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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1916
Page
3
Herbert Quick argues Colombia deal buys an Atrato River route as insurance against rivals like Nicaragua and Panama. He says the $25 million payment protects a $400 million U S investment and cites Senate disclosures by Stone about state department archives.
A speaker argued that Germany seeks Mole St. Nicholas in Haiti to control approaches to the Panama canal. He warned that failure to secure key bases could lead to war and the abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine, urging resistance rather than allow foreign nations to gain these lands and concessions.
A narrator writes to Margie about happiness and misery from a Paris visit. She recalls past encounters with an artist Jacques and a romance with Max, describing creative work, flash memories, and a growing obsession with love as she faces uncertain future.
Patrolman Fisk identified a stolen car as it passed Friday night and ordered the chauffeur to halt. When the driver did not stop, the officer opened fire. The vehicle, owned by H D Barrett, had been taken from Sixth Ave and Seneca Ave. Two men fled a block later and escaped.
Rio de Janeiro prepares for the March Mardi Gras carnival with a grand spectacle. Officials estimate perfume siphons bring in about $1,000,000 from crowd use last year as revelers flood the streets in festive mood.
London Feb 26 Berlin presses urge prompt demand to release interned Teuton ships. Portuguese authorities admit they expect Germany to declare war on Portugal.
Beginning Sunday the American theatre debuts Farnham’s six act Race death by own action a bold critique of birth control debate. Rex Beach’s Neer Do-Well screens as Rex Rex Beach with Kathryn Williams Wheeler Oakman and others. Catspaw at Strand stars Kittridge St John and Roxane Bellairs in a social intrigue ending with a bank robbery. Jackie Saunders leads Class A photoplay with Freddie’s Last Bean and Pearls of the Rail also shown.
Oscar Apfel directed The Broken Law for William Fox with William Farnum in the leading role. Set in England circa 1850, it follows Daniel Eamond a novelist who joins a gypsy band to pursue his quest and rescue Isobel Ber ner while uncovering his hidden half sister among the gypsies.
The Island of Surprise opens at the Coliseum Sunday with Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady authoring a story. William Courtenay stars as Robert Lovell delivering strong performance. Peggy at Liberty Billie Burke debuts in Porgy at Liberty Sunday for one week.
The report notes that building costs, often fireproof, dominate the rise in school expenses over the past five years. The study is one of several broad investigations by the state department of education led by Superintendent Josephine Corliss Preston.
Private G A Dawson of the Tenth Yorkshire regiment survived severe shrapnel wounds in Northern France. Surgeons removed a three ounce shell fragment from his head and extracted an eye damaged beyond repair. French doctors used X ray to guide the operation. Dawson, eager to rejoin the army, hopes for months of recovery before any return.
W F Smith, a witness against Sherman Billingsley of a Stewart street pharmacy, was arrested after offering not to testify for $150. Prosecutor Lundin planned to file information on extortion. Billingaby reported paying $100 and police found a $100 bill on Smith.
London February 26 Lady Mabel Smith sister of F. Fitzwilliam says she saved nothing before the war but during the war she closed her home dismissed servants had her shoes resoled stored her car refused luxury gowns and flowers stopped butter bought margarine and is investing all savings into the national war loan
Members of the Manufacturers' exhibit in the Stuart and Henry buildings will attend a reception at the art exhibition on the second floor of the White building at 2 p m Saturday with members of the Manufacturers' association and their friends.
The Mercants' and Miners' liner Cretan, on her own steam, and the liner Dorothy, with about 75 passengers and crew aboard the Cretan, collided last night off Thimble Shoals and are expected to reach Norfolk tonight.
The Star reports a yearlong Pennsylvania kidnapping case of four year old Jimmie Glass. An unsigned Everett letter claimed the boy was taken to a West 64th Street New York address by two men and a woman. Mrs. Ella Glass urges more precise information, noting spiritualist and fortune telling elements in the clues as investigators, led by the parents, search for the missing child linked to a New York film studio.
An editor asks readers for more information about Jimmie Glass including the correct address of the location where the boy is believed to be held. The note urges readers to provide precise details to aid in locating him.
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