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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1922
Page
3
Classified notes show furniture washers and ranges, a Majestic range, and a variety of auctions plus real estate bargains. Listings include a Queen Anne home bargain, 483 acres timbering land near Seattle, and used autos with prices and contact hints.
A vacant dwelling at 49th Avenue and Genesee Street was destroyed by fire of unknown origin early Wednesday. Fire officials could not determine the owner’s name. The house had been unoccupied for two years.
A dense Seattle Star directory snippet lists professionals and services including attorney at law IP HATE established 1887, chiropractors, teachers, loan firms, and electrical repairs. It mentions addresses such as Main 7303 and 216 Burke Building and 905 Second Ave, with various ads for loans, mortgages, automobile loans, and medical therapies.
Market notes show higher onion bids with Yakima Apaniah quotable at 7 cents per 4 pound bag. Prices from 6 to 7 cents noted. analysts predict further gains amid national shortages. Other produce steady with small orange shipment reported. dairy and poultry markets described as steady to balanced.
Workmen finished the sanding of steep hills between Fourth and First avenues using a new automatic sanding machine. O. A. Piper, superintendent of streets and sewers, reported the task done by Tuesday night, improving surface conditions for the area.
A meeting of elective officers of all Masonic bodies in the jurisdiction led by Julian Day will announce a dramatic production of Elijah to raise funds for the Knights Templar conclave in 1926. The plan calls for a stage chorus of 150 and an auxiliary chorus of 760 plus a dramatic cast.
Victor Denisoff was jailed for stealing five books from the Beattie public library. Justice John B. Gordon sentenced him to 16 days in the county jail after convicting him of taking a hygiene book a chemistry manual and three works of fiction.
New York trading opened firm with gains led by Gulf States Steel and Studebaker. Crucible and United States Rubber eased as early turnover neared 150000 shares, while Gulf States Steel neared a new high for the month and other independents lagged.
Chicago prices generally climbed with light offerings and fair buying by locals and commission houses. Cash wheat No 2 hard at 1.11, May wheat at 1.12 percent, July 1.00, May corn 53 cents, oats 34 cents, July 39 cents. Live stock: cattle and hogs mixed. top cattle 8.76, hogs mostly 7.80s, lambs quoted around 9.75 to 11.80. Potatoes steady, tomatoes slow, Hawaiian bananas arriving, poultry supplies heavy and prices weaker on leghorn hens and colored birds.
Denver livestock receipts total 3 000 with market steady and cattle and calves showing gains to 1605.60. Heifer receipts near 2 400, market up 10 to 15 percent. Top cattle price seen at 7 75 with bulk near 7 40. Sheep receipts 1 700, lambs 111.78, ewes 6 86, feeders 100 10.60. New York foreign exchange opened steady with sterling at 4 472, francs 0 0816, lire 0 0436 and marks 6 0063. close steady with slight shifts.
The data lists clearings and balances for multiple regions. Bank clearings total 4,797,555.63 with balances 957,933.96. Tacoma clearings reach 2,873,494.00 while the Port Clearing shows 4,498,064.60 with a balance of 51,627.56.
Washington officials accuse Will Hays of using his new position to steer cinema policy and quash anti movie legislation. Dr Wilbur F Crafts, reform leader, demanded whether any American is blind to a foreign dominated effort to control US government in one sect’s interest.
Fire Marshal Harry Bringhurst stated that higher efficiency in the Seattle fire department reduced losses over two years. Damages reached 757000 in 1921 versus about 1.397 million in 1920, with frame buildings of the fire trap type blamed for most blazes.
The National City bank shut its doors amid slow assets. Bank examiner Oscar Thompson is in charge and states the bank is solvent. Britain marks 60 years of the post office savings bank.
In Seattle two burglars from a union breach homes in a snowstorm while the rest stay by a stove. Two hardy members leave with two watches after using a pass key to enter Sam Neskarg’s 1804 Ninth Ave and Hila Hoffner’s 228 Terry Ave.
Weather bulletin notes a varometer rise near Tatoorm Island with gear and wind readings. Reports a steamer and four naval craft observed around 3 30 p m and a destroyer noted, unclear vessel details.
A list of ships arriving or sailing from several ports including Tacoma Seattle Beattie and San Francisco with dates January 11 to January 18. Vessels named include Weet Ivan Nome City Chancellor Horace X Banter Princ es Mary and others. entries note arrival times and routes via Hong Kong Yokohama Vancouver and London among others.
Wireless report records numerous vessels in and near Seattle harbor including Beattle from Keystone State and Yokohama runs, Columbia River mileages, and ships at Smith Cove Terminal, Pier A and B. Listings cover Alameda Cordova ships, Admiral Nicholson Union Pacific moorings, and multiple vessels tied to Puget Sound docks with detailed yard names and ship types.
G. Sergeant, 23, a painter, wanted on passing bogus checks to the amount of several hundred dollars in Seattle and Yakima, was in the city jail Tuesday. Detectives say he will be charged with forgery and grand larceny. He was arrested in Riverton Tuesday by Detectives R. R. Herbert, Simondson and J. Bianchi.
Police seized two men three stills 150 gallons of mash and 25 gallons of corn whisky at 28th Ave and Alaska St Tuesday night August 28 FE De Clark and August Sh 28 accused of operating the distillery held for federal prosecution Wednesday.
The first regular meeting of the income tax law class organized by the University extension service will be held in the 1044 assembly room of the Henry building Thursday at 745 p.m. Registration remains open.
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