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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1912
Page
3
A scanned page lists dental crown prices and local market averages for meats and produce. The dental section notes regular crowns and warranty details, while the market section shows prices paid by retailers and farmers for items like pork, poultry, fruit, vegetables, and staple goods with occasional price variations.
A grand vision for underground transit beneath Manhattan promises 500 miles of track over five years, costing about 350 million dollars. Engineers favor the H plan with twin tubes along the island sides, avoiding rivers and the Broadway Fifth Avenue core to protect the skyline and fundamental structures.
The plan links central hubs and extends to outlying centers with a new Seventh Avenue Pennsylvania station and Brooklyn Bridge lines. Two new four tracked routes will run under the river, with locals stopping every six blocks and express trains skipping stations. Some trains use elevated tracks to Long Island Jamaica. Costs are split among the city and two operating companies, Interborough Traction Co and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co, under city Public Utilities Commission supervision. After ten years the city may assume control upon specified payments, with a franchise share of gross earnings above a set threshold.
Margaret Zane Witcher, Salt Lake County Utah county clerk, the sole woman elector in the electoral college, is a Republican candidate for the party’s Utah Vermont slate. If elected she would cast an electoral vote that otherwise would have gone to the late Vice President Sherman, though the eight total Republican votes are split four from Utah and four from Vermont.
Mise Mab Boardman secretary of the American Red Cross in Washington receives the Fifth Order of the Crown from the emperor of Japan for distinguished services. It is the first time an American woman has been so honored by Japan. The order recognizes meritorious actions by women.
William Randolph Hearst and Mrs Hearst were aboard the Mauretania and commented on the Rosenthal case. Hearst said the sensational crime harmed America’s image abroad, claiming Europe now views the U S as a nation of gunmen. He anticipated Becker and gunmen convictions would have a salutary effect.
Palo Alto, November 30. Ming Stedman, director of music for the Palo Alto schools, says ragtime is spoiling children's appreciation of good music and will obtain a phonograph and records of the best music for use in schools.
Mrs. FP Gates testifies before a Senate committee that Chaplain Wilson of the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle used the term hen-hussies to refer to suffragists. Gates says the chaplain favored women and ordered a resident to leave the home chapel when a woman entered.
A brief item notes a $10,000 check connected to Lap Greenwich in Greenwich Connecticut dated November 20. The fragment mentions a financial transaction but lacks full context or parties involved.
It is rare for a chauffeur to receive a $10,000 check from W. K. Vanderbilt without explanation. John Netney of Greenwich, chauffeur for Hugh Leighton of New York, found the check blown from Vanderbilt’s hotel room and landed in Nediey’s lap, an extraordinary turn of luck for an ordinary driver.
New York labor officials announced the formation of nine unions in trades that previously had no organization. The groups include bonnet makers patters boatmen cup sorters rag pickers hat band quakers and sailor salt makers in the federation.
W A Mears Seattle Chamber of Commerce transportation manager tells I C C attorney Mackley that transcontinental railroads safeguard trust interests by keeping rates high between raw and finished steel products. He says rates crush the industry in Seattle and the steel sector cannot compete.
In Portland on November 30 shippers contest a railroads agreed rise of 10 to 60 percent on about 300 commodities. Examiner Mackley hears the case as W A Mears of Seattle urges the Seattle transportation bureau. Edwin Chambers of the Santa Fe faces questions over the motive tied to canal openings.
A state Senate committee led by Gov Hay appointees White Troy Nichols Collins and F J Allen will soon finish its inquiry into traps and purse nets used near the international boundary during the closed period. The panel met at the Butler hotel to examine charges from the British Columbia field commissioner.
The city council finance committee urged leasing two rooms in the Triangle Building for the juvenile and humane department of the police. The rooms will serve as reception and examination space for young girls and boys, moving from the city hall where rooms are at the jail level.
MISS JULIA ALLEN ADAMS of Houston Texas is named among the prettiest American working girls in a southern beauty pageant style feature highlighting her stenography work and local recognition.
Secret service agents report they have uncovered a plot to trigger another rebellion in Sonora after the shooting of John Stevens. Stevens says he was shot while showing a rebel leader how to capture a smelter at Agua Prieta, naming 160 Agua Prieta rebels with arms hidden nearby. J Flores Magon is named as a candidate for the presidency.
The White House grounds witnessed a clash between Joaquin Calvo son of a Costa Rican minister and Francia P Daily city editor after a telephone talk about news. Daily struck Calvo with a hard right to the eye, knocking him out for about ten minutes.
An old advertisement urges making a cough syrup using Pinex with sugar syrup or honey. It claims rapid relief for coughs croup and throat pains and promotes the formula as superior to ready made products with a money back guarantee. The ad credits The Pinex Co Wayne Indiana and Martell Drug as distributors.
The text notes the location at 213 People's Bank Building, second and Pike, indicating a downtown Seattle office site.
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