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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1909
Page
8
Numerous low price notices for doors shale cotatqann per gallon and tele sale prices. Entries list a wide mix of items including piano bond cheap leather harness stock for exchange and sale of furniture and coal. Several addresses and contact numbers appear for local exchanges and sales with varied goods and services.
A fragmented listing shows Eagle Furniture Company and other local vendors offering furniture, department store goods, clothing, signs, numbers, and typewriters. Names include Townsend Batley Idaho and Washington area references, with notes on sales, pricing, and services.
A city official stated towns along the interurban line have authority to set a speed limit. Each town will consider the matter separately, with action likely slow due to many towns involved. The Valley Improvement Club may discuss the issue at its next meeting.
Wealthy valley residents back a plan to build an interurban electric railway to rival the Seattle Tacoma line. A $1,000,000 capital raise with Eastern investors was proposed at Attorney Frederick Hurdiman’s office, with Attorney Burch named temporary president and Edward N Chase, Isaac P Calhoun, and R R Spencer as officers. Investor C D Hillman heads the executive committee and talks of leasing a Skykomish power site at Index. Farmers along the route pledge stock and right of way. a withheld $200,000 pledge from a local benefactor awaits public action.
A Japanese tattor Victor Nakajima and American Mary Shrader plan marriage after court house license in rain. They have apartments arranged and expect to start housekeeping, saying love transcends race with California ties and parental support.
A lengthy account describes a meeting in which Berentsen is introduced to Kirk to pursue alleged pool room gambling evidence. The narrative details arrangements for pay, a later arrest for blackmail, and the speaker’s disbelief at the accusations while defending his own integrity and lack of evidence supporting the claims.
Jean Fortier who killed his brother Michael and sister in law Mary Jane Fortier on May 8 1909 was sentenced to 10 to 35 years but recalled when the indeterminate sentence was deemed illegal. He was re brought from jail and the sentence was continued for one week as his counsel noted murder cases require definite terms.
Edmund J Myer schedules a pupil Miss Lotta Harnish a Parkersburg WV soprano for a studio recital next Tuesday evening in the Myer studio Holyoke block Miss Maude Battelle Hammell assists with dramatic readings and Mr Myer will sing Old Songs with Miss Ethel Myer at the piano
In Los Angeles on October 23 a mass meeting at Simpson auditorium will protest the arrest and deportation of L Guiterres De Lara held as an alien anarchist. Organizer De Lara and Turner author of a Mexico peonage expose will speak. De Lara says he owns nothing to justify persecutions by the Mexican government.
Morris Hilquitt, author of The History of Socialist in America, defends L Gutierrez De Lara held in Los Angeles jail on alien anarchist charges. He argues De Lara is a socialist supportive of lawful government, and deporting him would justify deporting nearly all European migrants.
The conference committee of the Federated Improvement clubs is to meet at the Commercial club rooms Monday October 25 at 4 30 p m. The notice urges attendance and orderly discussion of agenda items.
Horse owners invited to secure winter care and pasture for their animals. Inquiries directed to John Wallace at Meadow, contact Main 73 or Main 432.
Ali Atherton Blight daughter of Atherton Blight of a Philadelphia family rose through society after appearing in Newport moving pictures. She married Sir Gerard Lowther British minister to Morocco, then stayed in Tangier and organized nurses in a hospital during a local crisis. He called her a perfect brick.
W A Mears of the Chamber of Commerce challenges the Northern Pacific belt line franchise around Lake Union citing high switching rates. He warns of a risky monopoly, calls for reductions, and says the matter will go before the Interstate Commerce Commission and state railroad authorities. The committee delays council consideration to allow thorough review.
Robert Houghton, a gray-haired man accused of swindling women with fake stock and grain deals, was bound over to the superior court on $2,000 bail after a justice court hearing yesterday.
Moses Harman editor of Eugenics will speak Sunday evening in Evergreen Hall 627 First Ave on The American Inquisition or Our National Crusade Against Freedom of Speech and Press. The city plans to occupy quarters in a new Yesler Way and Fourthay building with health sanitation and eminent domain commissions. the finance committee funds leasing the third floor.
State dairy and food commission shifts focus to big packers in Aberdeen and Pike Place market as 23 local butchers face charges for using tainted sodium sulphide called freezum. Deputy Commissioner Adams vows equal enforcement, while Prosecuting Attorney Perry and attorney O B Krete clash over who bears guilt as two more arrests are made.
In superior court Judge Grimshaw granted sixteen divorces in two hours on grounds including non support, desertion and cruelty. Several couples were released while one case Fletcher vs Fletcher stayed, others continued to next week.
Willie Obert accidentally drowned while playing on a log boom at Bay Creek mill. His body was recovered from Lake Washington yesterday with two brothers present.
Fargo officials and North Dakota figures including Benton Cashel and Purcell are discussed today as potential successors to the late United States Senator Johnson. The governor refuses to comment on likely appointee. Reverend Edward Kasal, 40, Russian Catholic priest, is under arrest in Dunn county for alleged mail theft from parishioners.
New York Courtland Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, who arrived from Europe, dismissed the Wright brothers claim that their patents cover all heavier than air machines as preposterous.
United States Senator Robert Marion La Follette is slated to speak Friday October 29 under YMCA auspices. With expected attendance surpassing 1 000, organizers consider moving the event from the YMCA hall seating 500 to a larger venue. The Wisconsin reformer, former Wisconsin governor and current U S senator, is described as a highly engaging speaker.
Readable ad listing prices and stalls for fish meat vegetables fruit tea coffee butter cheese and delicatessen at Westlake Market. It names items like halibut salmon rock cod mutton veal and lamb and notes stall numbers for each bargain.
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