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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1920
Page
11
In Council Bluffs Iowa on December 14 Fred Poffenbarger, a confessed participant in the big mail car robbery, was asked how he began his life of crime. He replied that at age four he put cockleburrs in a Ute girl’s hair, tears on his cheek.
In Washington North Carolina on December 14 Mina Ada Oakes became the bride of Walter Pine in a ceremony attended by Walter Pine Ada Oakes and other named participants including Robert L. Birch Anna Laurel and Rev Oscar T Wood. The couple then traveled to Hickory to spend a week with the groom's aunt Mrs E W Shingle.
In Topeka Kansas December 14 inmates at the state hospital for feeble minded received turkey on their Thanksgiving menu cards yet were served roast pork on their plates. Harvey Penny of the state board of administration lamented the mix up noting some patients surely knew the difference.
In New York on December 14, Mrs. Costa Rican wife of Herbert P Crane of Chicago denied her husband’s charges that she favored lizards and eight pork chops as table defecation. She is opposing a separate maintenance action.
John H M Hamilton of Santa Ana brings home a bride, Alma Emily Selim, who weighs 725 pounds. Her osteter bridemaid weighs 420 pounds and assisted at the wedding in California.
A. G. Cains of 2122 46th Ave. W. saw his truck plunge into Lake Washington when brakes failed on a steep incline near the Kirkland ferry slip. The loaded truck sank Tuesday. the driver barely escaped, leaping to safety on Monday afternoon. Damages estimated at $5,000. truck carried hay and grain from Novelty Mill Co. and was bound for the Kirkland ferry.
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