Ok, folks. I just got back from The Seattle Weekly office. They were really nice and extremely helpful, and they even made free copies of all the articles that I thought stood out. I held the actual hard copy editions that Mary Anderson could have had in her hotel room.
I'm starting to believe she had the October 2, 1996 edition instead of the October 9th edition. It may have some leads in that edition instead of the 9th issue (which was a special home and garden edition). One article in the 10/02 edition mentions a lady named, Mary, whose husband (and his gold, silver, platinum, and jewelry business) was in deep financial trouble. She states in the article that she had no place to go and live, and had no money. I thought about the Mary name, and then the jeweler connection which = access to cyanide.
I have to download all my photos, copies, and notes, and put them in a pdf. Just me give a day or two to post. Also, the SW staff person told me that no LE had never come by to research these newspaper editions since Mary's death.
They also told me the facts about the weekly circulation of the paper that may give clues to where Mary was from, and where she came from before she arrived at the hotel... I will include this in my notes.
Before my research, I ate at Tulio, the restaurant in the same building. My previous post (#106) with the hotel photo I took, explaining Mary's arrival was incorrect. The door I thought was the hotel entrance was the main door to Tulio.
The attached photo is correct and makes much more sense about Mary's arrival.
