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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1913
Page
8
An advertisement proclaims low cost dental work with a $1,000 pledge to charity and a guarantee on receipted bills by Dr. L. R. Clark. It contrasts wartime nostalgia with health service marketing and includes a vivid wartime narrative about Comrade Ned and his army memories.
A chaotic listing of film showings messily collated from multiple venues. Highlights include The Life of Christ at the Clemmer and The Seesaw of Life at the Alhambra, with additional billings for the Grand Circuit and other theaters through Sunday.
The program lists Rainey’s pictures, Moore, Eddie Borden and Irene Shan, Clara Ballierini, Lorna Jackson at the Empress, Seattle and Pantages venues. Cap Anson to appear as a feature. Eddie Borden and Irene Shan offer Bits of Vaudeville with La Count the diabolo artist and Empress Concert orchestra providing twilight pictures.
The Orpheum presents the musical comedy Puss in Moots with 25 in the cast as the headline act during heat week. Mr and Mrs Jack McGreevey appear in The Village Fiddler and the Country Maid. Updates Circus features bears dogs monkeys and an anteater for children. Ignatuis Cardash, a pianist, also performs.
Bailey and Mitchell will stage Denman Thompson's rural comedy drama Way Down East. The production features the beloved playwright's portrait of country life and timely social humor with set pieces and local flavor.
General Lew Wallace's epic Ben Hur debuts at the Metropolitan theatre with a week long engagement beginning Monday February 2. Staging promises sweeping scenes and dramatic chariot chase sequences for local audiences.
Empress presents a tabloid musical comedy headed by Ruth Lockwood as the prima donna in A Night in the Park next week. The show features a juvenile cast with a vocal quartet of Fast Side kids and highlights Ray Snyder, touted as a bold trick cyclist.
Pantages opens Monday matinee with Menlo Moore's Rah Rah Boys and Lorna Jackson in On the College Campus. Also featured Stage Door Johnnies, Seven Parisian Violets Heldian beauties, Claude Golding and Clara Keating in The Long and Short of Vaudeville, Crale and Williams, and Marr and Evans in a comedy acrobat act.
A Welsh of Portland, general manager of the Washington Electric Railway, announced plans to build three interurban links linking Portland to Seattle. Finances cover a 12,000 horsepower Kalama river hydraulic plant. The routes run from Orchards to Lewis river, Chehalle to Cowlitz, and Centralia to Olympia, leaving a 50 mile gap between Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, with Olympia-Tacoma connection to follow.
The page mixes community notices and brief reports from Seattle area institutions and businesses. It notes subscription delivery appeals, a pig driver’s hotel care, wills and estates, railway progress to the coast, a mining engineers meeting, kennel club elections, a mail scandal arraignment, church reports, a navy ship replacement, a revival campaign, bankruptcy judge actions, a Baptist choir minstrel show, and an Amphion society concert in Broadway High School with regional updates.
Beginning Sunday night the Paul J Ratney African Hunt motion pictures will inaugurate a return engagement of six nights and two matinees. During six weeks at the water hole animals travel from a radius of about 60 miles while the camera records their natural actions in the jungle and veldt by day.
In Vancouver Hazeldell school students and teachers will eat lunches together at noon to learn table etiquette and proper eating methods.
Love letters addressed to his wife led to the parole of M. M. Pendrey after judges reviewed the correspondence. In Oklahoma City three masked robbers locked the cashier in the vault of the State Bank at Mounda and escaped with 4500 dollars in currency and silver. a posse pursues them.
Senator Wesley Jones of Washington conceded the failure of his push for Alaska fish supply conservation at this session of Congress. Hearings were held with Pacific Coast Packing companies but no positive action was achieved.
Carson Nev Jan 25 By a vote of 49 to 3 the amendment giving votes to women passed the Nevada house today. Opposition came from a socialist one democrat and one republican. The measure now goes to the senate and if approved will go to voters for ratification.
A veteran fallen in battle is mourned as comrades gather at the military parade ground. The ceremony includes a volley over the grave and Old Glory as the flag is draped. A union trooper and comrade lead the salute.
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