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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1912
Page
8
Local listing offers quiet, downtown rooms in Beattie with courteous service. Rooms shown readily, per day rates available, located on Third Avenue near the post office.
In Soldiers' Home Oating Washington May 29 1 M Roberts known as Jakey a 92 year old veteran opposed to Taft wary of La Follette Wilson and Clark Roosevelt he keeps a gold ring with a topaz that he says shows a campfire with soldiers around it and hearing loss makes it a companion.
The Geo. P. Bent Company reports its Seattle Factory Store offers upright pianos at 1.50 weekly and player and grand pianos at 2.60 weekly. It touts low costs from large factories, 50 years of experience, and a Crown Combinola demo to prove superior tone and merit at lower prices and generous terms.
The Star offers Seattle boys a free $1 baseball for each successful recruitment of three new subscribers for one month. Boys need only bring in three new names with addresses and phone numbers. no money collection in advance is required. The program rewards participation with a fine quality baseball.
The benefit concert for the Swedish hospital features Max Donner violinist Mme Hesse Sprotte soprano Carl Lindgren Chicago bass and Seattle talents. Swedish Tabernacle chorus and Swedish Baptist chorus join as the program starts at 8 o clock at Pike and Bellevue.
The Metropolitan band concerts opened strong with a larger crowd than last week attending last night at the Metropolitan place. The William Tell overture drew high praise, and the program was well balanced making it hard to pick a favorite. A second program is planned for Saturday night.
Westlake Public Market announced it will not provide free flags next Wednesday as a Decoration or Memorials holiday commemoration. The move follows word the Women’s Relief Corps planned street sales, prompting management to invite relief corps distributors to operate inside the market instead. Memorial decorations are being prepared with many flags and buntings, and the market will observe Decoration day all day Thursday.
A light verse laments the shift from summer heat to spring charm. The narrator notes girls in thin dresses, crocuses blooming, green geese around, and concludes the refrain that spring is the season for girls.
The Seattle Star asks readers to notify the office of any failure to receive the paper or any substitution by another paper. Management seeks prompt service and courteous attention to complaints, and subscribers should report missed deliveries by 10 PM by mail or phone to the Circulation Department.
In 1844 the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore nominated Silas Wright for vice president. A telegram to Wright in Washington failed by wire, prompting disbelief and an adjournment while awaiting more reliable news. A separate note references marriage lines and a revenue cutter Rush arriving in Seattle for boiler repairs before proceeding to San Francisco.
The state charities conference starts in Spokane on June 4 and runs two days. The national conference follows the next week in Cleveland Ohio.
The line plays with phrasing about a gaze described as intoxicating and questions whether a rye face is implied by a witty turn of phrase. The humor hinges on double meaning and unexpected wordplay about facial expression and perception.
The nesting season benefits from observers guarding nests and limiting cat visits. Many birds are killed each year by cats, and protecting nests helps reduce losses.
Report from the Iowa democratic convention notes Bennett Clark son of the speaker assistant for the presidency being cheered as Champ Junior. The piece also mentions legal tender claims, flag ordinance politics, a dance stance by the Methodist church, an administratrix application for Sherwood Gilleapy, and troop movements with Transport Sheridan due in Seattle June 4 to relieve the 16th Infantry in Alaska.
Edna Palmer, 19, told police her father cut off her hair after she disobeyed him by going out with a young man in Newark New Jersey. The incident prompted police attention and a formal report.
Special commissions from Governor Hay to attend the National Conference of Charities and Corrections at Cleveland next month have been received by Father O'Brien of the Church of Our Lady of Good Faith and Dr. J. W. Shannon. Father O'Brien has also accepted the invitation of Mayor Cotterill to serve as a delegate from Seattle to the Playgrounds and Recreation Congress, which will be held in Cleveland June 5 to .
Weigh the baby first week on rag man scales then ice man scales to gauge growth. Seattle Dramatic club stages I Wonder What It Is for Montenegro Church fund led by Pastor Joseph De Rop. Christina Brandsteter and spouse sue H B McCarthy for 10500 dollars in slander in superior court. June 1 Renton to host celebration for waterway project linking Renton to Lake Washington to divert Cedar River from Duwamish to the lake.
The Arctic club hosts a smoker with the sour doughs to attend as the Potlatch degree is staged. The event will feature the old time Alas kane under the pipe of peace and blue haze. Appointment of Capt. A. P. Spaulding as assistant port warden noted. he previously served as Seattle port warden from 1906 to 1910.
The ashes of John W. Hutton were scattered on the Hackensack River in Morsemere New Jersey, the place he loved to fish.
Washington authorities struggle to explain a pellagra case at a girls reform school attributing it to excessive corn bread served to inmates. Manuel Alvarez a 33 year old waiter at Hotel Astor plans world tour funded by tips saved. Mike Losika, once struck dumb after an accident, regains speech after mule kick. Edw Hinkle serving a robbery sentence is arrested again for stealing $4000 from convict labor contractors during imprisonment.
New York coroner Feinberg urged inquest action proposing a law to treat baseball data as deadly weapons due to their rising use in homicides.
May 20 two policemen guarded the church entrance while the bridal party feared for their lives as Bettie Chapman Pierce, former wife of F. Irving Chapman, wed Frank Clarence Henderson, a wealthy Oklahoma man. A telefoned threat said four men would dynamite the church before the ceremony. Max Kalish of Humboldt Steamship Co. received notice of the death of Peder Lind, port captain of Northern Navigation Co., who died when a small boat capsized near St. Michael.
Fragmented notice notes a timetable change for Pacific Railway Mississippi Valley Liga train No 42 effective June at 6:20 AM. Details unreadable. station and destination names unclear due to OCR errors.
Prominent men and actors in Seattle New York and Beattie spread the liquid sulfur medicine Sulphurro by C M C Stewart Seattle. Reports say cures for rheumatism blood and digestive issues fuel demand as wealthy officials and entertainers back the remedy across the continent.
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