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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
3
Algona Wash resident C W McGonighe claims to have invented a high power transmitter that could broadcast church or theatre speech to distant venues. He says receivers could be placed in homes, removing home receivers, and the device could attach to party lines, though it requires high voltage and cannot join switchboard lines.
The Clemmer theater screens diverse fare from The Deschutes Canyon panorama to Damascus and the Ruins of Baalbek. Henley England offers The Stroke of the Phoebus Elect while a runaway elephant disrupts filming with Ramona Longley aboard a furniture laden truck during a recent shoot.
The paper notes growing demand for children oriented programs and a Pathé educational series to run 13 weeks as a Saturday matinee with expert curation. It also reports an air purifying device to be installed at the Colonial using an atomizer to release perfume and formaldehyde. A two reel film Show the Piper at Alhambra follows a Scottish duke who disguises as a piper and elopes with a shepherd girl.
A private dramatic school near Fort Lee New Jersey trains wild animals for the moving picture stage. French tamer M Paul Bourgeois directs a studio with trained beasts like Princess and Ten. Animals are kept in a nearby menagerie and trained daily through patience and kindness rather than force.
A summary of films and serials scheduled for various venues including Solax Gaumont Keystone Biograph and Lubin offerings. Titles range from dramas Hiennan of the Moor and The Howling Match to comedies The Baseball Umpire and Mutual Weekly with split reel features and world news items shown through the week in Melbourne and other cities.
A complaint filed in Los Angeles accuses George Steel an advertising solicitor of unwarranted collection of money for Press club membership. Several persons are alleged to have been swindled.
Ralph Parlette humorist opens the YMCA Star course next Monday at the association auditorium with his University of Hard Knocks. He also speaks at the Sunday men’s club on Why I Quit Lying. Other attractions include Hadley Dunbar Bell Ringers and Woods Hutchinson. Season tickets available at the YMCA office.
Local prunes have disappeared from the market while Wenatchee storage stock sits on the street at 1 dollar per case. The apple trade remains heavy with Gravensteins arriving in greater quantities. A shipment of the first carload of the season’s grapefruit is expected next Wednesday. The butter and egg situation remains steady. prices for apples, onions, squash, cabbage, melons, poultry, and meats are listed with corrected daily figures from J. W. fe Ca anderry Bros.
Santa Cruz on October 2 reports a high school fire causing about 60000 dollars in damage. Fire crews battled flames that swept the campus, with students and residents reacting to the blaze and its aftermath.
Moore-Dark Seattle Bailey and Mitchell Stock present The Fastest Way at Pantages Vaudeville. Orpheum Vaudeville and Empress Vaudeville also showing programs this week in Seattle.
Gabe E. Parker a Choctaw from Academy Okla begins duties as register of the treasury. His signature will appear on all currency and he calls the appointment a signal recognition for his people.
A well known St. Louis woman credits a home mixture with growing her hair four to five inches in weeks. The recipe combines water, bay rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine applied to the scalp two to three times weekly. It allegedly promotes growth, removes dandruff, prevents hair loss, darkens gray hair, and leaves hair soft and greasy. Ingredients are cheap and available at drug stores.
A local inventor, formerly a government expert, claims a wireless photographic instrument works at eight feet and reflects scenes within miles. Secretary Daniels invited the inventor to Washington for Navy Department inspection. The device captures impressions from a wire screen atop a tall moat.
An old advertisement touts a facial skin remedy for sallow blotchy rough or greasy complexions. It urges using ordinary mercol eed and cold cream nightly then washing away to reveal a new skin. It also promotes a miscelaneous mix with cano lite as a face bath promising miracle results.
Bellefontaine warns that attempted piece work at local shops could trigger a strike among Big Four shop employees across Ohio Indiana and Illinois. Oak Harbor citizens head to voting booths on a 20000 bond for municipal lighting.
An advertisement from 1913 features testimonials from Dwight W. Clark of New York and Chas. A. Bradley of New Haven praising Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment for instantly stopping itching, curing dandruff and hair loss, and relieving itching piles after 15 years. The ad urges purchases from druggists and offers a free trial via Dept. 22-R, Resinol, Baltimore.
The Detroit diocese outlines plans for Bishop J A Foley's silver jubilee on November 8 with public screenings at police headquarters. Other items note gas rate hopes, Parker death, Williams forgery charge, McHugh embezzlement case, and the Burnside Giants 6 Georgetown Nonpareils 4 clinching city title.
Mark H. Jackson of Syracuse New York says a spring 1892 rheumatism attack led him to a remedy that cured him completely after years of trials. He reports success in several bed ridden cases and offers to mail the cure free for trial with payment only after satisfaction.
Herman Putzler, owner of the Engle hotel in Fountain City, trips over a metal bar believed to be pure gold valued at $59,000. The bar was sent to the University of Wisconsin Madison for assay amid past robbery lore of a Burlington express car robbed near Victory, Wisconsin. A separate note mentions a $20,000 French prize for cholera cure.
Ramona Borden, 17, daughter of Gail Borden, avoided a speeding fine after smiling at Speed Arbitrator Drew in Venice. The motor officer issued a stern ruling, but her friendly plea led to dismissal.
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