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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Dec 09, 1918

Page

4

For Sale Auction of Excess Furniture Stock in Seattle

Owing to slack business during Seattle's flu ban we have ten thousand dollars more stock than we can handle. Furniture marked with regular selling price. Also notices for automobiles and auto repair by Hugh Metaguin, Maxwell expert, 4414 10th Bast 194.

Washington Cal Smiley Adams Station Kingsbury St Seattle Star Columbus Brewster Seaboard Pacific Coast Biscuit Diller Colina Ieee Reneon Ae Ee ONCIS Bush & Lane, Piano Co Seattle Hugh Metagui Maxwell Bast

Three Acres and House Near Tacoma Suburbs

Real estate blurb promotes 3 acres with a four room house near Beattle and the Tacoma interurban. Features include fruit trees and a 17 minute streetcar walk, priced at 92-500 with $400 down and $24 monthly. Also advertises 46 acres with a 41 room house for $759 and $950. Land sale by The Ones Lumber Company anticipated to end soon. Phone Sidney 726.

Beattle Tacoma Sidney Mali Ouse Genesee Kainter NPF Tore Seattle Hox Malthy Wash

Broom cottage homes offered with easy payment plan

Local ads promote modern cottages in West Seattle and Ballard areas. Listings describe two bedroom homes with kitchens baths and living rooms, with lots priced near 3000 to 66105 and payment plans including small cash down and flexible balance terms. Companies Jordan & Co and Young & Broberg advertise contacts and addresses for buyers.

Capah Young & Broberg Ballard Ave Court House

School Children Buy War Savings Stamps in November

Beattie Schools and teachers purchased War Savings Stamps totaling $14,764 during seven November school days, as reported by Superintendent Cooper. The effort aims to boost morale and national goodwill through stamps sales led by pupils and staff.

Mye Peachy Beattie National Tata Beattie Christus Peachy Maya Beattie Cooper Roadway High

Pool Playing Wave Hits Seattle With New Pool Rooms

ABeattieBeattie revival of pool playing sweeps Seattle as the city license committee grants nine new pool rooms Monday morning. Committee members cite wartime fears of poolroom chairs as reasons men avoided billiards, now easing as peace arrives.

Beattie Lcense

Destroyer Sets Long-Distance Steam Record in European Service

Secretary Daniels reports the Porter logged 64 474 miles in its first year of European service while the Conningham earned 63 962 miles and the Davis 62 015 miles as a steam mileage record for destroyers.

Wabkbhington Daniels

Grape Growers Seek Injunction Against Prohibition

California grape growers will seek an injunction to block enforcement of the wartime prohibition proclamation. Theodore A. Bell, attorney for the grape growers, announced the plan in San Francisco on December 9.

San Francisco California Theodore A. Bell

Health of Navy Declared Excellent in War

The surgeon general reports the navy's health was excellent and mortality low during the war. Any defects in health care were due to unpreparedness for the large wartime personnel.

Washington

Sheriff Sued by Woman for 5000 Dollars

Helma Elizabeth Anderson an inmate of the county stockade sues Sheriff John Stringer for 3000 damages claiming mice on the floor frightened her and she was struck by another inmate. She says she was imprisoned with diseased women and requests relief via the suit.

Helma Elizabeth Anderson John Stringer

Germans Face Hat Tipping to Allied Officers

Amsterdam dispatch reports Germans ordered to tip their hats to British officers and stand with heads uncovered during the British anthem in the British occupied zone. The rule extends to Aachen area, later simplified by Hessians as a retaliation measure. A German officer appealed to the Permanent Armistice Commission without success.

Amsterdam Aix-Le-Chapelle International Armistie Commission

Police probe death by own action in Harlem room

Police continue inquiry into the death of Harry BE Richardson a laborer who shot himself at 2 am in his room 1108 Seventh Ave He died at 6 20 in city hospital Three men with him at the time Charlies Robbins 1108 Seventh Ave Walter De Roche 1411 Fifth Ave and Leo Fulkerson 142 Fifth Ave were held for interrogation after fleeing their homes They say he snatched a revolver but could not explain why they were with him or why they did not stop him mournful over his wife’s recent death was noted by officials

Harry BE. Richardson Seventh Ave Richardson Ile Ia Hichardson Charlies Robbins Beventh Walter de Roche Fifth Ave Leo Fulkerson

Paris Welcomes Peace Delegates as City Sees Premium Influx

Paris braces for a peace conference surge as delegates arrive by week’s end. Hotels fill, cots crowd corridors, and prices spike while shops show civilian wear, theatres reopen, and taxis resume. Officials grapple with cabling bottlenecks amid wartime to peace transition.

Paris Dec Wilson Partie

Canadian Club Plans City Carnival for Returning Soldiers

The Canadian Club of Seattle asks the city council for permission to stage a large carnival to raise funds for returning soldiers. Time and location not yet decided.

Seattle

Police Arrest 50 in Gambling Den Raid

A raid on a gambling den in Santa Barbara led to 50 arrests. One detainee, A. M. Southey, claimed by federal authorities to have deserted from Camp Lee, Virginia, four months ago and to have passed forged checks in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Columbus, Birmingham, and Seattle while posing as an officer. Southey’s home is listed as Westport, Connecticut.

Santa Barbara Southey Army Camp Lee Los Angeles Cleveland Columbus Birmingham Seattle Westport Conn

Supreme Court Rules Powder Interests Not a Trust

The Supreme Court ruled that gigantic DuPont powder interests are not a trust and need not pay damages sought by the Hacey Powder Co. The decision was delivered today in Washington on December 9.

Washington DuPont Powder Hacey Powder Co Supreme Court of the U. S

Trial of Tom Marks Over Bribe Attemptgrading

Tom Marks faces trial before Superior Judge Tolman for allegedly attempting to bribe health inspector W R Jones to declare Ethel Kelly in the city quarantine ward free from vice diseases. Separately Karl Tompkins, escaped from the county stockade with Barney Sloman and Harry Thompson last September, is held in San Francisco on automobile theft charges. Sloman was captured in Portland and Thompson retaken here. A note mentions King of Spain owning relics tied to life attempts, including a feeding bottle from when he was eight months old.

Tom Marks W. R. Jones Ethel Kelly Tolman Karl Tompkins Barney Sloman Harry Thompson San Francisco Sloman Portland Spain

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