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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1916
Page
1
A husband offers a Bible passage from Proverbs to justify his defense in a dispute over a rival. The cited verses warn against adultery and warn of consequence but the source text frames the strategy as a legal shield. The reference includes specific lines about theft, revenge, and jealousy.
Byrd A Choate wealthy farm owner faced Henry Campbell after an argument beside a cedar road. Choate threatened emasculation or death, using biblical defense as motive. Campbell, hospitalized, may not survive. bail set at 5000 with Choate avoiding scene. Mrs Choate denies wrongdoing. a third woman, Mrs Dunnigan, could testify. Local town discusses looming district court action as Choate’s wealth and Wingo holdings loom large.
Chicago police investigate a wave of poison pen letters signed Elisey to brides and would be brides including Grace Dickerson of St Paul and Mrs. H. B. Fuller. The letters threaten death if weddings proceed and cite a claimant to the partner. Handwriting hints at a common t and capital A pattern.
A report outlines a cutting affray in Kentucky involving a woman linked to the Choate Campbell mutilation case, and a man accused of attacking a neighbor whom he blamed for wrecking his home.
The Bulgarian right wing fell back under heavy Anglo French attack in the first major pitched battle of the Balkan offensive. French and British forces reportedly captured Bulgarian trenches near Maladan and Yenimah, with a northward pursuit underway after 36 hours of fighting. Bulgarian counterattacks southwest of Ostrovo lake were repelled as central artillery duels intensified near Lake Dojran.
With many candidates in the primary, returns will be late. The Star will not flash results and will keep its Main 600 exchange open until midnight for readers to call in for the latest election returns.
Voters faced a sunny 11 a m opening with many candidates, while official offices received hundreds of inquiry calls. Polls close at 8 p m and voters arriving late receive a reasonable time to vote if crowds delay them. Independent candidates deploy dozens of volunteer watchers to monitor the count through the night.
Frank R. Pierce, assistant secretary of the board of public works, and Miss Vivian Gill, niece of Mayor Gill, are to be married Wednesday evening.
Gen Haig reports artillery activity along the front between Delville Wood and Mouquet Farm. At Grand Court two German munition depots were set afire.
Cortland F. Bishop of Lenox Massachusetts owns a parrot believed to have a vocabulary of 76 words. The creature demonstrates a surprising range of recall and repetition of human speech.
A call to voters urges participation in the primary highlighting the importance of choosing independent candidates over machine slate and wary of rumors. It encourages early voting and to cast both first and second choices where applicable. It frames the primary as pivotal compared with November and denounces “yellow dog” candidates.
Ima Johnson 23 set three gas stoves and blocked exits in Lyman apartments to die while saving her six week old baby who lay at an open window. Neighbor Blewett smelled gas, found the scene, and police could not save her. The infant survived unharmed in the breeze.
Four shots rang out in a running gun fight on Duwamish avenue late Monday night. William Engelke chased and captured two men, Harry Smith 28 and Robert Meldner 25, alleged auto bandits, after his stolen car was taken from Westlake avenue and Stewart street. They were held at Georgetown police station on open charges.
The guidance urges Republican primary participation and warns independents to avoid Democratic or Progressive primaries. It lists choices for U S Senator Miles Poindexter, Governor Henry MecBride, Lieutenant Governor Arthur Davis, District Congressman options London, Maltine, Bryan, Kellogg, and State Superintendent Mrs. Preston, noting no further endorsements for other offices.
The Star recommends Herman Nelsen for County Commissioner second district and M J Carrigan or Claude Ramsay for first district. It urges votes for John Stringer for Sheriff to defeat Lafe Hamilton, and Lundin Green or White for Prosecuting Attorney. It endorses Dr C C Tiffin for Coroner and withholds guidance on other county offices.
Eighteen candidates for superior court judges are to be nominated. The Star advises you to vote for Lane Mackintosh Albertson Tallman Ronald McCabe Smith and two others. For supreme court judges Vote for Parker and two others for the long term, vote for J Stanley Webster for the four year term.
Ballot slate lists candidates for the legislature by district. Fortieth through fortieths districts present pairs or singles: Paul W. Houser and A. E. Fuller in the Forty First. W. T. Christensen and Clay Lawrence in the Forty Second. A. F. Haynes and Victor Zednick in the Forty Third. C. O. Qualhein in the Forty Fifth. Fred W. Hastings and C. C. Bras in the Forty Sixth. B. H. Guie in the Forty Seventh.
About 2,500 strike sympathizers from Everett Tacoma and Seattle joined the procession to the longshoremen’s union hall at First Ave and Union St for the midday funeral services of Harry Ragan and Joseph Goldsby who died in waterfront violence. Attorney McMahon spoke briefly.
Prosecutor Lundin says a murder charge may be filed against Dr Percival V Allen if strychnine found in Miss Anna Danielson’s body was given before her July death in Sheridan apartments. Evidence includes embalming fluid, a possible motive from five witnesses, and a long rumored “slow death” formula learned in a state reformatory.
Labor oriented talk and funeral rites were conducted with Rev Maurice Bywater of St Johns Episcopal Church presiding. Interment followed in the longshoremen’s plot at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Stray electrical currents from a railroad line are said to stimulate trees along one side of a Brussels street to bud and sometimes flower again after shedding leaves in autumn.
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