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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1913
Page
6
A vintage advertisement-style guide touts homemade beauty potions using simple kitchen ingredients. It promotes a shampoo from iron and tea, a scalp soother, toning for hair, a purifying acid rinse, and eye-soothing solutions, claiming cleansing, strengthening, and refreshing effects.
In a bold ad Dr. L. R. Clark promotes a crown offer and cosmetic plate from his office at 1405 Third Ave NW. The message urges immediate dental work, claiming low prices and a guaranteed protection signed by the operator and manager. The ad notes the practice is the city’s only large office owned by a graduate restored dentist and asks readers to bring the ad.
A playful item notes a character named Adolf securing a respectable government position titled parlor car job. The tone is humorous and shows a satirical take on official appointments.
A violent thunder storm struck Sydney, N S W causing at least four deaths and extensive damage. A wagon driver and 10 horses were electrocuted, three men drowned, and many buildings destroyed as winds reached 60 miles per hour derailing over 60 street cars and halting tram traffic across the city and suburbs.
W. H. L. Giles, 35, a Seattle Electric Company conductor, was found dead in his bed this morning at 1220 Remington Court. The body was removed to Bonney Watson parlors, and officials say heart failure caused the death.
A liquid preparation claims to restore natural hair color in a single application. The Queen Gray Hair Restorer supposedly yields a non sticky, fluffy, even shade and is sold in 6c and 1.00 packages. Bartel Drug Stores and major outlets distribute the product.
Judge Smith kept the 1 W. W. case alive and cut pickets to two at each location 1420 Seconday Wollman tailoring and 417 Union St. He warned that failure to settle by Wednesday could prompt a decree creating a warlike zone enforceable by civil and state military power. R. H. Halvan jailed 20 days for assault. Police Judge Arnold fined for insulting a woman. sixteen other pickets released temporarily.
L Luther, principal of Queen Anne high school in Seattle, filed his application today to succeed Frank Rigler as Portland city schools superintendent after Rigler recently resigned.
A wary fundy policeman brady patrols Harlem and interrupts a crowd at a cinema where a youth bets on his love for Flossie O Flannigan star of the film The Boy's Sweetheart. The scene ends with the crowd moving inside while brady pursues the ruse and the romance.
City officials order reduced stair heights on street cars to take effect by January 1 1914. The change aims to ease boarding for riders and improve accessibility across municipal transit.
Dayton man D. T. Boozer, connected to a wholesale liquor firm, is arrested on a bill-jump charge after a dispute with his landlady. Police initially withhold the name, suspecting a joke, while detectives probe the initials Deliriam Premens and a dubious business pairing.
Friends of Dr Philip Waughop and his nurse-bride fought to separate them after six days of marriage. A Superior Court judge issued a writ preventing the couple from seeing each other unattended, sending the case to the supreme court for decision.
President Hesketh announced the measure to appropriate 1000 dollars for a municipal commission house failed with five votes in the city council. Four members Hesketh Erickson Goddard and Pierce voted against, as the deficiency measure required seven votes. The bill, brought by Councilman Blaine in January, did not pass.
Mrs. Thomas Ward, attacked Monday in her Rainieray home by her husband, died Monday afternoon at the city hospital. Ward had been beaten with a hammer and the husband also battered his own head with the same weapon before his injuries.
At Olympia on March 11 Jens Jensen of Pend d Oreille described as the only progressive voting against the constitutional amendments initiative. He is read out of the Bull Moose party by members of the house for allegedly trading to support a $50,000 Pend d Oreille river bridge scheme. Jensen was elected in a by election to replace the late S J Appleman and is reportedly rejected by progressives.
Local No 2 in Tacoma is ousted from the socialist party after a state convention vote. Local No 6 remains. Local 2 comprised lawyers, business men, students, and clerks. objections include not being from the working class. Reds maintain control of the convention as it amends the state constitution.
In desert near Quenanada New Mexico a motor car exploded injuring H O Hanson of Denver and fatally burning his wife after a 15 hour cold wait for help. A courier brought news of the accident to a ranch. The cowboy found them and medical aid was summoned.
An old recipe touts Pinex with granulated sugar syrup to make a pint of cough syrup that relieves obstinate and whooping coughs and soothes sore lungs. It promises quick relief, a slight laxative effect, and appetite stimulation, with a money back guarantee from The Pinex Co and Bar tell Drug Co as distributors.
In Olympia Washington on March 11 the Senate approved a measure to open university lands in Eastern Washington and other state lands to settlers despite protests from Senators Allen and Colling. The compromise allows alternating sections to be sold under the land commissioner supervision, enabling several thousand acres of agricultural land to be sold on 11 year payments.
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