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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
9
Classified listing for law services by husband and wife partners offering free consultation. Includes address 18 Downe Wide and 905 Second Ave Main, Burke Building Alaska. Also notes real estate offers and other items for sale including a totem pole and 16 acres of land for sale.
A Wednesday quake shook central Italy and a Alabama liquor seizure valued at 300000 dollars drew attention. Reports of a city legislator’s relative and a drowning in western New York accompanied a flurry of varied items from Seattle to London. The narrative covers a school board rental, a former lawmaker’s insanity ruling, a witness in a million dollar suit, a university anniversary, scientific trivia, and miscellaneous notes.
A garbled list from Public Markets Westlake describes stalls with items including flour, cider, sauerkraut, dried meats, cheese, salmon, cherries, oranges, beans, potatoes, butter, pickles, honey, jam, lard, shad, shrimp, and various baked goods. It notes stall numbers and prices in a dense, OCR-like inventory of goods and vendors.
The advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Sexoid Hymall as a quick cure for weakness, impaired manhood, back pain, nervous debility, vitality loss, and kidney bladder troubles. It promises guaranteed results and offers phone and mail contact through Raymond Remedy Co at Room 6 Hotel Antiers, Fourth and Union, Vienna.
Marblehead Mass May 17 Rodman Wanamaker oversees a new sea aircraft project intended as a test ship for an Atlantic crossing. The craft will carry two passengers and, if successful, a larger vessel will be built to attempt the flight.
In Monterey Bay waters about 1,000 salmon will be captured tagged with silver dorsal fin tags and released. Later catches along the coast will show how far Monterey fish travel and assist tracking efforts.
Dr John W Hewetson a local physician was found guilty by a jury in Judge Dykemans superior court on liquor prescription charges. The testimony claimed he wrote 162 prescriptions in one day for patients who said they were seriously ill.
German fort northeast of Hill S04 near Verdun fell to French forces during the night, the war office announced today. The capture marks another Allied success on the Verdun front with French troops advancing into enemy positions.
Denver May 18 Judge Lindsey famed originator of the juvenile court system and longtime presiding judge of the juvenile court died or is critically ill at his home Ben Linsey 45 known as the kid judge faced opposition and contempt charges yet kept the court free of outside influence Fighter for delinquent youths whose reform work shaped juvenile courts nationwide Also Tacoma report: Northern Pacific flagman Hugh Manley killed stepping before a switch engine while warning others of approach
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