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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1914
Page
11
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets to revive a failing stomach. It claims a tablet after meals becomes part of digestive fluids, strengthens stomach and intestines, and that one grain digests 3,000 grains of food. Price 69 cents. a week’s trial promises renewed stomach work.
County Commissioner Khat Knudsen refutes critiques by the Commercial Club Investigating Committee, stating he has not placed relatives on the payroll and that any family members in King County live at Juanita as his wife and daughter. He cites a 1913 levy only one mill higher than 1911 and attributes the rise to various social programs. He notes his district travel raises expenses and asserts accounts are open to public inspection.
Jefferson City dispatch notes George Washington Jump of 900 East Miller Street advertises for a wife weighing 200 pounds and not over 60 years old. Jump, 45, seeks a refined, good looking companion and owns property.
In a Washington briefing on February 20, Pel lagra, once unknown in the United States seven years ago, is now deemed by the Public Health Service a greater menace than leprosy. It has baffled officials, prompting Secretary McAdoo to likely seek congressional funding to establish a hospital for its study.
Capt Charlies Plaza of the Chilean navy arrives in Bellingham to oversee trials of the submarine Iquique, recently launched at Seattle.
A 4 year old girl named May Mieratorff arrived in Lewiston Idaho by parcel post from Grangeville to visit her grandmother Mrs. C G Vennigerhole. She weighs about 48 pounds and rode in the mail car with 82 cents in parcel post stamps attached to her coat. After the visit she will be returned to her parents by parcel post.
February 20 in Washington the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage refused the National American Woman Suffrage Association's bid for a merger.
An audience of several hundred saw the Campfire Girls of the Seat the Recreation and Playground league present playlets, a playfield work demonstration, and speeches at the Press Club theatre on Thursday night.
Mrs. Garda Mitchell sues Paget Sound Traction Light & Power Co. in superior court seeking 5322.50 after a rock hit her during a confrontation on a transit car. A conductor avoided injury as a passenger who had been ejected struck her.
Advertisement claims Hamburg Preast Tea, called Hamburger Brust Thee in German, cures a cold by steaming pores and relieving congestion. It instructs taking a spoonful with boiling water and sieving into a cup, noting it loosens the bowels and is inexpensive and harmless.
Live By a Staff Correspondent reports from Opelousas Louisiana on February 20 as two women insist the same child is theirs. Each mother says she bore, nursed, and loved the boy, while a judge weighs the ancient dilemma Solomon faced to determine rightful parentage.
A narrative reads that the biological mother would rather that the other woman have her child than see the child killed, illustrating a dramatic custody or violent conflict between parties.
Mrs Dunbar proclaims the boy found in Mississippi is her son, while Julia Anderson asserts ownership of the child. Walters faces jail as the case shifts toward a high profile battle of mothers over rightful parentage across Louisiana and Mississippi.
At a yesterday meeting in the Lyon building the Employers' association elected GN Skinner president, R B Fox vice president, W J Grambs treasurer, and John B Jones secretary. The group endorsed a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work and opposed the closed shop as un-American, favoring open shop principles.
Burglars attempted to crack a safe in the Spokane Graffi Co office on 4916 Fighthav Street S Wednesday morning but were scared away. J E Chilberg and James C Marmaduke returned to Seattle after a month away. Alfonso Fiores to be examined for sanity after his police scare. Lieut Robt Parker's court martial verdict forwarded to Washington. Frank McDermott of Bon Marche named director of the National Retail Dry Goods Association.
In Springfield Ohio on February 20 heirs of Ross P L Mitchell divided a $4 million estate by drawing numbered slips from a box after appraisers parceled the property. The three daughters received slips corresponding to their portions as the method chosen to settle the dispute.
The university faculty discussed Henry Landes, acting president, as the likely permanent head of the state school. A faculty meeting called by President O A Fechner endorsed Landes and a three member committee was appointed to confer with the regents on the selection.
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