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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
3
A vintage ad promotes Caledum Weefers and Stuart Waters claiming rapid skin clarity. It asserts impurities in the blood cause pimples and that the products purify the system, delivering a blemish free complexion and quick results. The copy emphasizes ease of purchase at druggists and promises dramatic improvements.
Free admission for ladies at Broadway rink on East Pine Street near Broadway High School invites all to start skating. The venue boasts a fine surface, expert instruction available for a fee, and is under the personal direction of manager H. G. Roller. Come and enjoy the fun tonight.
An advertisement touts Amtrasian Eucalyptus as a powerful remedy for catarrh colds coughs and sore throats. It claims to destroy germs heal inflamed areas and reach deep into breathing passages with a hot vapor inhalation method using HYOMET and related products.
W H Babcock of the anthropological society argued that history overstates Columbus as the discoverer and that parts of the continent appeared on maps before his voyage. He cited 1414 map reproductions and a 1492 Behaim chart showing Cuba and Florida, fueling a split in the society.
Wellesley College for Women braces for a Friday night event described as the first manless dance. The administration has axed cosy corners and enacted a rule requiring dancers to remain at least three inches apart as students gear up for the unusual campus social.
Albert Billingham, a Staffordshire miner, drew the 225000 prize ticket number 103881 in the Hungarian state lottery. He vowed never to mine again and faces mounting solicitations from charities and individuals totaling about a million dollars after paying 35 dollars for the ticket.
In Washington a judge ruled that wives may be barred from juries when their husbands serve, upholding that husband and wife are one entity at law. Mrs J D Keen was summoned to serve in the same court where her husband already served, with attorney Frank E Green arguing the point.
In Los Angeles on January 30 Miss Sue Ainley, a film actress, was carried away by a flood in a street while a motion picture machine operated on the curb. She was rescued in a second, and the incident is described as a real rescue rather than staged.
A light quip notes a man boasting of an 11 pound boy at home and jokes that the stork did not deliver him but parcel post. The joke plays on mailing a baby as a humorous hyperbole.
A city council committee in Los Angeles began an inquiry into wages paid to working women and girls and the cost of living. Laundries and department stores will be examined with witnesses to be questioned secretly. John Gray was found guilty of counterfeiting after a 15 minute jury deliberation.
Oklahoma City report notes Kate Barnard, commissioner of charities, calls a marriage strike to pressure passsage of laws protecting children and mothers. She asks all unmarried women from Texola to Guthrie to refuse suitors until fathers provide a living wage and homes, declaring the move a revolutionary stand.
Washington January 26. While horseback riding Tuesday with Miss Helen Taft daughter of the president and two companions Miss Martha Bowers daughter of the late solicitor general Lloyd Bowers received a broken arm and several scalp bruises when her horse collided with a street car.
The article lists average prices paid by meal commission merchants to producers and selling prices by retailers to the commission, covering haying prices, meats, poultry, produce, and grains. It includes various item prices such as beef cuts, pork products, poultry, fruits, vegetables, and feed, noting price variation by freshness and quality.
Francia E. Warren was ratified for another term as United States senator from Wyoming by the state legislature in a joint session held in Cheyenne on January 20.
John Williams, condemned for the murder of Inspector Waite at Eastbourne, was executed in England today. He was denied permission to marry his fiancée, Miss Florence Seymour, with whom he had a child.
Report from Dawson City details a double murder suicide at a Black Hills roadhouse. William F. Smith killed Michael Kelly and his wife, then shot himself. All four bodies were found frozen. Smith previously ran a laundry during the gold rush. Mrs. Smith was once Mrs. William Jones. Kelly was a mounted police member.
In Grosswardein Hungary a convalescing actor dressed as a priest and heard a hospital patient confess to murdering a farm hand years ago. The actor reported the admission to authorities, leading to the farmer's arrest. The incident followed a practical joke atmosphere at the hospital.
In Indianapolis on January 30 Mrs Gertrude Hassler the singer finished her testimony in her suit for breach of promise against Carl Fisher millionaire automobilist and aeronaut. She sobbed as she said their intimacy lasted until four days before his marriage and asserted the affair existed.
A Mongolian delegation arrived in Saint Petersburg to thank Russia for recognizing Mongolia’s independence and urged Russian aid against the Chinese army invading Inner Mongolia and threatening the new Mongolian state.
The Union Oil steamer Santa Maria ran aground on Whidby Island in dense fog Tuesday morning. Tug Tyee towed the hull into deep water Wednesday. ship appears undamaged and carried 52 500 barrels of oil from San Francisco to Beattle station.
Portland, Jan 30. H. M. Mears, president of the Portland Cordage Co., held Police Sergeant Harma and Patrolman Wise at pistol point early today believing they were burglars. The real intruder escaped with several hundred dollars worth of jewelry.
Traffic between Cordova and Fairbanks reopened with the first train today delivering Yukon district mail aboard the Northwestern steamer. The line resumed service to move outbound mail after delays.
In Oakland on January 30 Elmer Beaver a schoolboy sought revenge for a hand wound and shot Gordon Seening aged 12 in the right eye with an air rifle. Doctors fear loss of sight in that eye.
Sacramento January 30. Assemblyman Brown introduces a bill to appropriate $10,000 to pay the claim of Detective William J. Burns. Latest sleuths report places the case involving a dynamite investigation in the house cat and kitchen broom.
An old advertisement extols a home cough syrup using Pinex and sugar for quick relief from coughs and throat woes. It claims rapid action within 240 hours, benefits for croup asthma and hoarseness, and offers a money back guarantee with purchases through The Pines Co and Tartell Drug Co.
Wealthy cattle men from Hutte Montana and Kansas City gathered aboard the liner Minnesota in a high stakes game labeled for blood. Francis McDermott and Charles Curley held strong hands as Hastings Hartbone and W. Hastings traded aces, with the pot reaching 1600 dollars before an extra ace appeared and split the winnings.
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