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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1921
Page
3
Wordy classified excerpts show female help wanted, stenography and other office tasks, travel inquiries, sales and service openings, and numerous apartment, furniture, and real estate listings. Includes job ads for secret investigations firms, ex service men, painters, carpenters, and sales roles plus miscellaneous estate and car ads.
A dense directory page lists attorneys patent and trademark services, accountants, loan offices, jewelers, piano tuning and repair, dental/medical services, and various shops. It mentions firms with addresses and phone prefixes, including Main 730, Burke Building, Lyon Building, and Empire Building, along with professional ads and service offerings.
A dense list coversVital Statistics names ages and residences and a long section of marriage licenses listing names and residences such as Marguerite Lucille Moore and Caroline Seattle along with many others. The document catalogs individuals by last name first and includes Seattle Tacoma Mount Vernon and other locales with ages from infancy to elderly and notes on legal status where present.
Rose Hill near Kirkland may lose an entire term as special elections in Class A counties can only occur on the first Tuesday after the first full moon in May. With $10,500 insured and about $3,000 in a restricted fund, rebuilding costs estimated at $16,000, and no eligible interim site, directors fear students will be kept from classes and families may relocate.
Police search for Orville Comstock eleven and Eddie Weighman thirteen missing since 12 39 p m Thursday. They left home at 19th Avenue and East Republican Street with the plan to pick blackberries near Puyallup. Both attended Longfellow School. Orville has red hair and freckles and wore a black and red sweater with a matching cap. Eddie is blond and tall for his age.
C PETERSON chosen among 82 state beauties to represent America in the Fourth of July float by the Society of the American Revolution. Miss Eleanore Perrine Miller will be Mistress of the Sea. The float shows America’s growth with the Pilgrims landing at the front and World War figures in the rear. Percy Hunting chairs the float committee and will direct the cast selection from city talent.
Deputy Ralph Hammer investigates a dubious mule swap after a buyer from Podunk trades an old mare for a wobbly mule. The animal collapses at the livery, but the seller claims the mule suffers fainting fits, ending with the case dropped by the accuser.
W H Paulhamus, president of the Puyallup & Sumner Fruitgrowers association, credits hard surfaced roads with saving the strawberry crop by enabling direct sales along main highways. Farmers used stands, taught sales skills to children, and reduced transport and delivery costs, boosting crates sold directly to consumers and through retailers. Raspberry shipments have begun.
Elmo Sperry twenty seven pleaded guilty to grand larceny in Judge King Dykemann s court and drew a sentence of one to fifteen years at Monroe. He was charged with stealing an auto in San Francisco on June 2 and driving it to Seattle where he burned the vehicle on the Bothell Road June 5. The piece notes the season’s end hastened by unusually wet weather.
A report by County Assessor Frank W Hull and Councilman B Fitzgerald urges revising state tax law to allow greater taxation of intangible property and remove constitutional limits. It contrasts Seattle with Portland and San Francisco, notes potential tax cuts pending if ferry system disposal or other measures proceed, and cites a school board saving two thirds on Broadway High School equipment.
T Uno a 43 year old Japanese vegetable peddler at 1403 Whipple St. is in city hospital with a lacerated skull after a Saturday argument over cabbage prices. He was picked up bodily by a white man and thrown against his vegetable truck.
Babe Ruth hit his 29th homer of the season in the first game of a doubleheader against Boston, delivering the seventh inning shot with no runners aboard. Russell was pitching.
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