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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1916
Page
2
Health officials noted a second case after an initial scare over infantile paralysis. The victim, nine year old Juanita Digby, daughter of J M Digby, attended Olympic View School outside city limits. The school has been closed for fumigation.
Deputy Prosecutor Summers filed contempt charges against Terry May and Giuseppe Colan gelo and his wife for violating an abatement order on the Dearborn hotel at 703 Dearborn. Each faces up to $1,000 fine or a year in jail, or both, with bonds set at $1,000.
Assistant Fire Marshal John Reid found the body on the Crown hotel roof at 315 First Ave. The death appears self-inflicted, with a rope broken from a beam and a fragment around the neck. The victim, around 30, wore a checked suit and black shoes. a black hat lay nearby. The body was beyond recognition by hotel staff.
Arthur Johnson was caught by the dry squad with a suitcase full of bottled whisky. He pleaded guilty before Judge Gordon on Tuesday and received a $100 fine.
Society women increasingly wash their own hair using a home made canthrox shampoo mixture. The method costs about three cents per shampoo, dissolving a teaspoonful in hot water, yielding hair that dries with uniform color and appears fuller. Dandruff dirt and excess oil dissolve, promoting a healthier scalp and hair growth.
Miss Fern Roberts 16 admits she shot her dentist stepfather Dr Grant J Roberts in Chicago over returning to his wife. He survived after three bullets struck him as authorities say the accused shooter believed he would not live with her mother again. The teenager, described as insane by some, said she could not finish him.
In Los Angeles on October 17 Jens Willard and attorney Rogers confront a $25000 damage suit. Rogers seeks payment for reasonable legal services claiming he enabled Willard to gain fortune by freeing him from multiple promoter contracts.
Rochester Mayo Foundation bacteriologist Dr Edward Rosenow said he found a germ he believes causes infantile paralysis. He declined to share further details beyond noting the germ was found in the tonsils of affected children.
A Kansas City resident promotes a home formula to darken gray hair and stimulate growth. The mixture combines bay rum glycerine Barbo Compound in water and is applied every other day. It claims to reduce itching dandruff not stain the scalp and can make a gray-haired person look 10 to 20 years younger.
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