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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment lists miscellaneous clothing items with prices and descriptors. It mentions hats blouses and unspecified garments with prices around 4.50 and 1.75, but the text is incomplete and many words are unreadable.
Jessie Wilson second daughter of the president and Mrs. Wilson will wed Practis B. Sayre of Lancaster Pennsylvania in November. Sayre a 28 year old lawyer and Williams College graduate has visited the White House and Princeton home recently. Miss Wilson 24 active in YWCA work.
Seattle plans a safe and sane Fourth with excur sions beaches and boating. City leaders feature speeches by notable figures while parades picnics and a baby show unfold at parks and docks.
Rep. Murdock argues the Mulhall confession exposes a national network of special privilege influencing legislation. He urges direct primaries and recalls to restore accountability, warning that a congress serving privilege undermines republican government.
Dispatches report Servia declaring war on Bulgaria after a two day battle with Bulgarian forces along the front. Athens dispatches note Greek victories with Bulgars captured and equipment seized. Turkey mobilizes and vows to act if war spreads to Macedonia as Russia mobilizes along the Romanian border.
Two men off Cape Ommaney fought a 400 pound halibut that nearly swamped their dory. After a tense hour the fish was grappled and towed to port, part of a net haul worth 4800 dollars. The catch boosted the Idaho dock’s load and marked the largest single fish ever recorded for the area.
Councilman Austin E. Griffiths addressed the Jalil Reform society at the Commercial club rooms on Wednesday. Charles M. Baxter was chosen to represent the organization at the National Conference of Charities and Correction.
Picnics at Mcieon Leschi Fortuna Atlanta and Wildwood parks. Bathing at Alki Beach. Baby show at Leschi Park. Celebrations at Renton South Park Tolt Bothell. Log-rolling contest at Luna Park. Montamara festival at Ta coma and Kia How Yah Everett. Excursions to Port Angeles and Whidby Island. One and one third rates on all railways within the regular $6 radius. Matinee at Moore and Seattle theatres and vaudeville shows. Baseball at Dugdale Park. Dreamland pavilion.
Coupon No 5 offers a 65 cent pennant for 15 cents with a different pennant weekly. Pennants mailed for an extra 5 cents postage. Bring or mail coupons to The Seattle Star at 1307 Seventh Avenue near Union Street.
A humor filled morning mail reveals verses about worry and earning a dollar with lines from Laurence Riches Leo Eilertsen J A Muir Eugene Field McFadden Arthur Williams and F M K along with a Danish test on concrete immersion.
A magnate donors the $50 share while many residents contributed 30 cents and more to build Mrs Jones a concrete home. Workers dug the cellar planted potatoes spaded the garden and carpenters painters finished the house. Bass Hunter Paint Co supplied paint and the project nears occupancy with plumbing pending.
J. L. Allen, chief inspector of weights and measures, will complete his first bread test under the new law this week. He aims to fix standard bread loaf weights at 8, 16 and 82 ounces and require bakers to stamp exact ounces if standards aren’t adopted. Ten cent Seattle loaves often weigh 22 to 28 ounces, not the 82 ounces required, or else bear stamped true weight and bakery name.
A student adopts thrift and self improvement by studying bookkeeping and shorthand at Hyatt Fowells located at 4th and Pike, aiming to profit from others experiences and better himself.
In Tacoma a high speed curve crash killed Morris E. Newton age 21 and injured five others. Newton was thrown to a wheel hub. others landed in dirt and were treated. The car, owned by Chas Lewis of Savoy Auto Co Seattle, the driver fled and remains missing.
George Bouckaert opens Bouckaert's at 319 Pike St in the Joshua Green building. About $30,000 spent on fittings and interior. all materials said to be made in Seattle. Evening music by the Bierman orchestra enhances the new confectionery. Bouckaert also runs the Hole-in-the-Wall on Second Avenue.
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