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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1912
Page
7
Advertises Syrup of Figs as a gentle, safe remedy for childhood constipation. Claims it cleanses the stomach, moves bile and waste, eases cribbing and fever, and avoids harsh laxatives. Warns parents to demand the product name and avoid substitutes.
Mary Elizabeth Evans rose from a Syracuse candy table to a five hundred thousand dollar enterprise. She opened shops on Fifth Avenue in New York City, in Newport, and in Bermuda, refusing to sell for any price. She says poverty drove her to the craft she knows best.
A nineteenth century style beauty guide promotes powders and lotions. It prescribes dissolving magatone in witch bases for all day coverage and to prevent tan and sunburn. Dry shampoo mixes ore root and therox to refresh sparse hair when washing is impractical. Pyrexin applied daily tones eyebrows and eyelashes, claiming smoother, fuller looks.
In TeKOA Washington a poker game ended in tragedy when a royal flush faced after a two card draw sparked a fatal shootout. Patrick Colline, Deputy Sheriff William Estep, Town Marshal Grant Dickson, and Paloulline Gardner died. Survivor Curley Gardner, jailed on murder charges, described the fatal hand and ensuing gunfire as officers raided the saloon.
Militant English suffragists who decided to go to Canada as a protest against Canadian views on suffrage will be halted by an immigration order issued today. Authorities deem militant suffragists undesirable under the Immigration Act despite a strong local push for women’s enfranchisement.
Geo. B. Metsger, a rich Chicago scion, is jailed in Seattle charged with ten robberies involving stealing tires and tools from street and garage machines. He claimed the tools pleaded to be taken. Other items note J. F. Chilberg’s Europe trip, coal land case continuances, a drunken wagon trip ending in a jail stay, and a Hotel Virginius notice.
A 18 year old girl was tarred and feathered by six Clarksville women disguised as men. The attack followed warnings to the girl to leave Norwalk and she departed with her sister. Authorities refused to investigate, noting the girl had been warned to flee.
Tacoma reports a drop of 2000 visitors to Mount Rainier in 1912 from 1911 figures. City council and board of public works plan a Tuesday departure to inspect the Lake Cushman power site, returning Wednesday night.
A lecture audience reacts as a well known authority suggests that men outnumber women in parts of the world. A young lady in the back rows leaves in protest while the lecturer clarifies his remark was not meant to be binding.
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