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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1912
Page
6
An ad promoting Cascarets as a superior cleansing remedy over laxatives for digestion and liver purification. It touts ten cent boxes, no groGing, and claims prevention of headaches biliousness coated tongue indigestion sour stomach and constipation. Children are said to love taking them.
Advertises 200 dollar lots at Columbia with 5 dollar payments or 10 dollar payments. Promises city water and conveniences, 15 minutes from work, 50 by 120 foot lots with 100 cash down and monthly balance. Describes a growing neighborhood and Meridian avenue street work included.
A week of unprecedented progressive campaigning across Washington state yields record crowds in towns from King County to Eastern Washington. Poindexter Hodge Kegley and Gov Teats draw thousands as Landon Hanson and Fal cone meet voters northwest and southwest. Over 160000 platforms and 40000 bull moose buttons distributed as supporters rally in Aberdeen La Conner and beyond.
In Los Angeles on October 5 a near riot erupted after a divorce case, Mrs Chas. B. Reeves sues her husband, with Mrs Anna Crook named as co respondent taunting attorney J B Redd. A melee broke out in the Hall of Records as courthouse staff separated rival factions. no serious injuries reported.
Sustaining Judge Albertson the supreme court yesterday denied Scott Calhoun attorney for James A. Moore the removal of the suit against the Metropolitan Trent Co to Port Town send for trial. Moore seeks 1 million dollars damages and the recovery of Western Steel corporation assets alleging a conspiracy by the Metropolitan Co at the steel trust's instigation to deprive him of his property.
Fred L. Boalt of The Starstaff addresses a University of Washington journalism class, recalling 15 years as a reporter and human interest writer. He describes prison reform investigations, interviewing prominent figures, and notes that reporters are snubbed by small players but welcomed by the great.
Charles M. Baxter of Seattle has filed a complaint against Pacific Telephone Co. alleging inadequate and inefficient service with mixed numbers busy lines no numbers and a catalogue of problems reflecting poor phone service.
Questioning hair care choices, the copy urges readers to ask their doctor if Ayer's Hair Vigor is endorsed. It promises the product does not color the hair and invites professional guidance.
Notice to electors announces a referendum on Ordinance 20098 about dividing Seattle Fire Department staff into day and night platoons with set hours, emergency powers for chiefs, housing provisions, and repeal of conflicting ordinances. Special election scheduled for November 1912 to ratify or reject the ordinance.
A state fair straw poll in Spokane shows Roosevelt favored nearly two to one over Taft and Wilson. Of 12 927 attendees who entered turnstiles labeled republican bull moose and democrat, Roosevelt won by a wide margin as the tally lists Taft and Wilson trailing.
A damaged letter from Sedalia and Me to a recipient at Bat Park Square promises a guaranteed cure called Praethias. The writer urges immediate contact, claims vast personal time and effort, and asks to send the remedy to a "poor sufferer" in Be ferme.
A Seattle physician, after completing the Neal Treatment for drug addictions, testifies he was morphine dependent for six years and ten grains daily. He reports rapid improvement, no withdrawal suffering, and urges others to seek the Neal Institute at 1735 16th Ave. Seattle, East 4381.
Washington reports Dr Woods Hutchinson at the International Hygiene congress urges daily baths for all including children and women. He says cool baths or cold plunges twice or thrice daily are beneficial and no one has caught a cold from frequent bathing.
The Dinham-Strennau Shoe Company won a large contract to supply union made footwear to Miners' Union members in Ravensdale Palmer and surrounding coal areas. The firm provided men women and children shoes with union stamps, the largest local order ever filled, with staff working until 2 am to box and ship the goods to striking miners and their families.
Chicago police search for a 22 to 24 year old woman said to lead a taxi gang. The group allegedly robbed a downtown cafe, fatally wounding the proprietor and stealing $15. They then robbed a railway agent at Garfield Park station and took $40 before a Schiller station attempt was thwarted at gunpoint.
In Spokane on October 4 regular Republicans and Bull Moosers react to Senator Miles Poindexter leaving an Idaho junket. Poindexter supports Roosevelt but calls off travel to aid Horah who will speak for Gov. Hay, a staunch standpat candidate.
Mrs. Nellie Weeks files for divorce from Henry Weeks a political leader in St. Louis after five years of shaving trimming shining tying and dressing him daily she says the marriage contract mentions none of these duties and she grew tired of the endless tasks including holding the door open for him.
Aberdeen October 5 Mr Creech husband of a local millionaire testifies about the night City Detective Frank Welch was shot. He recounts arriving in Aberdeen seeking Peterson of Pacific Lumber Agency, a confrontation with a crouching man at his gate and firing after a whispered threat. He says the man claimed to be an officer, and Creech asked why that was not disclosed. He sobbed while telling the sequence of events.
Gov Hadley of Missouri declared he favors President Taft and will work for his re election. Taft's private secretary told Hadley by telegram that the president supports presidential primaries if properly safeguarded.
BAN QUENTIN CAL Oct. 5 Sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzlement from a client estate Jackson Hatch who twice ran for supreme justice in California arrived here with his wife and attendants to begin his term. Hatch escorted by Sheriff A B Langford was taken from jail at San Jose at daylight to avoid a crowd.
Wilma Wade a 12 year old girl in Summerville is happy today after a successful operation to remove a three inch safety pin from her bronchial tubes. The pin had been in her airway for six days following a sewing accident at her home where her parents own a ranch in Summerville Oregon.
Detectives search woods near the exclusive district with dogs and searchlights for two nights seeking Mise Ruth Ely daughter of Daniel R. Ely a New York club man and bond dealer who vanished after becoming ill. Investigators remain baffled as clues stay elusive and the case garners city attention.
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