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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1909
Page
2
A playful artist hints at a peach of a pretty girl suspended inches off the ground. The missing detail leaves readers guessing whether she hops, jumps, floats, or steps on air. Gotty Monday’s tissue promises the completed image.
A reader letter by Thomas Knight, a 52 year old locomotive engineer and worldwide worker, is highlighted as a striking portrait of a working man who studies Carlyle Tolstoi Buddha and Confucius. Knight, stationed at Kingat, is praised as a thinker and a man of action who once helped build tunnels through the Selkirks and who reads widely.
Report confirms Senorita Teresa Villareal and her father, supporters of Antonio Villareal, are political prisoners in a Mexican dungeon. Miss Andrea Villareal, in El Paso, says word from Mbera sympathizers in Torreon places them in custody for political reasons.
Police hunt for Joseph Kehl believed slain and robbed after leaving Salt Lake City with a large sum of money. His body was stripped and placed on Southern Pacific tracks by the killer or killers Thursday near his mother’s orange grove near Los Angeles. No money or papers remained with the body.
West Seattle residents sue West Seattle Land and Improvement Co over a 0 acre parcel valued at 190000 promised for park purposes during property sales. Plaintiffs claim maps showed the bluff land along Ferry Ave to Duwamish Head reserved for a park and hotel reserve.
In a first person slice of life Knight portrays John Ganton as a ruthless realist who values wealth over souls. He reflects on his hardened nature, his love for his wife, and his desperate desire to reform his son into a better man despite jungle ethics. He hopes to become a greater father and see his son emerge cleaner than he is.
United Press reports 30 to 40 GOP congressmen plan re election bids on a platform calling for a House speaker other than Joseph Cannon of Illinois. A Bayou Sara dispatch says tentative candidates include leaders from New England nearby states upper Mississippi region Nebraska and a Pacific coast lawmaker tied to the current organization who may break away.
Kansas City dispatch reports an October directive from A. B. Richardson, District Superintendent, instructing lady clerks and employees to discontinue wearing rats in their hair effective November 1. The order originates from the Postal Telegraph company superintendent’s office.
Mary Silva is granted a divorce from John Silva in Sacramento by Judge Shields. The suit alleges cruelty starting when their infant daughter woke in the night and was hurled to the floor, with further acts claimed in 1887 and afterward.
Van Lewise Geiger, linked to a Denver family, killed himself with a 38 caliber revolver after failing to force his wife into a death pact. Mia Geiger, in hysterical collapse, was taken for medical care. she reported his despondency over unemployment and his attempt to coerce her into the pact before the fatal shot.
R L C White longtime supreme keeper of records for the Knights of Pythias in Nashville died at age 68 after a five week illness. He served 22 years in the post and was a prominent fraternal figure in Tennessee.
In Los Angeles Judge Wil lin sentences Nell B. Derry to two years in Folsom for wife desertion marking the first county sentence under a new law. He had deserted his destitute wife and fled with another woman.
John H. Worke former California supreme court judge will be chief advisor to Guatierrez De Lara in his deportation clash. He will partner with Clarence Melly and A R Holston and may lead witness examinations at the Immigration hearing before Inspector Ridgeway.
A brief market note states that bar ail vert was quoted today at 50 cents.
A historical critique argues that pre 1901 Washington dental law protected exam standards and rights to practice. It claims the 1901 amendment and 1903 ruling gave the Dental Combine power, stripping exam subjects and steering licensure through the dental board, harming those who trained under preceptors. The writer previews further pieces detailing personal examination experiences and broader constitutional impacts.
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