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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1915
Page
4
Advertisements offer cash in advance with a five cent per word rate. A 6 percent discount applies if paid within ten days after the first insertion. Notices and church notices are included in the line rate, with one half rate for transient charges.
A dense shopping page lists stalls offering items from fresh meats and poultry to vegetables and bakery goods. Featured are price hints for potatoes, butter, eggs, peaches, grapes, cucumbers, and canned goods, along with staple items like flour, sugar, oats, and coffee.
A dense vendor list shows stalls offering pork veal and lamb cuts boneless shoulders and round steaks milk eggs cheese and canned goods. It details prices weights and items like patent flour sugar rice pickles potatoes and loaf ham with various regional and brand notes.
The Green Lake Rose Society announces the Monster Rose Show will run Saturday and Sunday June 12 and 13 at Woodland Park. The Green Lake Business Men's Association backs the event with strong support. Space demand is high. three times last year’s area is required for 24 exhibit classes with 177 prizes. A Phinney Ave entrance bandstand will host the Green Lake band during the exhibition.
Coroner Hartwell signed a death certificate for Adele Fairchild of San Francisco who poisoned herself in the Hotel Alexandria. The body will be sent to her husband Leon H. Fairchild in San Francisco. Last January Fairchild sued W. P. Shaw of Los Angeles for $250,000 damages for criminal conversation, alleging Shaw came between him and his wife.
Puget steamers operate Sundays and Saturdays with limited routes to Kingston Ludlow Port Gamble and Hood Canal. Port Townsend northbound calls on Saturdays. landing points require independent arrangements. Rates exclude landing charges and are based on passenger weight limits. tickets sold at Colman Dock office daily 6 30 am to midnight with schedule subject to change.
Seattle Electric Co will restore the old Wallingford shuttle service after a conference with Councilman Hesketh City Car Inspector McCloy and Traffic Chief Richardson. For three months Wallingford cars were cut back to Meridian line downtowns forcing residents to transfer after 6 30 p m.
A May 28 message from Ambassador Von Bernstorff urging an early reply to President Wilson's note of protest was received at the foreign office. He said tension in America rose after the Nebraskan explosion, which remains an unexplained mystery.
Berlin bursts into jubilation after semi official reports say German submarines sank British battleships Triumph and Majestic in the Dardanelles. Submarines reportedly traveled 100 miles to strike and returned without revealing their base. Majestic hit in the stern and sank quickly.
Newly married a two act comedy by Bjarnaon will be staged by University of Washington Scandinavian department students at the new Norway ball Saturday evening. Prof. E J Vickner directed the production and a short musical program by students will precede the play.
The steamer 8.8. Adeline Smith struck an uncharted rock near Marshfield Oregon while en route to San Francisco. It is returning for repairs. extent of damage and exact position not disclosed in a wireless message received by Capt. B. W. Olson for C. A. Smith Lumber Co. It was believed to have been off Port Orchard.
In Judge Tallman’s court a jury retired at 11 Friday to decide if Thomas Rats, a blacksmith, shot the tip off his wife’s ear on March 4 and is guilty of first degree assault.
A mysterious donor sent a large box to the courthouse addressed to The King County Jury. Inside were 75 pink rosebuds, with one pinned to each juror lapel as a symbolic token after a verdict of acquittal.
Police report error led to a Star mention of a theft from the Metropolitan garage. The correct location is the Fourth avenue garage at 618 Fourth avenue.
Marriage licenses list several couples from Seattle and Tacoma with ages. Birth notices cite numerous families with addresses in Seattle and nearby cities. Death notices include Kather M Cravens and others at King County Hospital and city hospital. Divorces granted and asked appear with names and grounds. Riot at Denver follows disqualifying of Jimmy Fox in a boxing bout. police drive crowd out.
A broad list of petition drop sites is provided for a referendum effort. Locations include Saber Temple cigar stand Tree graphic office and general office Walter headquarters and dozens of businesses across towns such as Mallard Ave Hapmores Market, 14th Market, Latena station, Green Lake Dregge Co, and Kenton WA barber shops. Officials note city clerk Grant Bates at city hall as contact.
San Francisco women Harriet Hoyce and her daughter Marguerite were arrested at Lindau Bavaria and sentenced to three weeks for alleged remarks to German officers. Senator James D. Phelan said he would urge the State Department to investigate the arrest. Mrs Boyce is the wife of former Alaska official John J. Boyce.
Geo. Bartell Alvin Heinrich and B G Beacon judged the three best garden plots in the Cascade P T A school garden on Thomas and Howard avenues Rooms 21 14 and 17 won. The association treated the Better Baby Entertainment and Garden committees to ice cream and cake. John B Allen P T A elected new officers for the year President Mrs E F Vandeberg vice president Mrs C Corms secretary Mrs F C Miller treasurer Mrs Otto Goldsmith. Next meeting June 3 at 2 30 in the school building.
Milan May 28. The Metropole hotel, run by Germans, was stormed and ransacked by Italian mobs in the first serious outbreak against Germans. The hotel had been attacked last night amid rumors that signals were flashed from its roof to Austrians.
Judge Ronald Friday directed the jury to return a not guilty verdict for John Shea the cigar man on charges he received earnings of fallen women. Paul Schuman former policeman was convicted and sentenced.
May 28 report from Constantinople notes Turkish night attacks on British lines resulted in two English positions near Kurna and Mesopotamia being captured. British counterattacks were repulsed. Also contains an advertising block for racing pigeons from J. B. Lukens offering birds and equipment for sale.
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