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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1921
Page
5
Classified listing outlines male help wanted and miscellaneous offers in Seattle. Includes part time reading material, travel secret reports, and paid learn to drive ads. Vehicles for sale include several cars and trucks with prices and contact points. also furniture and moving services advertised.
WANTED REAL ESTATE 6 OR 6 ROOM MODERN bungalow in any good district. Cash and quick payment. Owners preferred. real estate men may arrange. Contact Chas T Slamberg or Mr Butler 1520 Westlake Ave. Main 4126. Also 73 machinery drill motors and sale by W Montelius at Main 919.
Mrs Mary Heva Wriday expresses gratitude for relief fund raised by The Star readers aiding a burned widow Hera and her two crippled sons. Donations of cash clothing and bed clothes requested. fund supports starting a new home in Seattle area after incendiary fire and robbery.
A jumble of names and addresses lists births marriages and deaths alongside divorces and licenses. Read includes Beckman, Beasley, Addison, Rudolph, Thomas, Collett, Jones, Lehman, Nakabakuchi, Hunsby, Stalberg, Kara Fells, Hackett Kana, James, Barr, Nudelman, Rubenstein, Sudduth, and others with ages and locations from Seattle to Aberdeen.
Late Friday a thief entered the home of C. L. Tedford at 2712 38th Ave and took a diamond ring valued at 2350 and a 40 gold wrist watch along with a revolver before escaping. The text also advertises dogs and animals for sale with scattered lines about a Sipsky Husky and a spaniel.
Aged woman about 60 and a beardless boy of 17 were listed in Beat tle police crime books Friday and Saturday for purse snatching from Mrs. Havel Paschal at 4295 Kenny Ave. In a Pike Street crowd the woman fled with a small purse theft. A dark hat wore down over the suspect’s eyes as the bearded bandit menaced G. Baha at Beventhave and Alder streets, stealing 79 cents.
Mrs. Alice Ortelle Stout Black, charged with bigamy, will appear in superior court at 1 30 p m Monday to plead. She allegedly married Lan On Tai on April 6 while already married to Sam Black of Tacoma. Lan On Tal files for annulment and visits the county jail daily bearing gifts to his wife.
A wartime era column recalls Beattie securing the Skagit hydro asset and the Stone Webster street railway dispute. It names Mayor Hiram Gill, Oliver T. Erickson, and others as pivotal figures in Seattle’s fight to claim public control and ensure fair value. The piece hints at a larger expose to come on Stone Webster overcharges.
A list of pedestrians injured by cars in 1921 includes Pumpat, 15, struck at Seventh Ave and James J. Kilpatrick Bryn Mawr. Pumpat sustained head and facial gashes and was taken to city hospital. Walter Storm, 11, escaped serious injury when hit at 10th Ave N E and 42nd Street by J J Wilma. he was not seriously hurt. An unidentified woman crossing Broadway Jefferson Ave was knocked down by a car driven by M Kahne, 914 HB Alderst. she reported feeling hurt.
J W Saylor a 38 year old agent was arrested at Fifth Ave and Priest on a begging charge by Patrolman G K Holmes. He told a sob story at the station and his bail was set to 15 dollars after which he posted bail of over 30 dollars in small change and walked out.
A 1922 budget estimate requests a reduction of $13,874.55 in county hospital maintenance, the largest cut among estimates. The overall request totals $120,604.45, with 1921 expenses at $134,483.
The home of B. W. Pearson at 1603 Ft. 77th at. was destroyed Saturday afternoon by a fire started in an overheated stove. The house valued at 1200 dollars and its contents at 800 dollars were not saved. Pearson carried 1500 dollars of insurance on the structure.
The annual session of Washington health officers begins Tuesday at the Washington hotel. Dr. Paul A. Turner, state director of health, has arranged the program and invited the chief health officers of Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia to attend.
Two young men are held on charges of burglary after police alleged they possessed loot valued over 1000 dollars stolen from BE Nash at 116 Highlander. J Irving Abbott and Joseph O'Brien, both 18, are the detainees. Lake Superior is noted for its cold water in a separate blurb.
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