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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1912
Page
8
Forty years ago Seattle real estate passed by deed and city growth multiplied transfers deeds and mortgages. Abstract of Title with legal opinion emerged as precaution. Title insurance now guarantees defense of title and reimbursement if lost, a protection buyers and lenders should require.
Property spans 214 acres priced at 775 dollars total, within walking distance of Kirkland boat landing. Land is partially cleared. Cash price 75 dollars with 10 dollars per month payments.
The listing highlights performances at Bankoff and Belmont Pantages with Edna Beard Edna Luby Moore and Wilbur the comedian and his seven person troupe featuring six girls offering The New Scholar. Happy Jack Gardner and acts by Darcy and Williams Frankie Drewie and a ventriloquist give a varied bill with aerial artists completing the lineup.
Moore Thurlow Hergen bring performers to Old Heidelberg while several venues including Metropolitan Dark Seattle Dark and multiple vaudeville houses present varied programs. Motion pictures, photoplays, and vaudeville acts fill the week across Clemmer Melbourne and Pantages venues.
Margaret Ilington stars as Margie Schultz in Charlies Kenyon's Kind ling at the Moore theater starting Monday. The drama follows Maggie Schultz wife of a stevedore living in a New York tenement who believes crowded living endangers an unborn child and seeks escape, leading to theft and exposure.
Belasco plans another Orpheum production following the success of Madam Butterfly. Next week the headline act is The Drums of Dude, a London Duke of York's Theatre hit. Lew Sully at 209 pounds will introduce Feminine Fade with a burlesque on Alice Lloyd while Edna Luby mimics stage celebrities and Sealby with Duclos debut Parisian dances on the American circuit.
A massive dry dock project fronts a naval installation near the Taran Gap, signaling expanded ship repair capacity. The facility aims to support larger vessels with enhanced maintenance and refurbishment capabilities, reflecting strategic upgrades in naval logistics.
Taylor Granville's The Hold Up arrives at the Pantages theatre next week as the main feature. Percival Lapnon leads the cast with the Four Janowickys ladder acrobats joining from London. Other acts include Mons Hankoft and Livia Bennett, Hert Lennon, and Howard and Dolores.
Frank A. Henning secretary of the Champ Clark league of Lodi California wires Theodore A. Bell in Baltimore protesting Bell's opposition to Bryan and support for Parker for temporary chairman. Henning calls Bell the last man to oppose Bryan and urges staying with the people rather than Walletand reactionaries.
Fragmentary OCR text shows jumbled phrases about slapping Bryan and slurs toward millions, lacking context, speakers, or event details. The garbled lines do not reveal a coherent news item or identifiable entities.
Judge J T Ronald granted arrest of judgment and delayed commitment for one week. Mrs Gladys Johnson, serving a two year term for second degree perjury, may file a pardon petition to Governor Hay during the delay, aided by club women supporting her case.
The New York Assets Realization Co. sues Charles W Morse alias see king, recently released from federal prison for health reasons, seeking $1,000,000. The suit alleges Morse bought 17,000 United Copper shares from Arthur Heinze with a two year no sell agreement, allegedly manipulating prices and causing Heinze a loss later assigned to the plaintiff.
Denver progressives formed yesterday to back Roosevelt and elect national convention delegates. Incorporators include Ben F. Lindsay EB Costigan and Philip Van Cleve.
Laffin funeral held at Honney Waetaon chapel with abundant flowers and wreaths. Richard T. Laffin, late vice president of Puget Sound Traction Light and Power, remembered as Beattie Electric cars pause for three minutes. Services led by Rev. Bhayler.
Subscribers to The Beattie Star will confer a favor by notifying this office at once of any failure to secure prompt and regular delivery of the paper. Any attempt to use another paper should be treated as a breach of conduct. Immediate action is requested.
Prof Landes of the University of Washington leads thirty students on a geology study trip to Yellowstone National Park. Trinity Church will hold its annual mower show tomorrow at 11.
The Chicago Record Herald notes the Mayberleigh family’s fashion echoes a grim joke about auto mobile accidents. Livenia G. Borens will was offered for tribate yesterday, leaving the entire estate to her father Carson Boren. City of 88th Street begins sidewalk paving around a triangle strip across from Dilling Park.
The Lahore union passes a resolution praising J Havelock Wileen and his wife for visiting the group. Wileen, formerly a member of parliament and president of Great Britain's Seamen and Foremen's union, is thanked for his help and the note that both are not in the best of health.
The King County Holiness Association holds meetings at Asbury M E Church at Whitmanay and 40th. Dr. E F Walker leads the sessions assisted by Rev Lewis and Rev Mathews with singing evangelist. The meetings continue through July 7.
A fragment notes four fighting vessels at the navy yard reflecting on public opinion. The text pairs casual reflections with a brief mention of naval readiness and defense concerns.
Salvation Army plans its annual children's anniversary tomorrow at 3 p.m. in their rooms at Sixth and Washington. Children will sing songs and perform recitations.
A newspaper-style quip notes Bowser’s unusually keen attentiveness to a woman he dined with, prompting a correction that the woman is his wife. The exchange highlights social curiosity over domestic intimacy.
In Chehalis Washington a rousing meeting was held by residents to organize government assistance. A committee was appointed to begin work immediately and press Congress for action on clearing the upper Cowlitz river channel.
In Garnett a fire gutted the J. G. McAfee furniture factory and the Garnett Lee plant, killing three volunteer firefighters. The blaze caused extensive property loss. Nearby, at Louisville, Lord Seaton owned by Judge W. H. Moore won blue ribbon in the bar class at the international horse show with two other prizes awarded to the judge.
Shaw, after serving three years in the Y M C A education department, is appointed general secretary of the Olympia branch. Park commissioners select the Sixth Avenue block bounded by Sixth nv Maynard Oregon and California for the South Seattle playground. Mariposa arrives from Alaska with 80 passengers and 400 tons of ore. aims for Bremerton dry dock before noon due to propeller mishap.
Watson arrived in port from San Francisco with a mixed cargo on deck including nine autos two racers one auto freight five touring cars and one oil tanker. Steamship Jefferson sailed north with 176 passengers including 66 round trips. West Side Improvement club hosts a meeting at 2839 14th av W. Team Owners' association asks brick paving for 1st and 2nd avenues and a new six story hotel at 4th and Jefferson costing 100000 with expansion plans.
Major J. B. Cavanaugh will open bids Monday for 200000 barrels of cement to be used in Lake Washington canal locks. The project will finish preliminaries for lock construction. Bids were received for sand and gravel at 120000 yards of sand and 300000 yards of gravel. Three submarines are at the navy yard.
Autoists and motorcyclists were conservative yesterday as no speeding arrests were made and four auto accidents occurred. Elsie Ray was struck at Terry avenue and Pike street. H. L. Henderson was hit while leaving Pike Street Garage. John Mahar was knocked down at First and Jackson. Victor Townin was injured on 12th and hospitalized.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a judge and Brow word forms. no clear event or names available. Summary limited to noting an unclear legal reference requiring reconstruction from fuller source.
A fragmentary item notes a wartime joke phrasing amid unclear context with no identifiable people organizations or events. details are too fragmentary to determine a concrete incident or outcome.
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