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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1912
Page
8
A promotional note stresses consulting a family doctor and endorses Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs and colds. It argues the best medicine cannot replace a physician and urges frequent medical guidance.
A discussion contrasts two approaches to title protection, one delivering an opinion from an Abstracter and the other a guarantee from an Attorney. It asks readers which method they prefer for certainty and risk management.
Seattie-Jennie Shirley Co presents The Primrose Path. Shows at Orpheum Vaudeville Empress Vaudeville Pantages Vaudeville Grand Vaudeville and motion pictures. Clemmer Photoplays and vaudeville Melbourne Photoplays and vaudeville.
Three act comedy Over Night plays at the Moore theatre for the week starting Sunday night May 1. The plot follows two couples on wedding trips aboard the Hendrick Hudson steamship with a mistaken separation that leaves each husband caring for the other couple’s wife in a series of comic mishaps.
The Pink Lady opens tomorrow at the Metropolitan theatre for seven nights with two matinees on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. The three act French adaptation by C M S McLellan features music by Ivan Caryll. A nine person company and an orchestra from New York will perform.
At the Orpheum Seattle the dramatic star Florence Roberts will headline a week’s program in The Miracle. La Petite Mignon impersonates, The Four Ritchies offer a cycling act, The Five Sallys perform The Information Bureau, Al and Fannie Steadman entertain with piano, Fred Hamill and Charley Abbate present Singer and Violinist, and Polzin Bros. add a springboard acrobatic act.
At the Empress theater a well balanced program is slated for the coming week with The Five Musical Noises as the headline act. The Newses are described as dancers and musicians.
Barrows Lancaster and a capable cast present a farce Like Pather Like Ben Also featuring The Three Dixie Girls with several vocal numbers Una Bradley performs a black faced monologist act Richard Wally known as a top juggling performer Grenier and La Fosa provide acrobatic comedy and stunts all on the same program
Arthur La Vine and ten performers bring The Flying Dreadnaught to Pantages with three scenes and Monday matinee. Vic LeRoy Mae Cahill Sam Hood also appear with The Royal Italian Four and Ernest Alvo troupe plus Mater and Finis in the varied program.
Two customs inspectors will be appointed within two weeks to board every incoming vessel around the clock to handle Seattle s growing shipping trade. A nominal charge will be levied for the service, which is standard in East ports. George F B Channing, treasury special agent, leaves for Washington next week to seek funding for a boarding launch for the inspectors.
A million dollar mortgage was declared invalid by a referee in bankruptcy in the Columbia River orchard case. The mortgage was given by A J Bieh, partner of Frenzied Finance De Larm. Trustee Sichler raised the objection to the mortgage.
Beattie Star readers are urged to avoid using other papers and to help ensure prompt regular delivery. If a paper does not arrive by night clock, readers should call the Main number at once to inform the Circulation Department.
Seattle traveling men gear up for Tacoma opponents tonight to learn new wrinkles in the act. Grand conference arrangements are complete for the June Portland event.
The year s bride Mie Malbran, wife of the Argentine legation s first secretary, arrived in Washington. Edward Stone, a Chicago Libertyville brakeman, found $25 000 on his train and received a token reward. Mme Maibran s generosity is mentioned. Doctor doctor patient exchange about gout and rheumatism. Doctor E F Ristine confirmed as resident physician at Camp 2 Cedar River city watershed.
Thirty two thousand five hundred dollars in gold came to the local assay office today from Valdez Iditarod and Lane county Oregon mining districts. The assay office expects large shipments within the next two or three weeks from the spring clean up.
West Seattle ship builders King and Winge sue for labor and materials totaling 1191 dollars and 26 cents on the Schooner Bender Bros which has been outfitting to sail for Bethel and the Kuskokwim river. The Shriners march on Seattle with over 200 stopping yesterday and many more expected today, bringing in about two thousand as boosters.
The text notes many guests left impressed by what they saw and believe Shriners will attract repeat visitors, with all who attended leaving delighted with the experience.
A historical note recounts Napoleon Bonaparte’s ascent from a charity pupil to a French emperor. It notes his early entry into the military school, his 16 leaving ranks as an artillery lieutenant, by 26 commanding the Italian invasion, and at 30 becoming first consul of France.
A collage of disparate items notes Willie-Has Jack’s shame linked to an ancestor with four World Series strikeouts. Other items mention a drowning in Lenox, a Russian composer drafting Titanic themed music in Berlin, a court ruling on opera box data, and Dr. Lilburn Merrill seeking a 1913 charity conference in Seattle. The blurbs reference 700 prominent people at a political social event.
A reception yesterday afternoon at the Washington venue honored Gov and Mrs Hay as Mrs J A Reed hosted. The mezzanine was lavishly decorated and the New Washington orchestra provided music. AndShe Gets It Ghe Do you give your wife an allowance or does she ask you for money when she wants it He Both Answers London.
Walter Farley of 1306 13th Ave was taken to Providence Hospital this morning after his motorcycle collided with a car at 19th and Jefferson, suffering a scalp wound.
Canadians held an overflow first meeting last night as J F Douglas president moved the meeting to larger quarters of the Metropolitan club with no difficulty. The club will seek bigger space at once. In Chicago a 46 year old man George Palmer was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and smiled as Judge Kersten announced the sentence saying I thank you very much.
In Chicago Harper's Bazar a reader recalls Juliet as the highlight of Romeo and Juliet. In a saloon robbery three eggs shattered a window and $200 was stolen from a cash drawer. The Mariposa steamship beat a prior record by six minutes arriving in Seattle after 41 hours 19 minutes from Ketchikan. A men only Y M C A meeting at 3 30 Sunday features Rev. George H. Lee discussing Following the Blue Print.
Washington Western Railway Co has purchased twenty miles of logging railroads in the Pilchuck valley, planned to rehabilitate the track as a regular railway line. Bremerton welcomes Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook, retired, visiting after a continental trip to see his first grandson born to Surgeon and Mrs. F. P. Cook at the navy yard.
The Milwaukee Sentinel quotes a speaker asking if callers always leave cards and jokingly adds an umbrella as an alternate leaving item.
The women of Seattle plan to form the Women's Home Consumers' League to promote the use of locally made goods. A meeting at the YMCA is set for next Friday, with endorsement from Federated Women's clubs and local manufacturers.
Zillah Baker of Boston appeals to The Star to help locate her brother William Sanford Baker of Nova Scotia. She says their mother is ill and the brother’s return is needed at home.
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