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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1922
Page
3
A dense jumble of classified ads and notices from the Seattle Star listing subscriptions, rates, and various items for sale. Includes clothing, lumber, coal, furniture, sewing machines, wood, pianos, and automobiles with contact cues.
The Moore theater week features Harry Kahne performing in multiple acts including headline writing demonstrations, audience questions, and numbers by Hal Skelly, Ruby Norton, and Minna Walters. A Japanese juggler Kinzo, slapstick by Miller and Mack, and the Bostwick Riding School circus stunts cap the program with dance, comedy, and music.
A fragmented directory listing shows attorneys at law chiropractors doctors and lenders in Seattle. Entries mention TP Gall located at 215 Burke Building and Joseph Allien at 40607 Leary Hid with various contact numbers and addresses, plus electrical repair shops and mechanical therapy services.
A collage of loan ads appears offering quick cash from several lenders. Offers include 15 dollar loans with no mortgage, auto and furniture loans, jewel and diamond collateral, and various services from Money to Toan Loane to American Jewelry Co and Union Loan Societies. Also listed are patent attorneys, opticians, and piano tuning services reflecting a busy mid century classifieds page.
Market listing shows prices for vegetables fruits and farm products. Items include artichokes cabbage carrots cauliflower celery lettuce tomatoes squash and potatoes with regional names and per crate or per ton rates. Also listed are flowers meats dairy and poultry prices with wholesale and city delivery terms.
Three hundred furniture dealers are slated to convene in Beattie Thursday and Friday for the annual Retail Furniture Dealers' association of Washington meeting. Headquarters will be at the Hotel Washington with a banquet at Hotel Nutley Thursday evening. Friday features a dinner at Hotel Washington with speakers including Robert J. Jordan, Charles Hibberd, Dr. W. J. Hindley and Dean Stephen I. Miller.
10 Thomas Atkine of the Stevens hotel fractured an ankle after stepping from between two autos into a truck at First Avenue and Cherry Street. A. T. Chris Vaneen of 5637 Sixth Ave N W drove the truck. Atking was treated at the city hospital. John L. Moffat of 809 18th Ave walked into the aide of an auto driven by C. D. Brady at Third Ave and Cherry St. Moffat was not injured. This day last year two pedestrians were injured by autos, totaling 157 for that year.
Plans for the men's style show at the New Washington hotel March 6 7 and 8 will be discussed at a meeting Monday at P M at the Pig n Whistle. All tailors and haberdashers taking part in the exhibit are requested to attend with George Th Dunn presiding as president of the Beattle Exchange of the Merchant Tailors Association.
John T. Stanton pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday to an alleged stock fraud tied to the defunct Mackenzie Waterhouse company, a Bellingham venture. Attorneys for Stanton and A IL Mackenzie filed a demurrer to quash the indictment, arguing the charge lacks sufficient grounds.
Wall Street Journal notes oils motors and low priced rails as strong features at the New York Stock Exchange opening. Mexican Petroleum hits 124, Studebaker up 1% at 1.6, Canadian Pacific high at 190, with steel generally heavy and United States Steel opening down.
Market reports from Portland and Denver list receipts for cattle, calves, sheep, and hogs with varied prices. Steers range around 4.50 to 11.60, cows 4.00 to 7.10, lambs near 10.76, and hogs up to roughly 10.50, while Western markets show mixed activity and shifts in demand.
Judge Jeremiah Neterer struck twenty three paragraphs from Frank Waterhouse and Co answer to creditors petition. The judge ruled the sections against Seattle National Bank and Canadian Bank of Commerce were immaterial and scandalous. Waterhouse asserted the banks were trying to ruin him in the petition.
The steamer West Hartland will be sold at 2 p.m. on April 5 by order of Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer. Receiver Ben L. Moore must advertise nationwide three weeks before the sale. The freighter rammed and sank the Governor on April 1, 1921, and has been tied up in litigation over a $2,000,000 damage suit by Pacific Steamship Co. against the Shipping Board. a receiver was appointed for limitation of liabilities.
The Great Western Partners Inc and a cooperative jitney group faced a sharp setback as officers arrested D LeRoy, its president, and three drivers C C Armstrong C V Peterson and R E Bothell for operating jitneys without permits. Mrs Arthur Friends was arrested as a witness.
Mae Morland and Julia Stubbs, both 18, rode an aged gray mare from Floyd Hill's corral toward the land of promise beyond the Rockies. Sheriff Kerr captured them as they headed west, declaring their aim to fight bear cats and become heroines.
The lumber schooner Pacific is ashore on Ballast Point at the harbor entrance in San Diego. Two navy tugs failed in an attempt to pull her off. Also advisory on speedometer care suggests checking steering gears and wheel alignment.
Washington leads the nation in cucumbers and cantaloupes per acre in the 1920 government report on weather crops and markets compiled by Dr S B Nelson of Washington State College. He notes high yields across strawberries lettuce tomatoes onions and cabbage, with acreage changes and shifts in tonnage and per acre yields affecting overall production.
Representatives from 12 cooperative wheat marketing associations across 12 Western states travel to Denver for the Northwest Wheat Growers' association meeting. The groups control more than 200 million bushels of wheat, delegations arriving for the event.
List of ships and cargos reported by Wireless U. S. Naval Radio for Feb 25 26 detailing vessels northbound and southbound near Alaska and Seattle. Entries include names such as Queen West Ivan Lous Luckenbach West Cahokia and Beattie shipyard docks with locations Seattle Tacoma San Francisco and Beattie.
The Seattle post No. 18 American Legion auxiliary will host an entertainment tonight at the Press club auditorium to raise funds for relief work among disabled and jobless veterans. Acts include The Mystery Girl from the 40 and 8, a Butler cafe act, Jimmy Lyons from the Palace Hip, Martha McDonald from the dancing school, Sandy Young from the Palace Hip, an act from the Bungalow cafe, and Lucile Foster and Frances Williams from the Cornish School of Music. An eight piece orchestra will perform. Mrs. George G. Green chairs the entertainment committee.
London February 27 reporters invited to Princess Mary and Viscount Las isles wedding may wear morning dress but many plan to observe court dress. Noted writers and American correspondents will appear in knee breeches lace and silk-faced costumes tracing historic etiquette.
Seattle meat dealers mobilize Monday night under the Chamber of Commerce retail trade bureau to tabulate authoritative figures on prices. Meeting set for 7 30 p m in the ninth floor committee room Arctic building. A humming noise in the transmission may be due to excess heavy grease.
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