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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1919
Page
7
Ed Hickman III of the Ad Wainwright freight steamer Admiral line is reported ill in a hospital in Kong, according to a Pacific Steamship Co. cable.
The Oregon senate has passed a bill requiring payment of a license by every real estate dealer in the state and it now awaits the governor's signature. E. S. Goodwin, president of the Interstate Realty Association, reports the development.
Valeska Suratt headlines the Moore on Sunday with a 60 minute drama The Purple Poppy plus vaudeville acts. Kolb and Dill bring As You Were to the Metropolitan while Pantages features Doc Baker in Facts Fun and Fashions and Lulu McConnell and Grant Simpson. The Wilkes present Our Wives at the Wilkes Theatre and Levy’s Orpheum opens with Dot Claire and 30 Winter Garden girls. Monte Carter performs The Photo Girl at the Oak. Palace Hip hosts Virginia Thornton Charles King and others in a newer sketch. Also listed are Walser and Palmer in Shes Hard to Get Along With Primrose Four Walters and Walters and Everest Novelty Circus. Major star engagements run through the week with Monday starts and weekend matinees.
A holdup at the Golden Rule department store 1014 First Ave Friday night at 8 15 p m left proprietor Jacob Arine robbed of 70 cash a gold watch a diamond stickpin and other items. A separate theft at the Y W C A room of Helen La Monte Ely included a leather handbag with 100 Liberty Bond and cash.
Special to The Star describes William Hohenzollern performing his daily wood chopping ritual. He wears a faded undress uniform and loose trousers, hidden from onlookers by fir trees where workers place the blocks. He speaks rarely and is curt when he does.
A regional newspaper highlights its broad reach as Star Want Ads showcase classified listings across cities in the Northwest. Advertisers tout extensive circulation and prompt responses from a diverse readership.
A bill from the State Game Association and biologists proposes killing about 200 old bull elk on the Olympia peninsula to protect food for younger animals. Forest Service officials say elk overconsumption justifies the cull, with possible higher hunting license costs. A county auditor census would permit hunting in other counties if Senate bill No. 9 passes.
The Seattle Sons of the Revolution held their 24th annual luncheon in the Arcade building Maronite club rooms at noon Saturday. Washington society, Bons of the Revolution, will host its annual meeting and dinner Saturday evening at the Rainier club.
Olympia February 22 The death penalty once abolished in Washington would be restored for first degree murder under a bill by Senators Kuykendall Cox and W Lou Johns The bill provides a second verdict option allowing the jury to choose between life imprisonment or death if found guilty.
At a Friday meeting in New York the Central Federated unions adopted the slogan No Beer No Work. Iron workers shipbuilders longshoremen hatters stationary firemen pavers and ram mers unions join the strike on July 1 to protest prohibition.
In a Friday statement from New Jersey, Christan W. Feigenspan, president of the United States Brewers Association, warned that the national beer supply would be exhausted by May 1.
Millions use it for colds and grippe misery. A dose every two hours for three doses opens nasal passages, stops discharge, and relieves headache fever soreness and sneezing. It acts quickly and costs only a few cents at drug stores. Do not substitute. insist on Pape's.
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