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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1911
Page
6
Mrs. Lu Bridges, mother of the delinquent girl, testified in defense of Evelyn Arthur Lee denying exposure to the "absolute life" she claimed to have felt moving over her. Bridges said she first sensed the life in 1906 while studying but had not been imbued with it.
A woman recalls the See teachings imparting absolute life and happiness, saying they purified her and made her a better person. She notes her daughter Mildred grew more obedient and kind after adopting the teachings, describing her prior beauty as headstrong and wilful.
City council members voted against a grade crossing at Lander Street after a long dispute. Railroads allied with shippers and unions argued safety risks, while manufacturers near the waterfront pressed for storage. Railroads agreed to overhead bridges, improved approaches, cost sharing, and track convergence to reduce danger.
Barbers from the union visit the Mother Ryther home on a Sunday each month to give 50 or more children haircuts. The effort funds the Ryther Home, helping buy warm clothes and shoes for the children, with proceeds from a small monthly assessment.
A collage of brief items from Chicago to Cleveland reports odd incidents and local curiosities. Wealthy tailor Magnus Goodman dies after a speeding car incident. Passengers on the La Touraine joke about whales at sea while a paper project pelts them. Emma Goldman and the Ferrer association denied by socialist papers. Police at an AV station cooled a suspicious case. A suspect jailed and transported in a banana cart near Canfield. Garment strikers disperse with hot milk directed at an activist. A man loses a friend’s house after bathing and confesses to police he did not go insane. New York port fines and forfeitures total 2 914 158 for the year, nearly double prior. A 13-year-old girl wins an essay prize on fly annoyance. A Chinese couple from Lu Tong Toy seeks divorce in Binghamton. Rockefeller appears in public with spectacles at church in Cleveland. A young man in Greeley attempts suicide over money for firecrackers.
Detective Joe Day testified before the grand jury amid tense questioning about a gambling case in Portland. Also examined were E B Benn and William Hyde. no indictments were returned and the grand jury’s status remains unsettled.
John Appleton of Everett learned his mother Lola Warwick Appleton, traveling on the Oriental Limited, was removed from a Fergus Falls Minnesota jail ward due to heat. Police found nearly $12000 in cash and stock certificates sewn in her dress lining, plus a diamond ring and diamonds in a pocket. The source notes she left without Appleton's knowledge and gave no clear reason for travel.
Fire yesterday afternoon on Fifth Ave S and Main destroyed a one story frame office building owned by the Washington Railroad and Navigation Co. Firemen led a hose line to the rear when timber and bricks collapsed the structure. Doyle suffered a bruised knee Hale was uninjured. Loss about 1000 dollars. A second blaze nearby at Fifth and Washington in a rooming house run by L Shinuken caused 150 dollars in damage.
A southeast breeze brings relief from a long heat wave in New York where 158 heat deaths are reported to date. A gas main leak in the basement of the Hotel Bennet at 1322 Fifth Avenue caused an explosion and two-floor fire that alarmed occupants but was controlled with limited damage.
The Loony line contest collected over 8000 entries with two $5 prizes to be decided tonight. Winners will be printed in The Star tomorrow as editors sort through a mountain of lines and quips from readers across Seattle and nearby areas.
Mrs Gillie Timone, an Italian widow, claimed two Italian men abducted her Sunday night in an automobile and held her three days in the woods along Lake Michigan near Grand Beach. Sam Sangel, a Chicago barber, says she wandered off and denies any kidnapping.
The Weather Bureau predicts lower national temperatures, Fresno California logged 104 degrees as the hottest U S location in the past 24 hours. Congressman Mitchell dies in Kansas after operation for abdominal trouble days after Congress opened. Steamship Alameda reaches Seattle with over 1000 tons of copper ore from Alaska port.
Dr. C. H. Frazier, former dean at the University of Pennsylvania Medical College, arrived from Los Angeles and will address the Seattle Surgical Club at the Chamber of Commerce tonight.
A dental office advertises the importance of tooth care for overall health and aging. It claims to offer all dental operations by approved methods, replacement teeth without plates, and cures for pyorrhea with a written guarantee.
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