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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1919
Page
5
A jumble of garbled lines shows ads for jewelry watches and loans, a sanitarium note, medical terms, and a public notice about a family residence, with dates and addresses scattered. Names like Richard Bushell appear amid broken numbers and place hints such as Capitol, Union Street, and Third Avenue.
Directory style item lists attorneys at law established 1887 and multiple local businesses including universal telephony, foundry and furniture repair shops. It mixes names, addresses, and brief references to services in a dense urban directory format.
Los Angeles April 2 Pauline Frederick and her husband Willard Mack prominent in stage and screen are separated. Mack is reportedly living in a Glendale bungalow with a physician and friends aiding his rehabilitation effort. Frederick rejects divorce but will not consider reconciliation now.
PARIS April 2 The committee on international labor legislation made public today a report hoping the first session of the international labor conference will be in Washington in October. The text of the proposed league of nations labor convention notes the United States can treat future proposals under this plan as recommendations whenever they conflict with federal or state constitutions.
Marshal Foch travels to Spa to meet German envoy Mathias Ereberger to discuss landing Polish troops at Daneig and related questions. The high level talks aim to resolve postwar arrangements and tensions between Allied forces and Germany.
Paris dispatch says a general strike has been proclaimed in Berlin. The government plans to repress any outbreak ruthlessly as authorities brace for wider unrest. Separately a San Francisco committee begins organizing a new association with the Seattle Portland Los Angeles and Tacoma chambers to restore overland import and export railroad rates.
Wholesale ledger lists prices for produce including Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, corn, lettuce, apples, pears, bananas, walnuts, pecans, and live poultry. Entries show per crate, per sack, per pound, and per dozen terms, with regions like Idaho Washington Oregon and Imperial Valley noted for sourcing.
The article lists units and detachments aboard ships Leviathan and Unita with numerous infantry, artillery and support organizations returning to the U S. It notes Brest convalescent detachments and officers, Gen William Drivers aboard, and a 26 day overdue Culoga entering quarantine with 104 troops.
A hospitalized underage girl admits writing to Ivan Symonds about obtaining strychnine for a death by suicide. Police expect to question her once she recovers as investigators probe whether Ruth Garrison poisoning inspired the plan and assess Symonds’s letters and threats.
Local dealers report more home grown vegetables, especially rhubarb and green onions, entering the market as spring season progresses. Prices show rhubarb as low as 12 cents per pound with onions selling in dozen bundles. Poultry remains in demand though high chick en prices slow movement. dairy quotations unchanged amid lively New York buyers in the San Francisco butter market.
Cattle receipts 41 head market steady with steers bids from 14.40 to 15 and up to 19 for stockers and feeders. Homgs receipts 542 head market lower with prime mixed 18.75 down to 14.45, pigs 16.25 to 17.25, sheep 16 head with prime lambs 16 to 17 and ewes 6.50 to 10.50. Butter and cheese prices listed alongside basic dairy and poultry prices.
Chicago reports a bulge in grain values as the food administration plans to buy wheat substitutes for war countries due to shipping difficulties. Corn and oats advanced at the opening with May corn at 1.56 and oats firm, while hogs and sheep receipts showed gains and higher prices across the board. United States Steel and GM led New York stocks with minor gains as coffee and other commodities slipped into mixed early trading.
Frisco market report lists prices for extras including butter and cheese, potatoes from Deltas Oregon Bur banks and Idaho Gems, New potatoes $5 to $6.50 per 100 pounds, sweet potatoes $5 to $5.50, and various feed and parley prices with no major changes noted.
Denver Colorado April 2 cattle receipts 1400 head market lower with steers selling 15.50 to 16.50 and cows and heifers at reduced prices amid quieter demand reflecting market softness in regional livestock trading.
Market stalls list daily prices for milk butter steak shad beans coffee tea and canned goods. Vendors include Kristoferson Norce Carnation Borden's and Snider's with prices from 12 to 78 cents per unit and per pound.
Conann Stalla and others operate stalls selling salt sacks and fresh peanut butter, with priced items including bacon at 32 cents and sirloin steak at 28 cents per pound. Locations listed include stalls 102 116 and 14 at 1509 First Ave with Kristoferson's milk.
The text lists stalls at Westlake Market offering items such as Campbell's pork and beans Primost cheese dried apricots white beans cooking apples and sugar. It notes stall numbers and unit prices along with quantities for several goods.
The 363rd infantry and 263rd regiments saw heavy fighting in France, suffering 1,700 killed or wounded in the Piet division. Californian soldiers earned Croix de Guerre and Distinguished Service Cross honors for bravery near Audenarde and in other actions, with several men cited for valor and food delivery under fire. Returning officers and soldiers will demobilize at Camp Merritt and Presidio after arrival on the Kentuckian.
President Wilson will review the attorney general's recommendations on Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader jailed for ten years for sedition, following appeals from U S groups. Liberty bond quotes in New York show varied prices across 3s and 4s issues.
Dry squad operatives seized a complete whisky still and utensils. Henry Burke of 80th N was arrested the morning of the raid. Officers destroyed over 100 gallons of mash and confiscated one quart and one pint of bootleg whisky as the mash was being converted.
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