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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1913
Page
3
An advertisement extols flesh forming foods and natural action to improve digestion and body strength. It claims regular weighing shows weekly increases and asserts safety and health benefits for the whole system, urging use of the product Samose Drag Co. offers with no quibbles.
May 21 Puget Sound forts readied for defense as artillerymen load shells for the big guns the first such orders since fort construction. A detachment builds a telephone line to Fort Worden from Discovery Bay seen as weak point. Mortar battery targets bay entrance seven miles off. July drills planned. Two sergeant electricians to run wireless at Fort Worden. Officials silent on motives.
Alfred W. Burke a Pittsburg electrical engineer and John Bancroft a millionaire voluntarily received 110 volts in a demonstration before a coroner's jury to prove William Stewart a young worker at Joseph Bancroft Sons Co did not die of electrocution. The verdict found Stewart shocked to death as he held an incandescent lamp at his station. The demonstrators stood the trial bravely despite muscle twitching.
The Alaska bureau of the Chamber of Commerce sent a complete resource album to President Wilson. It features 102 photographs and 28 maps with descriptions, explaining Alaska's resources and the value of proposed federal railroads. It also notes a dance at Dreamland tonight.
J. B. Blakely of Denver seeks 6000 dollars in district court claiming Miss Myrtle Howard kissed his bald head during a performance of New Year’s Eve in San Francisco at the Tabor Grand theatre on May 11. He says the act estranged his wife and caused marital strife. The theatre had arranged a bald audience participant to receive a kiss but Howard mistook Blakely for his neighbor.
King County Humane Society reports ongoing cruelty to poultry in transit. Shippers pack crates so tight that birds cannot eat drink or breathe and some die before reaching Seattle. Public urged to report cruelty to Elliott 5065 and authorities will prosecute violators to stop the practice.
A 43 year old widow from Ohio writes Mayor Cotterill seeking a husband. She says she lives respectfully with her children and desires a home of her own. She will correspond with a bachelor or widower, but not a divorcee. She can provide good references.
Vi aM Tups at 2 119 percent rate tops lenders list as local firm caps borrowing costs. The notice records company name and percentage figures with limited context from the OCR fragment.
Emma de Velasco a 25 year old private secretary to a lumber company president was chosen as the most beautiful woman in California by the Portola festival committee winning a hundred dollars. She will headline the October 22 to 25 festival marking the Pacific coast 400th anniversary of Vasco Nunez de Balboa's discovery. She is descended from the County of Tovar and related to Spain's historic South American role.
Moore Lyman Howe Travel Festival and Metropolitan Rose Stahl in Maggie Pepper headline a week of vaudeville at Orpheum Pantages Grand and Melbourne venues with Crials Seattie Blue Mouse and Clemmer Photoplays also featuring motion pictures at Alhambra and related houses.
The listing shows venues including The MOVIES At the Home Until Friday with Past Redemption two reels and Mabel's Awful Mistake and A Cruel Suspicion. Grand Untill Sunday Bread Coat Upon the Water two reels Gaumont Weekly. Melbourne Until Sunday Tigris the Remarkable Cracks man four reels. Dream Until Sunday Yaqui Cur two reels Pathe Weekly Itinerant Wedding.
Jean Bennett and Irene Heinzman, both confined at the county detention home, pried loose a front grate with a table fork to flee together with Heinzman's four fellow inmates. The escaped pair secured a license and married in the Church of the Angels by Father Domingo, only to be routed from their apartments later as Bennett testified and Heinzman was sent to juvenile court.
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