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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1919
Page
12
Nearly 1000 members attended the annual Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges picnic at Golden Gardens on Saturday. The event featured dancing and a band concert as part of the day’s program.
Dorothy writes from Lively Beach to Joan about boredom and social snubs while awaiting a suitable husband. She contrasts her own resourceful plan combining money, clothes, and business experience with other summer girls. A lunch-time letter from Eric Wallis hints at a publisher offer and a romance with a red-haired, gray-eyed muse.
Thieves stole $800 in suits and silk goods from Martin Knit Goods at 908 Stewart and Palm Dye Works during a Saturday night break in. They also took two $50 Liberty bonds one $100 bond $25 in war savings stamps and jewelry from 1612 Melrose Ave. A passkey aided the Hampton home burglary where $40 vanished from D W Henry's trousers. KE J Sumi store at 1101 Fourth Ave was entered through a rear window with a hole torn and $20 from the till plus 500 cartons of cigarettes stolen.
Harry Johnson and Miss Nell Lawrence are held on open charges in city jail. John Carlson, an Alaskan fisherman, reports $500 in checks missing after a Saturday night and Sunday morning automobile party with Lawrence Johnson and two unidentified men. Carlson, Lawrence, and Johnson were arrested by city detectives.
A speeding vehicle, license 71001 possibly from Spokane, struck an automobile driven by G. E. Sherwood on Melrose Ave and Howell. After the crash the car failed to stop, and Patrolman P. H. Thompson fired three shots Sunday to halt the pursuit.
Andrew Scherrer 70 longtime Seattle resident died at his home 2228 Eastlake Ave Sun day after 29 years in the city.
Peter Rabbit finds Redcoat the tanager on the Green Forest floor with a wing wound from Broadwing the Hawk. Redcoat fears predators while the two neighbors discuss the injury and what to do next, marking a tale of friendship.
An advertisement touts Swift’s S S S blood remedy as a long used, vegetable treatment for catarrh. It claims to cleanse blood of disease germs, aid by mild weather, and offers free medical consultation with no charge, from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
The state board of drugless physician examiners convened Monday in Spokane at the Davenport hotel. The board met last week in Tacoma and elected officers, among whom were Dr. A. BE. Green, secretary, and Dr. T. EB. Ostlund, member of the board. Lieut. Col. Carlos A. Pennington will return to Seattle Tuesday evening, after service with the quarter master corps in France for a year and a half, according to a telegram received by his relatives here.
Reduced inventory details list Silk Dolmans and Capes with prices cut. Dolmans include Navy Tricolette and Tan Poplin items with former prices of 125, 97.50, and 96 dollars, now marked down to 55 dollars or 65 dollars where listed.
Funeral services for Margaret McRae, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McKay, will be held Tuesday afternoon from Home undertaking parlors. She died after an oil stove explosion trapped her at home while her mother was at work. her sister Mary, 14, was briefly burned trying to help. The family has a Roosevelt hotel tailor father.
Detectives have no trace of the daylight robber who held up Pearce Bros. outfitting store at Pier 2 on Saturday morning taking 192.75 while overlooking thousands in cash on open shelves behind the register.
A nineteen year old Nashua girl recounts crippling monthly pains that forced her from school for two years. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing her symptoms and urges other girls to seek the remedy from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A fire Sunday afternoon caused 350 dollars in damage to the home and furnishings of George Mohn at 2613 Fourth Ave West. The blaze was attributed to the close proximity of a gas oven to a wooden wall.
Dr Connor former Johns Hopkins hospital figure warns nicotine poisons men to death and urges quitting now. A simple cure exists with Nicotol tablets from apothecary stores, with a money back guarantee if not effective. Read the forthcoming announcement by Dr Connor for details.
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