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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1913
Page
1
Citizens report crowded cars with jammed platforms forcing passengers to crawl through windows. Bob Bridges, port commissioner, crawled through a window without fuss, while Attorney Howe wept before the public service commission over proposed rate hikes for the interurban line, warning of financial ruin for his clients.
Judge R. R. George a longtime Seattle lawyer and humane society president died after an elevator accident in the Lyons building. The incident occurred at 9 40 Wednesday night with internal injuries including skull fracture and broken bones. Elevator operator A L Beckwith fainted during the event and later collapsed again while giving a statement at police headquarters. An inquest will be held by Coroner Mason.
Judson A. Spann vanished from domestic life in March amid a rocky separation. He bid Louia Spann and their two children farewell claiming a South American trek and has since failed to provide support, triggering Mrs Spann's divorce action filed this morning.
The piece envisions Boalt and Harry Whitney Treat creating a two-name Seattle Blue Book to profit from social exclusivity. It ridicules exclusive society, imagines 10-dollar copies, and forecasts a social climbing scheme with Boalt feigning prominence while others chase inclusion.
Four people were killed and 17 injured when a biplane piloted by Lieut Teuberne suddenly dived into a crowd near Buchenbeuren Germany. A woman and a boy were cut to pieces by the propeller and a patrolman was crushed. The tragedy occurred as spectators watched Lieut Schneider fly.
Strait, Seattle outfielder, suspended for the remainder of the season by Manager Raymord after failing to take proper care of himself. He has been out for a week and is said to be suffering from ptomaine poisoning.
J. W. Stanley of Guckman and Stanley 926 Waterway was fined $10 by Judge Gordon in police court for selling potatoes by the sack instead of by weight.
The Seattle and Puget Sound Packing Co and Monroe Lewis were fined $500 by Justice Brown after selling 29 cans of decomposed Maryland Crab Meat Flakes to H A Eba. Deputy inspectors led the investigation and UW chemist Prof C W Johnson testified the cans were corroded and the meat putrid, unfit for consumption.
The government outlines the Diggs and Harris conspiracy to suborn perjury in a special prosecutor hearing. Sullivan reviews the elopement of Diggs and Caminetti with Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris to link false testimony to the perjury charges.
In Los Angeles on September 11 odore L. Froehlinger chief teller of the International Savings and Exchange Bank killed himself with a shot through the heart in his bank office. President John Lopizich said Froehlinger's accounts were in perfect shape and that the act was due to an apparently hopeless illness of his wife.
Coupons clipped from The Star numbered consecutively 65 entitle holder to a 5c Pennant with 15 cents payment. North Dakota Pennants are sold out while few Minnesota Colorado and Idaho Pennants remain. Mail order available with 5 cents extra per Pennant to The Seattle Star Seattle Washington.
A lone highwayman derailed an electric car near the city outskirts. He robbed Conductor J. C. Byers and Motorman C. S. Nochrin of 14 dollars, returned twenty cents to a passenger, and quipped that two bits paid for breakfast before fleeing the scene.
Robert J Hanson age 19 disappeared after leaving home at 3232 Walnut Avenue Tuesday morning for school. He is described as light complexioned with blue eyes and wearing a green suit. Local authorities request any information leading to his whereabouts.
If you have a telephone you may phone your advertisements direct to The Star. They will be put in exactly as you give them, and a bill will be sent you after publication. If you have no phone, visit branch offices at 229 Union Ave or 5409 Ballard Ave. Cash Want Ads cost only one cent a word.
The Central Labor Council plans to welcome Tom Mann the English labor leader arriving in Seattle next month. Mann has led major English movements since 1881 and was first secretary of the London Reform Union. A port commission resolution extends the pier head line 260 feet beyond the 500-foot line creating a 760-foot railway width, forcing several piers to shorten and widening waterways 125 feet on each side.
A detailed biographical sketch traces William J. Gaynor’s 1851 Whitestown birth and Brooklyn move in 1873. It highlights his law career, anti corruption work, 1893 NY Supreme Court judgeship, 1907 re election, 1909 mayoral victory, and brief gubernatorial and presidential mention.
A playful local column asks why various townspeople like Hi Gill, Dr. Matthews, Crawford E White, Dan Landon, Dugdale, and Judge Humphries avoid certain fashion choices or activities. The piece uses satire to poke at small town habits and curiosities.
Mrs Adamond Westman stands trial in Port Orchard for first degree murder of Carl Axel Westman. Defense offers alibi supported by six children and Mrs Peter Bow witness testimony. Coroner's jury earlier exonerated her. prosecution pressed charges after investigations. Bail set at six thousand dollars.
Mrs J W Clark of the Wright hotel 166 Washington Ave was jailed for reckless driving after her car struck Starr Preis 16 at Fifth Ave South and Dearborn. Preis suffered a broken thigh and bruises and was taken to his brother’s home 6515 Rainier Ave. J L McDalliard 1226 17th Ave N also injured when hit by a woman driver whose identity wasn’t learned. Accident at Eighth and Pike last night. Prices and injuries noted. Lydia Karnopp 19 saved her dog by pushing it from a streetcar but loses a leg.
In Lincoln Nebraska on September 11, six year old KHdadward Thornburg mistook a torpedo wrapped in paraffin paper for candy. He bit into it and the device exploded, nearly killing him and leaving him severely injured.
New York Mayor William J. Gaynor dies aboard the steamship Baltic en route to Queenstown Ireland after years marked by a gunshot wound from two years prior. His death follows heart strain from the assassin's bullet and the strain of a faltering health, leaving Adolph Kline acting mayor.
J. H. Scott, driver of a beer wagon, is in custody as Judge Frater leads an inquiry into intoxication among boys and young men ages 16 to 19 in the Bath and Greenwood area.
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