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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1913
Page
3
Firestone Tire representatives from Seattle depart September 20 for Akron Ohio to attend a three week convention with about 150 delegates. The group eases through Chicago then to Akron. plans include Buick and Trail talks, plus expansion for Ford and Buick branches across the Northwest.
Four people escape injury when a car veered off a Vancouver road and toppled into a 100 foot embankment near the park entrance. Police say trees broke the fall and one woman was pinned under the wreck while another was thrown among the trees. Annie Redmond 22 and Ora Hunter of Vancouver were identified among the injured, with Murray and Miss Redmond treated at the city hospital.
Corrected market list shows prices for cans poultry veal and related items. Live fowls including old roosters spring ducklings and turkeys are priced with live weight figures and small squabs guinea fowl and pork values noted.
City officials discuss advertising for 10000 to 20000 horsepower of electricity to retail to Omaha at cost to spur water power development and competition with the Omaha Electric Light and Power Co. Daily conferences on the $1 gas rate are held.
The J. I. Handley Co of Indianapolis, sole selling agent for Marion and American Underslung cars, announces the engagement of FE. H.
A two part feature on tomorrows Clem mer bill presents Under the Daisies a Hart Griswold poem adaptation about a country girl betrayed by a city lover. A different Edwin August play A Man In the World of Men showcases twin brothers in seamless double exposure with a dramatic car scene.
The Ghost of the Hacienda at the Melbourne Sunday reveals that Mexican actors, hired for riot scenes, nearly broke into a real riot during filming. Directors struggled to calm the crowd as the incident played out on set, with spectators invited to spot the moment in the movie.
Two lumbermen from Pittsburgh touring Minnesota in a Kissel bar praised Kissel agents along the line of travel. They stopped at each agency to congratulate the agent on his Kissel connection and voiced strong belief in the Wisconsin Kar.
Sales Manager E R Benson of Studebaker Corporation of America announces the appointment of W W Benson as manager of the Studebaker branch in Atlanta. The Atlanta office serves Georgia Alabama Florida South Carolina and part of North Carolina.
Richard E. Baus, formerly a Studebaker manufacturing expert and recent head of the Maxwell plant in Dayton Ohio, returns to Studebaker to serve as an assistant to Production Manager Max Wollering.
Listings announce Hawaiian Pictures at the Metropolitan on Sunday. Hrennon o the Moor shows at Class A Wednesday. Bleeding Hearts, a Jewish play, screens at the Alhambra on the following Monday week. Quo Vadis appears at the Metropolitan with date to be announced.
A catalog of early 20th century film showings spanning Sunsets on the Nile in Kinemacolor to Lubin and Kalem dramas. The listing includes Clemmer, Pathe Weekly, Vitagraph, Thanhouser, Keystone, and Pathé reels with titles such as The Ghost of the Hacienda and The End of the World.
Local Hudson dealer Robert Atkinson demonstrates that skid tendency stems from weight balance rather than tires. He shows a car with weight forward of the rear axle reduces side slip, noting Hudson design favors frontward weight, rear spare tire placement, and a cowled gas tank for better balance as in the 1914 Hudson 54.
A listing of film programs across theaters including Thanhouser Whistling Loser and American dramas, Majestic Union Theatre Steel, Eclair In the Cycle of Life, Crystal Pearl and the Poet, Selig The Capture of Bad Brown, Lubin This Isn t John, Pathe The Pearl of the Bosphorus and Promenade in Rome, Edison Hard Cash, Phantomas, Twickenham Ferry, Calamity Anne, The Governor s Double, Just Gold, Mr Newcomb s necktie, The Wheel of Death, A Woman of Impulse, Beau Crummel and His Bride, Does Advertising Pay, When a Woman Wastes and other reels showing Sundays through Wednesdays and various studios.
Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Clark who crossed the plains in 1853 and settled in the Willamette valley died Friday at age 72 at the residence of her daughter Mrs. I M Armstrong 165 Lynn street. She leaves ten children twenty grandchildren and one great granddaughter. A meeting of foreign consuls in the city Friday night formed a local consular corps. Ann Rochester daughter of Judge Moore and a Spokane society figure is noted among readers.
Inland Empire has entered vaudeville in Seattle and will perform a dancing number at the Grand this week. Hon Sir James Sivewright visited Seattle Friday before heading south to Portland.
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