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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1913
Page
5
Readers submit personal questions on etiquette and relationships. The column offers cautious guidance on fare splitting, secret marriages, suitors, apprentices, gifts, and age questions with emphasis on honesty, practicality, and personal responsibility.
The ad touts Seventy seven as a cure all from Dr. Humphries system of medicine. It urges readers to obtain the Medical Book and a copy of the Manual for treatment guidance. The Dollar Flask holds six twenty five cent vials and is sold by druggists or mailed from Humphrey's Homeo Medicine Co New York.
W T S McCleary, a 45 year old Toledo barber, writes to Connecticut authorities offering to die in place of Bessie Wakefield to comfort her children. He says he is lonely, has no one who cares, and would gladly sacrifice his life to ease the family’s grief. He requests a few days to settle affairs before reporting to prison.
English brain expert Dr Maurice De Fleury reports a discovery of a love serum that could cure severe passion. He used electrical recordings to chart the love state and says separation from the object of passion plus the serum can break the "passional intoxication."
Alumni push a statewide campaign to urge Theodore Roosevelt to lead the university. Plans aim to gather 100000 to 250000 signatures on a petition directed to Roosevelt, with Deputy Prosecutor Kennedy spearheading efforts to organize alumni support.
In Judge Ronald's court Charles Harris, charged with first degree murder for the July 1912 killing of James Hammond at the gas plant, is found not guilty by reason of insanity. The verdict was delivered shortly before noon. Harris will be confined to the insane ward of the penitentiary or to the state asylum.
Comptroller Harry Carroll released a printed statement detailing the city budget for 1914 totaling 5,521,830.63 dollars. Taxation will raise 4,213,049.08 dollars, with 1,514,781.55 dollars from departmental revenues led by the light and water department at 786,791.63 dollars.
In Seattle the Superior Court overruled a motion to arrest a judgment of 500 dollars in a misbranding canned tongue case. Judge Alberteon ordered payment, while Deputy Prosecutor Crawford E. Whits advocated against the motion and prevailed in the state's meat selling case.
The Chamber of Commerce voted to provide $2,000 to its Alaska bureau to promote the railroad bill in Congress. The bureau may send part of the chamber’s library, including lantern slides and data, to Washington, D. C.
Forgery suspect W F Gordon wanted in Seattle was arrested last night in San Francisco and will be sent to Seattle for trial. He was found with Mrs Emma Tompkins who fled her husband Maj J W Tompkins, former warden of San Quentin, when Gordon was released.
Gentlemen's bath facility announced at Moore Theatre Building offering Turkish and Russian baths. Operated by Wm Wicklund and staff including graduate Dr Eiselberg from Stockholm and Hilmer Peterson, a graduate of Prof Unman's Stockholm institute.
Reverend Wilbert R. Howell of the Puget Sound Baptist mission will address Green Lake Baptist Church Sunday morning and evening. Separately, Prof Notzing declares ghosts real, describing them as teleplasma a smoky, cobweblike substance.
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