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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1921
Page
5
Classified lines describe a wrecking company at 123 Ave offering auto parts, wheels, and machinery with varying prices, plus coal deliveries and fuel sales. Several ads promise bargains on furniture, clothing, and miscellaneous goods, including urban estate listings and farm offers.
One of the region’s largest companies seeks a man who has resided in status for at least one year. Apply at once, Room 264 Central Ridge.
Directory style listing for Seattle firms and services. Includes attorneys at law mortgage lenders money loans electrical repairs patent attorneys optician physicians piano tuners and related trades with addresses and contact cues. Appears as a merchant and professional directory from the Seattle Star.
The Pacific Review, December issue, features Vernon Louis Parrington’s Incomparable Mr Cabell arguing Cabell ranks with world masterpieces and that only Mark Twain rivals him as an American humorist. Also by G W Umphrey and Eric T Bell with essays on Spanish America and human psychology.
The Red Cram offers Camp Fire home nursing courses for Camp Fire girls and guardians at Fifth Ave and Virginia St. Two morning sessions run 8 to 10:30 and 10:20 to noon, over 15 weeks free of charge with certificates. Sign-ups start January 1 with personal details required. Also reports on council meeting, hikes, and new group formations at multiple Seattle schools and churches.
A detailed report by E. A. Sherman outlines Alaska's expanding economy beyond mining. Timber and pulp paper likely to rise, fisheries and canneries boom, fur and halibut trades thrive, salmon shipments soar, and banking shows clear territorial strength with rising deposits and profits.
Frank Lappin a disabled World War veteran was awarded $157.50 monthly for 20 years and $1600 back pay by the Veterans Bureau. He lives at 6627 Third Ave N W and earlier worked for Pacific Coast Steel before tuberculosis disabled him. He is sole support for his blind wife and invalid mother in law after a three year fight for total permanent disability.
Portland man George Stillwell confessed complicity in the March 24 1919 murder of Robert Krug the 72 year old rancher near Sisters Oregon. Weston A J was convicted and sentenced to life after Stillwell testified and helped fasten the crime on Weston.
Carl Holberg 19 of Beattie faces trial in Portland for Dyer act violations in bringing a stolen car across the state line. He recently married in Seattle and is linked to a Portland auto theft gang believed active since his parole from Monroe reformatory where he served 19 months. Notherg was captured in a post office while dressed as a waiter and suspected of swapping clothes with a navy deserter.
Ed Snyder faced vagrancy charges filed Saturday before Justice of the Peace C. C. Dalton after an arrest at the Millionair club. Management complained he refused work when offered.
A burglar broke into the dressing rooms of a band at the Masonic temple Friday night while a concert was in progress and stole black leather handbags containing toilet articles from M. J. Kuhn John Dolan and N. Ferara.
A mass meeting to discuss jitney operations will be held at Fairview Schoolhouse East 79th Street and Tenth Avenue North. The gathering aims to plan a successful jitney service and will take place Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Curr Coles, 18, jailed after officers A A Gray and G W Wilson found an extra pair of shoes on him. He was lodged in the city jail on an open charge.
Charest Maltby a Vancouver carpenter and his brother George a taxi driver are jailed in Blaine charged with Mann Act violation and conspiracy in an international boundary case. Mrs Sterling remains at the immigration station as a witness. They were bound over for the federal grand jury on $1500 bail but could not provide surety. The arrest followed a Blaine to Seattle transfer by U S Deputy Marshal Tobey.
Ed Hansen a 35 year old mechanic was captured Friday night by Patrolman Guy Bowers after a chase across several blocks at First Avenue and Yeterway. Hansen is accused of renting a room in the State Hotel and stealing blankets and sheets to escape via the fire escape.
Y Oka fined 1000 dollars by Judge Jeremiah Neterer for 125 gallons of liquor on June 21 and attempt to sell it. T Taui fined 200 dollars after pleading guilty to liquor charges before the same judge.
Mrs Emily Peters of 2437 First Ave North hid a gold watch under her mattress fearing burglars. A thief entered by a bedroom window Friday night and fled Saturday with the watch.
J A Bemis paid a $650 penalty after pleading guilty on two counts to violating the federal prohibition act for transporting 181 quarts of whisky from British Columbia to Seattle and possessing it. S D Lindsley to address Commonwealth club Monday at 6 30 in L C Smith Building restaurant with a photo lecture on Out of Doors in the Cascades. A separate report recalls a murder and arson tied to a hidden wealth cache discovered by a man killed Krug and burned the cabin.
Mrs. Eugene P. Shove travels from Denver to Portland to reclaim her seven and a half karat platinum set diamond valued at $20,000 stolen from the Denver Country Club in July 1920. Gong Wu of Portland allegedly bought the gem from a train porter. the stone has traveled to the Orient and back.
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