he was doped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiestling
Main
Frank GB
Wieling
Whestling
Public Markets Westlake Market Prices Listed
Good ham 15 16 cents per pound. Eastern bacon 17 cents. Pickled pork 18 cents. Corn beef 8 cents. Lamb cuts range from 5 to 40 cents. Porterhouse 18 cents. Boiling beef 8 cents. Bologna 10 cents. Dried ham 50 cents. Dried beef zero dollars, kidneys to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westlake
Cottage Butte
Sanitary Market Price List Highlights Meats and Staples
The listing shows prices for various staples and meats including veal steak 16 cents per pound, hamburger 10 cents per pound, lamb shoulder 7 cents per pound, first grade Jersey butter 36 cents, 8 large cans tomatoes 26 cents, 7 pounds pure cane sugar 1.45, macaroni and spaghetti 6 cents per pound, and other items such as peanut butter 20 cents per pound and large pails of pure leaf tea 5 cents. Compares lower and higher price items across categories in a compact market catalog.
Multifaceted Memorial and Business Notices
A compact ad page lists funeral directors, legal notices, matrimonial bureau, remodeling services, tailoring and sewing, employment ads for barbers, engineers, and janitors, plus housing and room rentals. It also promotes a North Carolina farm land prospect and a land sale brokerage offering immediate occupancy terms.
Cheap acreage and chicken ranch ads flood Phinney area
A flood of classified style notices lists five acre plots near Lake Union and near Shoreline with prices around 300, 500 and 2,900 dollars. Advertisers tout easy terms, level land with muck bottom, waterfront options near Anacortes and Mason County, plus a Seattle office address for Burke and Farrar in Kirkland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pps
Great
Stone & Webster Peer
New Ear Ole Hanson & CO
New York
Mason County
Shelton
Summit
Seattle
Chas L Winker
Kamilone
Wash
Anacortes
Pacific
Housing offers and land for sale around Seattle area
An assortment of rental and sale notices including a homestead near Lake Washington with a new house and well, a celery and vegetable farm, cleared garden lots, and several small cottage and building lots. Listings offer low down payments, monthly terms, car and ferry routes to offices, and nearby transit. Various doctors and services advertised in the same listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gon
Seattle
Madison Electric
Kirkland Ferry
Kirkland
Burke & Farrar
Cherry St
Fine View Tract
Ferry Landing
Collins & Son
Jerma
Geo
Aiken
Marion Tide
Lake Washington
Teron
Mr. Tate
Washington
Ottom Land
Austen
Kelly Co
Madison
Rick
Pioneer Uare
Renton
Matheason Sta
Achool
Uice
Say” Investment CO
Colman
White River Valley
L. C. Gitzen
Car
Latona Ar
Green Lake
Buewher
Green Lake District
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mich
John W. Sparting
Cyril
Robt. A. McGregor
McGregor
Mies Margaret Gibbs
Port Huron
Fred L. Blackmon
Alabama
Kansas
Donna Michaels
Monte W. Preston
Cascarets
Wewoka
Okio
Ge Lovell
Bhanghai
Sun Yat Sen
Penang
China
Singapore
Elgin
Doe Bruin
Hirgin
Doe
THE
Seattle Star
Ballard Av
Quaker
Pike At
Trady
Firet
Tear Spring St
Aia
NEW Today
Mike Cohn
Pike St. Ind
Danetin
Prof
Raber
Union Mavinae & Trot Company
Heattle, Ton
Cherry Seceet
Beatie
King County
Weahbire
Tay Ly
Carhier
Mraarry Grant Picea
Rentom
Eek
Ist
Honney-Watson Co
University
Pike
Duncan Maconald
Firntav
Ind
Verry
Dior
Calman Dock
Ja. Smith
Tadion
Alco
Orthern Tanka
Pavian
Ashington
A. Sandell
Opte Court House
Gavin
West
National Barbe College
Oriental
Os — Olympic
Weaterway
Pike and
Union
Third Av
Pike St
Spring St
W. Cramer
A. Adérecs
Joan Davin & Company
Larne & Soem
Wake Wy
Westlake Av
HL K. Apts
Pike Et
Denny
Niele
Leely
North
California
K Powers
Mallard Av
Ballard
Wes Ant
ST Boston
Carolina
Bastern
North Carolina
van Leuven
Southern Bing
Wilington, N. C
Wahast & Wheeler
Colman Block
Clifford
Furniah
Madjon Electric
Meatile
Ened County
Star
Bpokone
City Real Estate
N. W. Phinney Av
W. Woodland
AGRES
85Th
Olmatead
87Th
Greenwood
Beattle
Reattie
Lake Buriew Property
New Lake
A. K. Wylde
Wainwright & MelLeod
West Seattle
J. Th. Kiefer
Downs
Sturtevant ‘Co
Boston Block
Columbia
Columbia St
Centra Beattle Trust Company
Santure
Furnitur
Snow Casse
Featore and Office Furniture Co., First Av
Furnitur Coppa Apl
Fullerton Furniture
Vuidez Purn
Firat Av
Kalem
Pine
Pike Place
A. Sundwall
Per Fremontay
Meyer-Tower
W. Voorhees
Canadian Bank OF Commerce
Toronto
Canada
G. W. Holt
Mer
Athelman
Western Av
Bellabie
N.Y
A. W. Kline
COL
White Building
Kavanaugh
J. Speckert
Notary x Uc
le Hones
Reevena Nein Ponsany
Joseph Allen
Lawa
J. Beedle
Boston Bik
J. P. Ball
Burke
GA. Townsend
Bailey
Thor
G. L. Cycle Works
FE Pike
Opticians
W. Edmunds
Oph. D
Io- Setrian
Leary M
Nom. Cook
Arcade
Mullinnix
Liberty
Globe
Tat
Sun
Wino F
Lumber Exchange
Dalton
Askinas
Tenttorney
Henry Block
Barnes & Go
Hoge
Adams & Brooks
Central Building
BR. Spellman
Jyersey
Senort
Union Vans
ST. Te Ide
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!