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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1912
Page
2
Thirty years of square dealing highlighted by a Seattle bank advertisement. The First National Bank emphasizes fair, courteous service and safeguarding the interests of all clients as it discusses its long history serving the business community.
In Marion County Texas at Caddo Lake a clam yielded a pearl appraised at $1000. The find triggered a pearl hunt surge as amateur divers flooded the lake. The state Game Fish and Oyster department claimed jurisdiction and halted pearl hunting while a test case challenges the authority.
Refugees arriving in El Paso claim armed followers of Vasquez Gomez are seizing small towns in Chihuahua and growing stronger. A decisive battle with Maderistas is expected near Chihuahua City as Gomes faction appoints Brunlio Hernandez governor and Madero official Abram Gonzalez travels to rally forces.
John Jacoby a 76 year old Sugar Leaf Valley farmer who lost his wife in October was set to marry Helen Fagle a 56 year old widow from West Hazleton but relatives argued his advanced age and estate concerns. Jacoby applied for a marriage license but did not appear before the squire to lift it.
Mrs. C. Chopard testified that her husband gave her as much as 50 cents at a time in the past but now provides only a dime. In two years she received no clothing from him, and she won her decree in Fresno.
A pro ferry bond drive urges Seattle readers to support a $150000 league for Bellevue Lake Washington access. It argues the Kirkland Ferry’s public ownership benefits growers and residents, promises lower prices, new families, and tax value gains while condemning anonymous anti ferry circulars and private monopolies.
Oliver P. Newman recounts Woodrow Wilson using bold anti boss rhetoric to win New Jersey governorship in 1910. The article traces how Democratic leaders Smith Nugent and Davis steered his nomination despite warnings, and how Wilson pledged reform against corrupt boards and a bi partisan system.
A comic dialogue at a corner refreshment spot explains flats and apartments with two characters, Doc and Prof Snitz. They tour a four story flat and a brick apartment building, noting sizes costs and doors to life, ending with the idea of flats as democratic housing.
Four months after being refused a marriage license due to his minor status Frank Natta 19 and his sweetheart Lily Cabiale returned to obtain consent from his father then married. Natta had traveled to Italy to secure the written consent. The couple obtained the license and wed yesterday afternoon in Vancouver Washington.
President Taft and his cabinet considered Charles G. Nagel of St. Louis for the new associate justice seat to replace Justice Harlan. Nagel, 63, would be the secretary of commerce and labor, but his lack of judicial experience and age reduce his chances.
Samuel R. Timothy charged with slaying John J. Moore faces habeas corpus arguments tomorrow before Superior Judge Buck in Redwood City California. Concurrently Mrs Lillian L Moore acts to contest the will filed by Jefferson Moore restricting her inheritance to one dollar.
A candy maker C O Lee slipped his arm into a kettle of boiling sugar in Los Angeles and calmly asked for oil paper and blue baby ribbon before going to Receiving Hospital.
Boston report details Sidney Balcom a Rocky Ford teller who confessed to embezzling 1 2 from the First National Bank, claiming 800 went to a taxicab driver after a “good time” while his 23 year old status arouses police. Menlo Park club patrons told to drink only on the north porch due to county dry limit.
Chicago February 9 members of the Political Equality league will answer phone calls with the shout Votes for women instead of the greeting Hello. The change aims to promote suffrage messaging as calls are opened.
Complete returns from Wednesday's municipal election show John A. McCuen, Republican, defeating incumbent M B McCullum by about 100 votes for the Duluth mayoralty in Duluth Minnesota.
Mutineers from Juarez arrive with heavy and smaller artillery in Juarez as Mexican troops march from Bagie Pass into El Paso. Police report a likelihood of clashes as rurales defend Juarez and cross the international bridge.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, told reporters in Glasgow that Britain's naval supremacy is essential to preserve the empire. He urged continuing a robust naval program regardless of other nations, stating England will raise its ratio if others expand their fleets.
Elena story reports Mrs. M. Marks lost her finger after a wedding ring caught on an iron spike while closing a cemetery gate from a moving buggy. The ring had been worn 53 years and was cost by the accident.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria traveled to the flood scene in the empire's southwest to oversee rescue and relief. The Manzarr es river swelled beyond any prior levels, with hundreds dead and thousands of acres inundated.
A. W. Ballard, president of Arizona's largest gas and electric company, died after shooting himself twice through the heart. His body was found slumped in a chair at his desk, health cited as the likely cause of the act.
Jaisini Gaekwar, heir apparent to Baroda, India, completes his A.B. at Harvard in three and a half years, instead of four, and plans to return to India. The Cambridge report notes his swift academic progress and royal status amid the February 9 dispatch.
Mrs Margaret Ernestine Wheeler-Kountze Miller Fauser of New York has applied to Justice Hotchkiss for a separation from her fifth husband. The filing marks another chapter in a high profile marriage history.
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