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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1920
Page
7
Classified style note listing a veteran soldier seeking evening work after 3 pm, with past roles as Faske clerk warehouseman auto and truck driver and a traveling salesman. Includes contact boxes and scattered items about other want ads for furniture wood products and autos.
Fine location and soil sell a 1500 dollar per acre tract near the university. A larger tract offers about 200 feet of timber for 160 dollars, with building within ten feet of land. Terms require 150 dollars down and 15 dollars monthly. Carter MacDonald & 208 Columbia St Eliott 58970. Also several good logged-off lands near Mt. Vernon and Sedro-Woolley with railroad and paved highway access in the farm belt at 25 dollars per acre. KC Peters 716 rd Ave.
Numerous land listings promising virgin soil and low prices near Mt Vernon, Washington. Advertisements claim rapid future value $500 per acre, with terms and locations within miles of the county road and Pacific highway. Includes references to Sparks Dye and various contact details for inquiries.
Directory style spread listing attorneys at law patent lawyers and consulting firms in Seattle area with addresses and services including accountants chiropractors jewelers loan brokers and other professionals. Includes firms like American Jewelry Co and Walla Tania ont and various street addresses and service notes.
BALINA Kan Dec 13 The proprietor of a drug store has installed a stamp cafeteria where customers help themselves to stamps from a box on the counter and leave the money in the box He also posts late news bulletins special wire election returns and baseball scores in his windows drawing a crowd.
Live jackrabbits from Kansas prairie will be sent back East for propagation at 2.006 head per week. K. C. Beck of Hutchinson will oversee shipments under contract with the Pennsylvania state game commission.
Kansas City case where Roy Beecher, stopped by two men in a car after attempting to ride a street car, was found with $14. The men claimed to run a bus line and charged him the fare. Police are investigating the incident.
The German birthrate is rising but remains below the 1913 prewar level. In five provinces Saxony Baden Bavaria Prussia and Württemberg births fell from 1,622,193 in 1913 to 1,138,373 in 1919, reflecting postwar decline and demographic shift.
In Cincinnati on December 13 a grand opera owner explains she laughed so hard that two teeth fell out. The remark came after she found a pair of teeth in the theater, prompting a lighthearted report about her hearty laughter and dental mishap.
A cartoon style exchange shows Mr. Peck asking his wife why he is like a hen and admitting he can seldom recall where he laid things yesterday. The hen joke carries a light domestic humor tone.
The article traces the long history of dolls from ancient Egypt to the modern 20th century. It notes rising doll industry investment in 1920 and the banner year for doll sales, highlighting talking and walking dolls and the growing variety in major toy shops.
Oklahoma City police answered a disturbance call and found James the neighbor's chauffeur bidding a fond goodnight to Mandy a colored cook. They sent him home.
Oklahoma City on December 13 reports George Smith plans to bring elk meat from Colorado. He bought 23 elk from a Colorado elk farm and will slaughter them with a rifle.
Mrs. M. Moore traveled from South America to Clinton Oklahoma to see her son born a U.S. citizen. She died after the delivery, fulfilling her wish for the child to gain American citizenship. The event centers on her sacrifice and the birth in Clinton.
In St. Clairsville Ohio on December 13 a 12 page native language consent document proved Madekari Ciarelli’s parents allowed her marriage to Biagis Olivari. She was under the legal matrimonial age.
FRANKFORT Ky Dec 13 In order to meet the new law requirements and forestall the closing of 10000 schools teachers in Kentucky will be given a course by mail to raise their qualifications.
A man called for jury duty offered a substitute and $2 daily plus the usual $2. He said the pay doesn’t cover costs and cannot afford to serve. The incident highlights concerns over jury service affordability and accessibility.
Hues, a repeated violator of the Volstead act, faced sentencing in a U S district court after pleading guilty to unlawful possession with intent to sell liquor. The judge ruled possession with intent to sell counts as two sale elements and set a $508 fine plus costs, noting a possible six months for a second sale conviction.
Civil suits target 1,230 Bisbee Douglas and Warren businessmen who deported striking miners and families from Bisbee. Indictments against 26 Bisbee and Douglas leaders allege denial of rights to deportees, including fair trial and life liberty property. Judge Morrow quashed the cases, citing state court jurisdiction. an appeal follows. Kidnapping charges against reporters led to trials at Tombstone, Arizona, with no convictions.
Five men identified as gangsters including Spud Murphy and K. O. Krwoosky faced court for alleged assaults on Edna Fullmer and Pearl Harney. Indictments moved to December 20 with two more cases set for Thursday involving Jean Stanley and Jessie Montgomery. The defendants were heavily guarded and chained as crowds watched.
Geneva Dec 13 The age of nations assembly unanimously adopted the international tribunal plan drafted by Etthu Root of the United States and other nations. Leon Bourgeois presented the plan and explained operation details while the United States was declared to join the court on equality with other members.
The January 3 campus event will debate the resolution that Congress should ban strikes in essential industries. The Easterners receive a $500 trip bonus guaranteed by the local school for their journey west.
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