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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1912
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR notes describe limited trains to and from Seattle with times like 5 38 PM and 6 90 with stops near Green Lake and Greenwood. Mentions include offices in Seattle and extra Saturday and Sunday service at 3 00 PM.
Edwin J. Brown argues dentists should study economics and natural law, viewing health care as essential to liberty. He contends the profit system degrades professions, urges dentists to understand common law, history, and politics, and outlines a vision where labor and ownership empower producers and ensure fair compensation.
In Allentown Pennsylvania on July 26 a jealous actor shot Wim Free and Lovanda Caynes in her apartment. Five shots rang out as the actor fled after a confrontation with Miss Caynes who had reportedly rejected him. Free lies dying and Caynes is dead as police investigate motive.
Irving T. Bush, head of the Bush Terminals of New York, left Tacoma for New York after studying Northwest terminal conditions. He declares he will not install any Bush terminals on the Pacific coast and doubts others will, saying municipal ownership of wharves is the order of the day.
Attacks on President Taft’s nomination, as fierce as those in Chicago, will be debated in Congress next week. The Chicago convention controversy is expected to be revisited with Senator Root set to speak in the Senate and Representatives Hart, Holdt, and Mondell to defend Taft in the House.
A retired San Jose merchant, Dave Rinaldo, discovered a parchment Hebrew prayer book printed in 1548 among relics. The book, believed to be among the oldest in the world, remains in perfect condition at over 364 years old.
Mrs. A. K. Thompson of 152 Latawana Ave reports a soot-covered rock fragment the size of a pea struck her cheek from the sky. She plans to have the object analyzed by a chemist.
In Bourg France last night Miss Natale Clifford Barney a wealthy Washington girl was badly hurt a woman friend was dangerously injured and the chauffeur was killed when the automobile skidded and crashed into a rock en route to Aix Les Bains
In New York Mrs. Alice Hartzell Webb sues William Hemperly of Masailon Ohio for 50000 dollars claiming he spirit ed her husband Dr. Frank Reed Webb away during his nervous breakdown. Separately in Sacramento Gov Johnson honors a requisition for A J Enderlin to Clarke county Washington on theft charges. In Pekin President Yuan Shihai threatens resignation after cabinet appointments are rejected by the national assembly.
National congressional committees nearing completion of a probe into Judge Hanford with two major matters left to close today. Witnesses have added new accusations including drunkenness and questions about land deals and school lands involving 67000 acres.
In Winthrop Missouri with 83 residents including women and children the county court plans to cap licenses at four more bringing total saloons to six and six wholesale liquor houses. They declare no further licenses will be issued ensuring about one liquor house per seven residents.
The action of M. O. Carton to compel Seattle to issue 1,000,000 in bonds and purchase the Hebb power site was yesterday continued to July 27.
The annual mimic war between blues regulars and reds National Guard is set near Grays Harbor with Regulars and National Guards from Idaho Oregon and Washington encamped. Washington National Guard units left at 7 am for the scene with over a thousand officers and men prepared to showcase high quality equipment and training.
Mrs. P. D. Finch of a Lancaster ranch was bitten by a rattlesnake while irrigating alfalfa. She killed the reptile with a hoe handle, walked a mile to her house, and told relatives that it was nothing, using home remedies.
Chas V U, self styled heir to $1,000,000, returns from Virginia to answer embezzling bonds from Forest Je Company. His foster brother Leslie Wheeler Reid, jailed in San Francisco, is co accused by Caroling Swears, an employee. Reid’s bride of a month stands by him as bail is set at $2,500.
A Commerce and Labor bulletin reports Americans spent 200 million dollars on foreign luxuries in the year. Art treasures plus gemstones and lace accounted for large shares with 40 million, 41 million, and 44.006 million dollars respectively. Imported tobacco rose to 32 million and foreign Santa Clauses added 9 million in toys.
Nearly $2,000 has been subscribed today toward a fund started by the mayor of Godalming to provide a memorial in his home town to Jack Phillips the wireless operator who went down with the Titanic. The memorial is to take the form of a drinking fountain. Dance at Dreamland tonight.
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