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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
7
New postal regulations enacted Tuesday confuse the public as Postoffice officials urge firms to learn the changes. Two-cent stamps cover first class letters inside and outside the city, the 8-cent wartime requirement is canceled, city letters with 1-cent stamps are returned, and 1-cent cards now deliverable everywhere.
Gail Berg of Seattle serves as the Vladivostok Y M C A worker known as the Queen of Eastern Asia. Soldiers praise her for cheering them with songs and dances while she remembers their names and troubles, making home feel near.
A fragment notes that unkissed kisses linger in the memories of sour spinsters and cranky old bachelors, a social vignette on restrained affection and aging courtship norms.
In Chatham on July 2 three Coultrup brothers Walter John and Frank died by inhaling gas in a single oven. The coroner aided the inquiry into Franks death, and Walter then died, leaving a fatal family pattern tied to the gas cooker.
Market listing shows 25¢ and 10¢ items from Washington Fruit and Vegetable Company with two dozen for 25¢, though the text contains garbled transcription making exact details unclear.
City and country employers can employ boys for summer work through the Junior Boys Reserve. Ages 12 to 16 are listed for varied duties from drafting to truck driving, and berries picking for younger boys under adult supervision. State HQ at 4154 Arcade Bldg maintains applications. phone Main 4276 for leads and placements.
Washington dispatch notes the sundry civil bill trimmed Alaska rail funding to 2 million dollars from 12 million. Alaska items include mineral resources study 75k, navigation aids 75k, fisheries 125k, Bristol orphanage 35k, health 50k, game protection 20k, and herring fisheries 25k cut. Also roads and trails funding reduced by 100k. Snake River irrigation 75k. Boise 664k, King Hill 332k, Minidoka 463k, Okanogan 325k, Yakima 353k.
New York July 2 announces contracts between United Press management and its operators with a new wage scale yielding an annual increase around 100000 dollars. The agreement, effective June 30 for one year, mirrors a similar scale by International News Service and operators. Associated Press also grants similar raises to its operators. Big Timber novel by Bertrand W. Sinclair starts in Thursday's Star.
Westlake Market announces a new 30 000 square foot story to nearly 100 000 square feet total. Manager D McKenzie cites improved location access sanitation and parking as factors in growth and plans immediate start on the added floor. The market aims to become a Seattle landmark with refrigeration extended across the building.
An invitation to consider The Star for advertising, highlighting its broad reach and effective local exposure for campaigns and brands seeking visibility in the community.
London July 2 Efforts rise to end the one man strike that left 10 000 idle after Evan Parker chief winding engineman at Lord Dudley s Baggeridge collieries was dismissed. Five thousand miners walked out across ten pits, cutting production and cascading job losses to iron and steel plants relying on Dudley coal.
A wry editorial note states that upright citizens are seldom mentioned while thieves and troublemakers frequently appear in police blotter items. The line highlights the public focus on crime over virtue.
John Perrin chairman of the board of federal reserve agents of the federal reserve bank of San Francisco has appointed S. G. Sargent and F. E. H. Tucker as assistant federal reserve agents effective July 1.
Advices from Nome reach here on the first ships of the year detailing a strike of gold on the Beetles river in interior Alaska near Koyukuk. The report arrives early this week as new mining news.
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