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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1909
Page
8
A garbled ad for Bigle Furniture outlines furniture for sale and rent options. It lists Main and East streets with phone numbers and mentions rooms for rent and sale details. The fragment hints at a local furniture dealer advertising sales and rental space.
The first annual meeting of the Anti Tuberculosis League of King County will convene Tuesday evening September 28 in the Assembly Hall of the Chamber of Commerce Central Building. Full program and details to be announced tomorrow. Attendance urged from all who wish to help fight the white plague. Florence Crittenden and other relief workers will speak tomorrow afternoon at the Auditorium Exposition Grounds about their work in the city and elsewhere.
President Taft leaves Denver after talks with Interior Secretary Ballinger and references the Ballinger Pinchot dispute. He endorses a corporate tax as a substitute for a direct income tax and urges states to ratify a constitutional income tax amendment for wartime needs.
More than ten thousand Odd Fellows and related orders gathered for a grand parade in the city. Tacoma contingent of 1500 in khaki led the procession with floats featuring Rebekah ladies and an Odd Fellows home float for orphans from Walla Walla.
Neils Nelson, 65, longtime Montana pioneer, was instantly killed when struck by a Northern Pacific train while trying to cross. Also from San Francisco the doctors report Father Crowley, injured by an automobile, is steadily improving.
Notice to creditors that all unpaid and uncalled deposits in the tailoring department of Fogel Clothing Co at 1010 First Ave will be sold to the highest bidder at a public auction on Sept 25 between 7 and 10 PM. All deposits will be forfeited as provided by law. Dated Sept 22 1909.
Stranded explorers face starvation as Johnson and the doctor nearly starve. Hatteras shaves a seal skin into a lens, focuses sunbeams to ignite tinder, cooks the bear meat, then plans a further push toward the Porpoise as Altamont reveals the wrecked ship buried in ice.
Reported by the paper, hundreds are feared dead after a hurricane and tidal surge. Planters and fishermen near the irregular coast saw homes marooned and property losses described as heavy. Inland towns may be affected. limited word from Vicksburg Natchez. No trains have arrived from New Orleans.
Frederick Staley, a Hotel Butler clerk, and two accomplices were arrested on a warrant charging railway ticket scalping. Daniel O'Hanan and Charles Miller were named in the case. Miller was released on a $500 bond. The prosecutor alleges an extensive scalping operation tied to Seattle travel over the past three months.
In a speech from Los Angeles on September 22, Pardee defends restoration orders by Secretary Ballinger that revived millions of acres for entry, argues against reclamation service opposition, and questions Roosevelt era conservation policies amid criticism of Ballinger’s tenure and Pinchot’s remarks.
Neighbors describe Jessie a four year old held by Mrs. Gager due to unpaid debt at the Gager home. Monthly charges rise by fifteen dollars as concerns grow over sanitation and care amid calls for binding safeguards to protect the child and prevent further confinement.
A working man asks a loafer for a share of a penny and a pint's worth in barter. The loafer refuses, saying he cannot say he ever deprived someone of work, while the working man protests and offers a penny as they trade in a rough street exchange.
Mrs Skelder says she would have stayed in the country longer if affordable. Skelder retorts that she could have borrowed money to extend the visit, underscoring financial tensions between them.
United Press reports Chicago fashion writers predict end of extreme waists and uncomfortable corsets. National dressmakers say styles will place the waist where nature intended, ending trends that stretched from shoulder blades to knees.
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