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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1920
Page
4
The land bill opened Alaska oil riches as prospectors return to claim stakes once held by sourdoughs. Early reports claim high grade oil, easy extraction costs, and potential 100,000 barrels to be produced. Old timers warn of hardships and predatory deals as newcomers rush inland for pipelines, tanks, and markets.
The Rogers Company of Seattle and Tacoma held its annual company picnic at Redondo Beach with office sales and factory staff from both cities attending. The day featured sports and car activities and closed with an evening dance. The firm manufactures baking powder tea coffee spices peanut butter and prepared mustard with factories in Seattle and Tacoma.
W. W. Burdick, manager for George W. Peabody & Co., states Filipinos are not yet capable of self-government and denounces nationalism as a Manila-driven sentiment. He cites 5,000 islands with many unnamed ones and Luzon’s 35 dialects, claiming little national unity among natives.
The Lundquist Lilly Co opens a boys store in the basement of the Joshua Green building at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street Seattle. Women clerks, who understand boys' needs, assist mothers with clothing choices. Lilly has sold boys clothing in Seattle for years.
Seattle harbor tide report shows low tides at 6:33 pm for 14 feet and 7:18 pm. second low at 3:45 pm, 8 feet. High tides occur at 11:36 pm and 6:06 pm, with 8 feet noted.
A nameless Canadian launch found abandoned near Port Townsend by the coast guard cutter Arcata faces a U S district court libel. A 1000 dollar fine for failing to report entry within 24 hours and a 15 percent ad valorem duty apply. The 33 by 9 foot boat with a 20 hp engine carries a 10 foot skiff and may be sold by the U S marshal if no owners are located.
The Johnson Line motor ship Pacific ran aground in heavy fog off Beechey Head at dawn. It was refloated at 5 o clock and towed to a safe anchorage at Williams Head on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.
On Tatoosh Island the log records fog, light southerly wind, and a rising barometer at 8 AM. Steamers with a tow passed near at several times on Aug 22 and Aug 23, with speeds up to 20 mph in fog. Radio reports mention the Pacific near Stockholm and a vessel near Carmanah head, detailing positions and times.
Maritime timetable lists numerous arrivals and departures across August dates. Vessels include tug Daniel Kern towing a barge from Astoria and ships such as Admirer Farreget from San Diego via San Francisco and Admiral Rodman from southeast Alaska with various ETA times. The notes reference ports including Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Manila, Honolulu, and Yokohama contextually.
Ships in various ports report arrivals and halts in August. Vessels include Mtr City off Katie from Beattie Yokohama halted August 15 Str Kid for Beattle Pedro arriving August 21 Seattle via Han Vranciaco August 22 Admiral Dewey from Avattie at 6 am and Port Townsend Swiftware Beattie and others noted with staged times and destinations.
Wireless Canadian Government reports multiple vessel positions with southbound movements near Millbank Sound and North Alert Bay. Entries show ships like Redwood and Govver, with courses to San Francisco Beattie and Astoria, listing times around early morning to evening and distances from Cape references.
An itemized listing shows vessels anchored and docked around Seattle including Hk Oriental at Smith Cove anchorage Pier 14 8tr Tyndareus Great Northern dock MStr Tajuma Maru Dora Pier 7 Str Catherine D Pier 2 Str Alaska at Ketchikan Union 611 dock Armyll Grand Trunk dock City of Seattle Bell terminal L WT Heather Union Pacific dock Kaikyu Maru Pacific Creosote dock City of Heno Coast coal bunkers Eastern Temple Eastern Soldier Pacific Coast Engineering Works Eastern Leader Duthie yard West Jessup Grift 70 East Waterway terminal William Bowden Puget Sound dredging Patterson Landers terminal West Kayote Hynden Hanford Str Admiral Rod man Ames yards Roosevelt Lake Union Hulls Broxton Leota Endymion Fort Jackson Addison Bough ton Bowesmont Hourneville Alden huret Abilla Adria Capraria Elestra Celwin Abydos Arcademia Academia Pezuta Black Wolf Hickland Bastine Blanford Agron Anthon Fort Harrison Fort Stanwix Imufka Kiton Laoti Dione Cagnacan Cozian Cineyras Cardia Elissa echrs Henry Wilson Salvator Alice Oregon Stream Pinatind Heffernan drydock Cethana.
Prices were irregular at the opening with United States Steel steady, Reading up, and Mexican Petroleum advancing. By afternoon the market faded with some gains in Reading and Southern Pacific while most industrials lagged. closing mixed with declines in several rails and chemicals.
Grain futures weakened sharply on the Chicago board of trade as reports that Bolsheviks were defeated by Poles and that peace talks with Lithuanians influenced markets. December wheat dropped to about 2.23 dollars, March wheat down around 4 percent, other grains lower, and oats and corn also retreating.
Chicago market receipts show 32,000 cattle as lower prices hover around 14.10 to 15.54 for cattle and 14.60 for pork. hogs and light stockers mix with varied bids. Beef offerings include butcher steers around 15.25 with canners and cutters near 7. calves and cows show mixed quotations. sheep receipts total 15,000 with lamb values near 13.00.
A list of individuals connected to marriage license records appears, with names such as Rima D Beattie and Rose Laindberg Beattie, alongside locations including Seattle Bremerton Tacoma Portland and Berkeley. The fragment lists multiple Beattie connections and various spouses, indicating ongoing civil record activity.
Receipts show 106 head cattle with prices falling, 840 to 850 for hogs, 1 000 head last week, bulk sales down. Sheep receipts reach 15 000 with a steady market, lambs around 16 to 12, ewes about 64.50.
Market summary from New York shows money on call at 71 percent, bills at 8 percent, Mercantile paper at 4 percent. Offshore rates not specified.
Frisco market notes show butter prices at 62% cents per pound for Patras prime, and 90 dollars per crate for Kene-Patras firsts. Cheeses from California Mats quoted fancy at 1 shilling 2 pence per pound, firsts at 2 shillings per pound.
The second annual reunion of the 90th Division veterans will be in Oklahoma City on September 25 26 and 27. The division formed from Oklahoma and Texas troops trained at Camp Travis Texas with replacements from every state and saw action in St Mihiel and Meuse Argonne offensives before earning a place in the Army of Occupation in Germany.
A partial OCR note lists coffee and sugar prices in New York with scattered figures. Entries include No 7 coffee and 50 cent sugar related amounts, but the text is fragmented and partially unreadable.
The foreign exchange market opened easey with demand at 5.59 and 1.071 for lire and markes at 1.9le. Afternoon trading shows continued declines with fra nces weakening to 1 O46 and Dutch guilders hitting a new low of 31.42 while other rates slip further.
The total deposits in the 300 banks and trust companies of Washington show a gain of more than 25.8 million since June 1919. Bank Commissioner Claude P Hay reports the aggregate resources and obligation at 237,744,711.
Kane-47 per dozen for ibs? Hens 26022¢ per lb and broilers 27 26¢ per lb. Cheese Tripieta 11 32¢ per lb.
Paris Aug 23 The French civil code grants husbands the right to demand obedience from wives a bill in the senate would abolish this clause Opponents warn ending male supremacy may invite Bolshevism into the home and spark social upheaval
A dense OCR list details various goods for sale at Pike Place stalls including pure cane sugar, Carnation milk, fresh milk, sugar, coffee, canned vegetables, meats and produce. Prices are given per unit, often in cents, with stall numbers such as 66, 7, 31, 61, 36, 47 34, 10, 11, 102, 94 96, 105, 166 and locations WESTLAKE and CORNER Stet.
Dinah Brant, 65, was rendered unconscious when she fell face forward from a chair and was suffocated by a thick hearth rug before aid could reach her. The clumsy snapshot also notes unrelated remarks about kissing cures for headaches and a late medieval comedy reference.
The Seattle National Bank will start a $500,000 banking house on March 1 at Second Avenue and Columbia Street on the site of the Boston block. The new structure is planned exclusively for banking purposes.
Western ave commission men report peach season starting this week with arrivals from Canta and Eastern Washington. Prices show Burrell Geme at 2.00 per standard crate, other eastern varieties 1.75, California 1.50, with local plums tentative. Potatoes hold at 3 cents a pound. green peppers 75 cents per 10 pound box. Butter brokers lift brick price 2 cents and cube 1 cent following Portland and San Francisco trends. Eggs steady at prior price.
Wholesale price table for Eastern Washington fruits and dairy products. Entries include cantaloupes, peaches, pears, apples, grapes, melons, raspberries, strawberries, watermelons, and dairy items with per crate per case and per hundredweight figures. Notable regions cited include Washington state markets and California imports, with price designations in dollars and fractions.
The newly formed Automotive Trades association comprising garage men repairmen and allied lines of the industry will be formally launched Tuesday evening at the Motor Car Dealers' club.
The president's federal electric railways commission calls for dramatic overhauls of street railway franchises in 50 plus cities and a modernized public relationship. After 14 months, the eight-member panel finds the industry virtually bankrupt, lacking buying power, public confidence, and trust, urging revised franchises with fair returns, better service, and community regulation.
The Weekly lists names of missing and wounded soldiers from World War I with requests for information from relatives. Entries include Walter Weetend Neuten, Kilborn, Harold Meadow, Guy White, Ralph Whittle, Walter A. Saters, Orville Anderson, Joan Victor Bryan, Gerald K Northrup, John Rabineau, Borger La Rochelle, James Millicr, Rupert C Gorwillder, Arthur K Larson, and others seeking confirmation of fate, burial details, or messages from comrades. Relatives are urged to write respective addresses.
Federal health authorities were notified that the barge Oriental arrived from Alaska with several typhoid fever patients aboard. The ship, carrying cannery workers returning to Seattle, anchored off Smith Cove and will be quarantined.
Councilman A. T. Drake says the 1921 city budget will be smaller than 1920. Expenditures total $19,399,611, a decline of $263,912 from last year.
National chairmen and treasurers of the Democratic and Republican parties will testify before the Senate campaign expenditures investigation committee in Chicago next Monday. Governor Cox is to be asked for information about an alleged Republican fund of 15 million dollars, but he will not appear. Subpoenas will be issued for Hays Upham White Marsh Fess Phelan and others connected to the party committees.
Nearly one in every city resident attended the four outdoor band concerts in Seattle parks Sunday. The programs blended light operatic music with selections from grand opera. Old popular songs and the day’s popular airs highlighted the community sing fests at the band concerts.
In a continuing anti drug drive the United States seized six dozen packages of Madam Deans Female Mills and 50 packages of Robert J. Pierces Tansy Cotton Root Pennyroyal and Aphidl Tablets. Libel against the drugs was filed in the United States district court.
Morris J. Kober, 6718 at, ran over a nine year old in Culture on 19th avenue late Saturday afternoon near her boulevard and Sint. D. T. Dickey, who cared for bey, found a fatal scalp wound but did not regard it an hour. Kober said the key from the back of a truck clicked onto the front of the machine, and he peded his ear before it passed actively over the child.
An unidentified woman was injured while attempting to cross at 19th Avenue and Jackson when an automobile driven by Greenberg of 426 30th Ave. struck her and continued. Greenberg picked up the injured person and carried her to a hospital before reporting the incident to police. He said the only injury he could imagine was a blotch of blood on her.
Washington August 23 War department to aid Legion victory medal distribution by sending an official area map to all 9 600 local posts in every city and territorial possession.
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