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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1915
Page
1
The Star promotes selling all high priced autos and using only Fords for city and county officials. It cites Sheriff Hodge who refuses Pierce Arrow and Police Chief Lang who rides a Hudson. The paper argues officials relied on streetcars or horses before office and should reduce expenses by standardizing on Fords.
Sheriff Bob Hodge notes the high price of maintaining city and county autos. The city lists about 20 high priced cars out of roughly 50 total, mostly Fords, with department heads using them and staff traveling in Fords. Affected departments maintain duplicate parts in city garages to cover costly repairs on large vehicles.
In Pittsburg on September 1, Harry Thaw filed for divorce from Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw. Attorneys allege infidelity and name John Francis as the alleged corespondent in a petition presented to Judge Reid.
Anita Stewart known as The Goddess sits at Brighton Beach watching a carnival and headlines her starring role in Gouverneur Morris’s novel The Goddess to be serialized in The Star starting Thursday. The film adaptation with Earle Williams and other photoplays opens at the Alhambra Sunday and runs daily in The Star.
Corporation counsel prepares method of procedure for Lang inquiry while Seattle Chinatown figure Ah King is found dead in a Sacramento hotel with a bullet wound. Coroner's inquest and a signed note raise questions over suicide versus foul play as associates receive guidance for witnesses.
Berlin dispatches report two Allied cruisers attacked the Gulf of Smyrna. One cruiser sank during the bombardment and the rescue attempt failed as Turkish artillery drove off the second ship.
Berlin dispatches report the dread naught Moltke seen off the Kaiser Wilhelm canal under her own steam, contrary to Russian admiralty claims of sinking by a British submarine in the Gulf of Riga.
Washington reports Germany has formally agreed to American terms limiting submarine attacks. Ambassador Von Bernstorff told Secretary Lansing that no liner will be sunk without warning and with safeguards for non-combatants, a policy adopted before the Arabic incident.
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