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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1912
Page
8
The Star’s Moving Picture Expert reports a small one hand moving picture machine named the Edison home kinetoscope. It sets up in five minutes in any room and uses wall canvas or curtain to project. Films cost 2.50 to 20 dollars, with exchanges from .30 to 1 dollar. device also serves as a stereopticon.
Mrs. Carrie A. Whitney files for divorce from Senator E. C. Whitney of Spokane claiming he is worth about 500000 but provided no home for their two children in seven years and has shown affections for other women. She seeks $100 temporary monthly alimony plus $500 support and $500 attorney fees. Judge Dykeman orders Whitney to appear December 13 to answer. Whitney, 52, allegedly sowed wild oats after their marriage and left seven years ago, living in Seattle. He began in the Washington Legislature in 1903 and served in the state senate from 1911.
Fifty five tons of mail were shipped yesterday from the post office to Hawaii the Philippines Japan and China in the largest dispatch of the week.
At the theatres this week Moore Walker Whiteside stars in The Typhoon while Zoe Tarnett appears in The Red Rose. Seattle Stock Co presents The Spellera and various venues offer photoplays vaudeville and vaudeville programs including Alhambra Orpheum Pantages Grand and other vaudeville shows.
Rev. J. E. O'Brien was honored with a $1000 check from parishioners and friends at a large Coliseum reception attended by city officials including Mayor Cotterill. He has served ten years at the Church of Our Lady of Good Help and will depart Seattle soon to return to the Everett Catholic church where he previously served as curate.
Reports from Okolona to New York cover a former state senator's death, troop orders for Chihuahua, railroad spur plans to a county poor farm, a Sigma Nu banquet in Washington DC, and political fund expenses. Other items note Tacoma reconsidering Puget Sound headquarters, revival plans in Portland, N P work near Toppenish, and personal incidents including a fall from a steamer and a missing auto.
A garbled column reports on diverse items including the death of former U S senator John P Jonen in Los Angeles after a long illness, Mexican revolutionary leader Pascal Orozco in Avalon California, Chinese ambassador Chen Tung Liang Chung resignations in Berlin, rehearsals for The Mystic Rose at Plymouth church, an electric light flash causing car damage, a city legal dispute over the Gandy law, Rainier Valley bus line talks, Good Roads delegates from the Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Duncan of Butte speaking on Socialism, Glacier National Park visits, vote recounts in county boxes for Phelips and Quigley, a teachers' institute in Bellingham, a restraint on Patrick Mullins' downtown ballot line, an England United States treaty notification rule on deaths, a California wedding notice, and a turkey shoot threatened by humane officers in Venice California.
Warp Print Ribbons from 3 to 8 inches wide in rosebud and floral designs at 25 35 and 50 cents per yard. Messaline Silk Ribbons 6 inches wide in plain white rose sky blue etc at 35 cents per yard. Brocaded Satin stripe Dresden Ribbons all silk 8 inches wide in patterns on light grounds with Christmas ties 10 yards for 25 cents. Washable Ribbons plain rosebud bawknot forget me not designs at various prices.
Don Pape of Topepenish announces he has secured superior court permission to adopt his daughter Pearl. Separated from Pearl for 16 years after her mother died at birth, Pearl was raised by neighbor Mrs. F. L. Babbitt who has since died, returning Pearl to her real father.
Jacob Ambaum, a contractor, petitioned the superior court for the appointment of a receiver for the Highland Park and Lake Burien railway, claiming insolvency risks and seeking $1,800 for poles and related materials delivered in December 1911 with no payment received.
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