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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1917
Page
4
Readers ask about vanished Skygack cartoons and seek guidance on blushes, relationships, and fashion. Answers advise ditching vanity, cultivating work, and staying with a sensible partner, while confirming Edgar Rice Burroughs last Tarzan volume name.
Mrs Hiram C Gill and her sons Stanley and Marshall prepare to testify in federal court that Logan Billingsley did not telephone the mayor at 2 a.m. Christmas day as claimed. Attorney Vanderveer defends Mayor Gill by absolving him and detailing efforts for the clean slate deal to end prosecutions and civil suits.
William Wimmly, a hard working dishwasher with a wife and five children, pleads for a steady job to support his family at 1215 Seventh Ave as three months of rent go unpaid. He rejects charity and relies on friends as needed.
Cinetrati authority advertises freezone as a quick, painless corn remover. A quarter ounce costs little and supposedly dries the corn instantly without irritation. The claim appeals to women in the era of high heels.
Defense witnesses recount alleged bribe schemes involving Mayor Gill and Logan Billingsley. Vanderveer emphasizes Logan’s claim of paying Gill four thousand dollars for papers and protection, while cross examination probes the reliability of the government’s case and related shooting frame-up plots.
Advert says Tig and Tiz cure sore tired feet from standing all day. Claims draw out poisonous exudations causing puffiness, stop pain in corns callouses and bunions. Promotes 21 cent box with yearly foot comfort for 25 cents.
Councilman Thomson introduced a bill at the first meeting of the new council setting terms for an agreement with the Northern Pacific over the cost of approaches to the Lake Washington canal bridges. The bill assigns one third of construction and maintenance costs for Eastlake and Fremont crossing the tracks and one sixth for the Ballard bridge. It was referred to the finance and streets committees.
Presiding Judge Everett Smith ordered the removal of the August Ewald versus Alaska Steamship Co. case to the federal court. Ewald seeks $25,000 in damages for injuries.
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