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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
8
A straw hat wearing robber with a companion held up W. F. Brown at 1405 East Spruce and Frank Erickson at 133 20th Ave North, stealing 11 dollars and a watch from Brown and 6 dollars and a watch from Erickson before midnight. An hour later a man in a straw hat attacked Omiga at a fruit stand, striking him and fleeing.
Dr Charlee T Baylis warns Kiwanis club against apathy toward a radical movement and cites Russia as a 2 percent revolution example. He promotes touring the country with Eastern Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and schedules a Sunday speech at Plymouth Congregational Church.
Figures released by the foreign trade bureau of the Chamber of Commerce show 134 vessels sailing from Pacific coast ports for transpacific voyages and 134 ships of foreign registry cleared over the past six months. Among them 14 American and 51 foreign ships were passenger vessels, underscoring the Jones merchant marine bill clause 28 concern over American bottom adequacy to meet Pacific tonnage needs.
Maj. Gen Henry T. Allen commander of American forces in Germany will represent the United States at the unveiling of the Knights of Columbus statue in Metz on August 21. The announcement came today in New York.
A stranger asked the time of Frank Strop on 12th Ave bridge at 6 10 p m Tuesday. When Strop checked his watch the man snatched it and fled despite motorcycle patrols search. Funeral services for Mrs Isabelle S Smith wife of Laula A Smith at Booth undertaking Sunday 3 p m. She had lived in Seattle 12 years and is survived by husband infant son mother and two sisters. Fred Bennett of Washington DC recently visiting Seattle spoke on industrial growth around Lake Union and tax rate. Body of Margaret Boucock 4 found in Wellington canal in Thorold Ontario after disappearing in May.
About fifteen million kids lined the downtown route from Fifth Ave and Republican St to Youler Way and Second Ave to the circus grounds. The John Robinsons circus featured fifteen elephants including five babies, fifty clowns, and a tented city erected with machinery for canvas, with steam pile driving stakes and tractors hauling vast wagons. Doors opened at 1 p.m. and the evening show began at 5 p.m., with Friday keeping the same hours but no parade.
Charles Schepp of the Miller hotel on Sixth avenue reported to police last night that a car with a black man and two white men pulled into an alley between Fifth and Sixth avenues around 10 p.m. A robe covered the head of one fighter and he was dragged into the vehicle, which sped away with the man apparently intoxicated.
The triple alliance non-partisan league and committee of 48 will join Seattle Branch No.1 Railway Trades council in a Saturday meeting. They aim to agree on a ticket sponsored by the former labor party as Yakima voters prepare to file candidates in the Republican primaries. Forest L. Hudson and Tom Corkery are set to file declarations. Ed Hamilton will not run.
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