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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1915
Page
8
Mrs Minnie Schmitz awoke her husband and confessed she used his necktie to kill her 17 year old daughter Gertrude after a quarrel over the girl's night companionship. George Schmitz said the act arose from temporary insanity as he mourned his child. Police arrested the mother.
Mrs. Julia Adams grandmother of actress Maud Adams died on Tuesday in Salt Lake City.
Edward Mitchell, 60, was assaulted by a thug with a club at about 30 a.m. Wednesday as he left his residence at 3609 22nd Ave W. He is in a city hospital in precarious condition and had $27 stolen during the attack.
Guidance on placing forks in order of use with the farthest from the plate first. Do not cut salad with a knife and use bread to manage salad spatter. Use spoons to stir and test beverage temperature. Sit and rise from the left, and align chairs with the tablecloth edge.
Col. Alexander W. Swanis, a government engineer constructing the Alaska railroad from Seward, died at his Alameda home at age 64. He had just returned from Alaska a month earlier and was en route to Washington.
Gladys Storey recalls England’s recruitment efforts in an interview with Mary Boyle O’Reilly. She argues conscription is unnecessary as public awareness grows that every man is needed for the war effort. She notes posters and press coverage shaped opinion, with the “Your King and Country Need You” campaign dominant.
Mise Gladys Storey, daughter of the famed royal academician, is highlighted as the British War Office’s most successful and only officially recognized recruiter.
The speaker urges practical recruitment by women across the empire explaining how a single woman can influence one man to enlist. He describes meeting potential soldiers in shops and cricket grounds, convincing them with sober talk about state support for dependents, and stresses that only American women faced coercive recruitment for Armageddon.
A reader notes that cotton lerepe can make effective dish towels at low cost and requires no ironing. Canton flannel is suggested while sale prices hold, offering easy polishing for floors silver woodwork zincs linoleum and enamel frames. It also mentions using fabric to cover a bird during a window opening or at night.
Holdings of the Home Telephone and Telegraph company in Chehalis were sold to the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company on Tuesday. The local plant, owned by Mrs. Mary Ke Coffman, featured modern equipment and facilities.
The Christmas festival of the German MBH will be held with a Sunday school program on December 26 at 7 30. Children are prepared to perform and German friends are invited to join at 14 Howest. for the Christmas service on December 26 at 10 30 a m.
Dwight Carper a Pe Ell school boy wandered barefoot through rain and mud in a sleepless midnight jaunt. A crowd of about 75 followed as he ran over cinder roads and water holes before being put to bed at Martell Muller's home. He woke hours later with no memory of the event.
Lafayette Indiana December 22 local doctors face a puzzling Tippecanoe county case Alfred Noble aged 20 reportedly lost human sense two weeks ago and developed canine instincts growling barking biting objects police overpowered him and he is confined in a straitjacket at the county jail
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