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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1910
Page
4
An unclear fragment discusses a fortunate woman in Retistance area receiving care daily at a hospital. Mentions Rose awakening sympathy from strangers and offers of shared housing and material aid to support her recovery during difficult days.
In Aberdeen Washington on February 7 the comic pairing Dillye Anatio and Hause-John perform as The Village Detective and the Truant Officer. They lampoon the Gohl case with frames about Anstie’s whisky display and nightly patrols in saloons, while John House his sidekick aids the farce.
Police investigate three steamship stewards Alfred Parkin Son Harry Dietz and George W Ebder after their bodies are found in a gas filled room at the Ancon hotel near the waterfront. Officials describe the deaths as from gas exposure in peculiar circumstances.
In Alameda California, Roman Pritachopf a Russian, reportedly fired five bullets into his head before hanging himself from a transom bar. He then reloaded his pistol and continued attempts to die, with bullets found lodged in his brain after his death.
New Orleans sources say Mrs Ruseetl plans to depart for Lee Allen San Francisco and Pacific points, joined by Major and Mrs Stephen Blocum. In Moscow Ida Albert Bloecker, 14, faces charges of arson against his father’s property after alleged attempts to burn multiple buildings. New York reports a severe cold wave hitting Atlantic seaboard cities. Los Angeles notes a troubling medical incident following a lodge tragedy with Mrs A Lutes expected to recover.
W. Hay, held in the city jail on 24000 bail, reiterates he acted of his own will as he faces charges including issuing forged checks in excess of his bank official duties and obtaining stock certificates under false pretenses.
The article reports that house, the Lifeboat Bedhouse and the Bouton house housed scores of men not entitled to register. It cites office buildings, Japanese barber ships, grocery stores and restaurants used as addresses for dummy voters.
George Davies posed as a prosperous business person and rented a residence in Kent. He passed counterfeit checks on Merrifield Hardware and Kent Hardware, netting $24 cash and $16 in goods before disappearing. Alterations planned by the rental agents were halted. Dance at Dreamland tonight with free admission.
A grand Chinese New Year celebration starts at midnight with light and noise in the Chinese quarter. Merchants prepare lavish banquets and extra tables as society guests join for the festive noodle and chop suey, with many returning from abroad to share in ten days of revelry.
Marie Cahill won an injunction from Judge Leonard Hand barring Charles K Harris from releasing his woodpecker song with a chorus resembling Silvio Hein’s Arab Love Gang. The ruling found the melodies similar and protected Cahill and Hein’s copyrights as being inviolate.
The public demanded ragtime melodies even as some found them degrading. He then granted the injunction, signaling an official action to curb or regulate the issue.
In Baltimore Johns Hopkins hospital Maj Gen Leonard Wood lies in serious condition after a head injury from a fall from his horse. Gen J Franklin Bell, former chief of staff, is receiving treatment and Wood may need an operation as officials report. In Madagascar Oregon a young woman shot J B Haney then killed herself, believed to be a domestic dispute.
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