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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1912
Page
8
The notice urges readers that title insurance provides complete protection and is the right and duty of buyers lenders and heirs to demand. It invites consultation to review the protection in any real estate or mortgage transaction.
A Seattle dentist warns that a sign reading The Right Doctor Brown misleads patients at 713 First Avenue in the Union block. He asserts his own office at 715 First Avenue has twenty years of patient trust and cash-only service with a guarantee of quality from fillings to crowns.
The Theatres section notes Anna Mack Herlein in Darby and Joan. Noted billiards ace Bert Cutler will duel local experts during his visit. English sisters Lindon bring songs and fashion. Princeton and Yale present 600 Miles From New York. Four Harmonious Girls including Paul, Elsie Esmond, and Moore perform.
Moore Thurlow Bergen players in Alias Jimmy Valentine. Metropolitan Maude Adams in Chantecler. Seattie Dark at Orpheum Vaudeville. Empress Vaudeville. Pantages Vaudeville. Grand Vaudeville and motion pictures. Clemmer Photoplays and vaudeville. Melbourne Photoplays and vaude.
The Bergen company opens Henry Arthur Jones's Mrs Dane's Defense tomorrow. Elsie Esmond stars as Mrs Dane with Thurlow Bergen as Sir Daniel Cartaret, a stern lawyer trying to save his adopted son from a rumored unsuitable match.
The Real Thing from the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York arrives in touring form presented by Henrietta Crosman for a three day stay at the Metropolitan theatre starting Monday. The Spring Maid returns to share the week at the Met beginning Thursday with Mizzi Hajos in the title role.
At the Orpheum David Belasco's Madame Butterfly with 14 in the cast will headline. The Nippon girl and American naval officer love tale is told in one act. O'Meers Sisters and company perform wire walking acts. Just Entertainers Brown and Blyer present a modest vaudeville act. Harry Atkinson imitates instruments. The Tuxedo Company a vocal quartet adds humor. Honora and Le Prince perform French pantomime gymnastics.
The Braham Ben Bujamaa acrobatic troupe, fresh from the Sahara, will top the Empress theatre bill next week with pyramid feats. Comedian Harry Hayward leads a strong cast in The Fire Fly. Two southern stars Elizabeth Kennedy and
At Pantages theatre Seven Aviator Girls high on the bill along with a character comedy sketch Happy's Millions by William Morrow and company. Also featured Harm onious Four St Jenks Ansonia Trio gymnasts and rube humor from Georgie Cohan alumnus.
handwriting expert Odore Kytka in San Francisco possesses a 1719 Fox's Book of Martyrs he bought for $9 from a secondhand store. He learned its value after reading that J P Morgan paid $19,000 for a copy in London, and wonders how the volume reached San Francisco.
The latest reports show the lowest tide of the year at Port Townsend tomorrow morning at 11:33, dipping one and two tenths feet below zero. The highest tide of the year arrives Monday night at 8:17, reaching 12.1 feet at Port Townsend and about 16 feet at Seattle, a remarkably unusual first record.
Maj. F A Boutelle head of the U S recruiting office says recruiting has been dull since June with only two men enlisted. He notes Seattle free employment bureau has found work for about 1550 men in and around Seattle since June 1.
Mrs. Oleda Schwin told U S Commissioner Krull that a secret service raid on her San Francisco home caused a sudden white head of hair. She notes an heirloom champagne pail from Louis XV’s era and explains her husband’s replica venture for the 1915 world’s fair. She declines suit and urges gentler treatment of women by agents.
The Spanish War Veterans convention in Everett on June 15 elected department officers including commander M. S. Scudder of North Yakima senior vice commander A. W. Calder of Vancouver junior vice commander R. K. Staubbe of Bremerton department inspector William Downey of Seattle judge advocate C. H. Winders of Seattle surgeon Dr. J. T. Dawson of Seattle chaplain R. A. Spence of Everett marshal B. P. Winters of Fort Worden.
University of Washington closes for vacation as 1500 students disperse to logging mines offices and surveying jobs. Leaders like Jerry Riordan Orvie Gladden and Mel Muckelstone plan summer politics and journalism while others pursue law medicine or entertainment in cities across the state.
The Seattle Star asks readers to report any future delivery issues or substitutions promptly. Management seeks best service and promises courteous, prompt attention to complaints. If the paper fails to arrive by the night deadline, call the Circulation Department at the provided phone number.
A joint Beattie and Women's Taxpayers' leagues meeting is set for Monday at noon at Dale's cafeteria. The Milwaukee special picnic train to Lake Keechelus departs the city tomorrow at noon and returns at 7 30 p m. The body of Frank Williams, a local drowned man, was recovered this morning at 9 30 am.
At 4 PM tomorrow St Mark's Church holds memorial services for Hugh Roscoe Rood the vice president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Creosoting Co of Seattle who perished in the Titanic disaster.
Cheasty a prominent merchant and park board member returned from Cleveland where he attended the National Playground association convention. He said Seattle is recognized as one of the foremost playground and park cities in the world.
Supervising inspector General Uhbler yesterday affirmed Pacific Coast Inspector Hulger s decision that all weasels must have enough lifeboats and rafts for every passenger on board.
The piece argues that the office serves the educated public and shows every operator’s license for transparency. It highlights personal trust and guarantees and lists two price points for dental work including $4.00 for regular plates and $10 gold crowns at $10 or $6.00.
The Y W C A asked a court to stop tax collection of 1062.61 while holdings for benevolent purposes are contested. Stanford's David Starr Jordan toured Seattle with the publicity bureau. Church programs and high school discussions planned. Lumber output and port shipments rise in April. Ocean liner departures set for next Tuesday. Local customs brokers hold a park picnic and park improvements proceed with Second N and Harrison condemnation awards totaling 21000. Sealth high school annual press run reported 1700 copies sold.
In New York on June 15 the new tiny weave measuring an inch square was seen on the streets. The novelty aims to ease household labor by reducing mending for women, avoiding additional topics for ministers and giving quicker fixes.
A scattered clipping reports rattlesnakes on Rattlesnake Mountain needing extermination as summer visitors pass Lenox and nearby towns. It also notes a federal sting on a scheme to smuggle Chinese across the Canadian border and mentions a cyclone incident near Evergreen Alabama.
A Chicago report notes beef selling at eight dollars per hundredweight the highest price ever recorded. In Los Angeles a boys school teacher Homer D Scott receives no salary after a table knife and fork incident and now faces legal action against authorities.
Tacoma residents approve a port commission proposal modeled after Seattle in a July 20 ballot. In Centralia two batters divide a firm after a dispute over a loaded bat ends a longtime business partnership between Joe Wilkins and Dusty Miller.
Council split on a 500000 park extension bond bid from Rollins and Sons of Boston. Goddard Ward opposed a 50000 light extension fund for the Camp 2 masonry dam. Blaine Marble supported it. The report goes to the council Monday.
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