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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1922
Page
6
Tides and times for Seattle reported with high and low tides on Saturday. First high tide at 6 04 am. Second high tide at 7 58 pm. Low tides at 12 41 am and 12 48 pm. Observations include 6.8 and 10.5 tide measurements.
An OCR fragment reports the vessel Tatoosh 144 passing a Vancouver entrance on an April morning with southerly wind and a two-masted crewed freighter in sight. The text is garbled but indicates navigation and a ship in distress or maneuver.
A dated record of multiple ships arriving and departing through April and May. Entries include ships such as Lymen Stewart Regulue Ohioen Kaleho Mare Merace No Ban ter Heather Pine Tree State Spokane Meather Saginaw Victoria Deerfield Liber ator Katrina Laeckenbach Chas Cramp and others, with routes via Honolulu Yokohama Shanghai Seattle Tacoma and Manila. Times, routes, and ports listed with arrival and sailing statuses.
A dense roster of ships docks moorings and facilities lists numerous terminals at Smith Cove Pier A Pier B and adjacent wharves. It names motorships crews and yard references including Northwestern Admiral Sebree Kodiak Unimak Anvil and several moorings on Wards Cross Keys and Delrosa lines with multiple vessel names and fleets.
The New York market opened buoyant on April 29 led by steel and oil shares. Republic Steel hit a new high near 6.10, Midvale up, Lackawanna and Standard Oil gains buoyed sentiment as oil price expectations grow. Trading closed with mixed moves and several names posting gains, including United States Steel, American Sugar, and Studebaker.
Quotations from Chicago car lots mix with Seattle market terms and rye and wheat figures. Mixed figures show late Monday wheat at about 109 to 116 cents, corn around 15 cents, and other price notes.
Cattle receipts 5 900 market steady. Chetee and prime at 4 600 5 25, good and choice 7 45, common and medium 6 90 5 35, butcher cattle and heifers 5 46 9 5 or 60 cows 6 66 7 45. Veal calves 4 26 feeder steers 7 75 stocker steers 7 45 stocker cows 4 16 0 4 8 Sheep receipts 1 000 market steady lambs 12 0, yearling wethers 9 10 18 ewes 8 79 9 50.
Market reports show cattle receipts and hogs steady with steers trading around 7.03 to 16.50 and heifers near 6.25 to 6.50. Prime mated beef and sheep listings appear with varying bids alongside yearlings and ewes, indicating a mixed but steady market posture.
Saturday quotations show cattle firm with 300 cattle top at 4.50, cows and heifers around 4.35, stockers and feeders near 7.46, calves up to 11.40, hogs receipts 196, market 20 cents higher with top around 10.10, sheep receipts 1,706 and lambs around 13.75 to 15.75, eggs and cheese prices listed, foreign exchange steady with minor gains, Portland produce and cheese lines noted.
Clarence H. De Mar wins the 26th American Marathon in Boston with a record time of 2 hours 18 minutes 10 seconds. He secures the title amid a landmark 1912 edition.
A dense informally cataloged market page lists many grocery items with prices and brands. Canned goods vegetables meats dairy and staples are shown from several stalls and locations, including Carnation milk Hellmanns mayo and assorted produce. the listing ends with the word OPPORTUNITY.
The Los Angeles market reports early season berries were light but delivery good and demand fair at 4.75 per tray of 15 baskets. California peas commanded 16 cents a pound, rhubarb 8 to 9 cents, butter steady to weak, and beet grades short. Prices for many wholesale produce items and dairy and poultry products follow with varied movements amid limited supply in Seattle receipts.
John Livermore, 63, of Lake Burton died after being caught in a fan belt while working in the engine room of the Interbay School on Friday. He died Saturday at Seattle General Hospital from a broken back. Survived by his widow. body at the morgue. Cash wheat prices noted.
KL Duncan explains the variometer in regenerative receivers. Feedback into the grid boosts signal strength and plate current variation. Tuning is best when the circuit is oriented by headphone sound. damped signals distort yet readable, while undamped signals keep natural tone and excessive variometer causes howling.
Nathan Eckstein urged Seattle Chamber of Commerce members to back Proposition C the Montlake Stadium bridge bond issue. He argued tax reductions would follow as development spreads from the university district and surrounding areas, with new homes generating more tax revenue than the bridge cost.
New Orleans April 29 engineers and volunteers focus on removing flood victims to safety as Minaresippi river levee breaks at Poydras and Ferriday flood areas expand. Thousands displaced, relief services aid about 2,000 refugees across the lower Mississippi valley.
Garfield high school contract with Dougan Chrisman was held up for reconsideration after a 3 to 2 vote. Blaine opposed giving work to non locals and urged local labor preference. The board deferred the award to next week while studying local labor and material sources.
Water will be shut off on the high points of the low surface mania in the University Fremont and Ballard districts along FE 42nd et Seventh ave N FE to 10th ave N E and on 10th ave N KE from EE 42nd st to EE 48rd st plus on Eighth ave N FE and Ninth ave N B from EB 40th at to EB 42nd st. The outage is scheduled for Monday May 1 from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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