Enterprising Triplets Seize What They Deserve
A brief, punchy note reports three siblings who acted boldly to secure a deserved outcome. The item highlights their initiative and the apparent success obtained through resourceful measures.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1911
Page
3
A brief, punchy note reports three siblings who acted boldly to secure a deserved outcome. The item highlights their initiative and the apparent success obtained through resourceful measures.
An influential advertisement pushes rapid, inexpensive facial improvement by outward application to purify impure blood and rid disfiguring blemishes and pimples, urging readers to seek immediate attention to their skin.
Beecham's Pills marketed as a natural internal aid to the system. They claim to stimulate the liver and bowels, remove impurities, improve blood and appearance, and are presented as a thoroughly tested family remedy.
A. Smith, a chauffeur, charged with excessive speeding after his car collided head on with the Gould auto on Westlake Avenue at 10 last night. Gould, manager of the Gould McMullen Lambert Co., had bought his car for 9500. Four accompanying youths were booked for drunken and disorderly conduct.
In Columbus on December 16 the plan calls for direct primaries to elect at least 42 of Ohio’s 48 delegates to both major party conventions. Amendment to primary laws curbs boss control, with 21 congressional districts voting for congressional candidates and national delegates. Progressives aim to nominate delegates pledging against Taft and to gauge La Follette support, while six at large delegates remain undetermined.
Senator Robert M. La Follette leaves Washington for a campaign tour of Ohio and the Midwest to seek the republican nomination. He will speak in Youngstown at noon tomorrow and deliver twelve speeches across the state with Medill McCormick and Walter Howser. His key Ohio address is planned for Cleveland tomorrow night and he may speak in Cincinnati Sunday.
Police seek Abe Lausandros after an ante mortem statement accusing him of shooting Rita Jesto a young Mexican woman who lies dying at Harbor Hospital. The crime followed a quarrel sparked by threats the woman would leave Lausandros.
A local market page lists fresh eastern butter native apples naval oranges and various meats including dressed beef pork and mutton with per unit prices and weights. The sheet also shows poultry live ducks geese and other farm products such as onions carrots turnips cabbage lettuce and tomatoes with assorted quantities and sale terms.
Pasadena begins its annual New Year Harvest Home parade with a carnival of natural roses and living flowers. The event honors orange ripening, features a chariot race with twelve California horses, and ends with a tournament queen selection and grand stand review at Tournament Park.
In San Francisco a woman named Mrs. Samuel Smart accuses Rudolph Seltzen, a cleaner, of petty larceny over a goat fur coat once given by her grandmother. Seltzen recounts how the coat passed through many hands from charity to butcher to grocer and other trades before returning to the shoemaker wife for three coats.
Daniel McNeal reportedly held the long distance eating record after a Christmas dinner at Mouquin's in New York lasting nine hours. He began at 10 a.m. and planned to dine until a Boston friend arrived, but police interrupted when the friend failed to appear.
In a newspaper office Andrew McConnell opened fire on his wife before being captured. He was writing at a typewriter when the shooting occurred. Police detained him as the incident unfolded at the newsroom.
The article reports a magazine writer and lecturer under arrest in Ocean Grove. He is charged with felonious wounding of his wife. his sanity will be inquired into. A rambling typed confession suggests marital troubles and accusations of insanity. Mrs McConnell is not seriously hurt.
A Christmas tree fire in the Russian Greek settlement in San Francisco caused $8,000 in damage, destroyed three buildings and left about a score of families homeless. Police officers Villever and J. D. Earnest helped locate sleeping children in the rear of a burning home and ensured everyone escaped unharmed.
The Vatican announces a spring consistory to create several new cardinals. Four nominees are favored, three of them foreign, potentially shifting Italian influence in the Sacred College. Names include Monsignor Helle, the Lisbon patriarch, Archbishop Von Wettering of Utrecht, and Father Herie, a German.
We have 300 acres from which to choose. This land lies one half mile from Lake Washington shore with elevations from 200 to 450 feet. Much of it is level black fertile soil ideal for fruits vegetables berries. Some areas have alder and cedar but most is easily cleared and offers fine view acres free of gravel.
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