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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1922
Page
8
Washington reports the patent office collects over a hundred thousand dollars yearly yet is crippled by congress. A backlog of 75 000 cases stalls inventors and business, with filings rising in July to 8 604 added cases. Inventors face delays of up to 14 months, crippling industry and economic growth.
County Commissioner Lou Smith submits to County Auditor D. E B. Ferguson a budget request totaling 223,600 for maintenance and new construction and 590,000 for the special road and bridge fund for the Second district.
In Wallace Idaho on August 24 Republicans in convention voted to keep the dual convention primary system. Burton L. French is slated for the first district and Addison T. Smith for the second. William A. Lee of Moscow seeks the supreme court seat and C. C. Moore, the current lieutenant governor, is nominated for governor.
Henry W Hill of Buffalo, a commission member, argued that hundreds of millions must be appropriated for the St Lawrence canal and that earlier commercial projects would be postponed for years if the scheme proceeds. He noted his background as a former New York state official.
Robert A. Tripple, former member of the last state legislature, seeks the state senate from the 37th district. He opposed the poll tax and the administrative code and supported the anti uiten land law, calling himself progressive and liberal. He pledges full protection for bank depositors and ongoing tax reduction.
A senator will address the Chamber of Commerce members at Friday noon on the topic American Money for American Waterways. The speech aims to discuss funding and development for domestic waterways and related infrastructure.
T W Roach of 1314 Eighth Ave announces a fuel oil burner that produces heat at one third less than others. He says it attaches to any furnace and works with cheap oil, using a compressed air atomizer to spray downward and drive heated air up furnace sides creating a central vacuum. He plans local manufacture and has applied for a patent.
Detectives charge two Japanese firemen aboard the steamship Alabama Maru with theft of 20,000 in furs taken from a Tacoma dock. The ship, en route to the Orient from Beattie, will dock in Japan where arrests are planned.
Maude Meek Cushing Storrick formerly of Dowagiac faced a murder charge in Michigan over the December death of Claude Cushing. Exhumation followed relatives’ demand and bichloride traces were found. She was arrested in Kalamazoo, arraigned in Dowagiac, and bound over to circuit court.
Camille Mailhebuan, longtime owner of the Old Poodle Dog, returns from France with a claimed nonalcoholic drink described as like champagne but alcohol free. Made from herbs sugar and grape juice, it is touted as a tasty appetizer with U S consul in Bordeaux confirming clearance for import. He cautions about possible fermentation during transport.
One hundred Beattie police officers and their families marched from the station to the Blue Mouse theater on Wednesday for a guest viewing of the film In The Name of the Law. The event was hosted by John Hamrick as the theater’s featured attraction for the week.
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