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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
3
Grote Rankin announces a January clearance of home furnishings including furniture and decor items. sales focus on discounted living room bedroom and dining pieces with bulk pricing and limited stock expected. customers can expect doorbuster offers and bundled deals throughout the sale period.
A vivid ad claims the Try New Life machine quickly cures backache lumbago rheumatism and gout related pain. It touts rapid relief for deafness and asserts most cases are helped by a few treatments.
Lieut Kusmin once led Krasnoyarsk revolt and briefly headed a declared republic. After escaping to Paris he returned to Russia and asked authorities to admit his greater responsibility. A court-martial at Irkutsk sentenced him to hang, a sentence he accepts as just.
Special Olympia January 16 Governor Ernest Lister took the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Crow in the capitol rotunda as the largest crowd ever packed the building witnessed the ceremony. Lister and Mrs. Lister hosted a reception and were the guests of honor at Olympia’s most brilliant ball.
William J. Flynn is selected to succeed John E. Wilkie as chief of the customs service. Flynn has led the New York bureau and brings many years of government experience to the position.
In Portland on January 16, Fred Miller faces a possible freedom or extradition to Los Angeles to answer burglary charges. His fate hinges on whether an Eastern watch company produced timepieces with duplicate numbers. Miller was arrested with a watch bearing the same numerals as a reported Los Angeles theft. He says he bought the watch two years ago in Denver.
News of a large labor action as twenty thousand waist and dressmakers strike after an overwhelming vote to quit work. The strike tally now reaches sixty thousand workers, with a group of prominent church leaders openly sympathetic to the strikers.
Henry Pullman was found semi conscious on South Division Street with his left arm hanging by shreds of skin. He claimed a command from God to sever his arm and lay on a streetcar track to have it cut off. The second item advertises hotel rooms at Hotel Virgins near Westlake with low rates.
The report lists average prices paid by local commission merchants to producers and prices paid by retailers to commissioners. Buying prices reflect the farmer payments, while selling prices show retailer payments. Both figures vary with quality and freshness, but the figures given are for strictly first grade stock.
London dispatch says representatives of the Imperial government Australia Canada and New Zealand will meet in Vancouver likely in May to discuss cooperation for common Pacific interests joint action and the relation of local units to the imperial navy in peacetime and war.
Enumclaw Herald proprietor Phil Ashman was fined 200 dollars and costs in superior court for criminal libel against county commissioners from a June article alleging oil purchases from the Anderson Steamboat Company for a bonus. The trial was in open court without a jury. Judge Everett Smith imposed the fine and Ashman plans to appeal through counsel John H. Parry.
Civil service examinations will be held February 17 for a nautical expert with a salary of 1000 dollars. On February 26 examinations will be conducted for a chief of the Philippine department of medicine at 4000 dollars, and in the division of graphics at the National Museum 900 dollars for a photostar photographer 840 dollars for a junior chemist in radioactivity 1080 to 1440 dollars.
Two carloads of rifles and cartridges stored in New Orleans were discovered by U S government special agents. The contraband was intended for shipment to Mexico on steamers owned by Ernesto Madero.
Charles Brandon Booth, son of General Ballington Booth head of the Volunteers of America, married Naomi Sutherland Batley of Lockport New York in New York City today.
The couplet hints at heightened attention for a newly affluent individual. A terse exchange suggests ongoing readiness to issue subpoenas as part of a legal or investigative mood. Heaters and the phrase Modern Furniture Co on 416 Pike 7 anchor the dated, street-level texture.
Nathaniel A. McGovern, once a superintendent of a prosperous Idaho mine and heir to Texas cattle wealth, has fallen from grace to a felon’s cell in Vancouver. At 30, he faces a prison term for obtaining money by false pretenses, with his lawyers blaming a mining accident and resulting mental disorder for his alleged crime. CHICK GANDIL, the Senators’ first baseman, predicts a bright next season.
An advertisement claims Pape's Cold Compound will end the grippe and relieve severe cold symptoms after two to three doses taken every two hours. It promises relief from headache stuffed nose feverishness and sore throat and guarantees no quinine and pleasant taste.
A home cough syrup using Pinex and sugar syrup claims fast relief for stubborn coughs, sore lungs, and throat troubles. The formula makes a pint and costs about $2, with a money back guarantee of satisfaction if unsatisfied.
The ad hawks a home mix as the fastest rheumatic cure. It instructs readers to combine one ounce of Toris compound with one ounce of syrup of Sarea parilla in half a pint of whiskey, take a tablespoon before meals and at night. It claims dramatic early improvements and urges against patent medicines, touting Globe Pharmaceutical Laboratories of Chicago.
United States Judge Carpenter denied motion to set aside bail and return Jack Johnson to jail as a fugitive. Johnson, awaiting a white slave charge trial, had bonds totaling 30 000 dollars. bondsmen who posted 5 000 dollars surrendered him after aiding a bid for two days to find new bondsmen. Johnson and his wife were stopped in Battle Creek Michigan while en route to Toronto, Canada, amid government claims of flight risk.
Democratic leaders denounced reports that Wall Street is circulating panicky stories to distrust President-elect Wilson. Senator Ben Tillman condemned the scare tactics, saying he would like to hang the scoundrels who are trying to start a panic now.
A witty exchange contrasts Miss Sanskrit as a college graduate with the remark that she wears green today. The banter hints at fashion and intellect while preserving social tone.
In Holton Louisiana on January 16 C L Morse and W T Voight bagged a glossy black rabbit. The animal was driven into a hollow tree by dogs and captured alive. They display it to prove the tale.
Gary Indiana officials will copy Cleveland methods to avoid jail for intoxicated men. Instead they will be taken home by taxi under police supervision and put to bed.
A letter from Mrs. John Nordquist of Galeton Penn says Swamp Root cured her kidney pain after one bottle and later helped her husband who was a coal miner. She praises Dr Kilmer and urges others to try the remedy, sworn May 14, 1912.
An advertisement requests letters to Dr Kilmer & Co of Binghamton New York and promotes sank ple bottle and a booklet of information about kidneys and bladder. It notes regular 50c and 1.00 dollar bottles available at drug stores.
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