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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1912
Page
8
Advertising pitch promises a full set of teeth for a low price with specialists promising painless work. It assures no pain and high quality, inviting readers to visit offices crowded with customers and to test claims with a quote.
United Press reports Turkish and Bulgarian forces clash 60 miles from Constantinople with military experts noting Czar Ferdinand may push to seize the city before international intervention.
Mme Johanna Gadski, famed soprano, arrives in Seattle for a Moore Theatre concert tonight as part of a four event series arranged by William H B Clayton. Her program features Wagner arias including Elsa’s Prayer from Lohengrin and Brhilde’s Farewell to Siegfried from Gotterdammerung.
Federal receivers for the Seattle Renton and Southern line shift responsibility for 90474.87 dollars to Peabody Houghteling Co. bondholders representatives. After federal court ruled no jurisdiction, Superior Court named Calhoun and Joseph Parkin as new receivers. Judge Frater ordered former receivers to surrender funds to the new appointees.
A reader explains trimming car expenses by not driving for six months each year. This suggestion frames seasonal use as an economic tactic, implying substantial savings when the vehicle is idle.
Portland announces plans by Herman Wletschhacker of San Francisco to sign a 99 year lease on the Pitock homestead in the business district. The $1,900,000 property is to house an eight story modern office building, signaling a major urban development.
District Attorney Atwill finished reading a pamphlet on the History of the I W W in the Ettor murder trial. The state rested its case after introducing a ballot linked to Anta Loppizzo. The defense plans to call at least 100 witnesses.
Montreal November 1 Theodore Peters is described as a walking gold mine after a bridge fall into the St Lawrence. He reportedly broke every bone in his body and the bones were joined with gold in a sensational claim.
Catlin Illinois notices the school board directing teachers to reserve Saturdays and Sundays as spark evenings and to stay home on weeknights for rest, an instruction aimed at worker wellbeing.
Olympia November 1 Public sale of state lands scheduled for the first Saturday promises to be one of the largest ever held in Washington state with applications already numerous.
About 2 000 Utica residents march with a flower covered casket bearing the late vice president Jase Sherman from the Sherman home to the county courthouse rotunda where the body lies in state from 3 to 9 PM. The funeral will be held tomorrow at the First Presbyterian Church. President Taft and Supreme Court justices are expected to attend.
Chicago on November 1 saw the first arrest over election wagers. Jamen OLeary was seized for taking bets on the results with odds listed for Wilson Taft Roosevelt Debe and Chafin.
Roy Cradle of Chicago stopped a runaway horse in Los Angeles and saved Miss An Curr from injury. Wedding tomorrow.
In Ottumwa Indiana a seven layer cake was baked by Mrs F Hagerman with 17 women standing on it. When they stepped down the cake grew thinner to pancake thickness then rose again to its original height in an unusual community stunt.
New York reports street cleaning commissioner Big Bil Edwards will ride an enemy in the Democratic parade on November 2. He says no horse was big enough for his weight and he could not ride two.
A bill to be introduced in the city’s house of delegates would create a censorship board to base decisions on moving picture films and vaudeville acts before they are shown to the public.
A roaming monkey mascot of En- House No. 1 raided fruit stands and frightened four children in Springfield on a cold November day. An auto salesman intervened using a monkey wrench. Tom was eventually returned to his guardians.
A brief line from The Chaparral at Stanford notes a humorous claim that privates in the army eat more than officers because there are more privates than officers. The quip reflects college humor about military life.
Portland men Brown, Johnson and Town send are recovering after an unpremeditated jag during a Moy Hack Hin liquor house blaze. A brave fire lad died trying to curb fumes while saving the structure. Two horses near the basement opened by the fire also succumbed to the fumes and were led away in a zigzag path.
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