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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1914
Page
2
Charity organizations report aid to thousands with varied actions. Chief Lang marks 49th birthday while distributing cigars. Salvation Army helps 200 families. Arctic club hosts Christmas dinner. Reports detail drownings, fires, deaths, and legal notices across multiple cities.
At Brighton Beach New York on December 25 members of the Polar Bear Club braved the snow for their first snow bath of the season. Grace Mott posed in a velvet neckband and diamond pendant while George Simpson dressed in an ankle-length suit and bathing attire.
Petrograd reports detail the Brzura crossing battles near Rawa and Sochaczew. German Wurtemburg units from France suffered heavy losses totaling twelve hundred as Siberian and Russian forces repelled repeated assaults and captured positions, cannons, and machine guns.
Police continue to hunt two wounded suspects who blasted the Metropolitan laundry at 2219 Ninth Ave and fired on officers. A man bought bandages and peroxide at Fagle pharmacy at Sixth and Jackson Jr. while Swift’s pharmacy on Second and Pike reported a similar sighting as detectives sweep the area.
Deputy Prosecutor Butler alleges Mrs. A B Levy of Seattle Hotel Help Association devised a plan to charge applicants two dollars for a journal, the Western Hotel Reporter, as a job prerequisite. Witness Harry Ward says he paid for the paper and was directed to the Altmont hotel. Judges Gilbert and Neterer upheld the initiative law as protecting citizens from fraud. Cushman dissented. An appeal will be filed.
Samuel Crukalas died at the city hospital on Christmas Eve after a Tuesday shooting in which he said he would identify his assailant. He told Detective Majewski the shooter was known to him and planned revenge, recounting a lure to South Park for a land deal before being wounded.
Berlin dispatches say Turkish forces have occupied most of the Northeast Persian province of Azerbaijan and threaten Julfa. The reports describe advancing units and growing concern over Persian defenses amid ongoing regional fighting.
Bernice De Pasquali and John McCormack performed at Lotta's Fountain drawing an estimated crowd of 100,900 in San Francisco on December 25 as Mime and vocalist acts.
Claire McDonald ten, daughter of Mrs. Roy McDonald of 1405 13th Ave N, lies at Providence Hospital with a broken leg after an auto struck her Thursday night at East Union Street and 21st Avenue. Two passing machines were nearby. one was A J Barash of 006 33rd Ave, who says his car did not hit anyone. The other driver is unidentified.
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