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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1913
Page
3
Fragmentary report shows a county commissioner denying a request to grant a contract. The text refers to politics during Sheritt’s term, alleged personal profit, and a suggestion to favor a return to old methods. The garbled passage mentions daily savings and a possible county benefit.
March 19. Navy Department report reveals fingerprinting of 130000 sailors and a reform to tighten enlistment and discharge records. Dentists promote a price system and denture services with $10 items including Never Slip Plates. Clark D D S manager at Ave N W corner Union lists dental offerings.
J Campbell Cory reports two strong pressures delaying canal completion. Debris slides at Culebra require vast labor while an influx of tourists creates noise and obstruction. The writer urges repressive measures against tourists to protect funds and progress.
In a Washington interview Marshall says he may be green in the role after two weeks yet hopes to like it. He escapes tourists in a private office, jokes about patronage, and explains living within his income while wearing a Prince Albert suit to suit the dignity of the office.
The U S government under President Wilson states it will not act as collection agency or guarantee foreign loans. A meeting with J on & Co Kuhn Loeb financiers sought State Department approval for an all power loan to China. Wilson and the cabinet, as reported, oppose guaranteeing private debts or loans.
A hostile Chinese tong has placed a price of 2500 dollars on the heads of Gum Fong and Dung Jeck, key witnesses in the Wong Song murder trial. The witnesses fled, feared sunmen from a rival tong. Wong Song was killed at the Milwaukee hotel on December 18. Go Yung Ging and Chin Quong were arrested and the trial moved to March 24 to locate the witnesses in Portland.
Denver reports Jack Lynch of Eagle Colorado traced a large liver bearing mammal to its lair while prospecting. He chased the creature into a cave and found liver traces in the rock at his feet.
In Chicago on March 19 Rev Nestor K Clarkson of the White Cross Midnight Mission says no reconciliation is possible with his wife due to her friendship with Owen D Conn the San Francisco burglar. Also John E Gill a Pittsburg manufacturer held a 20 minute reception at the Fort Pitt hotel and shook hands with about forty visitors who mistook him for President Wilmon.
The clipping lists varied selling and buying prices for farmers goods including cattle meat poultry and produce. It notes commission earnings and site variability with prices differing by grade and location and includes specific items such as pork sausage ham shredded meat seafood vegetables and grains.
Bartell Drug Co offers a free trial of Samose a flesh forming tablet sold on approval at 60c a box. If it fails to increase weight there is no charge and a refund is promised.
United Press reports that a California girl who married a cousin of the khedive of Egypt has arrived in New York from Bremen with her married life wrecked by alleged cruelty. Her only word to American girls considering titles is Dont.
Madrid honors Juan Ryan y Garangos for fostering Spain United States ties. The ceremony marks a high diplomat value. In Cambridge mass a divorce case cites cruelty linked to a pet dog, with John Moore blamed for troubles due to the dog and wife objecting to it.
The page lists showings at Metropolitan Alma Where Do You Leave Seattie ailey Mitchell in The City Moore Motion Pictures Orpheum Vaudeville Empress Vaudeville Pantages Vaudeville Grand Vaudeville and motion pictures Clemmner Photoplays Vaudeville Melbourne Photoplays and Vaudeville Alhambra Photoplays and Vaudeville
In Calcutta three post office clerks died after four bombs exploded aimed at editors of leading papers. In a separate incident nearby, John Whittis of New Brunswick suffered severe burns and paralysis when a live 2,400 volt wire startled him during railway bridge work.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Dandeline as a 25 cent hair cleanser that revives hair by removing dust oil and dandruff. It claims roots are strengthened encouraging abundant long hair and a soothed scalp with no itching or falling hair after one application.
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