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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1910
Page
8
West Point N Y September 28 football practice ends and the game with Vermont is cancelled amid the Longan incident. The investigating board resumes hearings with cadets kept in formation. thirty cadets questioned about Capt Longans humiliation with few results and no identification of ringleaders.
Rob Hesketh of Seattle, first vice president of the Allied Culinary Crafts and of the Bartenders International League, is elected by his international to represent the union at the AFL convention in St. Louis on November 24. He has led Spokane culinary workers in a strike for several months.
New York news: Mildred Mermelstein, a stenographer from Harlem, loses one slipper after a ball. Samuel Newman, a shoe manufacturer who found the slipper, advertises for the mate. Mildred responds and their engagement is announced with a wedding upcoming.
Ida invites her rejected suitor Jack Detmars to the wedding as her chosen groom Johnson fails to appear. Belle questions the plan while Semple Johnson mentions his cat climbing a brick wall, and Nistor counters with ivy trained to do the same.
London reports Dr Forbes Winslow, expert on lunacy, claims arithmetic shows more insane than sane people in the world and predicts a future where madness dominates. He cites 1869 figures of 53 177 lunatics from 22 223 299 people and 1909 figures of 128 787 from 35 756 615, averaging one lunatic per 418 then and one per 278 later. He fears a dreadful future for unborn nations.
New York scene reports William Henry Maxwell, New York City schools superintendent, considered removing Julius Caesar from curricula to save time. After protests from students and teachers praising Mark Antony, Maxwell reversed course and kept the play in schools.
The 26 year old broommaker John Teuber was found dead in Salmon Bay at the foot of 18th Ave West Ballard yesterday afternoon. He had disappeared from his Ballard home Sept 15 and was said to have talked of taking his own life. His body was taken to Graham & Engeman Ballard undertakers and cremated at 9 this morning.
A special meeting of the Manufacturers' association will be held at the Arctic club at 6 15 PM Saturday night October 1. The group will consider a constitutional amendment to exempt from taxation all personal property except franchises to attract manufacturing establishments to the state.
A witty exchange contrasts belief in nature with a boastful remark about human ability. The man of quotable lines argues that nature never errs while the other questions the outcome of overreaching ambition.
County Auditor Otto Case will is sue no more marriage licenses for the intermarriage of Asiatica and white women. Kunio Toda and Miss Rayda Reed were refused a license to wed at the auditor's office. Reed, 18, eloped with Toda, Japanese laborer, and they were arrested in San Francisco before release since Reed was of age. The father, a wealthy Mormon, said he would wash his hands of the elopement.
A scattered item list recalls the 1781 Yorktown encampment by Washington and Lafayette near Yorktown. It notes British skill but greater colonial hunger as a turning factor. Also items include a missing auto from Auto Stables in North Broadway with a $1060 loss, Vancouver club manager eyeing World Series games, and timber deals in British Columbia.
At a big farmers meeting in Moscow Idaho over twenty thousand dollars was offered by farmers to lend wheat to others for better prices. More than twenty thousand bushels are to be handled in this plan. Vancouver reports a divorce battle as Agnes Hirown has seven marriages and challenges her husband’s divorce petition. North Yakima Senator Wesley Jones begins a month long campaign through the Middle West. Tacoma Horace G Herold a government land agent is arrested for breaking into a vacant house to wire a private phone line for evidence in a divorce case. Iron Dale new mills run at capacity in the steel plant.
A timely offering features coats of broadcloth, golf cloth, serges and tweed novelties for Women and Misses. Coats range 54 to 56 inches with lining. styles include fitted and loose fits in black navy tan and gray tones. New Fall models priced at 25 dollars.
Frederick and Nelson offers Petticoats in heavy quality taffeta silk with tailored flounces and under-ruffle. Colors include black brown dark-raison green light blue Nile green gray and new changeable effects. Sizes are broken allowing any Petticoat at a special price of 2.95.
White cotton knit waists for women and children advertised as durable and elastic with reinforced tape. Priced at 13e each or two for 25c.
Children's black pants and fast black ankle length cotton pants fleece lined priced 25c. Women's cotton knit corset covers in white with high neck and long or short sleeves priced 25c. Basement Salearoom.
A catalog of fall fabrics features new taffeta silk plaids at 50c per yard, satin crossbar stripe at 60c, black satin duchesse at 1.00 per yard, 48 inch taffeta silk at $6.00 per yard, stylish woolen storm serge at 50c, and satin stripe challis 29 inches wide at 30c. Also listed are navy blue, cardinal combos for Misses wear and various colorings.
Advertised nets include 35c yard wide plain grounds in ecru cream and white. 48 inch scrims at c yard soft finished in white ivory ecru. 38 inch sheer etamine 40c yard in ecru white cream. 36 inch mission nets 384 corded square effect in white tea ecru. English French manufacture nets priced $1.00 $1.25 $1.50 and $1.75.
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