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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
8
A Cairo to Aswan tourist steamer indulges in gossip as Mohammed the dragoman charms women aboard while husbands scowl. A woman passenger, Mrs. Wads, wife of a former New York assembly speaker, posed as a dragoman in disguise provoking jealous scenes and a vow to buy a new limousine.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture, urged dairy farmers here that wives deserve equal care to cows. He compared home plumbing to barn silos, saying a bathtub with hot and cold water is as vital as a silo.
Lincoln high school orchestra will give its third annual concert this evening in the school auditorium. Also in the news, February primary registrations are soaring with 1,205 registered yesterday and a total of 10,124 to date, while an efficiency department delays a council investigation resolution. A Fleischmann Yeast Co factory, five acres and 200000 dollars, will be built at Sumner Washington. Robert Embieton in Seattle handles contracts. Luke Tlwancich, 65, fisherman, collapsed at 65th and 12th NW and died en route to hospital after being aided by his wife on a Loyal Heights car.
The Wertz Family Association of America plans to send two members to Hamburg to begin legal action against Germany over the 185,000,000 estate of the late Field Marshal Paul Wertz. In St. Louis, Ewing Hill aged 70 and founder of street car advertising in America, has died at his home.
Directors of the Commercial club voted to stop political meetings in their rooms starting next week. Seattle YWCA holds annual member meeting at headquarters Fourth and Seneca tonight with director elections on the agenda. Eric Nelson and A Johnson netted a 254 pound 6 ft 9 in red salmon off West Seattle yesterday. The Snohomish Moose lodge plans a Lincoln birthday luncheon on February 12.
Samuel Graham a blacksmith died at the Mag nola bar 209 Firat av after collapsing from heart failure. He was unmarried with no known relatives in the West and no immediate heirs.
East Orange reports Geo. Hechinger says politeness thwarts burglars after asking a burglar what he wanted, who fled with the loot. New York notes a spanking by a well dressed mother causes a thimble to emerge from a swallowed baby. Berlin reports composer Engebert Humpardinck suffers paralysis. London notes profit sharing as a cure for troubles from Sir W P Hartley of a jam making firm.
Jay Kellogg aged 27, eldest son of the late J A Kellogg, was found dead in his room at a Butte hotel yesterday. He had been ill for some time and is survived by a sister Mrs John Ramaker of the Sherbrook apartments.
Poughkeepsie court voids the marriage of John Grum to Louise Snell after it was revealed an illiterate man employed another to write his affectionate letters. In New York City, churches and civic groups press the requirement for building owners to display names prominently to disclose ownership of disreputable resorts.
Provisional program notes show Madame Sherry at the Metropolitan alongside Moore in Dark and Beattie in The Squaw Man. Orpheum Vaudeville, Pantages Vaudeville, Empress Vaudeville, and Grand Vaudeville with moving pictures are also on the schedule.
In Peoria a widow, Agnes Hayes, dies from injuries in a Dec 26 gasoline explosion at a cleaning establishment. Manager Earl Sh Meyers is believed to be dying. Illinois utilities commission members travel to Carlinville for an investigation tour led by Senator John Dailey.
Madison Wis Jan 12 Sheriff Brown halted a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train until accommodation was provided for all to whom tickets had been sold custody was not specified in the fragment but intervention aimed to ensure passenger rights and orderly transport
A verse of uncertain counsel questions fate and choices. The speaker asks whether to marry stay invest or wait, while the refrain asserts that outcomes vary with time and luck. The poem emphasizes ambiguity and a guiding rule that “it all depends.”
At McGuinness Hall on Sunday at 2 p m a Snohomish discussion will debate the proposition The supreme court is an institution which obstructs justice and should therefore be abolished. Speakers will present affirmative and negative viewpoints.
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