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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1914
Page
5
A nineteen year old writes about love with a Christian beau and fears unreciprocated feelings. Readers discuss marriage, spankings, self image, reading others letters, writing to foreign countries, flirting, and shared questions on rings and gifts.
Palace Market Company owners Mesars Roll and Schoening announce a modern packing and curing plant to support their twenty-five year old Seattle meat business. The Tri angle P brand drives wholesale and retail growth and the firm adds stocker steers feeding yards and finishing poultry lots to modernize operations.
European princesses prepare a stand against royal matchmakers demanding freedom to choose their husbands. Led by Princess Pat of Connaught, they declare they will live their own lives and seek independence from dowager influence, challenging traditional matchmaking across courts from Roumania to Britain.
Grief grips Seattle as the mounted squad faces upheaval. Chief Griffitha weighs a plan to assign all eleven mounted officers to Green Lake Woodland Park and Ft Lawton during late afternoons and nights to better protect suburban residents.
Letters received in Seattle describe American refugees escaping from Guadalajara by train. Passengers were disarmed and 259 refugees faced jeering crowds as bands of Mexicans threw stones and bottles through car windows.
Ole Hanson progressive candidate for the senate spoke on Our Mothers as Grange meeting near Shelton reached midnight. L B Hubbell progressive candidate for congress also spoke. Hanson to tour county, speaking all week.
Troubles pile up for Mrs. G. W. Meyercamp 5312 Wallingford Ave as her husband sits in county jail awaiting transfer to Walla Walla to serve five years to life for a statutory offense. Gas and electric shut off, goods sold to pay creditors, three children. The oldest is five. she is ill.
Portland May 11 A 16 year old boy Willy Finckelstein was roasted alive when a fire gutted A Boxer’s grocery in South Portland with him trapped as he thrust his head and one hand through a small window unable to escape. The store burned while he was alone inside. Captain C H Stanley spoke on Prohibition at Green Lake Christian church Tuesday night. Forty one people received citizenship.
Dr Anna Shaw sues Lehigh Valley railroad for twenty six thousand dollars for personal injuries. Other items note Alaska railroad surveys, political events, and local notices across multiple regions including Dallas and Seattle.
The steamship Thomas L. Wand of Portland was aground on a reef about a mile from Ketchikan Alaska for seven hours Sunday. It was floated at high tide with practically no damage.
Joe Rivers aged 19 is jailed with Bob Stewart and George Smith after morning arrest by Patrolman Fred Mills at First and Madison. Suspects in the robbery of J. B. Wood and H. F. McDaniels who reported three watches stolen.
Se Hair Pins crimped or straight package 24¢ Se spool Silk all colors 5¢ Hair Nets all shades 5 for 10¢ Se Tape Packages 8 assorted widths 8¢ Se Tape Measures 0 inch 2¢ Se Hat Wire 3 yard rolls Lingerie Tape 5 yard bolts 1¢
A 1914 spring shirt sale offers crystal cloth madras percale and reps shirts in soft and starch cuff styles with some separate cuffs. Regular prices of 1.50 to 2.00 are cut to 1.00 in this special sale by the Pike Street entrance on the first floor.
An affidavit filed by Joseph M. Glasgow alleges John F. Murphy Deputy Everett C. Ellis Thomas J. L. Kennedy Capt. C. H. Tennant and detectives Majewski and Bianchi conspired to discredit Louis Engstrom in the Peter Miller cases. It claims Engstrom aided by Engstrom sought biasing evidence and that the trial was timed to deny an unbiased jury.
Robert Dunn, 11, with companions Joe Radigan and Sammy Lynch, left home last week from 919 East James Street for Tacoma. He separated from the group on the return and has not been seen. his mother notified police.
London specialists cater to titled ladies using a complexion lotion that promises a snowy, delicate skin tone. The ad touts a wax-based preparation sold cheaply, applied like cold cream and washed off each morning. It claims to remove dullness and wrinkles by gradually wearing away old skin layers.
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