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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1914
Page
7
Advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as a safe, non irritating cure for rheumatism and related pains. It claims instant relief from tender rheumatic areas and promotes a trial bottle from any drug store. The copy asserts the product has cured millions over the last century and also aids sciatica neuralgia lumbago backache and sprains.
Henry Miller, once a San Francisco sausage maker, built a vast California empire of nearly a million acres with the big M brand. He controlled ranches in 18 counties and parts of Oregon and Nevada, employing about 10,000 people, and his fortune exceeds 50 million dollars with a looming state inheritance tax of 5 million.
The Edison line presents the Diamond Point Disc and Cylinder Phonographs praised as the finest sound reproduction from the Edison Laboratory. Prices range from 30 to 450 dollars with liberal payment terms and prepaid parcel post shipping to the Northwest, delivering records to out-of-town buyers.
San Francisco gossip at the Palace Hotel centers on White Hat McCarty who extols Akoz a radi a tive mineral. He says it relieved his rheumatism neuralgia and stiff neck after using it for a day and credits the remedy with curing long standing pains. He lists horses Fr Todd Sorrento and Dex Prince in discussion of the product.
Seattle churchgoers heard Rev. W. B. Riley of Minneapolis in three pulpits yesterday. He spoke at Westminster Presbyterian in the morning, the Baptist tabernacle at night, and led an afternoon meeting at First Christian church urging ministers to trust God over human logic.
Dorothea Williams who testified in the trial of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard for her sister Claire’s starvation death will marry Rev. W. A. Chaplin in Gloucestershire England. News is reported by the British Vice Consul Agassiz in Tacoma dated March 146.
In Roseburg Oregon, Douglas County may lack representation next session as no candidate has filed or shown interest. Across Tokyo, Speaker Sumitaka Haseba of the lower house died of heart disease on March 16.
Advertisement for automobile repair training and job placement at 1902 W Roy Ave Seattle. Mentions skills with lathes drills shapers milling machines and shop tools and a constant demand for competent repairers. Contact Queen Anne 164.
John H. Perry argues the penal system creates born criminals through imprisonment. He calls for preventive measures, public treatment for drunkenness and drug habits, and public farms to rehabilitate, restore willpower, and produce useful citizens.
Advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a fast, strong remedy for indigestion gas and upset stomach. It claims relief in five minutes and ongoing stomach health, urging readers to buy a fifty cent case from any drug store.
New York report cites Mia as the source for Charlotte Perkins Gilman listing six types of love. The varieties include gratitude, friendship based on sympathy, admiration or adoration, usage including love of home and country, sex attraction rising to a supreme love, and benevolence aimed at service and good.
Miss Isabella Austin dean of women at the University of Washington halted a rag time dance described as a county fair in the school gym. She ordered the master of ceremonies to stop the tango and delivered a stern lecture to floor managers accusing them of breaking faith.
Ellensburg officials press on with a 12.6 mill tax for current expenses despite a Supreme Court ruling that third class cities may not exceed 10 mills. County Treasurer Fred Gilmour was asked to disregard the decision and collect the higher rate.
New York gossip notes Mary Garden and Van ni Marcoux reportedly plan marriage. Dame Rumor cites the claim as circulating, with Marcoux away with the Chicago Grand Opera company and neither party denying the tale.
A Bevy of Beauties Entertains Thvoli Audiences This Week with song and dance in A Night Out at The Tivoli Seattle. The venue offers light entertainment priced to attract all, with matinees at ten cents and evening shows at ten and twenty cents. Two performances nightly at 7 30 and 9.
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