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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1913
Page
3
In Zanesville Ohio on January 6 9 year old Frank Price plunged into freezing lake water and dragged Hazel Hampton a 6 year old girl back to shore after she broke through the ice. Onlookers stood by fearing to risk their own lives.
A 16-year-old Tacoma boy arrested for stealing $8 from the Grand theatre cashier refused to name himself to Juvenile Officer Hoyes to spare his mother. He cried, saying he would rather go to jail than break his mother's heart. He claimed not to know why he stole it.
Mrs Clara Baldwin Stocker heiress of the late Lucky Baldwin returns to Los Angeles after a cross country trip in a $40000 private car. She is reported to have spent $1008.08 in a year while warding off beggars and cranks.
Governor Colquitt named R. M. Johnston editor of the Houston Post to fill the U S Senate vacancy created by Joseph W. Bailey resignation. Johnston leads the anti prohibition Democrats of Texas.
W H Barnes through attorney Thomas Mease files suit against the board of public works to halt motor truck contracts for the city garbage department. The complaint cites bidding law violations and arbitrary award of contracts. Barnes, a taxpayer and bidder, seeks injunction.
The passage notes include Memphis adopting an ordinance regulating street car service with near-side stop and inspection rules, reflecting Seattle style regulations. Boise report: Idaho Northern Railway from Nampa to Murphy and Bramette is bought by Oregon Short Line for about $1,000,000.
Swenson, a 30 year old logger, earns a living by day and sketches by night. He has natural talent but only a basic old country education, and he hopes to devote full time to art someday. He believes he can make good if given a chance. Will he get his opportunity.
United Press Leased Wire from Los Angeles reports heiress Guadalupe Domingues, heir to a $20,000,000 share of the Dance at Dreamland, is stricken with pneumonia as requiem mass is held at St. Vibian's cathedral.
Train schedules show frequent daily departures from Everett to Seattle with limited Saturday Sunday trains and special office locations listed. The Dominguez estate near here reports physicians treating pneumonia affecting several family members, including Miss Dominguez’s death two days prior and Grace Watson’s critical condition.
In Des Moines on January 6 a bartender refused to offer a cigar to Raymond Chew a police officer who later becomes Rev Patrolman Chew a friendly figure in his district. The two year veteran studies social conditions while pursuing preaching and serves as a local minister.
An engine from a New Orleans Mobile and Chicago passenger train collapsed a trestle at Leaf Mississippi killing two people and injuring a score. James Hamilton second duke of Abercorn died of pneumonia at age 74.
A spoofed parcel post shirt, a fictitious check leading to arrest, a mule rescue at Presidio, a matrimonial trap in San Francisco, a belated watch deal, and a wet pavement mule team incident headline a string of oddities across Roseburg Portland San Francisco Los Angeles and nearby items.
A Bavarian newspaper lists killed in major wars of the last fifty years. Cited wars include the Crimean, American Civil, Franco German, Russo Turkish, Russo Japanese and others, totaling 2,313,000 deaths, highlighting the war’s global and historic costs.
Mrs May R. Beachy of San Francisco files for divorce from aviator Lincoln Beachy charging cruelty since their 1906 Detroit marriage. Beachy was served with papers today.
A 25 cent bottle of Knowl ton s Danderine is marketed as a quick and easy solution for dandruff and hair growth. The ad claims improved shine and fullness within minutes and two weeks show new, downy hair sprouting across the scalp. It touts pure hair growth properties and gloss, urging daily use for soft, lustrous hair.
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