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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
6
It claims to rapidly restore gray hairs to their natural color without dye and promises reliable results. Priced at $1.00 and 50 cents, available at drug stores or upon receipt of price and dealers name. Send test bottle.
Washington Jan 4 Inter state Commerce Commissioner Franklin K Lane of California is floated as a potential associate justice. The rumor follows a Taft meeting amid opposition to Justice Hook. Lane is seen as a compromise candidate supported by progressives and deemed one of the nation’s ablest lawyers.
In Portland on January 4, Frank C Smith of Los Angeles admitted to Captain of Detectives that he was Dr J C Day. Smith confessed taking $3,500 from Nellie Bell and agreed to return to California to stand trial.
Toronto January 4 The American Abell company of Toronto a plow maker was sold today for 2 000 000 to the Ramsey company of La Porte Indiana The sale shifts ownership of a long established equipment maker to an Indiana firm.
Thomas Edison lists Ehrlich’s salvatian discovery for curing a infectious disease, an attempted Chinese republic, rapid Panama Canal work, aerial navigation progress, Rockefeller Institute surgical advances, typhoid vaccination proven effective, and the Diesel engine’s rise to prominence. He ranks salvation as the foremost discovery.
Pablo Moreno, reputed to be 127 years old, died in Sonark Navajoa yesterday. He reportedly smoked for 115 years and subsisted on coarse food. He had never seen a railroad train or an automobile.
Special dispatches from London claim W. Morgan auster, ex American treasurer general of Persia, surrendered his office accounts to M. Mornand, former Persian customs director. In Teheran, F. E. Cairna, Shuster's assistant, is expected to be named successor.
The council overrode the mayor's veto 7 to 2 on rules for a municipal garage. The mayor's veto of the garage on the old Colisium site was sustained unanimously. Blaine then proposed a garage for Dilling Park and Griffithe pushed an ordinance to sell seven automobiles, claiming no garage would be needed.
King George held a large levee in Calcutta attended by native rulers and British officials. The government house stairway was lined by the king's bodyguard gunners in full display.
Market notes show wholesale prices inching up for staples as dealers report steady demand. Trade circles in the city name small gains in grain and produce while retailers watch for seasonal shifts and supply chain twists.
A man died at the Wilkes Barre home where he had planned a celebration of his marriage a year prior. A Minneapolis man plans to bury part of himself the right leg he cut off in a street accident. George W. Cromwell the wealthiest policeman in the United States retires from Philadelphia’s force after 49 years. Edward Hartman is pardoned after serving ten years for a brother’s murder in Crockett County Texas. William C. Rush is released to hear his daughter sing at church, after serving a short sentence for selling margarine in St. Louis.
Two Jacksonville youths claim a buried strong box six feet deep holds 150000 dollars in gold silver and copper coins dated over a century. They say an ancient chart found in a Spanish shell ruin on Fort George Island guided their search.
Tacoma January 4 The Home Colony cooperative store run by self styled peaceful anarchists was placed under a receiver today. Oscar Engvahl manager and Nathan Levin clerk sought the receiver claiming overdue salaries totaling 1 060 dollars and 700 dollars with interest. Engvahl has been linked in police notes to a dynamite plot against the Lyon building in Seattle and other plants.
A fragmented advertisement from Spinning's Bargain Store touts home convenience deals and low prices on items like the Victor Kitchen Saw and other kitchenware. The ad emphasizes savings for wholesalers, dealers, and consumers and promotes multiple bargain items at 3438 17th Fourth Avenues.
A fragment lists old medical tonics and simples such as glycerin quinia capekum sege alcohol water and vinegar substitute. The note reflects historic household preparations and mis-spellings common in pressed newspaper snippets.
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