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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1910
Page
10
The article recounts CLARK'S BEEN MOTHER OF 17 BABIES and compares her feats with global cases. It mentions multiple families with large brood counts, including triplets, quadruplets, sextuplets, and septuplets, across nations and eras, and notes notable fathers and ceremonial baptisms.
Mrs O J Eller of Chico elopes with her husband’s knowledge and aid to Alexander Bowen. Eller assisted packing and saw her off at the railroad station. He said he wished her happiness with the other man as she departs with Bowen.
Judge Mitchell of Thurston county is expected to announce a decision on the Puget Sound Electric Co rate schedule. The case began a year ago after a Tacoma Seattle interurban rate increase and a writ of review was filed in Thurston superior court. The judge has studied the matter for about three months.
Local politics buzzes with woman suffrage creating uncertainty. Six candidates for county clerk are named Rev J A Sigurdsson Sam Woods Oscar Springer Percy Thomas Will Sickles and C MacDonald. Woods claims a glove sponsor to woo female voters while Sigurdsson supposedly secures millinery support.
Various brief items from Seattle and Oregon include election notes at the University Club, forest reseeding near Hear Creek, a Stanford Seattle gathering with a dinner, and the Spokane M C A convention dates. Also mentions rose society talks, Cedar Lake dam bonds won, Edwin Axter’s death, Mrs. Elisha Ferry’s recovery, Calder farewell at the Press Club, and December 8 school bonds with plans for new buildings and playgrounds.
In 1642 Prince Rupert and General Hollen met armies at Brentford west of London during the Civil War. Parliament defeated the royal forces that day, while later notes reference cremation plans for an orchard owner and fraud trials involving census counts and authorities in Seattle and Vancouver.
In Chicago on November 11, Reginald Quartine a Detroit real estate dealer, was found in Grant Park claiming he fell 100 feet from a balloon with Lord Whalenborough of England. Police dispute his account saying he had not left the ground.
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