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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
3
A garbled ad style block touts Burkhart as offering a cure with dramatic health claims. It mentions taking own medicine and promises relief from headaches and ailments, urging readers to use a product to regain strength and vitality, though wording is incoherent and lacks verifiable details.
Mrs Helen Miller who shot herself in the mouth with a rifle early Tuesday morning at Hallard will have funeral services Wednesday afternoon at Mayfield undertaking parlors. Ernest Miller found her body in the cabin of their launch at Sterretts landing Raellard. A letter to her husband expresses heartbreak and requests cremation with ashes cast to sea.
An advertisement claims Arnold's Catarrh Remedy can turn pale faces pink after using a 50c pack with a money back refund for unopened packages. It asserts compliance with the Pure Drugs Act and offers direct mail delivery from Arcade Hidg in Seattle.
New York, Jan 29. Mrs Paul Steinberg sold her husband to a younger woman for 80 dollars because she was homesick and wished to visit Russia. On return she repented and had the spouse arrested for bigamy. The case puzzles the courts.
Superior Judge Morgan granted to day to Allee Kellar Fox, world champion banjo player and former Lole Fuller Company star, a divorce from Dr. Jacob Moore Fox. Alimony set at $50 monthly with additional settlement later after valuing Seattle and Surf Beach, California properties owned by the doctor.
Portland police report Goldie Armon attempted to feign fainting to escape detention. She swooned twice in the arrest processing area and again in her cell, with officers noting ongoing fainting spells as the case continues.
Sheridan Wyoming January 29 accused of stealing costly dresses from the wife of Captain J. C. Cecil of the 18th infantry while he occupied the Cecil home. Lieut. J. C. Wier of the same regiment is under arrest today. Wier was captain of the West Point football team in 1910.
London Jan 28 Envoy Novakovitch of the Servian delegation approves a joint note to Turkish plenipotentiaries that the armistice is to be terminated at once leading to resumption of hostilities between Turkey and the Balkan states within two weeks.
A German aviator named Huell died in Aix la Chapelle after his plane rose quickly to avoid telegraph wires and he was hurled about 30 feet from his seat. He suffered a fractured skull in the fatal incident.
Bondsmen for Dr. W. W. Frazer of Weaverville Cal will be examined Friday in San Francisco as his bonds were transferred here. He is held to answer on the charge of substituting a living baby for a stillborn heir of Lieut Chas H Slingsby heir to vast English estates.
A cheerful group teases the man in a fur cap and heavy coat as talk of a new plan surfaces. Tivy the new, something ought to be done to suppress this pest is quoted as a shouted remark among the party.
A compact poem by Berton Braley and J Campbell Cory contrasts a hustler's rapid life with relentless rushing from morning to night. The piece intersperses numerical asides about North American area and population and ends with a parade of brief, newslike headlines from Seattle and Everett entries.
Tolt Wash Jan 29 The first of three saloons allowed under the town charter opens today. Inside the door a bubbling drinking fountain offers water free to patrons with a ticket that water will satisfy.
Only two weeks remain before the Seattle primary election with six council seats to be nominated and multiple charter amendments on the ballot. About 84,000 voters exist but only 15,000 have registered. registration closes February 11 at the Prefontaine building near the city hall with polls set for January 31 and February 1.
Seattle lawyers who practice before the federal court receive only large sums. clerk Frank L. Crosby mails roughly $10,000 in small balances to attorneys who failed to claim filing fees. The money has piled up over 25 years and may bounce back with stamps reading Party is dead. An amatalent check for 5 cents is due John W. Considine, theatrical man.
A partial market listing shows prices for vegetables and staple goods. Items include onions, potatoes, carrots, squash, cranberries, pumpkins, tomatoes, and rice with prices per unit or quantity, reflecting first grade quality and local market rates.
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