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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1913
Page
3
A three part program features What Happened to Freckles and She Should Worry with a two reel feature. Dummies in New Jersey trigger a comic misfire at a hotel storeroom. Multiple theater listings follow with various two and four reel dramas comedies and news reels through Tuesday.
At Good Luck Tonight the lineup features Alkall Ike in Joyville a Ee sanay comedy The Warmakera two reel Vitagraph drama The Nuree at Mulberry Bend Kalem drama and Olympian Tonight presents The Lost Millionaire in two parts The Phoney Alarm and The Probationer.
Egg quotations hold at forty one cents a dozen to producers with no impact from Oriental storage eggs. Vegetable market shows only a cabbage top price rise while other items remain steady. Listing includes assorted produce and regional pricing details with minor corrections.
Mme Lotta Ashby Othick left New York concert life to sing in Northwest films at unprecedented pay. Friends warned of a ruined career, but she pursued teaching audiences to demand quality. Today Colonial theatre and Portland movie houses showcase higher music, with opera and ballet selections replacing ragtime.
Concord New Hampshire December reports Harry Thaw has reformed. He lives at the Eagle hotel under guard as judges consider his sanity and extradition from Matteawan. A commission will decide if he is sane enough to stand trial for conspiracy in escaping. If sane he faces New York trials and possible short term release.
Coyotes are numerous and bold in this area, often following poultry into yards. Turkeys are a major target as grasshopper shortages push the animals to feed far from their usual ranges in the Flint Hills around Pontiac.
Shanghai December 29 merchants and trade correspondents report the steady decline of American clothing favor in China. Many of the so called advanced dressers are returning to native costumes as the trend shifts.
Fort Wayne Indiana December 29 Valentine Welsenberger had his amputated leg buried with him after instructing the undertaker to embalm and preserve the limb. The leg was removed twelve years earlier and delivered to the undertaker for complete burial. In Yaria Indiana editor A H Sako of the Slavish Daily has begun issuing his paper in six languages to please polyglot readers. Copy readers seek new jobs.
In this excerpt Mrs. Waverly and her daughter clash over living on the opposite side of town. Dick shows a casual, humorous approach to life while Madge challenges his view and the idea of change. The narrator notes Dick’s tendency to adapt rather than overthink.
Fragmentary diary style note discusses a wedding and the writer's fear that the husband will try to shape his wife beyond the writer’s lighthearted view. The writer doubts whether Dick would find the writer suitable as a wife and notes a shift from sweetheart to spouse.
Observances held at the Bikur Cholim synagogue 17th avenue to celebrate Hanukka. Sunday night program featured addresses by Rabbit H. Gensa Rabat B. Shapiro and Simon L. Wiener with Hebrew school children participating.
The fifth annual rally of Baptist Young People's Societies of Western Washington will meet at the First Baptist Church on New Year’s Day. About five hundred delegates are expected. The session opens at 1 30 with a song service and short addresses. A banquet follows at 6 30 and all city Baptist churches gather for the evening session at 7.
Wilbur Atwill, cafe manager, was bitten top of his second finger by an oyster while selecting blue points for a customer in Washington. The accident highlights risks in bustling eateries.
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