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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1910
Page
2
Governor Dickerson expressed to the United Press that Nevada will not bar boxing contests, citing Billy Muldoon praising the state as the last free in the Union for sports. He noted public agitation may rise before the legislature but believes the recent fight was fair and lawfully regulated.
Mrs Catherine W McCulloch newly elected second vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and a member of the Illinois bar has been admitted to practice in the United States supreme court. She and her husband run a joint practice four years ago she was elected justice of the peace of Evanston and was re elected last spring. She is mother of four children and her husband cooperates fully in home and business affairs.
Major Sidney 8 Peixotto, head of the Columbia Park Boys club of San Francisco now in Seattle, will speak at the Playgrounds Association monthly meeting tomorrow afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce. The session will also consider more open air resting places downtown and the park board securing downtown triangles of land before costs rise.
Spokane observed a safe Fourth under a city ordinance banning high explosives. No major incidents occurred. James Lynch, 17, suffered a badly burned eye from a rocket. John Windandy, a rancher near Spokane, was struck and killed by an electric train near Greenacres while crossing the track to join an excursion party.
Portland July 5. Harvey W. Lambert a carpenter who shot his wife as she held their baby then attempted suicide. Mrs Lambert died yesterday. Doctors had hoped she would live while all hope for Lambert’s survival had been given up.
In Melbourne on July 5 the Johnson defeat sparks protests that Burns lowered the white standard by accepting the challenge for gain. Observers hope for separate white and black championships after the upset. A UP flash from Vancouver reported Johnson the winner. Also noted: a German dentist's idea to make artificial teeth from paper.
Taft’s cabinet members will collectively log over 60 000 miles this summer on business and pleasure trips. Several will give stump speeches to aid party harmony while others tour states and countries, including Dickinson’s world tour and Meyer’s Massachusetts campaigning.
A drummer replies that when not selling fireworks he travels a familiar route selling coffin triny minke. The exchange frames a quirky product aside from fireworks and hints at a traveling sales setup.
A quip notes that the most sane Fourth of July remains the one observed in an insane asylum, framing holiday cheer against a backdrop of chaos. The remark contrasts orderly patriotic displays with a setting of enforced restraint and theatrical calm.
Leo Praymeyer of Electric Park Joplin Missouri devised a method to carry 16 bottles and 16 chaswes with two towels. He claims to carried 61 000 bottles last summer with six broken. He notes tray carries many breakages during crowd sorting. He mentions Chippendale as eighteenth century maker of mahogany furniture with inlaid colored woods.
Advertises women’s cotton union suits in low neck sleeveless style with cuffs or lace trim. Also lists combination suits with lisle vests and muslin drawers with plain or trimmed edges.
An assortment of oak furniture including dining tables with 44 and 48 inch round tops extending to six feet, pedestal and claw feet, offered in dull golden and quarter sawed oak. Prices shown as semi annual sale items. Mission dining chair in Early English finish with box construction and saddle seat.
A catalog listing solid oak buffets with top dimensions and mirrors, including quarter-sawed and early English finishes, plus Morris chair patterns and several iron bed options. Prices shown as semi-annual sale figures range from 1.35 to 31.50 with multiple finishes such as dull gold cream enamel and blue enamel.
Well built rocker of golden finish with high back and green bronze t bar seat. Golden Oak Rocker veneered in sawed oak. Birch Rocker with carved top panel spindle back and iron rod supports. Pleasingly designed rocker with veneer panel back quarter-sawed exteriors and turned stock braces. Parlor rocker with broad back saddles seat curved arms. Colonial style chairs in odd patterns at reduced prices.
A vintage sale advertisement lists multiple dressers including Princess Dresser in mahogany with beveled mirror, Bird's-eye Maple Dresser with beveled plate mirror, Colonial Dresser with weathered finish, and several maple and oak models. Prices range from 7.85 to 24.50 with semi annual sale pricing.
Semiannual sale prices advertised for brass beds with satin finish and post designs. Also featured are solid oak chifoniers with beveled edges, claw feet, swell fronts, and waxed surfaces in a period style.
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