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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
3
Ice Cream brand promotes Cream of Quality Creams as healthful and delicious. The product is widely sold and recommended by local druggists and confectioners with the tag Seattle Ice Cream, claimed to be the leading seller and preferred over pastry for children.
The court in Jersey City ruled the right of a wife to misstate her age is lawful in the divorce case of Wade Robinson, a New York marine insurance broker. Robinson, age 33 at marriage in 1906, learned two years ago that his wife was actually 49.
At Galveston Texas June 25 the Texas Equal Suffrage association failed to adopt a proposal to endorse the women peace party. Mia Wendell Spence of Dallas declared she would gladly sacrifice her four sons if the nation faced insult and needed help wiping it out.
Pittsburg June 25 a line man named Harry Grusch slept for an hour while a frightened crowd watched as ambulance and patrol crews worked to bring him down from a perch. He apologized saying I fell asleep.
Secretary of State Lansing will prepare a rejoinder to Britain's denial that it harmed American trade. The note, released last night, evades the main issue of neutrals’ right to trade and will be answered with a detailed memorandum by Acting Counsellor Anderson. President Wilson will get the German note on submarine warfare before proceeding with allies.
New York on June 25 reports the American Museum of Natural History received two skins of the ant thrush from Leo E. Miller after his Columbia Colombia expedition. The rare bird, 6 inches long, was found in the Paramillo region 13 000 feet up. The male is slate and the female rusty brown. A white tuft appears from the male’s back during mating. The beak is curved and upturned like scissors.
Nick Christophulos in Macon receives a letter mailed in Redding California eight years earlier. Sent August 7 1907 after the San Francisco quake and fire, the missive was postmarked April 15 1915 and intended for a cousin seeking a Macon job.
Worley Hassler of Spring Grove Stone and Lime Co. fell 40 feet from a kiln after being overcome by fumes. A thin canvas strip used to shade firemen saved his life as he landed and escaped serious injury.
Spokane reports Helen Fitzharris aged 11 was struck by a guy wire during tennis play and suffered a dislocated neck. she died two hours later at a local hospital.
Mrs. C. E. Lee, owner of a Harrison street rooming house, says a man named Lane, claiming to be from the British consul, sought to hire her entire property to house British reservists and facilitate examinations. Funds were paid by Ralph K. Blair, partner of Supervisor Murdock. Her house at 735A Harrison street previously housed a German tenant she refused to remove.
Barbert on Ohio June 25 Mrs R C Spear manager of the Western Union telegraph office here marked her 900 000th message. She has served as a telegraph operator for thirty years since age fourteen and has handled messages aboard trains, where one error could cause catastrophe and loss.
Pottsville Pennsylvania reports four year old twins Phaon and Uriah Schaeffer from Pinegrove were sent home from Miners' hospital an inch and a half taller after three weeks. The bowlegs were deformed and a plaster cast was used to straighten them. The unexpected growth came with the leg straightening.
French resident Metchnikoff predicts that wars and hostilities caused by foreigners will fade away soon, arguing that immigration tensions will lessen in civil society as peaceful relations prevail.
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