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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
4
Mrs FE N Strong, recently elected member of the board of education, addressed club women and posed a question on fashion after noting street attire. She asked what would replace petticoats if they are discarded, sparking a discussion on future dress styles.
At Rainbow Lake guides convention in Saranac Lake New York Chairman Mob Carr led a vote banning narrow hobble skirts for women in the Adirondacks comparing them to a hair on a lump of butter. Separately a contract for a fire house and police station at N 45th Street and Densmore Avenue was awarded to Weymouth Construction Co.
An advertising notice promotes Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap as fast-acting remedies for itching and skin eruptions. It asserts soothing healing even for delicate skin and offers a free trial by writing to Resinol in Baltimore, Maryland.
Democratic leader Theodore Bell, speaking to United Press in San Francisco, says Californians demand federal action on the anti alien land bill. He supports Asiatic exclusion if Congress fails to provide relief and favors a referendum and initiative to bar Asiatic land holders and lessees.
A Seattle-based travel show star Kate Snell entertains with the Lyman H Howe Travel Festival, miming languages behind the scenes and singing. She never performs to a live audience yet has impressed firsthand with moving pictures and natural sound, earning a comfortable salary from the traveling program.
A New York girl who inherits seven hundred thousand dollars remains employed as a typewriter. England faces rising shoplifting with drapery trade mobilizing to curb theft. A Wisconsin farmer’s wife alleges divorce grounds after her husband sent produce to another woman and refused to feed the cows. A Milwaukee lawyer locating a forged check uncovers it was forged. Venice curfew bans mocking birds from 2 to 7 a m. Snail races on an eighteen inch course feature a lettuce lure on the voyage of the France. record time three hours.
May 17 report from Long Beach states Mr and Mrs Daniel Hills of 109 Chestnut Avenue welcomed a son so small he fits in a ring. The two pound infant easily slips through a finger ring and arm past the elbow, yet is lively as a cricket. The Hills also have a 15 year old daughter.
The Western Woman's Outlook in Seattle says a third party for Wilson is plausible but warns against uniting with the Republicans. Editors condemn the Chicago merger plan as a wasteful effort and argue progressives seek principle over office and partisan gains.
Reports from the Norwegian relief expedition say most of the German Arctic expedition under Lieut. Schroeder-Stanz is dead or missing. Dr Dettmars and Dr Molser drowned, Eberhard frozen to death, Stave died of illness. Ruediger-Ritzzheer survived frostbite, another survivor also living. The voyage began about a year ago and aimed to last three to four years.
In Menasha Wisconsin on May 17 young Stephen Brown returning to Neenah uncovered a moldy telegram envelope hidden under a stone at a lake shore. The faded paper dated fifteen years prior from Detroit announced his father’s death and a telegram to his mother.
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