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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
3
In Chest R Pennsylvania a young pastor Rev. McCoy resisted two masked highway robbers aiming to ambush him after services. McCoy, slender but muscular, knocked them down and briefly preached a sermon to them before they fled, promising not to rob anyone else. The incident left the assailants unconscious and the preacher unharmed.
In Nebraska a man named F tries a novel rabbit hunting method. He rides astride a car radiator with a beard, using the car light to locate rabbits in the road. Neighbors thought sheriffs would be called as the rabbit stands are spotted in the beam. The inventor reportedly plans to test this approach at dusk in a thickly populated area.
In Teant ic City New Jersey on January 2 a funeral procession for Mrs Catherine Carter of Mem Techn. including her pet cat Tiger was halted at the Pleasantville cemetery entrance. Carter protested the refusal to bury the animal with the body amid a catוח rosewood casket and catnip decoration.
Popular cake praised as finest by some cooks read in Boston Cooking School Magazine. Provides recipe steps for a three layer cake with rose water, granulated sugar, eggs, and frosting, plus a note about price and how to obtain a copy of Cook's Bank with recipes.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss an Audiphone purchase and rental payments. Mentions STOLZ ELECTROPIONS VEVeade Annex and exchanges but lacks coherent details or verifiable facts.
The report details buying and selling prices from local commission merchants to producers and retailers, covering rice, dressed meats, poultry, vegetables, fruit, and grains. It notes price variation by freshness and quality, with first grade standards and specific item mentions like pork, mutton, beef cuts, and farm produce in a period-typical market summary.
Mrs. S F Cottle wife of captain of the whaling steamer Belvedere has made five Far North trips and spent seven seasons in the Arctic aboard a whale ship over two winters. She accompanies Captain Cottle in all expeditions praising his success and refuses separation for love. The Cottles are New Englanders with relatives in national capital, visiting friends and kin in the East when not pursuing whales.
In Elkins West Virginia on January 2 seven Italian suspects carried out the death sentence on Dominic Arciene a 36 year old Italian immigrant. Marked by the Black Hand for years Arciene had worked in America seven years hoping to return with a fortune to live independently. He left a wife and three children in the old country.
New York officials urge closing the Fulton market a public market since colonial times. An expert’s report to the board of aldermen shows the market operates at a loss due to its downtown location far from residential districts.
In Rocheport Missouri the local post office has been managed by one family for six decades. Mrs William Slade now serves as postmistress after succeeding her husband who followed his mother in the role.
Port Penn, Pa. January 2. D. K. Zackey raises hogs he claims eat coal as medicine. Each day he gives the animals a large lump of bituminous coal per pig and says they like it.
In Detroit on January 2 a 76 year old man, Frank Laughlin, collapsed and died of apoplexy after reuniting with his longtime sweetheart from fifty years earlier.
J. Bo McDowell a retired miller and capitalist spends his ninth winter cutting wood for his furnace in Marysville Kansas. He has already sawed three cords of tough shell bark hickory and black oak wood.
Dyina an impoverished woman in a bare room tells charity agents she refuses aid. She claims Joseph Robin, once in charge of the Northern Bank of New York and the Washington Savings Bank, is her son. Robin denies paternity as Herman Rabinovitch, who called himself his father, has died of starvation. The couple fled Russia and say their son altered his name after rising to wealth.
The 70 year old Fort Wayne circuit judge Edward O'Rourke ends a 36 year tenure famed for refusing contempt threats and for presiding over four murder trials. He earned a reputation as a fair judge who seldom jailed even defiant attorneys and defendants.
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