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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1913
Page
3
G. W. Kennedy, a Manitowoc contractor, transported a two story brick structure weighing 180 tons by using a section of Dry Dock Company’s large floating steel dock. The building was moved half a mile up the river, unloaded, and placed on its foundation with no plaster cracks.
In Marysville Missouri on September 10 eggs shipped to a local dealer were placed in a refrigerator with others to keep for safe keeping. The temperature inside the refrigerator rose to about 60 degrees and eggs hatched as a result of the heat.
Sept. 10 report describes a great meteor plunging into the Seaconnet river near Tiverton during a storm. Witnesses saw a blazing sky body large in size travel swiftly, with windows and crockery rattled and a nearby merry go round jarred. No mass located due to deep river waters.
The article notes Miss Held joining a vaudeville firm led by John Cort and soon touring nationally with a novelty act featuring diamond adorned hosiery. It also previews a new play The Lure by Wayard Veiller with a bank president heroine aiming for mayor, praising its climax while calling the second act heavy and repulsive for its resort setting.
In Salem Oregon on September 10 a crowd of twenty thousand men lined up for a charity sale where women from six prominent families offered kisses at one dollar each to raise ten thousand dollars for hospital endowment. A married participant also shook hands for twenty five cents and charged her husband two dollars to close fingers in public.
Real Good Start from Savannah reports Mr and Mrs E L Truitt wed at Moultrie Ga and begin life with twenty four children to brighten their home. The bride Mrs M E Plowers once had twelve children as a widow and Truitt’s first wife left him twelve motherless children.
Moore presents Les Miserables in motion pictures. Metropolitan and Seattle venues feature Deash and Dark shows. Orpheum Empress Pantages Grand host vaudeville. Melbourne and Alhambra list Photoplays.
Cautionary baby laxative ad advises mothers to give a teaspoonful of California Syrup of Figs for stomach disorder and constipation. Claims to cleanse bowels within hours and promote health, warns to demand genuine product and avoid counterfeits.
The Commercial Club passed resolutions urging federal action to chart Alaska waters more thoroughly and to improve safety along the coast with lighthouses and buoys.
This tale centers on Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Herman Bryant Tibbetts, 42, a married father of a 10 year old daughter. The story claims the company’s attorneys outsmarted Tibbetts by forcing his part of an agreement into writing.
In a Kelair production of Rob Roy the cast debated how a man falls dead on screen. Bill Sheerer recounted his Spanish American War experience to demonstrate a lifelike death, then performed the practical fall. The bill lists numerous film short features on the Odeon program tonight through Wednesday, with titles from several studios and varied genres.
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