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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1912
Page
8
Advertises Pape's Cold Compound as a non quinine remedy to end grippe and severe colds within hours. The copy asserts three two hour doses will relieve headache stuffed nose feverishness and rheumatic pains and notes three years of research and a 25 cent price.
If a buyer loses a property to defective title the mortgage value falls. The Washington Title Insurance Company offers a mortgagees policy that fully protects the lender. Lenders should require such protection. buyers of mortgages should insist on it too. Sample policies and details available from Title Trust Company, Osborne Tremper & Co., and Washington Abstract & Guarantee Co.
Streetcar style rail timetable notes limited interurban service from Everett to Seattle and return with multiple daily local and limited trains. Extra Saturday Sunday service referenced. Enters addresses and depots near Westlake Greenwood Ajax Drug store and State Olive freight details.
Grace Yeoman headlines at the Pantages Theatres next week with Moore The Girl of the Golden West. The Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra performs Monday night with Sis Hopkins in a concert note.
Dorys presents Parisian dances including the Apache Dance. Adler and Arline, a pretty soprano and a talented young man, perform A New Idea. A juggler, Lew Palmer, will also appear in the show.
WWRnwee eee Pantages presents a fresh show with Fun in a Swimming Pool offerings and a merry water party. The lineup includes Fanny Tom Kyle and company in A Doctored Widow, The Five Merkels European equilibrists, McGrath and Yeoman in The Lunatic and the Prima Donna, Elmore and Raymond singing and patter, and Nelson Waring on piano.
Listings show Moore at The Deep Purple and Anna Held at Mies Innocence. Seattle presents Kaulstark. Orpheum and Pantages run Vaudeville acts while Emprese features Vaudeville. Grand offers motion pictures with a mixed program.
Henry W Savage brings a large stage production to the Moore theatre for a three night run starting tomorrow with a special trained company. The show features fifty musicians three conductors and extensive scenery expected to rival his past English productions Parisfal and Madame Butterfly. Belasco's American story centers on California in 1849 with five sets of principals and representative scenes and people.
The Orpheum features Pouchet's Flying Ballet with five graceful women as the headline act. Juliac Tannen returns in a monologue, Ida ODay performs Bettys Het, Wilfred Clark leads The Dear Departed with a five member company, Eunice Burnham and Charlotte Greenwood appear again, and Hufford and Chain present a brief blackface segment.
Salvatore Spinella jailed for a year for collecting one dollar weekly from many women to “keep the devil at bay.” A Baltimore pigeon delivers greetings to Cardinal Parley in Maryland. Actress trunk patent by Lilian Russell includes wardrobe and electric bath option. In Baltimore a 56 year old man elopes with Miss Roberta Roberts in a runaway marriage. French surgeon patents eyelash and eyebrow planting method. Christmas sale of an item bought for 3.48 drops to 0.48.
In January 1862 President Lincoln issued General War Order No 1 to set February 22 as the day for a broad movement of U S land and naval forces. Washington’s Birthday was a holiday, but the army did not observe it as the Confederate-occupied region did not, and the Army of the Potomac remained inactive.
Augusta Cottlow noted pianist and pupil of Busoni will be the soloist in the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra second symphony concert at the Metropolitan Theatre Monday evening. MacDowell concerto in D minor for piano and orchestra Op. 23 No. 2 will be performed along with Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor and orchestral and piano works by MacDowell Liszt and Rachmaninoff in a varied program under Director Spargur.
A travel letter from Hong Kong recounts a professor from the Field Museum visiting China with humor about pigeon English, opium pipes, and jade rings. The writer notes Hong Kong's modern shops, clean native stores, and British sights, concluding with a punchy cultural contrast and travel tip to hurry to see differing world views.
Spanish American war veterans plan a reunion February 3 at the Frye hotel under the Washington Volunteers association with a dinner at 8 pm and return cards showing strong attendance. Detectives arrest Henry Williams near Yes terway for three loaded automaters. he says he hails from Portland and has been in Salt Lake City and Denver recently. Funeral for Miss Lillian L MacGilvra will be from 1004 Boylstonay at 3 pm tomorrow. The McKinley birthday observance includes a service at First Methodist Church and a lecture by Dr Adna W Leonard on The Humanity of William McKinley. The Daughters of Washington lodge to close charter membership February 16. native women over 16 may join.
There has been no prettier play on the stage in years than Sis Hopkins which opens a week’s engagement at the Seattle theatre tomorrow afternoon. Sis Hopkins is a country life tale rich in sentiment and comedy with Rose Melville in the title role and J R Stirling managing an excellent company.
The Empress offers Cliff Berzac's Comedy Circus once part of Barnum and Bailey tours featuring an unridable mule. Lew Welch and company perform Levinsky's Old Shoes with Mme Melia and Mons.
Portland, Jan. 27. Parole officer C. T. Webb left for Monroe reformatory after locating Fred and Gus Johnson two men who broke parole in Seattle and came to Portland. The two Johnsons are not related and will serve out their unexpired terms.
More than 200 travelers from the Inland Empire arrive in Los Angeles to start a fourteen day tour of southern California. They came by a special train from San Francisco, with F. L. Whitney of Spokane in charge.
In Warsaw on January 27 reports that General Ratynski a wealthy landowner who introduced camels for farm work pays 60 dollars per head. The animals reportedly do about twice the work of horses and are less fastidious in diet.
Eugene W. Chafin, candidate for president on the prohibition ticket in 1908, will speak at the YMCA tomorrow afternoon. The Detroit Free Press reports the lecture title centers on a theme of a standard of morals for county, state and nation.
George E. Kenyon of 606 Cherry Jr. reported to police that a stranger he sheltered overnight took his $160 watch and fled at dawn. Investigation to identify the suspect is underway.
A montage of short items notes a New York jail sentence for umbrella theft, a New York Post accusation, Paris poetry dog tale, Judge Landis on abstinence, Chicago telepathic beggars, a 12 year old highway robber, Lincoln high school debate, a Chinese laundryman's gambling arrest, and Toey On released on $100 cash bail.
A Washington Star snippet recounts a boy chauffeur testing a new car whose loud shriek alarms pedestrians who jump back from the curb. Separately, Mrs. Fidelia A. Boyd sues the state medical examiners for failing to grant her an osteopathy license, the superior court ordering show cause.
A Green Lake meeting in Caswell's hall Tuesday January 30 to discuss Erickson's Single Tax Amendment before the coming election. Speakers include Miss Margaret Haley and Otway Pardee. Pardee will illustrate the impact on Green Lake homes. The report about William Parker’s release on bonds in a robbery case is corrected. he was later jailed on the charge after bond was deemed insufficient.
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