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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
8
The Star presents the country’s only hobo college in Chicago, a facility for hoboes and unemployed men. Photographer Darborough captures Miss Mary O'Reilly teaching English and Michael Walsh, the superintendent, listening to an admission plea from a prospective student.
Gen. Gonzales of Juarez pledged full help to deserters reaching Mexican soil after accusing Gen. Bell of refusing to return Col. Luis Comaduran. Bell said he lacked authority to detain him, citing civil and political jurisdiction. The Juarez claim followed repeated requests for assistance in repatriating the escaped commander.
Haas began as an office boy for the Public Utilities company in Evansville Indiana twenty three years ago and has just been appointed general manager of the firm.
The Cherokee princess Wah-Let Ke returns to Grand audiences starting Wednesday with mind reading and a new sketch A Woman's Friend by Abrams and Johns. Varied acts follow including Downs and Willis novelty dancing Milano and Dell musical novelty and The Andree Sisters in Harmony. The Fox stars Theda Bara and Stuart Holmes appear in Her Double Life. A legal brief from Des Moines argues a barber's Sunday shop open is a right akin to mule labor.
Police swooped on Spence Thompson’s soft drink shop at 626 Sixth Ave 8 Tuesday night at 11 pm. Investigators exchanged marked coins for alcohol, Thompson was arrested and released on 590 bail. Ginger ale and water were taken to headquarters to be sold with proceeds earmarked for the school fund.
Miss Bertha Rhodes, 18, interrupted a burglar at 1726 Harverd Ave on a Tuesday evening. He fled after dropping a roll of stolen clothing. The intruder had already ransacked C. A. Coryell’s apartment, taking two rings a bracelet and a watch worth $600.
T. V. Madden, 64, a foreman of Milwaukee switching crew, was killed at work near Whatcom avenue and Massachusetts street Tuesday evening. He rode on the engine foot board when it collided with a Northern Pacific freight backing up. Engineer R. E. Arnold says the NP train had no light on its rear. The engine was derailed and Madden died en route to the hospital. He left a wife and two daughters at 2632 23rd Ave. W.
A short health note links mood to digestion and liver function suggesting that an upset stomach or inactive liver causes sadness. It claims improving digestion and bile flow will lift spirits and encourages a remedy.
Frederic Karl Struve president of the Seattle National Bank filed an answer to the recon a suit started by John Davis seeking $50 000 Struve denies conspiring with Vincent D Miller to steal Davis customers and notes he owns 49 percent of John Davis & Co stock and likens his stake in Miller to a parent and child relationship
After three hours of deliberation Judge Mackintosh's court acquitted Dick Fleming of conducting a public nuisance at his dance hall 416 Fifth Ave. He was the first of nine dance hall proprietors indicted by the King county grand jury to face trial. Berlin dispatch reports strong artillery and patrol activity at violated points on the Somme East Meuse and Champagne sectors in today’s official statement.
The French general Berthelot, head of allied troops in Romania, asked for recall. A majority of British officers with the Romanian general staff are returning to England. Russian general Effler had a long conference with the Romanian king and was to report to the czar.
Harry J. Kent of the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co told members of the First Methodist Episcopal Brotherhood during marine night that ninety ocean going vessels are in the course of construction in Pacific Northwest ports.
Seattle shipbuilders have orders for three more four masted fir schooners of 1000 tons not registered. Total cost between 950000 and 1000000 dollars. George F. Thorndyke, ship broker, acting for Eastern agents, obtained bids and will announce builders and clients later.
Frank C. Jones, a clerk at the Vulcan hotel on Sixth Avenue, was jailed after police investigated a guest loss. He is charged with taking a $78 deposit, not making a receipt, and quitting.
The Soesoehoenan of Solo admitted at a Washington hotel that he paid 3,000,000 guilders for jewelry from G. T. Sanders, a Dutch diamond salesman. He spoke while en route home to Amsterdam after a commercial conquest of the Dutch East Indies.
A ferry boat moving cars across a Washington river is run by raising rear wheels and linking them with belts to machinery that drives the paddle wheels and propeller.
Seattle Elks will host a Santa party for about 1,500 children under 11 next Sunday afternoon in their club rooms. Street car company provides free transport to and from the event. Doors open at 2 p.m. Children may submit their addresses to the Elks committee for admission.
Russian bat talion assaults on the east bank of the Golden Bistritza river failed according to the war office. Artillery volleys increased at certain points on the Macedonian front as reported.
Halifax reports Captain Patterson and six crewmen of the American schooner William Mason are believed dead after a storm along the Atlantic coast. Two bodies and cabin wreckage washed ashore, confirming loss of the vessel and its crew.
Official dispatch cites heavy artillery activity around Louvemont and Chambrettes farms north of Verdun with continued bombardment noted in today's report.
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