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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
9
A. L. Hartford, 20, was arrested in the Walker building while trying to sell about 15 dollars worth of dental gold. He is held in the city jail on an open charge.
Promote permanent health improvements starting today with Bitro-Phosphate. Claims include stronger nerves, better blood and tissues, weight gain for run down individuals, and enhanced concentration. Sold with a $500 guarantee and physician recommendations, via Arrow Chemical Co in New York.
The Chicago yardmen strike expands with sympathy walkouts in Buffalo St Louis and Kansas City as unions dispute legality. Officials report 16500 switchmen out but others estimate fewer workers idle amid disrupted livestock shipments.
Freight movement in Los Angeles ground to a near standstill as unauthorized railroad employee strikes spread from Chicago. More than 1,000 workers quit, crippling Southern Pacific yards and severely impacting Santa Fe and Salt Lake operations.
A massive blast rocked a business building owned by F C Nanamaker in Ponca City Oklahoma killing George Baker a cook from Mel Hersson Kansas and Viola Ammann a waitress with the address unknown and leaving seven others injured. The explosion shattered plate glass and blew out windows a block away as many narrowly escaped.
Dallas Texas early today five main buildings of the aviation repair depot at Lovefield burned with losses estimated at one million dollars. The fire started among highly combustible wings of wrecked German Fokker planes and was checked by a fire drill conducted yesterday afternoon.
W. J. Cole awaiting sentence in county jail after a jury convicted him of intent to kill Luke Sucevich, a cobbler of 704 Madison Street, shot in the head January 26. Sucevich survived brief despair of life. Cole's accomplice escaped. Deputy Prosecutor John J. Carmody led the state. jury deliberated ten minutes in Judge Noyd J. Talisman's court.
A long list of births, marriages, and deaths appears with names and residences across Seattle and nearby towns. Notable entries include multiple Beattie children born to various households, and marriages and divorces granted in ongoing civil notices. Also includes Kansas City livestock market remarks from a separate brief.
An advertisement touts stomach trouble symptoms being misread and links indigestion to blood quality. It features Joseph D. Atkins of Spokane praising Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic that restored appetite, weight, color, and relieved dizziness and headaches. Pills cost 60 cents a box with a free booklet available.
Lieut. FW Becker, naval intelligence officer, estimates 100,000 hop heads in the 13th naval district covering Washington Oregon Idaho and part of Montana. He criticizes police and civil authorities for lax enforcement and warns of marijuana use and drugging by harm suppliers. Becker recalls war‑era intelligence work and notes plans to move to Alameda California.
In Los Angeles Charles Chaplin and Louis B Mayer clashed at a hotel over Chaplin’s relationship with Mayer’s wife Mildred Harris. Chaplin reportedly demanded Mayer remove his glasses, the fight left Chaplin with a scratched nose. Mrs Chaplin is in San Diego. Nevada courts react to the Mary Pickford divorce cases with calls for investigation and possible action to set aside the Pickford-Moore decree.
CHICAGO April six hotel managers sworn as coroner's jury viewed the remains of Travers Walsh who died after an attack by 120 pound Joseph Manne The attack on Walsh and two others followed insults to Manne s wife Coroner Hoffman noted the managers could judge motives and whether Manne might be excused for the brutal assault
Mrs. Sarah Tabor is held for trial on a manslaughter charge in connection with her daughter Maude Tabor Virgo's death. Prosecutor H. H. Adams requested an April 12 or 17 start date for the trial in Paw Paw Michigan.
On campus Thursday 2000 sale tags promoted Let s Beat Harvard to raise proceeds for sending Washington’s debate team to Boston to face Harvard. Funeral services for Mrs Ida Gould, died April 4 in Ocean Park California, set for Saturday at 5 p.m. Butterworth Sons parlors. Mrs Gould, wife of R H Gould of the Milwaukee railroad in Tacoma, is survived by her father Captain L J Stuart of Beattle police.
Daughters of the British Empire offer a $100 prize to a university student for the best essay on any phase of British relations with the United States. Contest closes May 10.
A course in salesmanship will be offered at the university for all students planning to sell stadium seats during the week beginning April 24. The program aims to equip students with practical selling skills and event-specific duties.
Students from the forestry school will demonstrate a scientifically managed forest during the annual open house on the campus. The event runs April 22 23 and 24 and invites the public to view exhibits and displays by students and faculty.
Richards says the complaint rests on Judge Landon acting without jurisdiction and that the divorce was obtained through collusion and conspiracy. Drawings by six University of Washington students earned honorable mention at Beaux Arts Society exhibition in New York.
A dental advertisement touts Boston Dental Company offering modern dentistry to correct discoloration or misshapen teeth. It emphasizes expert dentists focused on teeth, instruction from top instructors, and patient service with free examinations and honest pricing to achieve perfect dental condition.
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