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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1913
Page
1
The report details a religious sect led by Rev A Dahlstrum with 26 wives and children, tied to alleged white slave law violations. It describes refugees from Chihuahua arriving in El Paso and notes Dahlstrum’s various marriages, elopements, and ongoing investigations by U S court authorities and detective agencies in Seattle and Tacoma.
The mayor toured Sunday night crowds of about 1 200 men lacking a dime for a flop and sleeping on bare floors at Providence hospital and Open Door. He noted hundreds more in lodging houses and 500 fed with Mulligan at Providence hospital and Salvation Army. He urged rapid provision to Providence, Salvation Army and Open Door.
Senor de La Barre Mexican minister to France arrived in Tokio as a national guest with honor. Ostensibly to thank Japan for participation in Mexico's exhibition two years ago, rumors say he sought a Mexican Japanese alliance.
A lantern in the berths of the halibut schooner Bertha overturned and exploded at 1 15 this afternoon causing a fire in the engine room while the vessel was docked for repairs between Luna Park and the King and Wing shipyards. One engineer suffered severe facial burns as fireboats Snoqualmie and Duwamish aided by West Seattle firefighters battled the blaze.
Charles Wappenstein former chief of police, pardoned by Gov Lister, thanks The Star and many friends in Seattle. He and his family celebrate with a reunion, explore housing and work options, and plan to remain in Seattle until after the New Year.
The Star highlights a Christmas Gift Bargain page featuring 40 ads each selling a gift at $1.00. Merchants showcase their best $1.00 gifts with a wide range of descriptions to aid last minute shoppers. Look to page 6 for affordable items and buy now.
Police seek a thief who stole four overcoats yesterday from Plymouth Congregational Church at Sixth and University. Reported by F. W. Fowler and W. O. Adams of the YMCA.
The steamer Jeanie went ashore on Calvert Island last Thursday and is reported a total wreck. The vessel has been abandoned to underwriters. The mail was saved but cargo valued around 15000 dollars will probably be a total loss.
Washington reports indicate Congress will pass the joint conference committee compromise on the currency bill. President Wilson is expected to sign tonight and then depart for a three week vacation in Vass, Christian, Mississippi. The plan removes a senate deposit‑insurance fund, sets regional bank minimums at 4 million dollars, and allows new federal reserve notes as bank reserves. Opposition in the senate over the insurance fund persisted.
Firemen battled a stubborn blaze at early morning in a Walker building warehouse housing United States Rubber Co stock valued at 75 000 with 25 000 blaze loss. Reynolda Electric Co stock on the ground floor suffered about 6 000 damage while Walker building losses reached 4 000. Total insured loss estimated at 25 000 with stock and building valued around 35 000.
An advertisement touts Hyatt-Fowells Hook Keeping and shorthand as costing a trifle more and taking longer, but delivering superior results and real value from Hyatt-Fowells Behod at 4th and Pine.
The U S Supreme Court today dismissed the appeal of the Seattle Renton and Southern Railway Co from a Washington Supreme Court decree directing transfers to and from Seattle Electric Co within city limits on a one half fare basis. The transfer exchange had been a condition in both franchises but had been ignored for years.
This first issue of The Star art pennants offers a Billie Burke themed coupon and 20 cents to redeem a pennant at The Star offices or branches. Mail option priced at twenty five cents.
A narrator and photographer Jake debate gender roles while observing a fashionable woman in a fur trimmed dress with bare throat and chest. The piece parodies male bravado and asserts the speaker’s claim to dominance, ending with a reaffirmation of masculine strength despite unsettling sight.
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