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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1913
Page
3
New York story recounts Rodman Law’s string of perilous stunts including a motor cycle jump from the Brooklyn Bridge a cannon shot to the moon and a 100 foot dive from a hydro airplane. He is reported bunged up and hospitalized after the Midland Beach dive.
The Reliance company plans sea film production with Block Island as port. Upcoming releases include The Power of the Sea and A Man and a Woman. Kaiser Franz der Grosse crew enjoyed a private screening of Targets of Fate. Other theaters feature wildlife and drama reels and Sapho at Melbourne with Florence Roberta on tour.
A long railing piece argues for recall of judges amid Beattie era turmoil. It cites Hanford impeachment calls, arrests, and trials to claim courts weaponize injunctions against labor and public rights. The essay laments judicial overreach and urges citizen action to reinstate constitutional protections.
Vancouver, Wash. Oct. 20 A patrolman named Jack Smith was arrested by store proprietor A L Fragier who marched him to the police station at gunpoint. Fragier says he had been missing goods for months and with a friend waited for possible intruders. Smith says he entered the store to investigate noises.
Along with the New York Glants and Chicago White Sox on their world trip, six newlywed couples will travel aboard the special, with Jack Fournier to join in Tacoma. The brides and grooms listed include James Thorpe, Larry Doyle, Charles Tesreau, Louis Comiskey, and Tex Russell.
Deputy Collector Henry Blackwood says the proposed tariff bill pleases visitors by allowing tourists to bring in $100 worth of goods without duty. The measure aims to ease shopping and boost travel.
A jackknife description of Cascarets claim to cure dizziness headaches biliousness and stomach distress by cleansing the stomach removing sour undigested food and foul gases and carrying out waste from the bowels. The ad promises relief by morning from a 10 cent box bought at the druggist.
The page shows prices paid to producers for butter eggs poultry veal and pork with daily corrections by Perry Bros. It lists varied farm goods including apples peaches plums squash cabbage cucumbers lettuce and livestock such as hens ducks geese turkeys and guinea fowl with weight based price figures and size notes.
Eugene Levy owner of the Melbourne theatre donated 5000 tickets to the Modern Hebrew School at 18th Avenue and First Street established under Dr. L. Jacobs. Tickets available from B. Herman president at 206 First Avenue South or S. Gradston secretary at 107 14th Avenue South.
Women students at the state university will itemize expenses for six months to aid the industrial welfare commission in fixing a minimum living wage for women employees. Dr Theresa McMahon seeks college cooperation and Professor Jackson Turner of Harvard will deliver the June 1914 commencement address. In San Francisco on October 20 the temperature reached 90 degrees, a late season high.
Sacramento update: Gov. and Mrs. Johnson travel to the East on Sunday to campaign for the progressive ticket in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
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