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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1913
Page
5
Local dental offices advertise in this clipped notice with directions to visit at the intersection of Av N W and Union Street. Manager listed as tes Av. N. W. Cor. Union. Bring this ad for service details.
The article recounts Hamlin Garland detailing séances and paranormal events linked to not of this earth phenomena. It describes a dark room experiment with a psychic, silk bound chair, moving cone and spirits, plus an hour long speaking voice and puzzling reactions from Prof. Dalbeare.
Mrs Louis Whittlesey reports a potato theft from a sack sent to her at 1951 14th Ave NE. Large Murphies were swapped for marblesized spuds, prompting police action and a request for the culprit.
Chicago reports the Cook County Women’s Christian Temperance Union outlines a drive to counter modern dress trends by guiding young women in dressing modestly. Local and national WCTU groups will be urged to contact style show officials and dress manufacturers to push a return to modest attire.
Homer Brightman aged 14 from East Seattle leaped from a rowboat into the lake at noon and saved Francia Ere kine a 4 year old child who fell from a boathouse at Mast Seattlee. The child’s parents also live in East Seattle.
W. H. Pohlman former business agent of the Structural Ironworkers' union was granted a divorce by Judge Chapman sitting for Judge Mackintosh. Mrs. Pohlman wins custody of the children and alimony of 40 dollars a month. The suit cited alleged decoy love used to gain witnesses for the labor leaders trial in Indianapolis.
Mrs Eliza Leary a wealthy Tacoma resident was fined 15 for violating Pierce County speed laws and has dropped plans to add a new story to the Ferry museum the proposed addition cost between 10000 and 15000 dollars. In Massachusetts streams of water unsalted for drinking must be marked.
A vintage ad touts Cascarets as a tonic for the stomach liver and bowels promising immediate cleansing of undigested food and toxins. It claims relief from head ache biliousness and constipation overnight and urges 10 cent boxes for adults and children.
Chicago reader letters urge equal moral standards in marriage and society. Readers discuss selecting a life partner, independence, and virtue, with A. K. A. defending equal morals and urging compassionate, sincere choices. The column closes urging kindness over self interest in romance.
The text rebukes a husband for pressuring a wife about eloping and admonishes proving loyalty as a wife. It also notes a gelatine dynamite developed by the United States Bureau of Mines that emits no poisonous fumes, highlighting a new safe explosive development.
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