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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
4
The article accuses county figures led by A L Rutherford and Jimmy Agnew of plots to raise jail provisioning costs to undermine Sheriff Robert T. Hodge. It claims Hodge opposes a proposed purchasing agent and vows to buy prisoner provisions at cost, keeping jail administration independent.
United Press report states Huston Abel known as Abel was nabbed in Secrelcy by Marshal nham Incarcerated Shorit awaiting trial. About four months earlier he broke into a barber shop owned by L. BR. Martin and stole clothing and about 40 in coin.
An editorial urges the AYP to take 25 000 geraniums for decorative use at the coming expo. Readers are asked to mail or deliver plants to the expo authorities or bring them to Geranium Day at the grounds next Saturday, in return for admission.
United Press dispatch from Lima Montana reports that Colonel C. H. Boule shot and killed bartender Jack Toney after a quarrel. Boule was arrested and jailed in Ditton county jail. authorities label the killing unprovoked.
A blaze in a rear tenement at 218 Sidney Street yesterday left one boy dead and two others badly burned. The victim was 17 year old Henry Blouthood. Injured were Peter Planer and William Stutz.
Harvey W. Watterson, 30, son of Col. Henry Watterson, fell from his office on the nineteenth floor at 37 Wall Street to the roof of a ten story building below, dying instantly. A clerk saw him enter moments before. the cause remains unknown. His friends and wife say he faced no troubles.
News reaches Col. Wuskacoin in Louisville as the veteran editor reacts to his son’s death. The article notes the grief striking the local press veteran and outlines the sudden family tragedy.
Chicago on November 12 reports a permit secured for a 20 story office tower to be built for the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company at Adams Street and Michigan Avenue. The structure will enclose 7,920,000 cubic feet of air space, touted by architects as the world’s largest.
In Wallace Idaho a major blaze left one dead and a chorus girl injured as a mob hunted gambler Green believed to be the firebug. Fifteen buildings burned including twelve saloons. Green fled to Missoula after his friends ferried him there with a $1,000 bail.
Stan W. Pettit a leading constitutional law attorney and Civil War veteran aged 41 was found dead in his city office. Pettit once led stockholders of the Northern Pacific in a receivership battle and secured a settlement amid chaos. He was a director in several financial firms and a prominent club man.
A powder mill explosion at Holman Park south of Kansas City shattered three cars and damaged buildings a quarter mile in every direction. Thirty passengers on a Kansas City Southern train were injured. several killed in the blast as debris was hurled through the train and windows were blown out. Injured were taken to hospitals.
Mrs Andrew Williams 45 wife of Whatcom County sheriff shot herself in the courthouse basement after years of mourning. Her daughter died in July and she had repeatedly attempted suicide, collapsing from nervous prostration before this final act.
Mrs Christine Axlund of Lynden collapsed at a Hadger home during a party hosted by the Rev. Mr. Anderson, pastor of the Swedish Baptist church. She died instantly from acute uremia. She was 0 years old.
A humor sketch features exchanges between a narrator and characters on small town life. Dialog spans a child’s political play, jokes about expertise and taste, and a farmer and hired man banter about logs and dancing plans, reflecting light rural humor.
Mrs Josefa Nielsen Osborn, once prominent in New York society and known as a mediator of the city’s 400, died yesterday. Previously Mrs Nielsen, she married Robert Osborn, later divorcing to run a dressmaking business. With Norma Munro she opened Mrs Osborn’s home Berkeley theatre promoting late evening one act plays, a plan that failed.
A crowd attended a grand ball at Lesehi Park hosted by letter carriers. The event ran late as guests and carriers danced and celebrated together amid lights and music.
A public meeting is planned in Crimen's Rhone at 4 o'clock to discuss the issue of beane and to present it to Councilman KBay and M th.
A fragmentary exchange shows a widower or husband named Mr. Henpeck and a friend discussing a wife’s suffering described as great, set in a Somali context. The dialogue hints at personal grief and social tone without clear narrative details.
A schoolgirl writes a fifty word sketch about her uncle buying a motor car and riding in the country where it busted up a hill. She notes the remaining two hundred words are what her uncle said on the walk back to town and are not fit for publication.
An agent presents a patent burglar alarm to a man who dismisses the device and quips about using it to dull a voter’s glare as a pun on electoral dull thuds. The exchange ends with the man asking about an assent vote.
The children, especially Tommy, showed keen interest in politics as they played. Their father helped nurture their curiosity while their mother found the bustling playroom filled with lively pretend debates.
Myer notes a dilapidated umbrella carried by Jones. The remark suggests the item is a shade or heirloom from an ancestor, with Myer affirming the evident connection.
A chatty excerpt shows a farmer joking about trolley frequency and time since the last run while a British museum visitor recalls Cicero. An American boasts of Noah’s Ark lead pen from a museum and a playful elopement joke. A new tunnel project is proposed to link Switzerland and Italy passing Mt Blanc and stretching many miles.
An advertisement extols Fels-Naptha soap as a labor saving washing method. It compares the product to a sewing machine, claiming it eliminates boiling, hot water, rubbing, and heavy labor by simply rubbing the soap on clothes and washing in lukewarm or cold water.
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