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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1922
Page
1
A crowded scene at the county auditor's office shows many candidates vying to file first but none succeed. Editorial note points to page 99 for further analysis. The Star features a bathing beauty contest show and assorted light items including a railway strike update and local social notes.
Five bandits armed with sawed-off shotguns and automatics held up the Edmonds Shoe company paymaster in Milwaukee and escaped with payroll totaling seventeen thousand dollars.
A promotional note invites readers to use classifieds for daily changes in people and markets. It suggests a stayable home at Wauntleroy Park with 600 strawberry plants, city water, and garden. The price is listed as 1,760 with payments of 106 cash or 26 monthly.
Miss Hannah Evans smiles as The Wayfarer readies a larger show with The Star's shut-in party. Special parking for 60 on July 24 will be reserved for disabled Sunshiners, with free passage for cars and occupants. Dr. Frank R. Loope coordinates listings and transport.
A Seattle hotel project to cost 2,700,000 will launch Monday with an executive committee of 32 business leaders and a citizens' committee of 408 professionals selling 7 percent first mortgage gold bonds. Frank Waterhouse chairs the effort, teams will call on 16,000 residents over eight days, and daily luncheons will organize via Keller's skating rink. Honor awards reward bond sales milestones.
Warden Freeman, following an odd scent, discovered 16 gallons of beer mash and inmates working at two coffee pot stills inside a Rome, Georgia cell. The incident highlights a hidden illicit brewing setup within the facility.
Smoke from forest fires spread across the Pacific Northwest on July 15. Fires threaten Hood River and White Salmon, with crews flooding areas near Monte Santo and Aladdin as winds drive flames. Camp Lewis troops fight fires near American Lake. Timber and lumber companies report losses and advancing fronts across Grays Harbor, Whatcom Falls Park, and surrounding regions.
The Star and Anderson Supply Co adjust the competition after the Rev. Joshua Khamis’s absence from Woodland park’s Wayfarer sheep pageant. Photographs of the flock without the shepherd are eligible, with equal chances for top prizes, including $15, a $13.50 camera, and multiple cash awards plus enlargements.
Reports received by railroad executives show a sudden drop in summer vacation travel due to coal and rail strikes. Earlier, travel was heavy but curtailment of trains and fear of unsafe rail conditions have caused thousands to postpone their vacations.
Manila reports state two Japanese individuals, F. Fenji Bara and Momata Kanegaye, were arrested as suspected army spies. Both claimed they only took casual views. Filipino Intelligence officials are continuing the investigation into their activities aboard the Arizona Maru.
Orlando Edgar Miller, lecturer on psychology, claims he is Edison’s second cousin by marriage. A letter from Thomas A. Edison denying any knowledge of relationship was shown, while Miller asserts the possibility remains that Edison’s wife is a cousin to his father.
Seattle society buzzed as Hugh M. Caldwell Nile temple potentate announced the upcoming marriage of Nile Arizzi to J. Eriszita. The July 24 ceremony will be at Woodland Park Zoo with orange blossoms and hay vines and a 7 p m wedding time.
A traffic officer's report at city headquarters Saturday states a green car was tagged at the eastern entrance of City Hall. The owner was notified and Mayor Brown said the driver claimed not to think it was restricted and vowed not to repeat the action.
A decrepit woman in a New York subway station was detained after police found $1,854 sewn in her clothing. The arrest followed an in station complaint about panhandling.
Sixty armed men with 15 trucks raided the Foust distillery near Glenrock at dawn, taking 300 barrels of whisky and fleeing toward the Maryland line. Guard George Strine said he reported the incident after the raiders loaded the barrels onto trucks. The haul, valued at modern bootleg prices, would total in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Star invites 18 contestants to model bathing suits for Saxony Knitting Co Pacific Knitting Co and Olympia Knitting Co at the Bell street dock during July 24 to 29. Paid time Luncheons Made to order bathing suits for all entrants Three cash prizes 25 15 and 10 for top picks Call The Star city editor before July 20 for a sitting at Grady Studio.
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