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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
14
In Denver a charge of dynamite exploded on a street car that struck the blast. The first car out of the barns carried a strikebreaker crew. no passengers were aboard and the crew was unharmed. Police and soldiers rushed to the scene.
In Willard Australia Ollie Pecord a sheriff candidate and circus referee spent the afternoon with a rhinoceros. The animal reportedly somersaulted, provoking Ollie to claim the beast is not as dumb as some say and to joke about prohibition.
In Selby England on August 13 Fred Holmes a clothier's manager launched a unique motor and mailing yacht built in his bedroom which was only 18 inches longer than the boat. The craft seats three and was finished in six months. The boat was moved from a bedroom window with just a three quarter inch clearance into a dory for transfer.
London reports 1000 miners attended the funeral of a man killed in the Lady Lewis embroidery, Aberdare. Magistrate orders 50 workers to pay 2.50 each for leaving work without notice.
Boothbay Harbor Maine reports a local man credited with the most fish caught in the season and praised as a top line fishing success, though the exact totals are unclear. A separate entry from New York notes Charles Fortora being sentenced in Brooklyn county court to 26 to 40 years for a second robbery offense.
In Folkestone a skate weighing 240 pounds was landed. At Dover a lobster weighing up to 10 pounds and measuring two feet six inches was caught.
Charlie H. Lilly company ball team defeated Silverdale Sunday 6 to 1 to clinch the Wholesalers' Baseball league championship. Rounds fanned nine Silverdale batters and formed part of Lillys’ battery with Bilsorrow. Chalfant and Peterson were the Silverdale battery.
The Star reports entries for the Star City swim meet, to be held the week of August 22, are arriving fast. Many swimmers have submitted cards but not yet delivered them to The Star office. A complete entrant list will be printed tomorrow. those who signed up should ensure their cards reach The Star office before 6 p.m. on August 19.
Two local YWCA swimmers head to Victoria for the P N A outdoor meet. Katherine Brown, 15, enters the 50 100 and 500 yard dashes and the 100 yard back stroke while Clara Neikirk, 12, competes in the 100 and 209 yard breast stroke. Mrs Anna Borstell accompanies them as swimming instructor. Neikirk is favored for top finishes.
Joe Moss of the University of Texas emerges as the Lone Star state's direct contribution as a 110 meter hurdler selected for competition in Antwerp.
Ray Smith of Seattle, under the Seattle Motorcycle Club, established a new stock motorcycle record between Seattle and Aberdeen covering 135 miles in 2 hours 41 minutes. He also completed Seattle to Olympia, 76 miles, in 63 minutes. Next week he aims to lower the Seattle Spokane mark.
In Holdrege Nebraska on August 12 a 18 foot by 3 foot cake weighing 4004 pounds was shared in slices by thousands from a 3500 population town. The event celebrated the 35th anniversary of Frank Johnson’s business, with farmers traveling up to 20 miles to trade with him.
London Aug 13 Justice Shearman sentenced the chauffeur to 21 months hard labor after a war office car was driven on a joy ride by the chauffeur and a waitress. A bystander was knocked down during the incident and the court ordered stricter control of war office vehicle drivers.
In Kansas the first half of the year saw 18,659 births and 11,109 marriages the highest for marriages in six months since records began and the best baby total in four years. The report notes strong birth and marriage rates despite high living costs. The article also mentions a forecast that 2,500,000 electric flat irons will be produced in the country this year.
Mother Ryther’s 90 children will visit Maplewood Farm home of Pure Milk dairy two and a half miles southeast of Renton. Manager A F Bird will host the event through September 1 with cow demonstrations and free ice cream and farm dinner. Children depart Mother Ryther home on Stoneway at 10 am and return at 4 46 pm. About 18 autos needed for transport.
Washington August 13 The Prohibition Commissioner Kramer ruling allows a tithe kick to cider fueling a farmer's claim that bees in Fairfax County Virginia drink decaying fruit cider and become intoxicated, mixing honey production with drunken behavior.
A London wholesale market manager says scented note paper in feminine handwriting opens guarded business doors. He calls it the latest manifestation of alert commercial mind, noting the romance hides useful intelligence and that the scented notes yield worthwhile information for commerce.
In Philadelphia Vincent Pinto, a clockmaker trained in Italy, built a grandfather sized clock with a phonograph mechanism. At eleven it plays a voice saying Eleven o'clock Time to go home. He and his son spent eighteen months on the project for Rosa, Pinto’s daughter who hosts many friends.
In Poughkeepsie New York on August 13 doctors reported violent insanity in 19 year old George Swennman five days after a rattlesnake bite near Milford. He suddenly collapsed and crawled about the floor imitating the snake and frothing at the mouth as doctors prepared to release him.
John Francia Key, grand nephew of Francia Scott Key, was laid to rest at London Park Confederate lot after funeral at the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Pikesville. He served in the First Maryland Confederate regiment and died at 92 as veterans in gray attended.
Unclear text recounts a dramatic moment where Lasker takes a lead amid tension. The fragment hints at themes of risk and thrill seekers facing a decisive outcome, with emphasis on geome and flight related imagery.
In Willesden England on August 13 a magistrate dismissed a defense asking if a woman’s slander could be stopped. He stated that across history and generations such limits have never been achieved.
Washington August 13 Allin Taylor an 11 year old North Carolina boy sentenced to a year in prison for bootlegging who Governor Bickett pardoned last week on condition he enlist in the army or navy will not be allowed to enlist Adjutant General Harris head of the army recruiting division says neither service will accept a man who has done time Our army is not a refuge for convicts and the ranks are filled with students not youths like Taylor.
Major Glidden, acting chairman of the Aero Club of America contest committee, predicts the international aeroplane contest in France in September will reveal aeronautical advances with speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour.
In New York on August 13 Edward A. Stoddard was accused by his wife of kissing her constantly, reportedly up to 300 times daily. She testified he kissed her endlessly and she was overwhelmed by the affection. He was placed in Kings County Hospital observation for evaluation.
The army draft data indicate approximately 25 percent of registrants were Uliterate. This finding highlights literacy gaps among draftees and raises questions about access to education and civic participation during the period.
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