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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1920
Page
7
A sprawling, aged classified pages list vacancies and ads for work, housing, and goods across Seattle. It includes employment offers, household items for sale, real estate listings, automotive sales, and service notices with names and contact details scattered throughout.
A local dealer advertises the city’s largest used Studebaker stock with practically any model or year available. The seller touts exceptionally low prices and unusual brand offerings.
Real estate notices advertise Padilla Bay lands with prices cut to 33.3 per acre, offering 16 to 70 acres, with terms including cash down and monthly payments. Additional properties highlighted near Kirkland, Alki, Fauntleroy, and Duwamish river area, with multiple parcels, improvements, and riverfront potential. Includes contact for Mr. Gilgen and office locations in Seattle.
A thanksgiving service will be held at University Baptist Church EB 46th at Brooklyn Ave Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock to honor the safe return of the Whitney Boys Chorus and their leaders from a coast trip. The boys will sing, refreshments will be served, and an offering will be taken.
The rumor of an early resignation was denied by McDonald who said he intends to stay in office. He was told of the rumor after a Monday morning visit by State Prohibition Director Donald A. McDonald. The day followed his return from a Southwestern Washington tour where he discussed cooperation with Oregon prohibition agents to curb booze runners from Vancouver.
President Dee chanel of France, whose health is the topic of conversation, may seek recovery at high altitude aboard a Farman airplane with six seats, silk shades, electric lights, and woolen carpeting as health plans unfold. reports say he may resign soon after a recent fall from a moving train. The text also notes the value of an average year's crop of diamonds at $60 million.
Directory style page from The Seattle Star listing attorneys doctors jewelers lenders services and merchants with addresses and phone numbers. Includes names like JF Ball and Frederick P Gorin plus firms and hours. note of loans jewelry and cleaning services and general advertisements.
Halifax dispatch reports William Barbarick, 32, a farmer, intends to ride over the falls in a barrel if authorities permit. He follows the deadly example set by Charles George Stephens, a British barber, who lost his life attempting the stunt.
In Heywood England on August 30 Mr and Mrs Barton mourn a third double bereavement after burying their twin daughters. The couple had previously buried two children in 1914 and another double loss three years earlier. A. N. Beach of 318 N. 78th et al is mentioned as next to bear a heading. A separate note recounts a street car incident on Phinney Ave where a passenger picked up a grip containing two hats on Sunday.
Senator Boies Penrose, a leading Republican figure, looks thinner after recent illness. During a ride through Fairmount Park he was photographed for the first time in months and said he feels great and is ready to get back into the harness.
Police said James Clark, 25, admitted stealing two more cars in addition to three previously traced machines. The local banker G L Wilton owned one recovered vehicle. Clark allegedly altered stolen autos and sold them to second hand dealers after quick disposals. Police had worked the case weeks.
Elmer F. Conner announced he will actively campaign for A. Lincoln Smith following his withdrawal. In an open letter he praised Smith as the most qualified for the county position, citing familiarity with county business and Smith's accounting background.
George Watkins Evans urges a public tribute to James Hudson, a volunteer rescue worker who died July 9 while attempting to rescue two companions at the Black Diamond mine. The letter praises miners’ heroism and offers to support a memorial fund.
Governor Louis F. Hart has accepted a special invitation to address the Young Men's Republican club of Seattle on Thursday September 2. Roy C. Lyle, secretary of the club, arranged for the meeting at Meves cafeteria at noon with Hart as the sole speaker.
Robert Lambert Carson, master of a Ni fish boat, is slated for a hearing before U.S. Commissioner A. C. Bowman Tuesday after customs officers arrested him Saturday for attempting to smuggle crystals valued at about $4,000 into the port of Seattle.
A badly described incident reports Jane Doe, described as fat and forty, being drunk and resisting a police officer at Rail Road Ave and Holgate St. She initially refused to go to the jail and to give her name. The piece ends with an unrelated note about miners wearing helmet hats.
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