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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
13
A man in Arkansas at a political rally devoured two watermelons weighing 75 pounds in 15 and 20 minutes respectively. He then ate another large melon in under 20 minutes, winning a $25 bet and denying any ill effects.
Rev. E. E. Robins former Salinas Methodist pastor received a three year sentence at Mc. Netseland for writing an improper letter to Miss Edna Rodgers in San Francisco on October 16.
The narrator recalls paying 25 for an interview with Sir William Gilbert at the Savoy. Gilbert refused to talk, slammed the interviewer off stage, and the plan collapsed as rehearsals ran long and the chorus cried. The episode underscores Gilbert’s sharp satire and mercurial temperament.
Tonight at the Labor Temple a meeting will feature Ole Hanson, the people’s candidate for U S senator, and Austin E. Griffiths, progressive candidate for Congress. Hanson is seen as a likely future senator with a state development plan. Griffiths, chief of police and former city councilman, runs with independent voters. Frank A. Rust and L. W. Barnard with G. W. Bright will also speak on state issues and elections.
New York report says A. E. Sweeney, painting roof garden plants atop the Astor hotel, saw a hawk chased by another hawk. The pursuer plunged, dropping a three pound sea bass at Sweeney’s feet. Mrs. Sweeney later cooked the fish for supper. Paris obituary follows.
Nan Campbell, Virginia beauty and star, will marry William Miller, counsel for the New York New Haven and Hartford. Her rise from struggling actress to leading woman in a single season follows earlier roles in Marrying Money and When Claudia Smiles. Miller’s feat is his recent defense brief for the railroad.
A statewide apple week is announced featuring a giant exhibit at Bon Marche park with 100 car loads of Yakima fruit. Thomas F E Ryan and C W McCullough drive the movement as families are urged to purchase boxes through grocers for reduced prices amid war market losses.
Of the emigrants leaving Ireland in the year 70 percent went to the United States and 21 percent to Canada. From Ulster, 12,892 emigrants were recorded, comprising 40 percent of the total.
Streets and sewers committee votes to repeal condemnation strips on Empire Way from Dearborn to Hanford and Holden to Ratner as Councilman Dale pushes to drop the plan. The vote occurred without protest from local property owners.
Grant City Missouri resident J. H. Vaught found a remarkable natural oddity when wild grapes grew on a hickory limb. The cluster fully matured and ripened, matching the flavor and form of grapes from a nearby vine, discovered during a timper hunting trip.
Brockton Mass October 16 Mrs Rose Bertino of 81 Chestnut Street reports a flock of 40 hens reduced to 24 by thefts She has painted the feathers of the remaining birds red and green to prevent further thefts.
Mrs Have lock Ellis an English author and playwright visiting in Chicago says the way for a woman to keep a man in love is to go out and earn her own living in Chicago on October 16.
Los Angeles news note: A. R. Ballmeyer was excused from jury duty after proving to the court by a series of sneezes that he suffered hay fever.
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