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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1920
Page
7
A Cleveland effort pledges 5,008 homes with a $40,009,000 goal to ease rent burdens. The campaign promotes ownership, urges public support, and highlights a plan to build affordable single and multiroom houses near shops, schools, and transit.
A jumble of Seattle area property adverts lists homes and bungalows for sale with prices such as 400, 100 cash plus 15 monthly, and 2560 Fremont Phinney. Entries mention rental options near Rainier Ave and Lake Washington views, small acreages, and utility notes like free wood and chickens. Contacts include MacDonald & User Inc and Peters at 716 3rd Ave.
A flood of real estate notices from Seattle area brokers promotes affordable homes and acreage. Listings tout close proximity to roads, utilities, and gardens with prices from $1,050 to $5,299. Includes cash and installment terms, rental options, and calls to visit Lake City and Bothell areas.
Advertises extensive river-bottom farmland around Woodinville Washington with 1 to 10 acre tracts available, ample moisture, paved road access and proximity to Seattle. Promises good crops, favorable terms, and office or phone appointments for viewing.
Classified notes offer 12 000 acre sheep and farm tracts in Yakima Valley. Listings advertise cheap land from 30 to 60 per acre with favorable terms, plus dairy and berry lands in nearby districts. Various parcels include irrigated acreage, water rights, and ready-to-farm conditions.
A fragmented newspaper fragment lists varied items: a 49 foot lot and 2 room house sale with $250 cash, multiple business and medical ad lines, and several public works building permit notices. Names and addresses are partially legible, with dates referencing May 1920s and city departments.
In Los Angeles on April 4 Japanese strawberry growers were fined 800 by the justice court after attempting an honor system scam by over‑topping berry boxes. Horticultural Commissioner Ryan notes the failure of the honor system and the new approach.
A collage of business notices and ads from the Seattle Star directory includes attorneys patent services real estate and insurance offerings dressmaking and dancing instruction painting and repairs and loan services. It lists addresses such as 795 Becond Ave and 1120 First Ave and notes free consultations and established dates.
A dense listing of wholesale and retail prices for cabbage, cucumbers, onions, peppers, greens, tomatoes, grapes, honey, nuts, and meats. Includes farm and shipper names, crates and per-pound pricing, and stockyard quotations for cattle, calves, and poultry.
Washington April 24 The house and senate conferees agreed on increased pay for the army navy and marine corps. Navy men receive about 29 percent rise and army men about 20 percent. Rations allowances will nearly equalize army and navy pay. Increases apply to officers up to colonel in the army and captain in the navy with details pending. All raises retroactive to January 1 and run to June 30 1922. The coast guard public health service coast and geodetic survey and army and navy nurses are included. A joint congressional commission will study permanent salary increases.
The Washington State Prowse Association will hold its 1920 convention within state borders because steamer accommodations to Alaska are unavailable for members. Initially planned to travel to Alaska, the event will stay in Fllensburg in April.
The census bureau today released Santa Monica California 1920 population figures showing 15 252 residents an increase of 7 406 since 1910 or 44 percent.
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange opens with fractional gains and a firm undertone. Major issues such as United States Steel Baldwin United States Rubber and General Motors rise early, while some names ease later. Total volume shows 440 400 shares traded with prices closing mixed but generally firmer.
Finance notes a credit crisis potentially turning into a panic but banks with federal support can temporarily supply paper money. The United States Treasury resumes daily statements, with April 1 balance at 293,692,965 and FY 1920 disbursements exceeding receipts by 901,032,653. Trade expects a month to clear railroad congestion. industry cites labor efficiency shifts postwar. Stock dividends loom, with United States Steel and others rumored to pay large payouts totaling billions. Farmers face income tax fears and crop shortages. labor observers warn of future insurgent movements and Bolshevik-tinged activity across industries. Basil M. Manly.
Fragmented OCR data shows multiple monetary amounts such as 554.41 109,561.82 1,751,709.00 694,423.00 5,608,891.22 and 1,472,465.82, with no discernible context or entities to identify an event, person, or organization.
Tide table shows Saturday April with low tide at 64 feet and high tide at 0.9 feet, second low tide at -64 feet, and second high tide at 10:37 p.m. Sunday April lists low tide at 62 feet and high tide at 1:15 p.m. The text is garbled but conveys two daily tide phases and approximate times.
Receipts include 2 006 cattle head with a steady market. Beef butcher steers ranged around 7 dollars, canners and cutters 4 dollars, feeders 11 to 12 dollars, cows and calves about 14 dollars. Sheep receipts show a steady market with ewes around 10 to 13 dollars and lambs near 17 dollars.
Chicago April 24 grain market saw sharp gains as shorts covered and buyers returned. Reports that Europe was purchasing large quantities boosted sentiment amid weather forecasts for the week. Argentina sold 8 million bushels of wheat to Europe at high prices, lifting activity. May corn rose to 1.67, July to 1.60, September to 1.54, and May oats to 0.66 with varied opening declines. Provisions also closed higher.
Butter grades listed at 64 3/4 cents per pound with wholesale mentions. Cheese from California Mets shows fancy at 27 cents per pound. firsts at 40 cents per pound. Various poultry items priced. underline pullets at 42 1/2 cents per dozen were recorded.
Foreign exchange notices show demand sterling at 83.87% at opening. France checks 16.92¢ off 16 centimes, live checks 22.56¢ off 3 centimes, marks demand 1.650, cables 1.67e. Canadian and other currencies quoted with slight moves and various rates recorded.
New York on April 24 reports coffee prices for No 7 Rio at 150 per 1b and No 4 Bantos at 224 per ton. Sugar raw at 19 0 19 S4c per lb and granulated at 17 40 05e per lb. Portland offers city creamery butter at 40 61¢ per lb with selected locals at 17 Ite per unit. Hene at 22 Ite per lb for brokers, cheese at 1e per lb, cheese trips at 26 %%e per lb.
In spring a black horned cow roams the Seattle area. It disappeared from the rear of H. B. Masterson's home at 6507 12th Ave. N. W. Police were asked Saturday to help recover the animal. Meanwhile New York held a small protest parade against clothing costs.
Ships arrive from Manila via port and Honolulu at noon and from Tacoma at 4 20 am. vessels include Phyllis Cemyn and Iconium with in tow, Fushimi Mery from Tacoma, Alameda from Tacoma, and Seattle bound ships in port. Departures listed include President to San Pedro via San Francisco and Victoria BC at noon and Chicago Maru to Hong Kong via Victoria BC at 10 m. Richmond for Puget Sound bound yard at 58 mi. Ketshun Maru for Tacoma at 6 10 am.
List of ships and docks at Seattle incl Smith Cove Great Northern Pier 12 Bergen Alameda Grand Trunk Dock Motereckr Tilla mook Pacific Coast bunkers Eastern Dawn Hanford terminal Delwood Eastern Cloud Duthie Mahwah Roosevelt Roosevelt yard Bestern Admiral Admiral Watson Fresno Brox ton Cordova Puget Sound Bridge dredging plant Patterson MacDonnell yard Phyl Comyn Lake Union Snoqualmie Fort Jackson Ad dison Fort Stanwiz academIa Pesuta Afras, and numerous vessels at various piers and drydocks along the Seattle waterfront.
Washington April 24 coal men oppose a bill to grant lower coal freight rates in summer fearing loss of winter price gains. Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, author of the measure, spoke today.
Political prisoners in Wormwood Scrubbs prison plan a hunger strike starting tomorrow unless they are released unconditionally. The decision was understood in Dublin today.
Peter L. de Rosselli received the War Service Cross for extraordinary heroism near Gesnes on October 4, 1918. Col. O. T. Farr presented the award at the local recruiting office. De Rosselli now heads the war relief exhibit at the World War Veterans carnival at Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street.
In Tacoma at the Todid shipyard the 2,500 ton steamship Pansa was launched at 7:45 am. Mrs. Mark L. Davis sponsored the vessel as 5,800 workers and a group of invited guests watched. Keel laying for a third US Navy scout cruiser began immediately.
Senator Arthur Capper urged seizure and price control of sugar to curb profiteering during the canning season. He accused sugar interests of robbing housewives, cited war profit records, and called for permanent regulation and a shift from sales tax to war profits tax. Attorney General Palmer planned direct talks with refiners to curb rising sugar prices.
Seattle consumers pay 26 cents a pound for sugar as dealers ration two to two and a half pound lots. District Attorney Saunders says no hoarding by merchants, hoarding seen in homes as residents stock up for canning. Merchants expect 25 to 26 cents retail in the next shipment.
San Francisco April 24 Judge Ward postponed sentencing for Mrs Alice Woodcock after a jury found her guilty of perjury connected to her husband Edgar Woodcock’s acquittal in the murder of Edward Kelly. Bail denial and trial dates are set. Edgar Woodcock’s perjury trial is to be scheduled for May 3.
A letter from Thorn hill Peters age 11 Lynchburg Va asks Mayor Caldwell to send information about the city's duties for a geography project. In Sunset Washington April 24 doctors report Browder Hester injured when his hand was torn off by a stump-pulling machine and his neck badly corated though expected to recover.
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