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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1912
Page
6
The season sees fewer fires but greater overall timber loss than 1910 with many disastrous fires. Burned timber may not be a total loss and a strong有 demand for partly burned logs due to a keen lumber market. Heavy rains in September may prevent further fires. the Washington Forest Fire association plans layoffs as it winds down the season.
Washington dispatch notes Vermont’s September 3 election as a barometer for national politics. It recalls past Vermont margins guiding presidential outcomes and identifies current contenders: regular Republicans Allen Fletcher, Democrat Harland Howe, Bull Moose Frazer Metzger, with Clement Smith possibly sidelined. Roosevelt plans a Vermont stop. Taft backers rally with Johnson and other speakers. Farmers form the core electorate. state voting patterns remain conservative and predictable.
Newsies of Seattle and friends gathered at Fortuna park for their annual picnic under threatening skies. A big feed and long program of athletic events and dancing kept spirits high with the Texas Tommy prize tag stealing the spotlight.
Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate for president, denounced the three big parties in talks at the Moore Theatre and Dreamland rink attended by capacity crowds. He praised the socialist cause, attacked Roosevelt and the bull moose party, and said the progressive party aims to prolong capitalism. Debs noted initial socialist votes drifting to Roosevelt but expected socialists to hold strong, then left for Portland.
A washed out bridge five miles from Shawnee Illinois caused an express train on the Northwestern railroad to plunge down a steep embankment. Seven people die and 21 are badly injured as five sleepers overturn while a heavy steel car survives. Most casualties come from the wooden day coach and smoking car after a cloudburst swollen the stream.
William J. Murphy, who assumed his father Francis Murphy’s temperance lecturing role, lies dying at his Los Angeles home. Doctors fear he may not survive the day after years of declining health since taking up the work five years ago.
Col Theodore Roosevelt launches a multi state swing beginning in Hartford Connecticut with a plan to Springfield Massachusetts and St Louis Missouri before heading to the West Coast. He travels as the progressive presidential candidate backed by arguments and statistics supporting his letter to Senator Clapp's committee on campaign contributions.
Customs duties for June to August totaled 636,685.53, up 197,121.02 from last year. Bank clearings for the just-ended month reached 61,252,421.95, a record since April 1910, with eight months totaling 386,019,695, up 90,643,919 from a year earlier. August grain shipments to Beattie rose to 244 cars over August 1941.
Police Judge C. H. Dillion lectured Walter L. Fisher secretary of the interior Mrs Fisher and H. A. Meyer after their driver was arrested speeding en route to Luther Burbank's home. The judge, unaware of their identities, fined the party's driver.
Public schools in Seattle open for the fall term tomorrow with improvements to buildings and equipment. New teachers join the staff and enrollment is expected to be larger this year despite some reports that the present term bids may be only partially successful.
U S officials investigate a claim that President William M Wood of the American Woolen Co was implicated in planting dynamite at Lawrence Massachusetts to intimidate labor leaders during a woolen strike. Boston DA French probes a dynamite shipment from January.
Los Angeles report notes actress Laurette Taylor urging daily outdoor exercise for all women. She demonstrates by sprinting a mile in nine minutes with skirts hindering progress, paced by a 20 mph car. she cites a 128 pound fighting weight and insists she did not aim to set a record.
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