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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1912
Page
6
A firm promotes coverage to protect patients from prescription clerks mistakes. It claims to shield clients from potential dispensing errors and related liability, emphasizing accuracy and safeguards in pharmacy practice.
Antoinette Tolla, once condemned for murder, is released with public support from Cincinnati Post readers. She returns to husband and two daughters Katherine and Maria to start a new life in a new home. Donations totaling 712.87 aided her release and new beginning.
In Phoenix the senator elect Henry F. Ashurst praised Gen. H. M. Chittenden’s call to open coal mines on government land and sell directly to the people. He quoted Chittenden from La Follette's in a speech to Arizona lawmakers, arguing for productive federal action over protective paternalism.
An advertisement promises quick relief from sourness indigestion heartburn and dyspepsia. It claims Diapepsin acts within five minutes to ease stomach revolt and prevent distress after meals, with a large fifty cent case available at drug stores.
Dr Maton Portland Oregon March 27 Charles Wakefield son of Robt Wakefield a millionaire contractor is jailed on highway robbery charges. He was arrested with Jack Johnson and J H Carlton after allegedly robbing C C Harvey of his watch and $10. The elder Wakefield refused bail calling jail a good place for him. Police say the trio possessed the stolen articles and resisted arrest.
Bremerton Wash March 27 Lieut CK Jones U S N expects acquittal in the court martial on charges of scandalous conduct linked to relations with the divorced wife of Lieut McReynolds A&M C Cross examination shows Jones not responsible for the divorce and that the couple agreed to separate before the relationship began.
Thos. McCusker announces Senator Robert M. La Follette will visit Oregon for a broad speech tour, aiming for about a dozen addresses. He plans to arrive in Oregon between April 5 and 10 to kick off the campaign outreach.
In St. Petersburg 159 members of theDashnalzutjan Armenian revolutionary party await trial after 30 days of testimony. The court is said to have found much false evidence and forged complaints, with a verdict likely but sentences expected to be light due to unreliable testimony.
The will of Kansel Gottstein who died in Seattle on March 17 was admitted to probate by Judge Albertson. Dated October 30, 1908, it leaves most of a $250000 estate to his widow Rebecca Gottstein, with $1 to each of seven children and specific grants to relatives and Seattle organizations including the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society and Montefiore.
Deed filed transferring the Orpheum theatre property at the corner of Thirday and Madison streets from Timothy D. Sullivan to Sullivan-Considine for 500000 dollars. A parallel transfer of the Orpheum site in Tacoma was recorded.
Read six columns of suggestions on page 3 of today's Star to maximize value. Each tip promises practical ways to save money and stretch a dollar further, highlighting the old adage penny saved is a penny earned.
Washington reports claim President Taft plans to send the army into Mexico to protect American mortgages and Wall Street interests. The piece argues the push aims to safeguard speculative property and deny aid to the Mexican revolutionaries, portraying the move as a Wall Street driven intervention rather than a moral or humanitarian action.
A mass meeting of chicken raisers is planned at the Dreamland rink to oppose a proposed anti chicken ordinance. Secretary C H Burnett will present protest numbers to the council, while Dr Crichton and Councilman Blaine Die deny intent to craft drastic measures. The bill, introduced by title, seeks to restrict chicken raising downtown. In Oakland California records for feminine registration were broken by a law removing the age clause, with clerks and visitors described as indifferent.
An advertisement touts spirits as an innovative rheumatism remedy. It prescribes mixing oris compound and Step of reaparilia compound with whiskey, then taking a spoonful before meals and at night. It claims immediate results and urges asking for the genuine Toria compound in the original sealed package.
Seattle faces a day without a mayor or mayor pro tem as most council members and the public works board are away. President Bob Hesketh was the acting mayor only until noon, while Mayor Cotterill and others ported to Betacada, Oregon to inspect a dam project.
Rev. BF Vier of Seattle denounces ministers legislators and “Christian people” for moral cowardice during Lenten services at the People's theatre. He accuses ministers of prattle, officials of lacking stamina against corporate pressure, and Senators of tolerating corrupted elections.
The new workmen's shelter at the stockade on Beacon Hill will be ready for occupancy probably by Saturday. Police Judge Gordon says the shelter is a necessary stop gap for men temporarily out of work who would work if able. It will house up to 30, with bunks, a kitchen, reading room, and showers. men go there voluntarily and must work for meals.
R. W. Stevenson was found guilty of second degree assault for attacking his wife with a razor. The jury delivered its verdict in Judge Ronald's court yesterday and Stevenson now faces sentencing.
Judge Ronald yesterday denied the motion for a new trial for Herbert Hanlon the newspaper man convicted of grand larceny in the case heard at the county courthouse.
Theft of $300 in furs and clothing from J. F. Douglas. sentencing expected next Saturday. Governor Hay proclaims April 11 Arbor Day and April 12 Good Roads Day as holidays. Henry B. Dewey urges schools to observe both days as holidays for pupils.
The appellate court in San Francisco dismissed yesterday afternoon the appeal of Dr. Willard Burke against his penitentiary sentence for an attempt to kill Luetta Smith.
In Corvallis Oregon Chas Humphreys faces a murder charge in the Eliza Griffith case with trial set for April 11. His elder brother, charged in the same Griffith murder and alleged to have killed his step father, Wm King, will be tried immediately after.
Charles Petro vitsky, administrator of John Gacek estate, filed suit in the superior court seeking 20000 damages for Gacek death at the Pacific hotel on December 24 1910. The suit alleges a hotel gas leak from a cut pipe after alterations by contractors caused asphyxiation.
Bakersfield California March 27 James Waite a local farmer shaves off his whiskers after keeping his beard until William Jennings Bryan’s first defeat in 1896. The vow ends now as Bryan is not yet in the White House.
The Arizona legislature unanimously chose Marcus A. Smith of Tucson and Henry F. Ashurst of Prescott as United States senators. Both the senate and the assembly cast solid votes for the two men.
Santa Ana residents Mr and Mrs Samson Ed wards who marked their sixtieth wedding anniversary last week died from injuries after Ed wards collided their car with a Santa Fe train. Ed wards was 61 and his wife 79.
A San Francisco case centers on the state’s police power to enforce an eight hour labor law. Henrietta Ketress and Mrs Sommerville are mentioned amid a contested tract for labor regulation and workers’ protections. The report notes the judge’s handling and a backdrop of Greek dancing scenes in the vicinity.
Fragmentary text appears to promise dental service with mentions of prices and protection but is unreadable and lacks coherent details or identifiable entities. The fragment references a Sie operator and manager but provides no clear event or outcome to summarize.
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