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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
5
Sheriff M. C. Binion arrives in City to secure extradition papers for Logan Gsiey proprietor of the Day and Night Drug Store at 1525 Third B.e. who is wanted in Oklahoma for charges related to drug store operations.
According to RBidon Billingsley fled two years ago from the state without paying a $250 bootlegging fine and faced two additional fines of $300 and $500 with 90 days to serve for gambling.
The utilities committee will hold a special meeting next Wednesday morning to review Superintendent Valentine's report on extending the Division A car line into Ballard. Jitney bus regulation will be addressed by the franchise committee Friday morning.
Modern rooms available with rest service and spe ceial rates at Hotel Virginus located at 804 Virginia near Westlake Ave Ady. Rooms promise comfort and value with convenient city access.
Victor Murdock reports progressives in Chicago will stress preparedness and patriotic unity over politics. He says delegates, devoted to public welfare, will back Roosevelt if surfaced by Republicans and stand ready to cooperate to restore Yorktown and Gettysburg ideals, signaling a return to Washington Jackson Lincoln era America.
The semi monthly social includes a noon luncheon and will be held at Mrs. Evelyn Winthell's residence 725 24th Ave 8 on Friday.
Chauncey M. Depew delivered a long after dinner talk via telephone to Seattle Chamber of Commerce guests at the New Washington hotel. The event linked New York and Seattle in a 4000 mile speech chain with remarks on preparedness and Pacific trade. Theo Karle sang and exchanges with guests, including Theo Karle’s mother, were noted.
The writer reflects on the pressure of sustained creativity, contrasting Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones with his own mindset. He notes moods fueling drive, fears time is limited, and describes shaping a female lead from initial scene to wardrobe before the director reviews the script. He emphasizes meticulous character work and perpetual craftsmanship.
Four people watching a preparedness parade in Dallas were killed and about twenty injured when a wooden awning collapsed yesterday. A rescue effort followed as emergency crews responded to the scene in the city.
The United States will reject Carranza's demand to pull back forces from Mexico. A formal statement, likely within a week, will challenge his claims and assert the cross-border pursuit of Villa was well known. The note will also deny any pact between Generals Scott and Obregon not to launch a second expedition. President Wilson’s absence delays cabinet review until Tuesday.
President Wilson will march down Pennsylvania Avenue with a flag to participate in a national parade ahead of Democratic National Convention preparations. Parade organizers secured his promise today to join the event.
A fragmented 1895 market page lists prices for staples and groceries. Items include fresh milk, potatoes, butter, eggs, bread, peanut butter, yeast, baking powder, flour, coffee, shredded wheat, shrimp, cod, halibut, salmon, and pork products with per unit costs and stall references.
A fragment lists various grocery goods with prices including Chinook salmon orange marmalade apple butter coffee lard macaroni syrup wax paper graham flour raspberries and pastry flour. It notes weights and unit prices, reflecting a midcentury market ad style.
A fragmented sale list shows items like new potatoes Ib wine sap apples Mtalie and various canned goods. It mentions pork products heartily, bone meal ground, peanut butter, cheese, flour sacks, grape juice, root beer extract, baking powder, jams, condensed milk, Lima beans and rice with prices per unit or container.
A garbled listing of stalls and groceries shows prices for items such as kippered herring olives cider spinach cucumbers eel cottage cheese perch solea potatoes cherries and German carp with multiple stalls including 21 445 200 202 426 526 and 104. The fragmentary text reads like a market inventory with various prices per unit and item names.
Japanese style agitating lubricant claims to ease pains from rheumatism, neuralgia, nasal catarrh, and pleurisy by applying along the spine and feet. It advertises nerve stimulation, lung and throat relief, and complexion improvement with three drops daily at druggists.
The Pollard Opera Company now grown to an adult troupe headlines the Palace Hip with A Millionaire for a Day, backed by Abrams, Johns & Co and three more acts plus a feature film. The Honolulu Sextet from Hawaii performs in native garb with instruments, while Ed Tyson's piano monologue and The Rube Kid's mouth organ entertain. The Oak hosts The Three Pickards and a second comedy sketch The Wife, with Field and Brown and Minto and Palmer also featured. A Bluebird five reel film completes the bill.
Superior Judge Ronald cited the De Luxe Drug store proprietors at Second Ave and University St to show cause June 6 before Judge Dykeman why a receiver should not take charge. Stewart & Holmes, wholesale druggists, petitioners for the receiver, allege the store owes them 4225 dollars for goods bought.
The report estimates the new store's liabilities at 15000 dollars and assets at 10000 dollars, noting the April assessment.
The Board of Public Works will consider a proposal by the Daughters of the American Revolution to install a granite memorial drinking fountain at the county city building entrance. The design includes a shaft with plaques commemorating the Battle of Seattle and the sinking of the Maine.
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