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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1909
Page
1
Hor has filed suit for John W Raymond in Seattle for absadoument. The fragmentary text suggests a divorce context involving Helen Green and a dispute over separation and custody actions, with references to a Seattle filing and involved parties.
July report from Paris notes former Premier Clemenceau resigning after a vituperative debate with M. Delcasse in the chamber of deputies. President Poincaré and others discuss potential successors including M. Delcassé or M. J. Haïrand as minister of justice, amid persistent questions over cabinet policy and the czar’s visit.
Unclear OCR fragment describes a detective figure, Beattie, in a San Francisco setting. References a Taylor address 4124 and a morning event. Wounded or dropped pocket may hint at a theft or injury as officers investigate near a ballet theater. Details are fragmentary and unrecoverable.
A garbled report describes a gun theft case involving a suspect named Yetter and a Miss Leat from Bellingham. The sequence mentions a white stock weapon, a monetary sentence, and the pair fleeing to another city, with unclear details about locations and outcomes.
The court granted one prohibition order affecting Washing County and an individual named W. P. Guye and others. The decision bars the parties from certain actions related to a probate matter involving Roland Denny and associated papers. The proceedings reference timing and duties prescribed by the court order.
Two state dairy officers raided a Public Market outlet selling oleomargarine as butter. Proprietor C W McCally, operating as Pacific Butter Company, faced inspectors Ernest Koll and L Hanson. Also, steamboat inspectors Rous and Short were ordered to Juneau to inspect the Prosper for about ten days.
Houston dispatch reports a 60 mile gale driving huge waves over the new sea wall at Galveston and flooding streets. The wall withstood the pounding, averting a fate like the 1900 flood. Communication was limited to a single telephone line, with uncertain conditions and possible wrecks among small harbor craft, but no confirmed deaths yet.
Nuny Salih a cosmopolitan figure from the Streets of Cato blends Syrian Turkish French and Irish heritage in a Cairo style café anecdote about a dancing girl and a bold wager. The scene contrasts varied racial types with a playful cross cultural dinner in a cosmopolitan bordello.
The body of Mrs. Mary Woodring, longtime local resident and charity worker with Stevens Relief Corps and McKinley Circles, lay in Butterworths morgue for days before her son Olin Woodring claimed her body. She leaves four daughters and four sons living in Seattle, Mount Vernon, Fairbanks, Cordova, and South Omaha.
A Seattle review of June arrests shows 1 206 total with 1 191 directly traceable to drink. Of these, 690 were drink and die orderlies, 281 for disorderly conduct, and even emergency hospital cases cited booze as a major misery factor. The piece argues whiskey pervasively influences crime, accidents, and deaths across the city and cites opinions from jailers doctors and coroners.
Maryhill named for three Marys, chosen by Ambassador Jusserand, to become a model coast city on the Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway in Kilokitat County, Washington. Samuel Hill leads a project with eastern investors to create a farming community with modern urban services including mail, newspapers, telephones, water and sewer. A gravity water system and sewage plan will bring water from the mountains and discharge to the Columbia River as development proceeds.
Powmaster George Russell presents a tabulated postoffice receipt history from 1HBG to June of the current year. The June figures show 613,220.21 in 1886 and 843,110.26 in 1909, an increase of about 230,000 over the period.
Fair tonight followed by increasing cloudiness. Winds variable tonight, becoming southerly, then diminishing. Outlook for Thursday: overcast with light southerly breeze and partial clearance later.
Annapolis July 21 The court of inquiry reconvenes as Lieut Bevan testifies that the fatal shot came from a revolver in Amelia Anderson Sutton's hand amid remarks that Sutton acted in self defense. Witnesses recall Sutton being restrained by guards at the naval academy camp after a deadly confrontation involving Lieut Button. The funeral and burial arrangements hinge on the generosity of Butterworth and the identification of the deceased as Amelia Johanna Anderson, earlier known as Amelia Miller.
The executive committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce transportation bureau voted to raise 10000 dollars to fund prosecutions against railroad companies before the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Washington State Railroad Commission. Bankers capitalists real estate owners and shippers will be asked to contribute. Paris announces Wanamaker granddaughter will marry Arthur O Heeren, son of Count Heeren of Paris, in early fall.
Aldred V. Williams, an electrotyper of 1427 Sithav, was struck by a cable car while crossing in the street near Seconday last night. He was rendered unconscious but later regained consciousness at Seattle General Hospital and was reported not seriously injured.
Delegates from the State Medical association of Washington Oregon Idaho and British Columbia visited the AC P exposition today viewing the fair and taking lunch at the New York State Building. Between 200 and 300 doctors attended the grounds and this evening a reception and dance will be held at the Washington State Building.
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