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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
4
Reader questions range from common law marriage and possible prosecution for immoral conduct to divorce legitimacy. A lawyer replies that long cohabitation does not prove marriage and prosecutions depend on specific statutes, while naturalization requires waiting periods before final papers.
The record for the longest time a swimmer has remained underwater is now six minutes 29 and 4-6 seconds, setting a new benchmark for breath-hold endurance and underwater discipline.
Dorothy Gish leads in The Little School Maam at the Liberty, with Triangle’s Georgia Stone and George Stone in key roles. Douglas Fairbanks appears in Flirting With Fate at the Alhambra, a three day engagement noted for its surprising turns. War’s Women, The Shop Girl, and The Dupe headline other theatres with strong casts and dramatic plots through Saturday night.
Gladys Moore a young girl loses her father and is lured by her aunt Mrs. Lawrence an adventuress into a decoy scheme to fleece rich young men. The tale plays out amid thrilling situations as beset artists strive to rise or fall in pursuit of ambition.
After a 12 day search the bodies of Francia Bellar 12 and Edmund Carroll 18 of the Briscoe Memorial Home for Boys were found in the White river near Orillia. John Costello of O'Brien located the pair two miles downstream in bushes along the river bank after a lengthy farmer search.
Judge John McPhaul announced a first drawing of 5,000 names will be held here next Thursday at the Colville Indian reservation opening. Though over 65,000 have registered for homesteads, the update notes progress. Tuberculosis among South African miners is reduced by electric light usage.
The Grand Theatre audiences praised the Harry Lewis Dog and Monkey Circus act as a standout. Entertainers Fernandes and May sing ragtime melodies, Oliver Reeder Curtis Armstrong perform Two Boys and Two Pianos, Wilson and White present native Hawaiian songs, and Edwards and Sturdevant sing operatic airs. The bill features Charlie Chaplin in Carmen through Saturday, Fay Carranza’s Spanish Nightingale at the Palace, and Stein Hume Thomas as headline acts. Abrams Johns unveil One Touch of Nature, Pearl Krene Lans Twelve Minutes From a Fashion Book, Temple Quartette and Four Valdares close the vaudeville lineup. The feature photoplay The Return stars Kathryn Williams. Stockholders include Boeing, Foley, Gott. Boeing hangars at Lake Union and Oxbow aero plant, two flying machines plus near completion third. Flying instruction by W K Martin, brought by Boeing.
With the incorporation on Wednesday of the Pacific Aero Products company the first aeroplane and accessory manufacturing concern began business in Seattle. The new corporation is incorpor...
Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania July 20 A trolley car was blown up today by dynamite in another attack on strikebreakers. The motorman and conductor escaped injury as the strike by local traction workers entered its seventh month dating from October 14, 1915.
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