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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1922
Page
8
Public notice announces sale at auction of two hundred lots in Carleton Park with no reserve and free of assessments. Purchasers get three years to pay, title insurance included, and absolute final sale. Maps and details available from George Francis Rowe & Company Burke Building Second and Marion Street.
Aug 9 Salt Lake City conducted the largest liquor raid to date as 76 federal prohibition agents under Theodore Sewiteer raided more than 50 alleged bootleg parlors. State and local officers aided. 70 warrants executed, about 175 arrested, 20 remanded, moonshine whisky seized, panic reported in multiple quarters. The event appeared carefully planned with weeks of evidence gathering.
Detroit. Mrs. B Gertrude Walls a newspaper writer seeks relief in a divorce case from the late William I Walls to collect his life insurance. The filing requests non hulment of the divorce to secure the policy benefits.
Denver police seek a former tramway motorman after he sold a street car to a student for 150 in cash. The student, taught to operate the street car, complained when possession was denied by officials. The seller reportedly fled.
The Star urges readers to assist in reuniting missing relatives or friends. Report disappearances to The Star. others may reproduce the notice. Items mention Harry Bowman and Joe S. Bowers with a telegram about a death in St Paul, Minn.
The body of Harry Gilbert, who drowned in Eagle Falls on July 16, was found on a sandbar below the falls Tuesday by Forest Ranger Fred Godley. His parents reside at 6423 34th Ave. W.
Nick Orneron shot himself Tuesday night at the Salisbury hotel on Fourth Avenue and Cherry Street. He died Wednesday in the city hospital. He left a note to his brother Tony in Oakview, Colorado. The bullet pierced his head.
The Senate adopted a compromise tariff rate of 1.444 dollars per hundred pounds on Cuban sugar and 2.30 dollars per hundred pounds on imports from other nations. The vote stood 37 to 35.
A Cortland New York advertisement for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touts testimonials from multiple women across Brooklyn St. Louis and Cortland praising its effectiveness in enabling pregnancy and improving health. The letters claim successful births after use, urging others to try the remedy.
Plans are underway to award Tom Harney with an automobile in recognition of his nationwide advertising work for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Harold Crary and C T Witwon head a fund drive while Harney travels across the country with his Airedale Girlie promoting Seattle and the VFW.
Twelve thousand buyers from the United States and Canada visited the First National Merchandise fair in New York. Eight hundred exhibitors showcased wares from major manufacturers. Brown is favored in women’s apparel with autumn models. Skirts appear clinger and draped, ankle length, with velvets and duvetyns prominent. Evening gowns emphasize strong Paris style with extended hemlines.
A. L. Hutchkin of Vashon Washington pleads for witnesses to a trolley accident near Kinnear Park on Friday July 7. He seeks the motor man and a woman with a babe on board who dragged the injured woman off the car and promised future help with a possible claim.
Salem Oregon August 9 gambling and all games of chance shows of questionable nature will be taboo at the state fair again this year the fair board decreed In Los Angeles W Robert Montgomery a Boston financier reported engaged to Claire Miller sister of Marilynn Miller Pickford
Maj. Kibworth Wilson of Chattanooga Tennessee, executive secretary of the National Memorial University association, will attend the Seattle veterans convention next week. He will arrive Monday and deliver a veterans message from the South to Western veterans.
In private, Mrs Grady and Mrs Hennessey discuss distrust and a strained marriage while a judge presides. The dialogue hints at domestic tensions and public vs private behavior without explicit details.
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