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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
3
A late nineteenth century recipe explains potato doughnuts remain moist for days. It lists Mr. Nevada Briggs of Baking fame and Mr. Leggs with ingredients including baking powder milk eggs flour salt and spices. The method uses a rotary mixer, soft dough, cutting rounds with a hole, and deep fat frying until risen and lightly browned.
Regal Dental Offices listed with manager Third Avenue Northwest corner Union Street. The note provides address and a named individual in a brief business listing.
California novelist recounts a May incident at her home in which a cultured burglar entered the residence at night, conversed with her about books and philosophy, and left with jewelry and silverware worth about $1,000. The intruder, claiming telepathic calm, engaged Edna Reese in reading and dialogue before escaping with a companion guarding the hall.
A Dover High School physical director trains all girls in boxing. A Philadelphia pastor loses his pulpit over a play. An Overland Limited run lacks an engineer. A 77 year old writes love letters with alleged sanity intact. Miss Proctor links global observatories for sky study. A Philadelphia surgery enables a crippled girl to walk via new bone contact. A humane warden resigns at Fort Leavenworth. Margaret Folsom’s insane estate soars to 1.9 million. Los Angeles mayor wakes shaved chin whiskers after barber chair nap.
The document lists average prices paid by legal commission merchants to producers and selling prices paid by retailers to the commission merchants. Prices vary with freshness and general quality, with terms like burying price and selling price. The table covers beef, mutton, veal, pork, and organ meats with grade like No. 1 loin and fresh ox tongue.
The column catalogs showings at Society Melbourne Home Odeon Alhambra Class A Clemmer and Dream venues through Friday Sunday and Monday. Titles include The Power That Rules The Phoney Singer Japan the Industrious A Plot for a Million Love the Winner A Dollar Down Dollar a Week Her Masked Beauty Lieut Jones The King and the Copper A Rainy Day The Stronger Call Hatred From the Mails Whims of Destiny His First Execution Officer No 174 Her Mother's Ambition The Two Merchants The Paymaster The Adventure of an Heir A Woman of Impulse Buck Richards Fire A Trip Through the Rockies The Same Old Story The Wrong Path and more.
The Rev Aloysus Paton warns that Japanese and Chinese immigration into the New Hebrides threatens Australia’s white Australia ideal. He notes easy entry under Hebrides law and urges conversion of the French islands into British dependencies to curb the menace.
J. F. Brockaway, road supervisor of Vashon, faces trial in Judge Gilliam's court after being charged by County Commissioners McKenzie and Knudsen with padding his accounts and claiming wages for time at Olympia. Deputy Prosecutor Butler prosecutes. Walter B. Fulton defends.
In Honolulu a new fortress within Diamond Head features a mortar battery guarding the harbor. Half a score of 10,000,000 dollar class mortars sit behind lava walls that would repel any assault, while machine gun teams could halt vast armies. A separate note from San Francisco reports 9,000 women urging city supervisors to fund three policewomen with a 3600 appropriation.
Moore Lyman Howe traveling pictures and Metropolitan John Drew in The Perplexed Husband. Seattle Kalley and Mitchell stock in The Crisis. Orpheum Vaudeville Empress Vaudeville Pantages Vaudeville Grand Vaudeville and motion pictures Clemmers Photoplays and vaudeville Melbourne Photoplays and Alhambra Photoplays.
A woman offers bread to a tramp who refuses it saying he would rather keep it for a future need. The tramp asserts he has a better chance of survival if he eats now, prompting a sharp exchange about prudence and future scarcity.
Three silver cups awarded to the eighth grade pupil baking the best loaf with Seattle flour are on exhibition at Frederick and Nelson's store. The cups will be awarded on May 20.
A Texas legislative committee recommends freeing about 800 prisoners to reduce state prison costs. The move aims to ease budget pressures while maintaining public safety concerns and parole oversight.
Advertised hair product Danderine claims rapid dandruff removal after one application and a week long transformation toward glossy, fuller hair. It touts new growth, lightness, and lustre, urging purchase of a 26 cent bottle to prove the effects tonight.
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