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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1912
Page
6
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a quick, harmless remedy for indigestion and related stomach troubles. It claims fast action, worldwide fame, and urges keeping a fifty cent case at home for food intolerance, gas, and sour stomachs. It ends with a cue to a local Dreamland dance night.
Dr. L. R. Clark and Saree advertise as experienced dentists in Seattle offering money back guarantees. They claim fully registered Washington dentists with strong prices including Gold Crowns four dollars and Never Slip Plates five dollars, urging readers to bring the ad.
Spread of progressive rallies across Washington gains momentum as Miles Poindexter Ole Hanson and other leaders tour the state. Beltwide attendance including 3 000 at the Coliseum contrasts with smaller crowds at Seattle venues as party organizers push reach and fund the Progressive Bulletin.
Bob Hedge will tour Washington state speaking engagements tonight in White Salmon and continues to Walla Walla Clarkston Pullman Spokane and Senaburg with stops in Cle Elum and Elsenaburg on subsequent days avslub.
Charles H. Harris, 73, an ex-slave from Richmond, Virginia, was found guilty of first degree murder in the Lake Union gas plant killing of his fellow worker James Hammond. The defense cited insanity but state experts testified Harris was sane. Sentencing to consider age. Harris confessed at the county jail two hours after the shooting.
King County Fair association officials urge the county to buy the Meadows as a permanent site for the fair. They claim the grounds and buildings can be bought for 3000 dollars per acre, with the property likely to rise in value and potential profit if the fair is discontinued. They say yearly appropriations would fund improvements to the property.
A gas cock left open in the kitchen of Jas. Duggan a 60 year old brick contractor on 25th Avenue filled the room with gas and caused his death. He was found seated in a chair in the afternoon. the death is deemed probably accidental as there was no attempt to seal the room. Duggan leaves a widow.
Mayor Cotterill will preside over a city council gathering at the Commercial Club rooms Thursday at 6 pm. All city officials their wives friends and assistants are invited. Commissioner J E Crichton will discuss the Washington hygiene congress and J D Ross will speak on Seattle's Light and Power Plant with stereopticon pictures.
Turkish residents in Seattle, about 1250 to 1500 strong, reportedly prepared to head to the front after last week when over 100 left for the East. A Turkish leader said the Turks have been sawing wood and saying nothing, while Greeks urged public pledges to defend their country.
London dispatch reports Turks surrounding a Montenegrin force crossing the Boyana river, killing 300 and recapturing several positions. Turkish officials in Constantinople accuse Montenegrins of using dum-dum bullets and shelling Turkish hospitals, and killing the injured at Tuzi and Berena.
Frank F. Bergeon, arrested recently, arraigned in superior court on extortion charges accusing him of posing as a police officer to force money from women. He allegedly threatened Bess Sheldon with arrest and received 11 dollars from her.
In Spezia Italy on October 1 Guillelmo Marconi wireless inventor had his right eye removed yesterday. He suffered a sleepless night high fever and intense pain. Professor Barardi Turin specialist who assisted at the operation was summoned to attend him. Despite a reassuring bulletin tonight fears of complications loom for the remaining eye.
A collision yesterday at noon on Eastwood involving Motorcycle Officer Charles A. Gordon and two youths, Walter Funf sian and Richard Duncan, left Funf sian with a broken leg, Duncan with severe cuts and bruises, and Gordon's motorcycle badly smashed. The youths and officer gave conflicting accounts of who was at fault.
D. 8 Day, 73, suffered a bruised hip after H A Evans of Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co pushed him to avoid a collision at First and Pike. Day, blind in one eye, was taken to the city hospital and then to the St Louis hotel. Evans faced city jail charges for violating the traffic ordinance.
The weather bureau issued a storm warning stating a storm will reach Seattle this afternoon or tonight. It will affect Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon with a wind shift from southeast to southwest.
This column announces a series to explain the Good Roads issue to King County voters. It promises reliable information on past and current road costs and future projections under present plans. It advocates Portland cement concrete base roads as permanent, necessary public improvements akin to sidewalks and sewers and invites readers to request the book Permanent Construction for detailed guidance.
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