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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1912
Page
3
An advertisement extols Poni Appetite and Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for indigestion and a remedy for heavy meals. It urges keeping a box at home to prevent discomfort after meals and holiday feasts, promising digestion and stomach relief. The copy promotes the products as highly reputable and beneficial.
An OCR fragment advertises Albany cut rate dentists offering artificial teeth, crowns, bridges, and porcelain teeth at low prices. It promises free initial examinations and work, with claims of beat prices and wide accessibility noted at vague Seattle references.
A survey of defeated candidates shows many will return to prior jobs or seek new ones. Several plan travel or private business, while others keep law, real estate, engineering, or banking roles. The piece notes some elected figures will begin new terms in Olympia.
New York investigators report annual lending business of about 20 million dollars. More than 100000 people including 26000 municipal employees are entrapped. Usury is extracted through state courts, with loan sharks linked to personal crises, defalcations, and thefts. They urge creation of a civil bureau to defend victims against civil actions by lenders.
A Belgian chemist M Effront proposes artificial foods to combat rising living costs. He claims to synthetically produce meat like viands from malt residues and process them with acids and lime yielding a pasty meat substitute with three times the nourishment. Hessian doctors in Brussels have tested thin artificial meat on humans with satisfactory results. He also reports a Lucerne and clover hay based food with tested nutritive quality.
The century old Independence, a 50 year receiving ship at Mare Island Navy Yard, will be placed out of commission. The cruiser Cleveland will take its position and the Independence is likely to be turned over to the Panama Pacific Exposition Company for exhibit purposes. The vessel has served with the United States Navy since 1814.
George Austin, Ohio’s oldest voter at 104, said he has voted for 83 years and still favors the Republican ticket. He cast his ballot for President Taft in precinct D, Kent, as voters flocked on November 13.
Tacoma reports that superior court will hear six county office contests and two legislative races next week. A recount is expected to reveal about 1000 votes difference as officials allegedly discarded numerous ballots thinking they were void.
In Oxford England on November 13, Helen Crages was released from nine months hard labor after a suffragette hunger strike in British jails. Crages, who was convicted October 19 for attempting to set fire to Lewis Vernon Harcourt’s residence, suffered health deterioration during imprisonment.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine as transforming hair to light, wavy, fluffy and lustrous. It claims dandruff removal, scalp cleansing, and new hair growth after weeks of use, urging readers to buy a 26 cent bottle from drug stores or shops.
A certificate of $2, a memory of the 1907 panic, was presented yesterday for cash redemption in Seattle. The local clearing house fund now shows $1,738 left, according to J. W. Spangler of the Seattle National Bank. The remaining certificates are likely held by souvenir hunters.
Fear of pain keeps patients from the dentist and Regal Dental Offices claims a system to numb nerves with no pain. Prices advertised as lower than competitors include a $4.00 crown and a $5.00 plate with a guarantee on each bill. AR Clark D D S manager at 1405 Third Ave NW, note to bring the Act.
Mrs Darwin Wood wife of Prof Darwin Wood sustains injuries after an assault alleged to be by Jack Davis a bootblack. She was alone at home with her daughter Violet when Davis struck her and fled when the child returned. Davis was arrested and found in bed in his room near the barber shop period rope matching a vendor’s supply.
Police raid a Chinese gambling house on Eighth Avenue last night netted $400 and two prisoners. Lee Tung allegedly carried a 38 caliber safety item but froze. The other raider also had a safety item. Lookout alerted, lights out, sergeant Jennings and officers Johnson and McLennan conducted the raid. The two men were released on $100 bond.
Kent becomes the first small town in the state to obtain city delivery under the act passed by Congress. Two carriers will be appointed to begin service December 1 as part of the village delivery program funded by a $100,000 appropriation.
Supt Curtis of the New Town Massachusetts board of health refused $1,000 a year after demanding $1,500. He has served twenty years without pay work.
In Brooklyn appellate court, a dispute over whether a child can claim damages for injuries alleged to have occurred before birth due to an accident to its mother. Arthur A. Nurgent sues BRT for $25,000 after his wife was knocked down leaving a Myrtle Avenue car, and their son was born crippled 36 days later.
An 19th century style pitch touts Syrup of Figs as a natural, harmless stomach liver and bowel cleanser. It contrasts primitive living with modern excess and claims the product, made from figs senna and aromatics, safely regulates digestion without irritation.
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