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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
8
In Olympia the Supreme Court will hear whether Miss Marie Caffrey should lose her teaching job. Principal Miss Mary Kelley and the school board had sided with firing her after a dispute over a plane, with a superior court also supporting dismissal.
Thirty eight men mainly university students work at the post office to handle the holiday mail. Half a dozen mailing tables with scales and wrapping paper are set in the hall to speed service for the rush.
The theater round up lists Moore presenting Polly of the Circus at AT THE THEATRES, Metropolitan offering Dark, Seattle presenting The Barrier, Alhambra with Photoplays and vaudeville, Orpheum featuring Cressy and Dayne with vaudeville, Empress with Fun at Sea and vaudeville, Pantages with The Surf Bath and vaudeville, Grand with vaudeville and motion pictures, Clemmers and Melbourne presenting Photoplays.
Olympia December 18 Judge George W Sampson remains in court as hearings set for Friday on an order to show cause against Superior Court Judge Albertson of King County Sampson seeks to overturn Albertson s ruling that his total vote of 18 on November 6 did not qualify him for the superior court judgeship
Rev. Hugh Elmer Brown new pastor of Pilgrim Congregational church in Seattle urges life to be played by rules with training coaching and fair play. A Whitman College athlete and former Hartford pastor, Brown, age 30, uses sports to teach discipline and leadership to his young parishioners.
The International Institute of Music of New York offers a free complete home study course for piano organ violin mandolin guitar cornet banjo cello or sight singing with weekly lessons. A small postage and music sheet fee about 14 cents a week is charged, and readers are asked to recommend the institute to friends.
News from Eugene Oregon reports the death of Nancy Whittaker 84 widow of Oregon's first governor. The brief obituary notes her passing and references her historical connection, with no further details.
Hamilton Benn of London announced at the Washington hotel that a London syndicate he heads has acquired the Ocean Falls Pulp Co assets including the pulp mill saw mill and townsite valued at 6000 dollars. The plant lies 875 miles north of Vancouver and will market pulp on the Pacific coast the Orient and in Australia under new management.
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