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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1922
Page
8
Fragmented text references Charlotte and amounts, with unclear event. No clear persons, organizations, dates, or concrete facts readable to form a full summary.
The article notes millinery firm Strong & Warner of St Paul opening its 106th US store at 1410 Second Ave Seattle, linking local prosperity to hat sales. It previews vaudeville acts at Pantages and Loew's Palace Hip, including The Romantic Teacher and Playmates, with performers such as Capron, O'Dea, Wallace, and Warfield. Also mentions CHU CHIN Chow star George Usher and a Glasgow UK note on government expenditure cuts.
The Bird of Paradise resumes a week at the Metropolitan Theatre starting Sunday January 22, led by Ann Reader in the title role. The cast includes Herbert Charles Frederick Forrester Ellen Mahar Rose Watson James Appelbee Joseph Robison Reba Garden and Douglas Cosgrove with added Hawaiian music and mid-Pacific scenery. The Moore offers other vaudeville acts from Innis Brothers La Pilarica Trio Leo Flanders Geneve Butler and the Garcinetti Brothers as well as the Marx Brothers with On the Balcony new act full hour of music comedy and dance. The stock company at Wilkes presents Three Live Ghosts starring James Blaine with the Seattle Cooperative Stock Company under T Daniel Frawley in week two also featuring The Brat.
Denver January 21 Jazz and joy rifles described as a new criminal type by Warden Thomas Tynan of the Colorado State prison at a sheriffs convention. He said educated young felons seek luxuries and drift into crime, becoming very dangerous products of modern temptations.
The merchant marine subsidy plan will be laid before President Harding next week, a White House briefing indicated yesterday.
At Indianapolis on January 21 veterans and adjutants denounced the Veterans Bureau as slow and inefficient. Julius F. Lynch of Virginia blamed Brigadier General Sawyer for the bureau's failures, while a Republican from Tennessee backed the critique. The discussion centered on veteran care and the role of ex-service men.
Women interested in Americanization work will hold a conference at the W C T U Americanization Center 708 Findlay St Georgetown next Monday starting at 1140. A general invitation to the women of Seattle is extended. All are asked to bring lunches and ideas.
Testimony before the civil service commission alleges Bert Ward and G. Curlett robbed 31 cases of whisky from Oliver Thompson and Charlies Ferguson on December 28 and that they later sold it back. Ferguson testified against the policemen, who faced demotion from the police department on January 1. Also named are Babe Schwartz and 11 cannon reportedly stolen, with Thompson Ferguson and Schwartz under federal arrest and facing bootlegging charges.
The 12th district federal reserve bank based in San Francisco now ranks third in size among the nation’s 12 banks. Resources total 420,227,000 and the local bank has passed Boston Philadelphia and Cleveland which led a year ago.
City councilors spar over who should investigate the $3,200,000 Skagit bond sale. Councilman KO H W Thomson argues the prosecutor's office should handle any charges, while the finance committee votes two to one against that step and says the matter rests with the council. Thomson avoids trial, cites alleged bid causing illegality if bonds sold below par.
The National Tube Co. a United States Steel subsidiary has completed plans to build one of the largest tubular products plants in the country at Gary Indiana with a capacity of 300000 tons annually.
Washington report states President Harding appoints Harley V Speelman of Marietta Ohio as registrar of the treasury in a late afternoon announcement. Speelman replaces the prior official and takes up duties immediately.
The council finance committee approved a $5,000 appropriation for street work to provide employment for unemployed single men. A $10,000 fund already used for clearing and grubbing streets is furnishing work for jobless men.
The Macific Coast Shippers association, a group of wholesale lumber men, concludes at their annual Washington Hotel meeting that 1922 will return the lumber industry to normal after the toughest year on record.
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