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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1904
Page
8
The Seattle stage scene reports a broken engagement after a father declares the couple unfit. James Neill and Miss Chapman will portray the long married couple in a 30 year partnership. The season also previews The Woman in the Cane and The Second Fiddle with casting notes and backstage scrapes.
James Neill and Manager Howe announce the ninth week of the Neill engagement at the Seattle theater featuring the Gillette comedy Because She Loved Him So. The three act play centers on a newly married couple amid jealousy and domestic turmoil as the wife leaves, prompting the parents to intervene with mock quarrels to restore peace.
A concise notice invites patrons to visit Heady's Barber Shop for manicures and grooming services. The item highlights personal care offerings in a local business setting.
Mason and Mason present Fritz and Snits in a new musical comedy directed by Broadhurst and Currie with a largely Fatherland and Alpine songs program. The production touts new scenery and gowns and promises light, silly entertainment.
The text notes five years with the Woodward stock company at the Auditorium in Kansas City and three years with a company at the American theater in New York. It lists members including Harry C. Bradley, now with the Neill company, and Charles A. Place, Rupert.
A popular British actor arrives to support Mrs. Fiske in a new play after Hedda Gabler. Charles Frohman plans to present The Wife Without a Smile in New York this season. Be. S. Willard returns to produce Lucky Durham in January. Mrs. Fiske will stage Hedda Gabler November 17, then use it for four weeks. J. Zangwill revises The Children of the Ghetto for Yiddish and discusses Jenny with Frohman. Schumann-Heink company to San Francisco on a six car special train.
The company plans a limited tour focusing on larger cities en route. The entire production of Love's Lottery currently staged in New York will be produced for the road tour.
The corporations committee reached near agreement on franchises for gas distribution by American Improvement Co and for steam and electricity by Diamond Ice Storage Co. A subcommittee will revise details with City Engineer Thomson. a $40,000 cash bond is required, versus $10,000 for others. Gas price set at 80 cents max, city pay 70 cents. Diamond rate caps at 12 cents per kWh for 60 hours, 3 cents thereafter. cheaper power rates sought for industry. Also: Col. D K R Anthony, longtime Leavenworth Times editor and Susan B Anthony brother, died at 80 from heart disease.
In a Seattle trial Justice Gordon discharged Leo Ross after his testimony in a case against Leo Ross and Elmer Spencer for giving a harmful drug to Blanche Harmon, age seven. Spencer faced stronger testimony. the case was continued on advisement. The poisoning occurred about a month ago in Southeast Seattle.
James J. Perrish, head of the People's Party national committees, calls for a Jefferson conference to form a new party. He outlines core planks including government control of currency, postal banks, income tax, worker protections, initiative and referendum, alcohol sale local option, and harsh limits on corporate power.
The Ship Owners and Merchants Tugboat Company of San Francisco and the Puget Sound Tugboat Company of Beattie filed a limitation petition regarding the tug Bea Lion now under libel. They allege the Bea Lion caused the sinking of the Mainlander and seek dismissal of damages claims unless claimants prove the vessel’s liability.
A. V. Monter was fined fifty dollars for selling whisky from Red Cross drug store. License Inspector Marsh secured a warrant for the clerk. Police Judge George warned drinkers to register liquor correctly or face fines or imprisonment and the case was appealed. Meshing snippets describe war exposure and exhibits at a Louisiana Exposition.
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