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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1913
Page
7
Tonight begins a three month term offering courses in cooking millinery sewing languages civics history electricity chemistry and more. About 1 800 students enrolled last term with tuition charged for continuing study. Registration is at the high school building for new and old students.
In Middletown Clyde Rich twenty was given three square feet of pigskin grafts on his chest and shoulder to aid recovery after an electrical blast in New York City four months earlier. His doctors had twice declared recovery impossible but have continued treatment. In San Francisco a Japanese hotel clerk, Frank Toryama, was beaten, bound, and robbed of twenty two dollars early today.
Dr. Martin Damourelloc of Seattle proclaims he discovered the turtle serum cure for tuberculosis and accuses Dr. Frederick Friedman of Berlin of stealing it. He says he cured many and has a pint stored in Chicago with proofs, and aims to force scientific acknowledgment worldwide.
In New York on January 3, society circles note a new fashion of carrying watches in the buckle of a woman's slipper. Mrs Charles Augustine Robinson aims to introduce the trend, enabling a wearer at a party to check the time by glancing at her slipper without lifting a hand.
Clarence Darrow labor attorney charged with bribing a juror in the McNamara brothers trial will have the case continued to January 20 after both sides asked for more time. Neither Darrow nor the state is ready to proceed on the scheduled date.
Percy Thomas, political manager for Will K. Sickels, will become chief deputy as Sickels succeeds his father D. K. Sickels as county clerk. J. A. Sigurdsson will retire to a minor post while D. K. Sickels becomes chief probate clerk under the new arrangement. The clerk's office will be the only partisan office per Sickels’ edict, claimed to be a Republican party office. Everett hosts Gettysburg survivors R K Beecham, S W Hubbard, and G O Austin planning a battlefield celebration next summer.
Dorothy, praised as the most perfect baby, won the Blue Ribbon at the Iowa State Fair health contest. The 20 year old infant, dubbed Baby Venus, benefited from outdoor naps and open windows with fresh air cited by Iowa physicians backing the event. Dorothy’s mother, a trained nurse, emphasizes attentive care and modest dress in cold weather. The contest originated with Mrs. Mary Watt of Audubon Iowa who suggested recognizing babies with prizes alongside pigs and calves.
Memphis is set to host the scheduled boxing match between Joe Rivers of Los Angeles and Jack White of Chicago. The Tennessee city is said to have made the highest bid, with the bout likely to take place before the Southern Athletic club on February 22.
The funeral of U S Senator J son Davia of Arkansas may be held this afternoon after his sudden death here from plexy. Funeral arrangements are not yet made. A British bark Crowg of India, involved in a collision with the Iun verclyde, may require drydock repair.
Dentist E J Echternach of West Seattle says his pinless clothesline will be produced locally. The galvanized wire design uses an automatic hold to fasten clothes and he received patent letters for the invention on Thursday.
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