Italian nobleman coins name for new dish macaroni
An Italian nobleman praised a strange new dish of pasta tubes calling them macaroni. His cook, adapting playful terms in Italian phrases, sparked the name that stuck as the famous pasta.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
3
An Italian nobleman praised a strange new dish of pasta tubes calling them macaroni. His cook, adapting playful terms in Italian phrases, sparked the name that stuck as the famous pasta.
The port commission decided to operate a night ferry to Bellevue starting soon and continuing until September. They estimate an extra cost of 1100 dollars per month.
An advertisement extols mercolized wax for beautifying complexions by removing defects and renewing skin. It claims harmony with nature, improved circulation, and a youthful appearance, urging use at night and washing off in the morning with basic drugstore supplies.
Florence Malone, after a bout with appendicitis in Philadelphia, joins the Metropolitan stock company in Seattle for a 13 week engagement starting with a Sunday matinee. Her career includes The Commuters on tour, Broadway leads, and later roles with Harlem Opera Company and Alcazar Theatre preparations.
New York report says Mrs. Bud Fisher died from a crushed chest and internal injuries after a joyride car crash on Pelham Parkway. The Fisher family confirmed the event while detailing a collision with Harry Hafner’s car and an overturned vehicle.
Misa Margareta Jones of Los Angeles and Harry L. Cort, son of John Cort of Seattle, planned an Evanston elopement but forgot the marriage license. They turned back to Chicago where the ceremony was completed after three years of engagement.
An advertisement from Bartell Drug Co. promotes Samose as a tissue forming food that boosts nourishment and weight. It claims Samose builds flesh, restores color to the cheeks, and increases vitality, offering a money back guarantee if it fails to raise weight or improve health.
Congressman W D B Alney, enroute to Japan with the foreign affairs committee, accuses the Washington administration of backing Carranza and Villa. He claims New York financiers are aiding the constitutionalists for property rewards and warnsVilla and Carranza will trigger costly U S casualties. He compares Huerta’s rule unfavorably to Villa and Carranza’s violence and urges public disclosure of consular reports on American deaths.
A statement by J. C. Herbaman, acting state chairman of the progressive party, claims strong gains for progressives in Southwestern Washington. The flying squadron Ole Hanson R B Hubbell and Herbaman report in Lewis Thurston Mason Pacific Cowlitz Clarke Skamania counties that voters favor reform and tax issues, with Stevenson and Mason County highlighted as signs of political shift.
Boston real estate man C. K. Sturtevant endorses the bump plan to slow speeders as effective and safe. He cites a California example where residents adopted the strategy at dangerous crossings and on a wooden plank bridge after pedestrian accidents.
A second story entry through an upstairs window at 8 L. Russell’s home 757 North Broadway yielded jewels valued at 600 dollars while the family was away between 8 and 10. Police investigate the break in and theft of a diamond pendant a pearl brooch and other jewels. Masked robbers near Terry and Union Streets fled before grabbing valuables from Frank Darling and Paul Vernon both reporting attempts or thefts nearby. Georgia at the Main hotel reported thieves stole his trousers while he was at work.
Two men were hurt when an automobile went over a bank on the Seattle Tacoma road near Renton Junction last night. W. P. Mulligan of Northern Life Insurance Co. was taken to a Kent hospital and M. L. Baker of the same firm was bruised.
Four people died when a Union Pacific train collided with an automobile near Sartoy, outside Omaha. The deceased include Oscar Krug of St. Louis and the chauffeur Carl Bahr, along with two unidentified women.
Yesterday friends announced the engagement between Miss Jessie Hall of Oakland and Selden Brown son of Judge F Brown of Seattle was broken. The couple met at Stanford while students there.
Japanese farmers supplying Pike Place Public Market have organized an association to curb peddlers and speculators. The group includes about 80 men aiming to protect Japanese vendors in the market business.
Lucy Cole and Mme Hesee- Sprotte of Seattle are elected president and vice president respectively of the Northwest Music Teachers Association.
New York report on Mary Austins book Love and the Soul Maker arguing mate love is the oldest human instinct and not solely for parenthood. marriage is an intentional agreement to practice mate love with commitment. The piece labels those who deny love paying its way as love grafters and mocks emotional beggars for love.
The second minimum wage conference for laundry workers will be held June 22 in Olympia. On June 26 the conference to recommend wages for telephone girls and women telegraph operators will be held.
June 11 report from Bremerton states delinquent taxes on city property including the city hall have been paid. City attorney James W. Carr confirms the title to the property is now clear.
A Salem Massachusetts girl striker stood on the sidewalk opposite the window where strikebreakers were employed and made faces at them, providing a visible expression of labor unrest.
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