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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1917
Page
11
Macon Georgia on February 9 faces the potential loss of 20 or more sanitary department mules after they were bitten by a mule believed to have rabies. The yard held about 60 head, with the afflicted animal described as male and suspected of rabies.
The article profiles Daniel Cowan Jackling, dubbed Colonel, noting a $1 million yearly personal income and headquarters in Seattle with ties to San Francisco Salt Lake City New York and other stations. It traces his rise from a $250 a month Missouri School of Mines graduate to promoter of Utah Copper and other major mines, plus owning stakes in Pacific Steamship and ties to H F Alexander.
Betty Lee, a New York and Newport society singer, amassed $100,000 from Wall Street tips and now plans to return to Atlanta to live with her parents. She arrived in New York three years ago with $20, a guitar, and folk-song costumes, rose to society, saved money, bought stock on a banker's advice, and struck it rich. The American Institute of Architects fights the omnibus bill proposing $30,000,000 for public buildings.
Vintage warning and health ad urging mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for constipation in children and adults. It claims quick relief, gentle action, and a pleasant taste, advising readers to check tongue coating and seek genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Washington February 9 Livestock on farms and ranches is now valued at 6.685 billion dollars up from 6.021 billion last year an increase of about 664.6 million dollars reflecting higher living costs and US Bureau estimates.
Albany Minnesota February 9. Math Perne 250 pounds proprietor of a local tavern and Herman Cooper 145 pounds left the tavern after closing time. They slipped on the sidewalk and fell with Cooper under the heavier man. Cooper suffered three fractures in his leg.
Buenos Aires reports that Irigoyen moves to deploy the army as a gendarmerie to guard frontiers against contraband and collect revenues. A bill, once overlooked, is now pressed for swift passage as conscription faces cuts or abolition, meeting resistance from military and officials fearing job losses.
Carrie Bennett Pollard known as the Berlin beauty and a Vasaar graduate who vowed to disgrace her name after her father objected to a marriage to a Confederate officer has died in New Britain Connecticut at age seventy. Once reputed to be worth nearly one million dollars she spent decades trying to live up to her vow.
Hutchinson Kan February 9 A farmer J Pankratz arrested on a charge of reckless driving told the judge he had no money but would put up a case of eggs for his appearance. The bond was accepted.
A fragrant antiseptic cream promises instant relief from head colds and catarrh by clearing nasal passages. One small bottle applied in the nostrils soothes inflamed membranes and restores easy breathing, ending snuffling and headaches. Relief is advertised as immediate.
A group of twenty four or more congressmen plans a Alaska visit next June to mark the semi centennial of the Alaska purchase. The trip hinges on resolutions from EB C Hughes of the Alaska bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Hughes recently returned from Washington where he argued cases under federal employers liability act and Washington workmen's compensation law. He reports broad business confidence despite international tensions.
Credible financial circles report large withdrawals from Germany as tensions rise, with about two million dollars in gold moved abroad in expectation of an international relations rift.
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