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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1902
Page
6
A crowded Green Lake streetcar at 6 p.m. fills from Cherry to Madison as the conductor urges passengers to sit closer. An elderly man offers a $100 monthly salary to secure the conductor a position, prompting laughter and the crowd to disperse.
Monterey Mexico March 14 more than 300 miles of roadbed of the Mexican National and the Texas Mexican have been widened and soon will be ready for the gauge change from narrow to standard. Wooden bridges are being replaced by prominent iron structures and curves lengthened as improvement work proceeds toward standard gauge. The Texas Mexican runs from Laredo to Corpus Christi connecting with the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, a Southern Pacific property, at Alloe and Corpus Christi.
Mails from Europe bring packs of shamrocks to Irish communities in America. The tins contain damp earth and shamrocks that appear fresh upon opening, sent to New York Chicago Denver Minneapolis St Louis and other cities for celebrations.
Helena March 14. A two days’ conference opened in Helena to form a state agricultural society in a move modeled after the Washington organization. Representatives from across the state attend the meeting, which organizers expect to be highly successful.
The play Uncle Tom’s Cabin faced a Federal intervention when U.S. Marshal James Allan entered the Laurel opera house to read a warrant for Mason & Down’s troupe over tax issues. After a struggle stage manager Usele Tom was seized and later posted a $190 bond and appeared the next night for the customary whipping in Wakefield Nebraska.
In Avoca Pennsylvania on March 14 Joseph Fein of Scranton was killed on a railroad while hurrying home to see his mother who had died the day before. The two bodies will likely be buried together.
Reports from Philadelphia describe the deaths among crews of ozara war ships built at Cramps' shipyard. Since last year seven sailors have died, including Klimer Proszenko who passed away in a German hospital last night. Captain Baer of the cruiser Waring reported five deaths from consumption.
The column surveys gendered luxury and health, noting expensive tastes for some men while detailing silver novelties and fashion items. It also promotes walking clubs for women, home remedies, cleaning tips, kitchen hacks, and a new scissor invention, ending with an ad offering five-acre tracts for sale near Beatle via G. W. Dunlap.
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