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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1914
Page
2
A reader letter from Cynthia Grey discusses a stenographer living in a furnished room who asks if a male visitor may call in her apartment. The piece explores social rules about romantic visits for working women and the risk of losing a boyfriend if she refuses.
In December 1914 reports describe day and night fighting along the Vistula and Opoczno front near Warsaw. German assaults were repelled at most points, with heavy casualties on the Brura and Rawa rivers. Some pressure near Sochaczew and Skierniewice and along the Pilica front is noted as a crisis looms. General Francois seeks to resume movement southward from Mlawa amidst constrained German offensives.
Seattle theaters roll out a full New Year week with Disraeli at the Metropolitan and September Morn at the Moore. Georgia Minstrels open at the Seattle, plus vaudeville acts and Pan tage s sensational acts headed by Fred Duprez and H Guy Woodward.
Christiania Norway December 26 Reports from Lloyds of London show a six percent war risk insurance rate for British Norwegian conflict within a year, higher than for other nations. The surprise risk price follows Norway’s denial of England’s naval base request and fears of heightened Anglo Norwegian tensions.
An advertisement from Dexter Forton Trust and Savings Bank urges savings with the promise that a single dollar can double over time through compound interest. It emphasizes the certainty and ease of growing funds without additional effort.
The Hague December 26 The London Morning Post reports Prince Eitel Frederick as a potential Hungarian throne candidate. Delayed confirmation persists as Petrograd dispatches claim Kaiser Wilhelm favors his second son.
Rotterdam dispatch reports the Holland American liner Sommelsdyk arriving with 13 tons of cotton for Austrian hospitals. Extra clerks expedite parcel post transfer to Vienna and Budapest. The cotton follows a U.S. shipment noted by Wm G. Shepherd on UPI shortages for medical use.
Sophie Tucker headlined at the Empress theatre for a charity event aiding the chimney kids. The star sang tunefully while coordinating with volunteers to entertain hundreds, with county treasurer Will H Hanna assisting as a policeman to manage the crowd. The Star thanks donors, local dealers, the Firemen's band, Crawford White, Jimmie Crehan, the Y M C A, and dozens of volunteers for sorting toys, filling bags, and distributing gifts. Readouts show 3,600 toys and 4,500 oranges delivered, plus fruit cakes and tickets to a Washington theatre.
In Black Diamond a saloon quarrel led to Charles Dients being shot as bystanders watched. Antone Krall, a miner, was arrested and held at King County jail as investigators assess Dients wounds. Krall reportedly returned with a shotgun after a fight erupted.
Atchison Kan December 26 John Fortune a town postman has finished a map of the United States made entirely from cancelled postage stamps. The stamps are pasted on a five by nine foot canvas and trimmed to fit adjacent stamps. Different colors mark the original thirteen colonies and the territories acquired by purchase and annexation.
Mrs. Laura J. Talmadge of Fort Montgomery spotted three men in distress in the Hudson off Manitou while using field glasses. In a motorboat she pulled them aboard and brought them to Fort Montgomery, saving their lives.
Miss Gertrude D. Banks, 28, missing from friends’ home after Christmas day visit, was found dead in an unoccupied house in another part of the city. The body was found hanging from a gas fixture. she had been ill for some time.
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