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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
12
District Attorney Brady probes complaints against apartment house proprietors in Frisco accused of sharply raising rents to push out tenants for women of ill repute. Police morals squad to review data. Brady calls it rank profiteering fueling vice.
Painter George Strand was arrested at First Ave and Senecast with Jamaica ginger and cider. In police court Judge Slivane raised the sentence from 15 to 60 days and then to 100 dollars and 10 days, equating to 63 days of hard labor at the city stockade in April and May.
Parcel post clerks will track all packages passing through their department for 15 days starting Thursday. Officials stress it is not an April fools joke. This counting occurs twice yearly to record volume and flow.
A man shares how after Christmas travel and illness led to a home remedy. His sister-in-law recommends Cocaine Break-Up-A-Cold tablets from Weeks. The ad promises a safe, easy cure with a money back guarantee and urges readers to buy at drug stores.
In Tombstone Arizona on April 1 with the Bisbee deportation trial advancing witnesses from Bisbee described strike conditions. Miners Ned White and W G Jeffries testified about threats and the hostile picket line as strikers were forced to leave town.
Postmaster Battle announces openings for fifty postal clerks and mail carriers with eight hour shifts. Start at 1200 dollars a year, with yearly 100 dollar raises to 1650 dollars, plus possible 150 dollar bump for special clerks. Civil service exams set for April 24. Veterans get preference. Applications at room 203, federal building.
Uncle Sam promotes the Save Money on Meat Work campaign with lower prices on shoulder chops and other cuts. Noting calories per cut, lamb shoulder yields more meat and calories than loin. local ad shows pork shoulder steak 20c, beef pot roast 15c, veal breast 20c, lamb shoulder 26c, bacon backs 4c, smoked jowls 9c, with a price guide and reminder to check butcher charges.
The 22nd annual Inland Teachers’ convention began its second day with Dr. Marton L. Burton of the University of Minnesota as principal speaker. More than 1,800 educators from Washington, Idaho and Oregon attend as Nina Buchanan of the State League of Grade Teachers and J. Franklin Thomas of the University of Oregon speak. The three day session ends Friday with a business meeting and officer elections.
A promotional notice offers a free trial mailed in a plain wrapper. The offer promises relief and highlights a 60 cent box as the product deal.
Exactly 1,000,000 dollars of Skagit bonds went on sale at City Comptroller Harry W. Carrols office Thursday morning. Subscriptions run until all are sold but no later than May 15. Over the counter sales to individuals allowed, with blocks sold to brokerages. method adopted on Mayor Caldwell’s recommendation. Printed forms from the comptroller handle applications.
A motorbike and a motor truck collided at 2 30 p m Wednesday at Sixth Ave and University St. Henderson an employee of the harbor department living at 2778 Weatlake Ave N was taken to city hospital with a fractured left leg and a head cut. Percy F Looker son of a policeman of 2711 14th Ave E was the truck driver.
M. L. Johnson of 8214 31st Ave West reports a boy on roller skates rode into his car on 35th Ave Wednesday. The youngster, estimated at a year old, was knocked down but suffered no serious injuries.
Police detained four men early Thursday on Magnolia bluff. Names listed include Gua Hanson, 47, John Olson, 41, Joan Morris, 32, and Bert Jackson, 33, and authorities plan to charge them under prohibition laws.
Federal prohibition officers held F A Hentze on a 500 dollar bond at a Wednesday hearing before United States Commissioner McClelland on alleged liquor law violations related to the sale of cider with a kick.
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