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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
3
An old advertisement urges readers to buy Hay's Hair Health to reverse gray hairs and maintain a youthful look. It promotes regular use and claims results, priced at $1.60 with availability at Bartell Drug Stores or direct from the company in Newark.
Rob Hodge the progressive candidate for governor departs Vancouver Washington with a volunteer crew for an auto tour of the East Side likely to last three weeks. Stuart Campbell of The Star will pilot. He aims to meet farmers and hold meetings in villages and towns, wrapping up the Eastern drive before focusing August on Western towns.
New York reports Ethel Conrad one of the shooting show girls is in hospital after a chloroform saturated handkerchief bound over her mouth and hands and feet tied. She had been acquitted of attempted murder of W E D Stokes, a millionaire hotel man, and says a strange man followed her from a subway station before her mind went blank.
In St Louis on July 18, Clinton Coates and William McDonald unveiled an aero unicycle, an 81 inch outer hoop powered by 6 horsepower to push a rider up to 55 miles per hour on an inner rim track. The device uses airplane propellers for forward thrust and features three sets of three rollers to support the rider with minimal friction.
A column of quirky incidents from 1900 era papers describes a boy nearly crushed when his father fell from a wagon in Hackensack N J. and a 300 pound father saving him. Mobile Alabama offers 5 cents per rat head near docks to curb plague. A girl 10 travels 60 miles on horseback and 1,200 miles to Pasteur Institute Texas for care after desert trek. A Washington widow complains of failing houn dawg luck. Vida Slaughter holds two jobs and a man in Urbana claims maximal industry. A Jersey farmer finds a rare Ichneumon fly nicknamed Jersey Whatlelt with two spines and wasplike form.
United Press Leased Wire report recalls Fremont Older to the stand as the Darrow trial resumes in Los Angeles. Older testifies that prearranged plans for the McNamara confession and proposed outcomes were set before alleged bribe days. He says Darrow pressed for destroying evidence while Merriet Attorney Fredericks urged a guilty plea for John J. McNamara.
In Washington a statement by Senator John D Works unfavorable to a third party triggers a telegram from more than twenty Las Angeles progressive republicans urging his resignation if he feels out of harmony with California progressive sentiment. Signers include Meyer Lisaner Lieut Gov A J Wallace State Senator Lee C Gates Edwin T Karl and Mrs Florence Collinge Porter.
A Bowery youth named Carl Roseleaf is described as having a supposed sixth sense that helps him locate missing persons. Photographs and questions from New York scientists and police surround his claims as he explains he reads cases and then finds the person, insisting it is instinct rather than method.
Professor Charlies H Brent argues the sixth sense is the inner perceptive faculty. The tale recounts Carl Roseleat locating a missing baby and other missing persons in hours, despite police and private investigators' efforts, with subsequent unrelated separations and recoveries.
Boston July 18 Fresno Dan Russell testifying before Referee Gilbert Peavey admitted an agreement with Attorney Cartwright of Fresno to share any portion of the estate of the late Senator Russell if he won recognition. The claim to the Russell wealth has sparked a fight with Dakota Dan Russell, driving the estate to about 3 000 000 dollars.
William D. Hurlbert will speak tonight at the Chautauqua on the Alaska situation. He previously traveled to Alaska for Outlook articles and then faced censorship in New York that prevented publishing the truth about Alaska.
The markets list average prices paid by local commission merchants to producers and prices paid by refiller to the commissioners. Buying prices reflect amounts paid to farmers and selling prices reflect retailer payments. Prices vary with freshness and quality, covering items such as apples and oranges.
The American gasoline launch Bonita was seized by Canadian officials after a chase by the fishery protection cruiser Newington off Nitinat. The vessel tried to flee toward the boundary as rifle fire was exchanged and the cruiser collided with the Bonita, throwing its crew overboard. William Anderson and Oscar Anderson of Port Blakely, Washington, were in charge aboard the launch.
Congressman Knowland of California told President Taft that American railroads with Canadian lines instigated England's protest over free tolls for American ships through the Panama canal. He called it a railroad fight and urged not to cede England's authority on tolls.
In Mount Vernon Illinois officials probe a deadly farm mystery that has claimed nine lives. The latest victim, John Ackerman, died after moving to the farm as doctors admit confusion over the baffling wasting illness that leads to paralysis and rapid death. A centenarian in Plymouth Mass played his first golf game at age 100 after a first automobile ride and first ginger ale.
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