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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1921
Page
3
Classified snippets show male help wanted notices with pay ranges and job types, plus varied merchandise ads. Listings include clothing, shells of tools, furniture, building materials, and services from the Seattle area, with addresses and contact hints.
Multiple Seattle area property listings offering 4 room modern cottages and 3 room homes with terms, cash downs, and monthly payments. Includes lots 60x120, fruit and garden properties, and acreage near Lind Ave, Magnolia, and Woodland Park with prices from 2 800 to 3 500 cash and monthly payments. Also features farmland and land near Kent, Yakima Valley, and Sequim with terms and market notes from local brokers.
A fragmented directory listing Seattle area services including attorneys at law FE GALL EST, collateral loans, concrete and cement work, jewelry loans, auto loans and monuments. Notable entries include American Jewelry at 21 Second Ave established 1889, Puget Sound Marble & Granite Co, an optician, painting and paper hanging, piano tuning, physicians and surgeons, and a Cutlery shop, with addresses on Burke Ride, Becond Ave, Madison area, and Central Bid Bil.
The Associated Investment Co at 306 Crary Midge operates a Business Efficiency Department that finances and promotes meritorious industrial patents.
A Paris playground opened with American aid from Freckles and Fat and hundreds of U S school kids. The first Paris field built on 1840 fortifications includes ladders swings seesaws and sports gear. The American Junior Red Cross funded it with thousands of pennies to help Parisian children.
London April 18 Lady Astor the only woman member of parliament faces growing challenge as six constituencies have adopted women candidates and twenty more show interest in running against her with several rival campaigns forming around the female barrier.
George C. T. R. Emington, famed as a young millionaire, vows to fly big passenger planes despite his fortune and youth. He hopes to build a craft carrying 32 passengers coast to coast, starting his so called aviation venture after leaving Yale and the navy.
H. P. Vermilye of Yakima named secretary of the state fair by Director E. L. French. An engineer by training, he has six years developing his Yakima orchard and long experience in land development in Washington. Since 1891 he has lived in the state, working on Tacoma harbor surveys and the University of Washington campus plans, and directing drainage work in Pierce County. Vermilye began his duties April 1.
In Fairmont West Virginia more than 1100 dollars has been deposited in the Rosie Sacola Hero Fund at the Fairmont State Bank. The fund supports Rosie Sacola’s special education and training after she lost two arms in an accident and donated skin to save another child.
A Terrabella couple welcomed a baby boy weighing 18 pounds and three ounces at birth. The report notes the astonishing birth as April 18. The article also states the earth’s atmosphere extends about 500 miles.
The Community Service Dramatic Institute stages Seattle’s largest theatrical effort this April to mark Shakespeare’s birthday. Tonight’s 8 o clock opening at the Women's University Club features Miss Nellie Cornish presenting ideas on the subject with Chester E. Roberts presiding, Florence E. Wilbur as dean, and Mrs. Howard A. Hanson leading the drama institute committee.
Betsy and another girl trade swaps while chatting about outfits and compliments. They mention Cherry's on Second Avenue near Madison and Spring where they get credit. The note locates 207 Rialto Ride above the Pig'n Whistle as the advertisement point.
An Innsbruck advertisement quotes a "pretty archduchess" who, aged under 88, seeks to marry a wealthy refined American or Englishman. She is an accomplished musician, multilingual and raised in luxury, tired of poverty. parvenues and non Westerners are excluded. She would emigrant or even change religion if needed, with a meeting possible in Switzerland.
New York April 18 says Roger Bacon manuscripts suggest he used the telescope and microscope in the 18th century, challenging the belief these tools were not invented until the 17th century.
Friction between white passengers and Japanese crew aboard the Siberia Maru across the Pacific led to a deck fight in which P. B. Crawley of San Francisco, a tobacco salesman, confronted a Japanese cabin boy after being tripped while carrying his four year old child. Police flag greeted the liner’s harbor entry.
Paris April 18 The pope agreed to witness the baptism of the daughter of Prince William of Hohenzollern, father in law of King Manuel, who married Princess Aldegonde of Bavaria in 1915.
A fifth century fresco removed from the Rock Temples of Ajuntah in Central India in 1819 fetched 5000 dollars at a London auction on April 18.
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