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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1922
Page
13
A playful note notes Mrs Stingy Dear and Stingy discussing a penny for the baby with Next Thursday marked as the birthday, in a Progressive Grocer column style snippet.
The Star requests help locating Alice Elizabeth Johnson, last at 2229 Seventh Ave Seattle, age about 66. She left with her two sons Fred and Charlie during wartime relocations. husband T A Johnson seeks information from readers. Last known addresses and room numbers are noted.
A column rounds up matrimony want ads from Beatttle area readers. It contrasts earnest matches with blunt businesslike appeals, noting humor and irony in lines seeking partners aged 35 to 48 with cash or travel demands. The piece mocks selfish motives behind some matrimonial appeals and praises straightforward, sincere candidates.
Alexander McGregor burglarized a Glasgow home and, while eating a dish of peach preserves, was arrested by a policeman who looked in. In Yakima, William P. Armstrong was fined $60 for drunken and disorderly conduct after beating his wife.
New York argues in column by Margaret Rouse on August 22 that Anta Gartin Spencer claims women cannot achieve full social and economic equality while retaining male chivalry. The piece satirically contrasts feminist goals with traditional courtesy, suggesting women must surrender one to gain the other.
A 12-year-old daughter of a British rancher in the Lake Argentine district fought off five bandits who attacked her home and shot two of them. The incident underscores unfamiliar dangers faced in rural Argentina during the period.
Park Benjamin patent lawyer and magazine editor, father-in-law of Enrico Caruso, dies in Stamford at age 74 after a long career in law and publishing.
Workmen at the Norfolk naval base uncovered six human bodies buried near the Powhatan oak. The remains appear very old with tree roots grown over them and a nearby tree’s roots extending four feet underground. Sewalls Point once a pine forest used by Indians. In the past 60 years homes have appeared in the area. Possible origins include victims of earlier fighting or an epidemic.
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