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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1914
Page
4
Fire sale at Red Front Clothing Store prompts drastic markdowns on many items. Men’s suits and overcoats priced low, rubber coats, suspenders, underwear, heavy work shirts, hats and other clothing slashed for one day only. Display shown opposite Market. Come early for best picks.
Mrs A J Leach of Graham is reunited with her husband who vanished December 10 after collecting 312 dollars for shingles from his Graham mill. He came to Seattle for the money, later surfaced in Tacoma, then collapsed in Seattle unable to recall events. He is hospitalized with no memory of the disappearance.
An invitation is extended to Seattle manufacturers to participate in a London exposition next summer marking 100 years of peace between Great Britain and the United States.
On February 12 the Port Angeles Commercial Club will celebrate the Olympic Power hydroelectric plant on the Elwha river and the turning on of current to the Olympic peninsula. A banquet and speeches will mark the occasion as a signal event.
The bill features Georges in A Deuce and Two Pair plus a crook saving the day with laughs. Clemmer shows Chelsea 7750 and three Kinema color pics through Saturday. Colonial touts Timing Cupid and The Temple of Rameses. Dream screens Soldiers of Fortune and The Necklace of Rameses. Melbourne offers Withering Roses and Little Allie’s Triumph.
A dialogue reveals Mollie’s flirtation with Hattersly and the mother’s perceived failings. Madge challenges Dick to reconsider familial duty, accusing Mrs. Waverly of debt and lack of true guidance. The piece sets up Mollie’s potential growth and a continuation tomorrow.
Press agents promise the season's biggest laugh as May Irwin stars in Widow by Proxy at the Metropolitan Theatre Sunday evening. The plot weaves comic situations and Gloria Grey, a singing teacher, earns praise as the "greatest laugh-producer in the country."
Alice Rhodes stars in a Powers production staged in the West where she is tied by hair and dragged over a tree to create realism. Rope around the head distributes force to avoid roots, the stunt yielding a dramatic picture and camera thrill alongside listed shorts and features.
The article argues that general taxation would not be reduced by commission rule and cites distorted figures used to justify otherwise. It contends public money may be unfairly distributed, noting city funds cover 85 percent of county road and bridge tax while commissioners divert about 15 percent to city streets.
In Paris on January 20 1980 bitter cold drives women to fur leg muffs. The fur tubes extend from ankle to knee and are worn for warmth at opera balls by many Parisian and European women.
Chicago report of two students from the government naval training station Marl Bostwick and E. B. A. Buchanan found shot to death in a hotel. Both had deserted the school twice and were disciplined when brought back. Buchanan wrote to his mother that he could not endure the discipline. The exact sequence of the deaths remains uncertain.
New York January 30. William Snyder, animal trainer and keeper at the Central Park zoo, faced the unpleasant duty of removing a splinter from a tiger's paw, but says the procedure was easy.
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