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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1917
Page
8
A sensational mercantile notice proclaims 400 000 will be informed of a collapse at the Palace Clothing Company store with stock at deeply cut prices. Wholesale or retail sale of men’s shirts socks collars underwear shoes and more, with prices slashed from one to five dollars and beyond.
In Spring Grove, Pa., Elwood Shive, a trapper, searched ten days for a missing cat and finally found it alive after thawing, reviving curiosity about the odd recovery.
In a muskrat trap the cat appeared frozen to death. Shive carried the trap home placing it near a stove. About two hours later a faint meow came from the supposedly dead cat, revealing it was alive.
After a friend showed Blanche C Ripley photograph a wager of $100 was made with Harry Bronson to marry the girl before 6 pm the next day Bronson accepted and after a phone call to the nurse in Sioux Falls the couple were married early the following morning
In Sunbury Pennsylvania on February 1 a remarriage ties two former sweethearts. Annie R Bailet née Bailet now Mrs Hailet after earlier marriage to L H Varnes ended by estrangement. Reunited in Marysville they rekindled romance and plan marriage now.
Phoenix February 2 Mrs Pauline ONeill assemblywoman from Maricopa County may run for governor or Congress friends praise her as a keynote speaker and political analyst Her Washington visit in 1911 aided the cause for statehood She supported the prohibition push and campaigned actively It notes her marriages to Capt Buckey ONeill and Eugene Brady ONeill and mentions Louis Seagraves leaving University of Washington to work as a bond salesman in Portland
North Dakota lawmakers urged to pass a law granting bonuses to parents raising large families. State health board cites a sharp decline in family sizes shown by vital statistics.
A letter from O. Kihlstrom defends birth control advocacy led by Mrs Ethel Byrne, arguing for humane reforms and bottom-up reconstruction of society. A mother writes of virtuous girls and generational views, praising open discussion and criticizing excessive puritanism in a long exchange with Miss Grey.
A vintage advert promises Marmola Prescription Tablets reduce two to four pounds weekly without exercise or dieting. It urges readers to visit a druggist or write to Marmola Co. in Detroit for a 75 cent large case, claiming harmless effects and quick results.
A jury in Superior Judge Smith's department heard arguments Thursday over F. A. Black a barber from the Imperial hotel on Fourth Ave between Union and Prietts. The case questions whether he was in the business of raising the fallen or soliciting patronage for fallen women.
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