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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1904
Page
3
An old classifieds snippet promotes Brown's Painless Dentists with offices at First Avenue and Union streets, Portland and Everson locations. It claims work done at once with guaranteed painless service, established twelve years, touting multiple partner listings and contact points.
The Beattle Mall and Herald reports on King County Washington spending for a court house site. The 235 000 block purchase is blamed on reckless debt and graft rumors. Taxes and interest swell annual costs, with a projected loss of 16 500 yearly and 295 000 more debt versus prior. The article notes no definite plan for construction and upcoming elections as pressure mounts.
The Eiler Piano Company plans a three story brick factory on Beattie’s tide flat or Interbay, near Seattle. The plant will be 100 feet square, employing several hundred workers, with site choice pending and costs undetermined but expected to be a city credit. Seattle welcomes the venture due to its shipping advantages and progressive spirit.
Seattle Electric Company trims twenty concerts monthly to save about 14 dollars by replacing Wagner’s First Regiment band with Ernest Meier and a newly formed group at Madison Park. Wagner objects to pay cuts, while Meier hires players from Wagner’s troupe to assemble a cheaper ensemble for the season’s opener at Madison Park.
Pupils at the Academy of Holy Names 1120 Broadway present two shows closing school work. The Minims evening on June 10 features music and the interlude Useless Brass with named boys. Four dozen girls perform On a Strike, followed by a finale by Edwin Booth. June 15 offers Through Darkness to Light at 2 20 p m at Third Avenue theater to offset debts from street work.
Preparations begin to transform a 1000 acre tract on Lake Washington's east side into a park modeled after the Denny Maine plan. The project, led by Pettit and Bon, will employ 100 men to clear land and lay out parkways and wharves for steamer service, with wealthy residents planning summer homes and hotels along the waterfront.
A fire destroyed Melvin De Shaee’s Olympia residence while he was in California for his wife’s illness. Other brief items note deaths, escapes, and local incidents including a Pomeroy accident, Rosa White’s death in Olympia, a youth released from Everett jail, a wheat car incident in Seattle, a possible mail robbery accusation against Asa Newell, and various local events.
Advertising blurb notes Wagner's full band, Pleasant Reach, performs Sunday June 6 with a show promoted in the ad.
Duval of Western Alaska Construction Company plans a northbound voyage on the Victoria to decide on a Nome to main line branch from the Holoman river route near Comet City. Northwest Commercial Company to install a ware heater at Dickson by the Bolomon mouth.
Democratic primaries are held in Delaware to choose delegates for the state convention. Friends of Judge Gray are pressing for a delegation pledged to his support ahead of next Tuesday’s convention.
A new walkout order targets all members of the Atlantic Coast Marine Firemen's Union for Tuesday if employers fail to meet demands. About eighteen thousand sailors would be affected as the union calls for ending the “crimp” practice and a wage increase.
A natural gas leak ignited by a kerosene lamp caused a violent explosion in a tenement house in Pavamont West Virginia. The blast blew out all four walls and settled the roof on thirteen occupants. Mrs Whraffy and two Dent family members died. others were seriously injured.
A report claims a clash between British and Tibetan forces near Tibet in June. The British seized two of the Tibetan four pounders and killed a Tibetan general.
Frank Febrick, 55, Austrian widower and longtime sexton at the Jewish Home cemetery, died at his home on cemetery grounds. The body was found by Frank Dubacker shortly after noon yesterday and the coroner notified.
In Texas on June 4 delegates were chosen to attend the Democratic state convention at San Antonio June 21. The convention will select large delegation to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis. The race features factions aligned with Hearst supporters and other party interests.
June 4 in St Louis crowds surged through the gates as Pike day celebrations dominated the program. The parade featured riders in Irish jaunting carts, Arabian steeds, jin rickshas, Persian kavvaks, Alaska dog sledges, and the golden cars of the Indian rajah.
William Hoppe the dairyman was acquitted by a superior court jury in the milk poisoning case linked to the death of Carrie Constantine. The state said formaldehyde tainted milk caused the infant's death while defense argued Hoppe as a milk wagon driver bore no responsibility and malnutrition may have caused the death.
Passenger and freight traffic to Nome this year surpasses 1903 with a widening margin. Five vessels have carried or will carry about 3,020 passengers to date, while tonnage also exceeds last year. About 1,000 passengers sail tonight on Victoria and Roanoke. Valencia will sail June 14, with around 400 more departures expected.
The Seattle Eagles Aerie announces meetings on the first Sunday each month at 7 30 p m starting June 1964 with elections of physicians on June 7 at 7 30 p m by order of M J Lea Attest Worthy President Frank Dowd Worthy Secretary.
The Federation of American Zionists opened its seventh annual meeting in Cleveland to discuss colonizing Palestine and evaluating England's offer of 5000 square miles of land in East Africa for a Hebrew settlement. Russian Jews favored returning to Palestine. American delegates likely to accept East Africa site.
A repair crew shut down Ace operations after a strand in a traction cable broke. Trains or cars were removed from the line for the remainder of the night to ensure safety.
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