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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1913
Page
3
A long critique argues Pope Leo XIII supports socialism and the recall of judges to curb elite privilege. It asserts workers must control means of production, end private ownership of land and machinery, and share Earth’s storehouse to secure food clothing and shelter for all. The piece condemns exploitation and promotes labor solidarity and political action.
A month of crafting gives The Vegetarian's Dream a surreal turn as fruit and veg characters perform stunts and a tragedy unfolds with Miss Pink Onion weeping and drowning herself. Millie Bright and Helen Martena to star in an Ostend style bathing scene. Also notes Lord Haldane in Animated Weekly and various travel and film topics. Bear valley California praised for scenery aiding future filming by Universal Film Co.
Seattle list of shops selling six car tickets for a quarter includes Panton & London and MacDougal-Southwick Co. at Second Pike, New York Outfitting Co. and S. S. Frink at Westlake, First and Union, and many others across downtown including The Bon Marche, Bell Drug, Perfecto cafeteria, and Olympia cigar stores. This consolidates venues amid traction company's withdrawal of car ticket sales.
A Spanish-born actress, often called Mona Darkfeather, plays Indian photoplay roles in California. Adopted by a Filipino family and raised near sunny California, she reveals the origin of her stage name and describes years of daring stunt work on film sets.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to give California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for sick, cross, or feverish children. It claims to cleanse the liver and bowels, relieve stomach upset, and restore playfulness, warning against counterfeit syrups and stressing a cent bottle for readers to buy from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Regional listings note Moore presenting Les Miserables on film at several venues including Metropolitan Denk Seattle Dark and Orpheum Vaudeville Empresse Vaudeville Pantages and Grand theatres. Clemmer Photoplays and Melbourne Photoplays run at Alhambra and other houses.
A young woman wearing a dress enrages a two year old steer that breaks away from Frank Case and chases her through the street. The frightened woman leads the animal up three stories to a stair then escapes into a building and locks the door to fend off the charge.
Review lauds Les Miserables film adaptation starring Henri Kraus at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre Paris. Notes clear pictures, authentic atmosphere, strong Cosette moment, and effective by orchestra accompaniment. Moores shows run daily matinees and night performances with a two and a half hour runtime plus seven minute intermission.
Wilmington dispatch reports a family in New Hope, the Ballingtons, plagued by lightning deaths over two decades. Nine members killed: two sons in a cotton field, a son and two daughters in a buggy, the father at the barn, another son with a baby, and most recently the mother struck in her kitchen while preparing supper.
In Pittsburg on September 8 Miss Margaret Schmitz and Michael J Donnelly were to wed at St Michael s church before a full congregation. After relatives and friends waited, word spread that Margaret balked because Michael was only 20, a minor, and the ceremony did not proceed.
Pottsville Pa September 8 ten surviving members of Encampment No 19 Union Veteran Legion of the Civil War met for the last time and dissolved the encampment. They turned over their flags and relics to the Schuylkill County Historical Society for formal acceptance with a patriotic program.
A Brighton court judge asks a young woman to promise never to wear a dangerous hatpin again as a condition of a money request. In Girard Ohio Charles Kyle seeks re election as marshal despite a $1 salary, planning a vigorous campaign and declaring I like to wear the badge. Milwaukee police judge downplays alarm over an X ray gown noting reactions depend on the observer’s mindset and temptations.
Tulsa police uncovered that wagonloads of melons concealed beer inside each fruit. A large load bound for Sand Springs Park was intercepted during a picnic. The man in charge faces federal court. Dance at Dreamland tonight.
Charles Hubner aged 35 killed himself after his fiancee's parents objected to the marriage. He spent the night preparing for the wedding by bathing shaving and dressing in the purchased wedding attire before shooting himself in the head.
Legally dead Henry A Miner who vanished ten years ago near Mulberry Grove Illinois was located in Horton Arkansas after the Modern Woodmen paid a $1,000 life policy to his wife.
Otto Vogt of Hartford Connecticut, released from Atlanta federal prison after a three year term, says the experience made him a man. He declares the confinement an education and credits the treatment and knowledge gained inside the walls with shaping his future. Vogt was convicted of sending improper matter through the mails.
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