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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
11
British airmen saved the English coast last summer from a super Bertha. The Ostend track on which the gun was to be brought to the coast was destroyed by air bombs and then rebuilt. The weapon planned to shell Paris and England, but its shells would have reached 20 miles high if deployed at 45 degrees.
The local office announced that the Dairen Maru and Kashima Maru, two Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamers, are due Thursday and Monday respectively.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a cheap, quick solution for corns and calluses on feet. It promises painless removal with a few drops leaving pink, healthy skin and no irritation or gore.
Instructions authorize filing discharge certificates and copies to obtain a war department approved blank form. Applicants must send all discharge papers since April 6 1917 and write name and address in pencil for loss prevention.
A coroner's jury ruled death due to negligence in the street car accident that killed Clarence West of 3450 West 60th Street after he was struck while waiting for a streetcar. W S Wall of 3045 West 58th Street was injured in the same incident and remained hospitalized. Wetzell, driver of the auto, was arrested and released on $1000 bail.
Professor J. A. De Haas of the University of Washington urged the Rotary Club to back a neutral free port to counteract tariff laws and boost foreign trade in an address at the Masonic club rooms on Wednesday.
Ray Simpson entered a room believing burglars were inside and fled onto a window ledge with a suitcase. He fell through a skylight into George Sanford’s apartment where Sanford, believing a break in had occurred, trained a revolver on Simpson until police arrived. Simpson calm when confronted by officers and explained the frightening incident.
Samuel Melly age 63 longtime Seattle resident and former Great Northern conductor died at his family home 1628 11th Avenue Wednesday afternoon after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements pending with Bonney-Watson funeral parlors.
Paris April 3 report on international labor legislation drafts a permanent international labor commission under the League of Nations. The plan envisions a general conference and an international office with 24 governors, annual meetings, and rights to investigate complaints and impose measures. First meeting in Washington will address eight four day provisions and child and night work limits.
More than 80 Washington shipyard representatives attended a banquet in honor of Capt John F Blain retiring head of the United States Shipping Board Northwest district at the Rainier club Wednesday night. Prominent shipbuilders spoke and Capt W A Magee, now head of the shipping board district, gave remarks.
A Stuttgart dispatch reports martial law declared throughout the Rhine land. Strikers demand immediate German resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Military and police clash with demonstrators in Essen using hand grenades, causing numerous casualties.
SAN FRANCISCO April 3 Capt. Alburg of the bark Albert was killed when the 683 ton vessel went ashore at Point Reyes about 30 miles north of the city. The crew is believed safe. The Albert, owned by a San Francisco shipping firm, was built in 1890 at Port Blakeley Washington.
Funeral services were held for Mrs Mary Hurd 68 at Blessed Sacrament church after she died from burns sustained in an explosion of an electric iron at her home on Saturday. She resided at 4745 210th Ave N K. and died Monday in Providence hospital.
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