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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1911
Page
4
N Simon the American cheese expert begins a colossal dairy product for the National Dairy Show association. The cheese weighs over 12 000 pounds and is planned on a specially constructed flat car, requiring 180 000 pounds of cream and milk from 6 500 cows to complete in one day.
Andre Rogus, an Austrian immigrant living in San Francisco, mourns the loss of $3,500 after trusting two bunko men who promised a European trip and a wealthy Austrian estate. The incident highlights the dangers of confidence schemes and personal deception in the city.
A collage of quirky items from across the United States includes a Wisconsin clam fisher finding a pear worth 750 dollars in Fond du Lac, a pastor urging male parishioners to loosen their coats in Fond du Lac, a 102-year-old D A R member from Racine dying, and a near scalping incident in Menominee involving a Mrs Russker. Other notes mention a Parks and Peace association outfitting hurdy gurdies for streets, Mrs Danforth’s barn dance after coming into a fortune, mosquito attacks near Clinton, and a postal stamps case in Washington valued at 42 million. The White Ways restaurants report heat wave losses of 1.25 million, and Hector Moran plans a monoplane honeymoon. Chicago churchgoers heard Rev Ainslie as pop was served. a 3-year-old girl survives a fall after being knocked into a safety screen. In New York vaudeville, Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad discuss their act after a Stokes shooting news snippet.
An advertisement promotes Calocide as a home remedy for hard horny callouses and corns. It claims soaking feet in hot water with Calocide dissolves and peels away callouses, reduces inflammation, and stops sweating and odor with a 25 cent package.
A woman fought off a mugger on a street car and had him arrested. police praised her. In other notices Rev Frank Brauner of a Methodist church preached on hot weather attire. John Sator fell 40 feet at Edgar Thompson steel works, breaking his nose but landing on his feet and seeking hospital care. Pennsylvania game commission plans stocking forests with wild turkeys from Mexico.
Markets list cane sugar at 20 pounds for $1 and new potatoes at 15 pounds for 26¢. Summer apples 10¢ a dozen and rice at seven pounds for 26¢. Flour $1.05 per sack, eggs 10¢ higher, watermelons 25¢ each, onions 4 pounds for 10¢, bananas 16¢ per dozen, apricots 30¢, four cans of milk 36¢. Meats include shoulders 7¢ lb, pot roast, steak 124¢ lb, ham 20¢ lb, sausage 3 pounds for 25¢, dressed chicken 22¢ lb, and fish prices varied.
Corporation official insists the civic center and city beauty scheme, led by Virgil Bogue at $1000 monthly, must be accepted as a whole or not at all. He urges the municipal plans committee to pass it only by two thirds, avoiding partial approval.
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