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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1917
Page
10
Classified clippings show property pitches in Snohomish County with prices from 826 to 35 per acre, 30 year terms, plus mentions of factories and labor. Also listed are real estate want ads, furnished apartments, and a rummage sale with locations on Wastua ke and First Ave.
A jumble of business personals offers hair cures and remedies with dubious results, plus many solicitations for old gold and diamonds. Numerous ads promote jewelry repairs, piano lessons, dancing teachers, and various services, all promising quick payoffs or lessons, with addresses and contact hints scattered throughout.
A long list of stall prices and items at Westlake markets includes tender and loin steak, hamburger, steer rib, Alaska turnips, rutabagas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, grape fruit, butter, margarine, coffee, canned goods, flour, sugar, and fresh eggs. Shoppers encounter numerous stalls with varied discounts and bulk quantities, reflecting a bustling market day.
German official Baron Wilhelm Von Brincken former military attache pleads guilty in the Hindu plot trial. Co-defendants George Noedik former German consul at Honolulu and H R Schroeder former secretary also admit pleas. They face arraignment for sentence next Monday as defense counsel declare innocence for two others.
Seattle Operators report rapid progress in restoring telephone service with more than 200 of 850 strikers back on payrolls and 660 remaining to be placed. Y L McNally says normal conditions by Wednesday night, while Miss Rhoda Kerr notes daily slip-based rearrangements and continued hope for full resolution aside from one Auburn case.
Al Adler, boss of Standard Theatre Concessions Co in Beattie, faces a jury after being charged with about 400 dollars misappropriation. Prosecutors say he kept receipts from candy sales at the Palace Hip and other Seattle and Tacoma theatres and left for Providence, Rhode Island, telegraphing a Portland friend he was bound for Alaska. Adler testified he took the funds because the company owed him. he left after a Portland girl threatened to sue him over an engagement thwarted by religious differences. He said his parents would disown him, so he left to avoid disgrace.
Real estate man and local political figure Jack T Killoran died in a local hospital Wednesday after an operation. He lived at 3167 Dose Terrace and was manager for Burke Farrar real estate holdings on Lake Washington.
An Orpheum program features Kitty Gordon in Her Hour with Six Transcontinental Vaudeville acts. Headlining is Allaire the juggling comedian, plus Ellis and Ellsworth in a singing dancing act. Dever and Minch Whistling comedian S McDonald and the Buckley Animal Circus also appear with other novelty acts.
Geo N Peek vice president of Deere and Co Moline Illinois was appointed by the war industries board as head of the new bureau of manufacturing resources in Washington on December 5.
United States District Judge Jere nia h Neterer presided Tuesday over a case charging conspirators with smuggling opium into the country. Sentences included fines of 500 and 400 dollars for the two principal defendants for attempting to export more than 200 dollars in gold. Hi Harada Yaichiro Ukiehi and others received smaller penalties of 50 and 25 dollars respectively.
Camp Lewis Tacoma December five two women Mrs Nellie Robinson and Mary Steinbach are held by military police pending a federal probe into why they repeatedly visited the cantonment each time bearing articles that initially raised drug and liquor suspicions but were later deemed illegal by investigators.
A gathering at the New Washington hotel featured lumbermen and university faculty presenting the workers' view to Secretary of Labor Wilson and the mediation commission. Dr Carlton Parker of the University spoke on the lumber industry while economists join later. The eight hour day and better conditions were argued by workers as officials seek to avert strikes. The commission will not commit until all evidence is heard.
United Press reports that George M. Cohen sold the song Over There for 25000 dollars. The price equates to about 161 dollars per word, a figure cited by the Broadway press in New York.
The national Red Cross seal selling campaign seeks to raise 1,000,000 dollars more than last year to support soldiers sailors and tuberculosis victims. The drive is under way in Seattle and mobilizes volunteers nationwide.
A S and S Allen longtime general secretary of the Seattle Y M C A departed Seattle Tuesday for France to undertake YMCA service with the army.
Right Reverend John J. Cantwell, chancellor of the San Francisco archdiocese, was consecrated today as bishop of the Los Angeles and Monterey Catholic diocese. Archbishop Edward J. Hanna presided at St. Mary’s Cathedral during the solemn service.
Mrs. Chalmers Watson M D is named chief controller of the women’s army auxiliary corps giving her command over thousands of women behind the lines in France. She is Sir Eric Geddes’s sister and the first woman physician graduate from Edinburgh University.
The Standard Construction Co., Portland, has won government contracts to build ten steel steamers of 9,500 tons each. A new shipyard will be set up at Vancouver Washington or Astoria Oregon, with costs around 16.5 million dollars and 3000 to 4000 workers to be employed.
Andrew A. Kusulos, a Greece native and former section foreman for the Northern Pacific Railway at Wickersham Washington, was refused admission to the army or navy because he had not taken out his second papers.
Attorney Clay Allen reports a telegram outlining new restrictions on alien enemies. No alien may dock or stay within 100 yards of listed docks or lake facilities, with internment as a consequence. The notice bans many Seattle and nearby docks including Pier 18 to Pier A and Lake Union and the Lake Washington canal area.
The Vatican authorized United Press to report that the pope is not assisting and does not intend to assist in negotiations for peace or an armistice between Russia and Germany.
State official Daniel Kelleher will lead the Alaska fund campaign as part of the war savings effort. The plan covers all county directors meeting in Seattle next Tuesday to finalize the estates organization and raise Washington’s $21 million quota in thrift stamps and war savings certificates. James D. Hoge heads King County efforts tasked with raising $4 million, with county chairs held responsible for local success. Applications to sell stamps are approved by the treasury secretary and can be filed via postmaster, bank, or Kelleher. those wanting to buy stamps may use window No. 4 at the downtown post office until the state structure is ready.
CAMP LEWIS Tacoma December B C C R Leveque 79 of 622wt Beattie died in a Tacoma hospital Monday night from injuries in an auto bus wreck on the Camp Lewis road He was alighting from a bus when O H Rettvik of Tacoma driving intoxicated by lights from another bus drove into him Leveque suffered four broken ribs a fractured shoulder and internal injuries He leaves a widow in Seattle and a son at Camp Lewis.
Soldiers from Camp Lewis and Seattle youths spent a weekend at the elaborate summer home of Mr and Mrs Frank McDermott on Devil's Head. Saturday and Sunday hosts were Mr and Mrs Allen Sweetman of Seattle.
Carl Wiltsche a 28 year old Austrian and crew member on the steamship Spokane is held by federal authorities pending investigation into the vessel wrecking. The case centers on potential sabotage or negligence aboard the Spokane.
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