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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
4
In a July incident at a steel car works near Pittsburgh a windowless empty box car was used as a jail to hold more than twenty rioters. Guards barred doors while inmates begged for food and water in foul air.
Wooster Ohio telegram notes Roger Whinfield of Fond du Lac Wisconsin and his three month bride Miss Ellinor Quinby died on a Koenigsberg trip after Whinfield contracted cholera in Rusets on July 7. The Quinby family suffered further losses as Ellinor's father died suddenly in Dresden and her mother sails to attend his remains. Perry Sturgess of Zanesville, who had married Ellinor’s elder sister, died days after his own marriage on an Arizona honeymoon. The bridesmaids were together at each husband’s death.
The Federation of Women's clubs of Seattle plans a French fete on August 21 at the exposition open air auditorium. Miss Harriet M. Rogardus will direct staging with a Louis XIV ball to follow at the Washington State building. The event features gaily dressed children and villagers with gypsy tents against pine backdrops.
A Seattle woman writes in praise of the Seven Sutherland Sisters hair product. She describes her mother’s bald spots and subsequent hair regrowth after using the hair grower, noting lasting improvements at age 61 and recommending the preparations.
The 4 year old daughter of Herman Ninemyre was carried off by a cougar near Cowllte pasa while the family, a stockman and his wife, had driven cattle to the grazing land. A trace of the child has not been found, and hope of recovery was abandoned ten days ago.
The National Indian Educators congress will be held August 23 to 27 at the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition, the largest gathering of Indian educators in U S history. Mrs Estelle Rees superintendent of Indian schools Washington D C will lead the congress. Committee members include H Johnson EH Hale and James C Hoykin with Hoykin supervising the interior government exhibit.
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