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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
3
In New York on December 22, St Paul’s Episcopal Church and John Street Methodist Church marked their 150th anniversaries while the Scotch Presbyterian Church at Sixth Avenue and Central Park West celebrated its 160th milestone.
Etta Coon, practicing oboe in Portland Michigan, answers a door rap to meet her long lost brother Ordie who enters in a kiss filled embrace. He had left 19 years ago, returning by chance while selling cleaning fluid at her home.
Washington December 22 The car shortage commission says eight railroads refuse to cooperate with the American Railway Association hindering nationwide adjustment of the car shortage. Officials cite this as a factor in keeping high living costs.
A fierce blizzard battered Lake Erie and Northern Ohio on December 22, with heavy snow, drifting visibility, and distress signals prompting maroon and lifesaving stations to monitor ships still on the lake for danger.
A Los Angeles patrolman Albert J. Griffith robbed a Wells Fargo guard of $20,000, netting about $6,000 after debts and purchases. He fled by car but was captured the next day after a police inquiry and confessed the motive was debt. He paid off creditors, bought a $1,100 roadster, and banked the rest.
A goat running wild set fields and buildings ablaze, prompting volunteer firefighters. Twenty five acres of grass, two large stock barns and fencing burned before the animal collapsed and died. Fifteen acres of grass on Miss Ethel Hunt’s farm near Claypool were destroyed along with several adjoining parcels.
In Winsted Connecticut a family of rats allegedly operates a sewing machine at Frank Bond's home. One rat, while turning the wheel, was pricked by a needle through its tail during a practice session. Bond reports the other rats fled leaving the wounded animal captive with the needle.
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