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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1922
Page
7
Classifieds run with job listings for female help wanted and domestic work. Ads include household staff, government exam notices, sales pitches, and real estate notes across Seattle addresses, apartments, and services.
An exchange real estate notice offers a semi modern North End home with owner balance payments and a loft, asking $5 Columbia Street price and a vehicle trade option. Prospective buyers can trade a Chevrolet or similar vehicle and may pay a difference, contact details unclear.
Level tracts near the Pacific highway with city water and lights available. Two year deferment on payments with interest at a stated rate. Auction set for Saturday at 3 p.m. by Carter MacDonald and Miller, 308 Columbia. Potential buyers urged to inspect tracts for a future suburban home.
A miscellany of CE listing fragments describe farms for sale near Auburn and Mt Vernon WA, with acreages from 1 to 40, timber, water, and pasture features. Several agents and office contacts appear, noting prices from $400 to $2,500 and easy terms or deposits.
Frank P. Walsh representing railroad workers testified before the U S labor board that wage reductions threaten decency level for families. He cited 70 dollars monthly pay as insufficient and noted army meal allowances fail to meet food costs while workers with many children struggle to feed them.
In Sacramento on April 11 two I W W members John Casdorf and Earl Virey were found guilty of criminal syndicalism by Superior Judge Malcolm C Glenn after 20 minutes of deliberation. Ten witnesses were arrested for Casdorf and Virey upon testimony they were I W W members. Sentencing ranges from one to 14 years in San Quentin. The defense plans to challenge the California syndicarium law's constitutionality before the U S Supreme Court. The case was filed with the district attorney from Chicago I W W offices.
Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Doug lam ruled changes to candidate order for the city council race after County Auditor D. B. Ferguson placed William Hickman Moore before H. Alvin Moore on sample ballots. The law requires alphabetical listing, so H. Alvin Moore will head the Moores on the voting machines, though sample ballots may not be reprinted.
Dr E K M Randall executive secretary of the Beattie General Hospital association told the city planning commission Seattle has 1000 fewer hospital beds than comparable cities and needs at least 2500 more beds. He said people suffer and die for lack of care while Seattle General plans a 2000 bed hospital but is blocked by ordinances. No action was taken.
Members of the Alki Women's Improvement Club petitioned the city council Monday to establish a fire station in Alki.
Directory style entries list various trades and services with contact details in Seattle, including law, patent, medical, electrical, and piano services. It notes practitioners such as patent attorneys Frederick Gorns and Reynolds, and piano tuner Join From, with business addresses and hours.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Peter A. Hallberg a pioneer Seattle restaurant and bakery proprietor who died suddenly Saturday night. Rev Frank Beistel officiated at the Hallberg home service with burial in Lake View cemetery. A native of Sweden Hallberg had lived in Seattle many years and operated Hallberg Inc at 217 Pike West and 611 Pike Street.
A Seattle chamber official outlines a growing plan for Utah and the intermountain region to unite in exploiting resources and manufactured products. E. Arney Jr, director of the Seattle Industrial Bureau, working with Utah Manufacturers' Association, aids the campaign modeled after the Pacific Northwest Products effort.
The flower campaign gains momentum as the Pacific Northwest Bird and Society joins. F. B., president of the society and state museum director at the University of Washington, urges beautifying the museum with wildflowers for tourists. A Tuesday night meeting at 7:40 in the Chamber of Commerce assembly room seeks to unite groups into a single body to promote the effort.
Ira D. Landy, candidate for mayor, demanded explanation of Meier’s backing by the Seattle Advisory Council of the Washington Union League. He criticized men who opposed common interests in earlier campaigns and spoke at Carpenters Hall in West Seattle on Monday evening.
The 146th Field Artillery will present an evening of entertainment at the Armory Friday at 8 p.m. featuring a smoker and boxing bouts. Maj. Gen. A. G. McAlexander will address the audience and an exhibition drill will be performed. The event aims to boost recruiting.
Willam Wrigley explains to a train passenger that advertising keeps his business moving, comparing cutting advertising to stopping a locomotive engine. He notes advertising provides motive power to the company and sustains growth.
Seattle lumberman CC W Leake found a cardboard box on his cellar stairs containing 16 quarts of beer. He notified Patrolman George Reynolds to remove the contraband, noting his dislike of beer. the house is one of three identical row houses on KH Denny Way.
A Muckleshoot Indian Shaker service near Auburn and Enumclaw blends singing and rhythmic shaking. The Faith, traced to Ann Lee, is practiced in about 25 churches with under 7,000 members, adapting Catholic imagery to western Pacific coast beliefs. Elders note the history as older than 30 years and describe healing rites amid a slow chant and continuous motion.
Indianapolis April 11. Lemuel Bolles national adjutant of the American Legion urges a country wide employment drive for ex soldiers. He says 700000 jobless veterans need a chance to earn an honest living and that the legion faces a task to provide jobs for about 100000 veterans. He cites Frank J. Bart of West Hoboken and other cases showing veterans willing to work for honest wages. Bolles notes jobless ex service men aiding transfusion efforts in Cleveland as examples of needed work.
Two Scottish girls Isabella Conroy and Elizabeth Indoer hid on a ship in Southampton intending to eat stowaways. They were found locked up.
In Helsingfors April Golloff, 80, confessed to police that he murdered a school aged victim found slain forty years ago. The arrest brings closure to a long cold case as authorities outline the suspect and timeline of the crime.
Picture agents roll out the latest enlargement craze as housewives react with surprise at seeing images displayed upside down, a novelty capturing public curiosity in the city.
The report notes that 100 per n employment has been achieved by the majority of their soldiers, indicating a high level of deployment or assignment completed by most personnel.
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