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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1912
Page
6
Swissee proclaims hair growth and reversal of gray in quick results. Claims a free trial sample with postage payment and promises refunds. Advertisement lists Cincinnati address and drugstore availability with pricing per bottle.
Partial timetable notes for the Everett Seattle interurban and Seattle-Ever traction lines. Mentions train times, frequency, and special services, including extra weekend trains and freight movements, with unclear fragments and numeric codes.
The Star lists 27 charter amendments and 7 city propositions with recommended Yes or No votes. It also outlines port commission plans including dock sites and terminal projects with suggested outcomes. The advisory ballot stresses voting NO on many measures while endorsing several key items such as a tuberculosis hospital, certain tax amendments, and port investments.
In a night attack on G J Simmonds hen coop the thief killed a Rhode Island Red rooster valued at about one thousand dollars and another prize bird. The intruder Steele was captured but Simmonds still held the prized fowl as a costly loss.
Winifred Ankers of Brooklyn confessed to murdering eight infants in the Brooklyn Nursery and Infants' Home by putting oxalic acid in their milk. She claimed a history of hardship and abuse and said she poisoned to “have revenge” though later repudiated the confession after a two hour third degree exam.
Mayor Dilling voices opposition to Sunset and Independent Telephone mergers in a letter to the city council. He notes the city’s equity in the Independent Co. at least 250000 dollars and accuses the firms of using customer outages to pressure better terms. He says consolidation was done by stealth against public utilities orders.
The week’s bill features Theatres Moore Rob Roy Metropolitan Get Rich Quick Wallingford Seattie Matt and Jeff Empress Vaudeville Pantagee Vauderville Orpheum Vaudeville Grand Vaudeville and motion pictures with dance. Anita Bartling a comely juggler and Lupita Peres a diminutive trapeze artist added to the lineup.
At the Seattle theater Matt and Jeff star in a lively musical comedy about two quick cash seekers with flirtations and chorus fairies. The show features witty dialogue and catchy songs with plenty of laughs and light romance, making it worth seeing this week.
At the Orpheum this week the play Every Wife heads the bill with four scenes and 15 actors and heavy pantomime. The De Faye sisters supply banjo and dance numbers to full satisfaction. Jack McKay the Scotch comedian earns favorable notices along with several other acts.
Los Angeles March 5 The office of District Attorney Fredericks faced indecision over Darrow indictments as transcript defects threaten the case against McNamaras. Fredericks would quash charges and rearrest Darrow on criminal information if needed, as the March 9 hearing looms.
At the Pan tages theatre this week the lineup features Rube Strickland with fiddle ocarina and horn as he parodies music. Fisher and Green stage speedy comedy with Joe Edmonds and company presenting The Naked Truth. The Zeb Zorrow troupe performs Isle of Joy with acrobatics. Nelson Leavitt offers a one man five character play The Woman Next Door. Claire Starr and Laura Vale close with a neat act.
George Auger as the Giant and Ernest Rummel as Jack The Giant Killer return to the Empress after touring the Orpheum. The act features about ten performers in a lively fol de rol sketch with song and comic antics.
Vancouver B C March 5 Liberal provincial convention endorsed the single tax. The platform calls for abolishing poll and personal property taxes, raising income exemptions to 2000, and extending the single tax beyond Vancouver to the whole province.
Elbowlifter questions whether the investment is land or throat, while Yeats admits spending a fortune on irrigation.
Sacramento reports a shift in military rations on the Mexican border as Nevada potatoes infected with eel worm are fed to soldiers. County Agriculturist Bloomer claims fifteen carloads were condemned after shipment, with three cars banned today.
The court room was crowded with creditors who held claims against the defunct De Larm Washington Orchard Irrigation and Fruit Co. Postponement was granted until Friday because several claimants did not present their claims properly.
American marines on the scene report partial restoration of order in Tientsin as Manchu troops take stern measures. Two hundred U.S. Marines will depart from Shanghai for Tientsin tomorrow to reinforce capabilities amid ongoing unrest.
Conservative estimates by Produce Exchange experts set the two days of rain in southern California at 30 million dollars. The downpours covered from San Luis Obispo to the Mexican line with crops saved. Pasadena recorded 2.70 inches and Los Angeles 2.02 inches yesterday and today.
The senate judiciary committee adopted a report recommending Mahlon D. Pitney of New Jersey for confirmation as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
The prosecuting attorney and police claim solid information will arrest illegally registered voters who attempt to cast ballots today. Murphy notes many left Seattle after Gill’s recall and remain registered from vacant lots. 17 such offenders were convicted last year. Penalty ranges from one to five years in prison.
A Roumanian lion tamer in Tacanesco caused panic as she fainted during a performance while the animals were calm. She recovered and demanded removal of a beetle on a bar, threatening to quit if not removed.
Los Angeles matrons plan a campus against the law barring married women from teaching in schools. They argue that a mother knows more about children and that the law denying employment based on marriage is flawed, seeking business support.
Pasadena doctors honored Dr. D. B. Van Slyck with a banquet marking his 83rd birthday and six decades as a physician. He credited his health to not worrying about what cannot be helped and to eating what was set before him with gratitude.
A crowd cheered as a passenger refused to exit a Belle Vue and Summit car at Second Avenue and Columbia after not showing a transfer two blocks away. The standstill lasted fifteen minutes until police declined to intervene and the car finally let him ride on his transfer.
Thousands seek age defying cures but costly products fail. A home face wash using saxolite powder and witch hazel mixed and applied daily promises a noticeable, soothing firming effect after the first treatment.
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