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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
2
Rescue teams comb Goodwin sands today for Cecil Grace the aviator who disappeared after attempting to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais. Grace was blown off course by a strong air current during the return flight.
William H Moody, 57, former U S Supreme Court justice, is noted as one of the tribunal’s most energetic and democratic members. Friends recall his belief that a supreme judge should be as human as a hodcarrier.
Mrs Lillian Ashley Turnbull resumes testimony in her daughter's case seeking a share of the Lucky Baldwin estate. The cross examination is expected to wrap tonight or tomorrow as McNab continues probing and Turnbull deflects with references to law and her associations with lawyers.
New York report says James Wallace, president of the Central Trust Co, received a $30,000 bonus tucked in his sock as Christmas gratitude from directors. The note adds call cards sold at 50 cents per hundred and lists the Union stone address.
December 23, 1783 reports Washington surrendering his commission and retiring to Mount Vernon. He later resumes leadership as president of the new republic. Also noted are: Alva Sands’ death in Tacoma, Christmas seal sales for the Anti Tuberculosis League, and various local notices on bids for dredging, university meeting plans, and holiday events.
Seven men and three women aged 45 to 65 stripped and rolled in snow in a back yard at Evanston to renew youth. The women and men were separated by an eight foot fence as they lobbed snow balls. Dr Henry B Lane runs Kosmos Physical Culture sanitarium endorsing nudity with sun and snow cures.
Dr. Meyer, appointed by Taft to replace Knapp on the Interstate Commerce Commission, is a Wisconsin university product, a renowned sociologist and railroad valuations expert. He has served as special agent for the census bureau and now joins the commission. Dance at Dreesmland tonight.
In Columbus Indiana on December 21, Anna Snotemeter testified that husband Charles Snotemeter had not bathed in two months as grounds for divorce on cruel and inhuman treatment. She said she herself baths weekly and continued cross examination on the same ground.
A December dispatch from Juneau reports an ice famine in central Alaska. Letters show demand rising in Iditarod where mail sellers were offering 9.50 dollars per hundred pounds, about ten cents per pound.
Day after day readers write that a Seattle trip is impractical yet ignore journeys to major cities for surgeons. The Regal Dental Offices promote a dental method, arguing a full digestive system relies on healthy teeth. They promise a written guarantee and urge readers to visit their Seattle area clinic.
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