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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
13
H M Rogers buys Portland stock and launches a grand sample suit sale. Windup begins Saturday at 8 A M with prices on men’s suits and overcoats cut to $11.85 to $9.85, plus a free hat with every suit, overcoat, or raincoat sold. Union store closes 7 PM Saturday. shop early.
Walk-Over and sample shoes priced from 1.68 to 3.48 with many items marked down. Boots and dress shoes for men women and children, plus Seattle stock liquidation of Felt Slippers andWork Shoes. Limited quantities at rock-bottom prices with a final windup promotion announced tomorrow.
4500 Arrow Collars to be dumped at 2 for 15¢ tomorrow starting 8 AM. Huge sale on late style shirts, belts, hosiery, underwear, suits, overalls and more from Rogers. Union store banners promise lowest prices as Seattle crowds flock to display windows of clearance stock.
Frank Comba, a former Seattle letter carrier and local favorite, joins the Metropolitan Theatre cast for a four day run of Irving Berlin musical Watch Your Step starting next Sunday evening. Comba sang for soldiers in the Philippines and later drew attention with wartime campfire songs. His postwar path led to the turn toward professional performance after hearing the Haverly minstrel troupe.
In 1898 to 1904 a white moose, known as the phantom moose of Lobster Lake, roamed from northern Washington county to the Kennebec headwaters. J G Sullivan described a gigantic white bull moose with extraordinary spread antlers and swift moonlit movements. Lumbermen and hunters pursued him, yet many believed the creature a myth, while others insisted they had seen the famed zoological anomaly.
Daniel Montgomery delivered a payment of 2000 pennies 200 nickels and 147 dimes plus paper money totaling 75 dollars to lawyers representing Mrs Yvette Montgomery in a separation case to settle counsel fees. The settlement freed him from temporary alimony but required the counsel fee to be paid.
In Redford Indiana Mauda a mule valued at 250 dollars owned by George Haya Lawrenceport farmer killed itself to avoid being shot after a veterinarian declared her crazy. The report notes the animal’s deterioration and the dire options faced by handlers.
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