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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
3
A read through a chaotic directory page shows varied want ads including help wanted positions at local firms, sales pitches for fur goods, and notices about auditions for singers. The listings mingle employment requests with sales pitches and miscellaneous notices across Madison Street area, with several references to Seattle and local businesses.
The page lists job offers and business schemes including 600-partner opportunities and commissions, post openings, and home sale notes. It also contains personal notices, fur and retail ads, medical and service promotions, and scattered classifieds from various locations, all in a fragmented historical newspaper style.
Washington dispatch reports Jules Landoes, Philadelphia violinist and member of the orchestra that accompanied the president elect to the canal zone, asserts there is no fear of the review with alarmists about the next administration and says Harding is not a jazz enthusiast. He favored Tales of Hoffmann and La Taloma.
Paris reports President Millerand has banned the customary presidential kiss when conferring decorations. Labeled the hygienic president, he deems kissing soldiers unsanitary and unsafe for health. This marks the first post revolution refusal of the tradition by a French president.
Mrs. Gigg aged 80 hosted a reunion with all ten children for the first time in 40 years. The children’s ages total 494 years. Mrs. Gigg has 42 grandchildren and three great grandchildren, highlighting a long family lineage gathered in Virginia Water.
White Salem police held Charles T. Kelsey a 32 year old bridegroom in jail during Christmas. Salem claims he fled with a minor girl but the girl in Salem had married him and is nearly 18. Police here await word from Salem to release him before Christmas.
Coal thieves smashed the cellar door at 1304 John Street during a Christmas party and escaped with about 1000 pounds of coal. Mrs Whettock complained that jewelry taken would have mattered less than losing the coal, and only a trail of black dust marked the robbers’ exit.
In Atlantic City Judge Repetto dismissed a suit against Elihu B. Frost, president of Submarine Boat, for two $125 tailor-made suits bought by Mrs. Frost last summer. Her lawyer argued the purchases were a luxury, noting she is separated from her millionaire husband.
Mrs Eleanor Olmstead was fined $50 damages awarded to Mrs Margaret Hathaway after a Plymouth Rock rooster owned by Olmstead attacked Hathaway. Justice Palmer presided at the case in Los Angeles on December 24.
San Diego December 24. Eastern autoists heading to California for winter are warned that police plan to recruit winter migrants into chain gangs to repair roads for motorists. The measure aims to organize travelers who stop to give lifts to a man described as a knight of the road.
At Warmington on December 24 the state department faced two incidents of diplomats going directly to the national level without departmental channels. Guatemala’s minister Julio Bianchi apologized after a prior case, while Britain's embassy issued a communication to Senator Kellogg denying delays in cable messages, prompting expected talks with the embassy today.
A stage and a private auto collided on the Everett road north of the city at 10 p m Thursday. Mrs Ruth MacKay 22 of 330 W 47th St was treated Friday at Lakeside hospital for a deep cut on the right side and facial glass wounds. Drivers’ names were not known to police or sheriff.
Extradition not warranted by the evidence, so J. M. Curtis is released. Curtis, wanted on charges of using the mails to defraud, allegedly borrowed hundreds of thousands from wealthy lenders, pledging ranches and other property as security. He was arrested in Shreveport by a federal inspector and gained freedom after the ruling.
Prosecutor charges P. W. Coppestick with unlawful use of a milk can after hauling buttermilk on December 1 in 24 cans marked with a dairy’s name. L. W. Hanson, the prosecuting witness, identifies the dairy ownership on the cans.
A 6 year old girl Lamborn of 2327 First Ave was struck by L G Knight of 1202 Queen Anne Ave at Second Ave and Senecast. Grace Smith of 2518 Boyer Ave ran down Estelle Wilhide 17 of 1109 Third Ave as she was alighting a street car on Second Ave. Grace Tucker 8 of 2711 Mayfair Ave had both legs run over by Mertrude’s auto at Blewett St and Fremont Ave. A Mrs Hill of 2228 Seventh Ave had her foot run over by C W Kantner’s auto at Third Ave and Union St but walked away unharmed.
The remains of Pat O’Brien, famed military aviator who died by his own hand in Los Angeles, arrive in Monice Illinois. In Regina Saskatchewan, RCMP riding school building was destroyed by fire. A radium treatment is reported to have caused dormant plants to bloom.
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