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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
9
Silk merisail Petticoats priced at 6 dollars and silk shirt waists at 2.50. Lingered items listed at 1 dollar. Black satin petticoats and foulard dresses offered at 15 and serge dresses at 12.50. Text appears as a compact sale ad with multiple garment items and prices.
Senator La Follette headlines a sharp campaign across North Dakota attacking Taft and Roosevelt for not curbing trusts and tariff reform. He spoke in Jamestown and elsewhere with more rallies planned in Bleamarck Grand Forks and Fargo as primaries approach Tuesday.
Baltimore inventor Jerome Meyer, age 26, unveils a tele visual device that transmits sight and motion to a distant viewer. The system uses a selenium mirror and Crookes tubes, with a high voltage supply, to render the sender’s expressions and surroundings in real time, promising a near sighted sensual experience.
Bert Mason of La Mess wed Helena Lox of San Francisco on Tuesday night, within twenty hours after his wife died and twelve hours before her funeral. A justice of the peace officiated. Mason and his new bride arrived in San Diego to settle there as a family, following the dying wife's wish that Mason remarry for the children's welfare.
After censorship edits by the Seattle board, The Girl From Rector's resumed three acts at the Seattle theatre last night. Lute the performer appears on crutches following surgery while censor-committee members approved expurgation of risqué lines and Mayor Dilling halted police intervention.
Final returns from the advisory ballot of the International Typographical Union show James M. Lynch winning renomination by more than two to one. Lynch received 301 votes to 143 for Fred Barker of Spokane in the contest for the presidency.
Mayor TDilling vetoed renewal of the saloon license for Berryman and Ludovic's Alaska bar without stating reasons. The council will be told his reasons Monday. Three councilmen voted against renewal last Monday. Kellogg was absent. A six vote majority is needed to override the veto.
Lansing March 15. The Michigan house adopted a state wide primary bill by a 70 to 19 vote. The document notes a quoted remark about aircraft hen coops after leaving town.
The cannery ship Benj F Packard of Northwestern Fisheries Co. began its voyage at 10 this morning, the first Seattle vessel to depart for the North. It sails to Chignik where it will stay through the summer.
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