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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1906
Page
3
A fragmented account of canal workers families and social divide at the Isthmus. It contrasts cottages for laborers with mansions for clerks, shows wives left behind, and sketches tensions between work life and home, including malaria, mood, and the lure of returning home.
Phone your orders to the Ou fall Market for the best meat at the lowest prices pot roasts to Ib Ind 2632 Sunset 2128.
A fragmented article comments on marriage norms and race in colonial settings. It notes a bride’s uncertain future and a hospital superintendent in distress while contrasting a black worker influx from Jamaica Barbados Martinique with colonial attitudes as ships arrive in Colon. It suggests social tensions and marriage as a changing rite.
Reporter T C Word, fresh from Alaska near Valdes, notes Mt Wrangel is unusually silent with no fumaroles. Indigenous people forecast an eruption and are relocating settlements, predicting lava flow that could melt glaciers and trigger a valley flood.
Fort y nine men courted Ma tilda Kuban and offered marriage. Henry Mendricks a machinist was the forty ninth suitor and she consented to wed him. Meantime Ada ir missing Herbert F P Adair, 14 year old son of Dr and Mrs J B Adair, is not accounted for after disappearing on September ?. Police alerted but offer no comfort. The boy is medium height with gray eyes and wore a dark suit and cap at disappearance.
Store announces deep cuts on all small lace curtain lots accumulated over weeks. There are 131 distinct styles offered in 1 to 6 pair lots. Some pieces are slightly soiled but none are damaged.
In New York Keith and Proctor Fifth Avenue theater operates as a continuous vaudeville house under KF Albee s management marking a city first. Chicago reports Mike Lillian Rowell debuts as dramatic star in Barbara's Mil Hons at Hall Theater with a supporting cast including Joseph Brooks, Hoover Smith, Herbert Standing, Frederick Tiden, Ernest Elton, Catherine Counties, Irene Perry and Marie Ferguson.
Richard and Pringle's Minstrels opened the season at the Grand with a feature vaudeville segment and a strong lineup led by Clarence Powell. Marette Smart led A Mad Love with praised emotionality and solid supporting turn by Marguerite Johnson and David Marnell. The White Tigress of Japan revived with Laurette Taylor and Viela Keene, over a wartime plot of espionage and romance. Juvenile Bostonians present Dorothy at the Grand Thursday.
A group of 46 youngsters aged 6 to 12 known as the Juvenile Bostonians plan a clever event with an American COD pending to the Australian Pollards. The seat was set for the promising event starting tomorrow morning.
The Star theater presents the first performance of a new vaudeville piece this afternoon with two repeats to Hight the featured performer. The Hierry troupe of acrobats leads the unusual variety program.
George Hazzard former Democratic politician of Washington cleared by jury in Richmond Indiana of the forgery charge recently preferred. The Sept 17 report notes he was found not guilty after trial.
The Rainy Hollow district claim owners and Scotch financiers sealed a 1.1 million dollar deal with 250000 paid upfront. Mr M Thompson of London finalized the agreement. Work begins soon with crews assembling in Skagway and Juneau for a transit to the district. Plans include a 50 mile railroad and a large smelter. The property lies just across the Canadian boundary.
Police in Los Angeles pursue a gang posing as gas company collectors and inspectors. They enter offices when empty and steal visible items, while presenting to owners as gas company personnel when challenged.
Fresno reports two parties of men tearing up ground in search of a mysterious treasure said to be buried by the famous bandit Joaquin Murrieta in the 1840s. The diggings center on a basin claimed by O Perez, a large Mexican inmate of the almshouse who asserts the spot lies beneath the ongoing excavation.
Evansville Indiana report states Albert Studer is jailed for stealing a watch from his sweetheart Annie Hobbs after she loaned him 85. She says he claimed hardship and asked for 6 to tide him over, then took the 25 cent security for a 26 mile steamer ride on Fortuna as security.
Sept 17 in Brooklyn reports the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Laughlin of Washington and National Ave Corona born in a ferry house on the Long Island side. A delay of 20 minutes would have left her a New Yorker. A nearby chicken pie supper festivity was interrupted by a fight and a watermelon theft amid the confusion. An Oakland report notes William Wrawbaugh fined $600 for selling beer in violation of license law.
In Pomona California on September 17 excitement runs high as witnesses describe a somber conclusion to a dramatic event. Authorities report mixed reactions among attendees and observers recall the final scene with notable tension and unanswered questions.
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