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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1910
Page
6
The article notes new roles and leadership assignments in a forthcoming Seattle stock company to be unveiled next week. It mentions Bobby Burne and T Daniel Frawley as actors entering vaudeville after a recent stock season, with Frawley debuting in a Mt. Vernon sketch on a Monday night.
The piece lists stage personnel and plans including the Harold Nelson stock company moving to Kelltingham, a new prison of Zenda opening, John J. Crome recalling past performances in Baltimore, and various names tied to current and upcoming productions and private entertainments.
The article notes scenery fragments dated 187 remain in excellent condition despite age. They have seen occasional exhibition in New York and will be carefully preserved henceforth as a restoration effort.
The Real Column Show offers items at low prices with stated bargain rates. One property listed at $400 was worth $1,200 previously, signaling urgent sale by an owner needing money now. The column promises many other bargains in The Star today.
Local column cites a North Pacific wreck near Mutte that affected several acts opening at the Majestic next Monday. The piece also notes gossip about Warfield statements and fashion in high society events, mentioning Gresett and attire debates.
Leigh Bruckart leaves the journal trade a decade after retirement from practice amid a quiet note of remembrance and reflection on a career in journalism.
J. P. Sullivan alias J. P Pearce was found dead in his bed at a lodging house on 1418 Eighth Avenue. A defective gas pipe caused a slight gas presence in the room and may have affected his weak heart. The coroner will investigate.
Farmers are urged to use free stalls at the Sanitary Public Market to display vegetables. They should arrange for space promptly to take advantage of the provided display area.
C Graves appointed to succeed Gifford Pinchot as forester of the United States on February 1. He long allied with Pinchot in the forestry bureau and at the Vanderbilt estate in Milmore North Carolina. Graves, native of Marietta Ohio, studied in New England and Europe and graduated near the top of his Yale class. He will lead scientific and theoretical work while A F Potter handles practical duties. Potter, a former cattleman from California, has years of field experience. Graves is praised as equal in scientific knowledge to any forester.
New York reports Chas Frohman plans a mid ocean production of The Climax starring Marie Boro aboard the Cunard liner Mauretania on Feb 11. The voyage will be two to three days out from New York as Frohman prepares a London engagement at the Globe theatre later in the month.
An alleged tasteless treatment secretly administered by a woman in tea or coffee is promoted as a cure for drunkenness. The ad claims thousands of successful cases, offers a free trial pack, and urges readers to prove its effect before sending a coupon.
Detective C A Taylor of San Francisco brings John Adams, the year old son of L A Adams, and nurse Nora McLaughlin back to his mother in PABO Texas. Nat Murphy, Adams private secretary, is alleged to have helped abduct the boy from his mother as Adams is said to be heir to about 900000. The boy disappeared January 26 on his way to school and Taylor traced Murphy to this city before locating the child. The divorce custody ruling had given the mother custody of the boy. Final decree not yet issued.
Vienna Austria February 3 news reports a milk boycott as the milk trust raises prices prompting local shoppers to rally with concerns over dairy costs and market control.
Authorities discuss organizing a mantel dairy to supply milk at a fixed moderate price. The milk trust curbs consumption and forces surplus milk into butter or cream. The producers consumers clash intensifies as the trust builds a war chest.
Public indignation rises as a levy of one fiftieth of a cent per quart of milk is proposed to fund a $20,000 annual pot. Agrarians clash with residents over prices, signaling a lengthy, bitter fight.
The Northwestern Mutual Fire Association of Seattle reports a 7 percent overall profit for policy holders after a 66 percent cash dividend on annual dwelling and farm policies. The group carried 18 percent of premiums to cash surplus, and claims are secured by cash resources more than five times the losses expected, based on nine years of experience.
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