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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1912
Page
6
Councilman Erickson condemns delaying earth dam studies and calls for immediate masonry construction at Cedar Lake. He urges city crews and day labor to finish the dam to ensure lighting plant capacity and lower costs, opposing efforts by Stone Webster interests to stall the project.
Seattle churches plan patriotic sermons to honor national heroes. The Methodist Episcopal Church will host the mayor as principal speaker and distribute miniature flags. Rev Sidney Strong at Queen Anne Congregational will discuss What Our Flag Means. Lincoln's Gettysburg speech cards to members. Maj E F Ingraham of Beattie Boy Scouts will address services.
Several thousand Seattle residents attended two performances at Fourth Avenue and Republican Street. The Miller brothers Oklahoma cattle herd supplied cowboys and Indians while a Rossian Cossacks troupe rivaled them in riding feats. Ursus Pickett the Negro cowboy drew the show's biggest cheer with a daring long-horn wrestling stunt.
The Y M C A camp at Lakeside, east of Columbia City, opens June 1 for its seventh season. Aimed at employed men, the five acre site offers tennis, baseball, a beach for boating and swimming, and is 40 minutes by streetcar from the city center. Twenty men signed up on opening day. accommodations house 28. The camp provides city men with camp privileges without leaving their daily work at cost comparable to urban living.
Col Inglis commander of the National Guards orders full dress parade for Memorial Day. All officers will be mounted with Band, Second Infantry, First Battalion, Second Infantry, Maj. A. H. Hawkins, Maj. Maurice Thompson, Company A Signal Corps, Seattle division Naval Militia to participate in sequence.
Fred Curtis, a friend of corpses in San Francisco, joined the morgue painting assignment for two weeks before shooting himself. The death follows his expressed distress over the gruesome association and work.
In Grand Junction on May 25 the Rev. Elmer V. Huffer preached on love and marriage at the Christian church and then officiated the wedding of Albert Coss and Ada York. He pressed bachelors and maidens, declaring they are of no use to the country or society and should be crowded to an isolated island away from civilization.
In Los Angeles on May 25 Ernest Lickley head of the truant squad offered two bits to any hockey voters who brought in their friends. In three days they secured one truant, who said the others were persona non grata with the gang.
Chicago May 25 Catherine Calvert, after a flight with 18 year old aviator Farnum Fish, says aviation for women lacks thrill and speech is impossible due to engine noise. She notes the cold, the quiet ascent, and that a man cannot speak to his sweetheart in flight.
The firm announces permanent location at 1317 Third Ave offering small photo enlargements and display work with visitors welcome to view.
State Senator Dan Landon, president of the King County Roosevelt club and early wearer of a T. K. button, rushed to St Paul after a call from Ormesby McHarg. He aims to confer on Seattle's Roosevelt delegate contest with McHarg. Loren Grinstead will argue for Seattle before the national committee, with a hearing set around June 16.
Two factions of railroad workers the purists who oppose ragging and the roughnecks who embrace it settled a dispute at their annual dance by stretching a rope across the hall. The purists danced society on one side while the roughnecks ragged on the other.
Dr. Lyman Abbott states Theodore Roosevelt is intemperate only in milk, not alcohol. Abbott says Roosevelt drinks four to five glasses of milk at a meal and avoids wine, brandy, whiskey, and beer except in Europe or by medical order. The flap began after a Salinian report alleged intoxication at a Des Moines speech, rebutted by Roosevelt via Abbott.
A blackclad man threatened to be thrown off a train with his wife's corpse due to poverty. H F Murphy offered 40 dollars to quiet the trouble. The mourner departed the train and Murphy informed the police.
Local market report lists prices for fruits vegetables meats and feed in Wenatchee Washington and surrounding areas. Entries include apples oranges lamb pork beef and dairy products with quantities and price ranges noted for one day period amid varied commodity listings.
Mrs May Richards Barr wife of Harry Harr was jailed on blackmail charges after a 1911 arrest in a plot to extort 1000 dollars from John Robeling manager of Golden Wheat Baking Co She served 16 months then appealed and was pardoned by Gov Hay in a notable case earlier linked to the Robeling incident and a dramatic note dropped to a passerby
Detective Samuel Browne announced he found a hidden bomb in an unoccupied Los Angeles house and said others were located in San Diego. The device, seven inches long and two inches thick with a gelatine core, was turned over to federal officials and Browne warned of possible further disclosures.
Bob Kodge a progressive candidate for governor spoke at the Oak Lake district schoolhouse last night invited by the local committee. Also addressing were Dr. Mason a coroner candidate Judge Clementson for superior judge and James Napier running for county commissioner.
Largest lumber selling agency on the Coast formed in Seattle under Sherman L. Johnson. Seven major mills join to create the Washington Cedar and Fir Products Co. Stimson Mill Co. of Ballard joins and J F Ives becomes vice president.
A federal jury found him guilty last night of passing worthless bank notes after letters from a visitor at Rh. M. Faulkner's county jail were introduced. The letters sparked a hard-fought trial between the government lawyer and defense counsel.
Dr. Emanuel Schmidt, president of Adelphia college, won first place in the Swedish academy annual literary contest for translating Longfellow's Hiawatha. He has not visited Sweden in 26 years and plans a summer trip to arrange publication of his work.
In Chico California on May 25 a cloudburst killed the entire Turkish population of Butte county, about one thousand birds. The event follows a drought and is attributed to a sudden heavy rain that flooded a ravine where the birds had gathered.
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