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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1921
Page
5
A collage of help wanted and sales notes. Includes job ads for piano playing, routes, and candy company work, plus numerous rental listings, real estate offers, and miscellaneous goods for sale. Contains scattered addresses and contact hints across cities like Philadelphia and Seattle.
Will exchange Lot 2, Block 14, Summit Heights addition for certificates of deposit at Scandinavian Bank. Includes additional lots and acreage in Hallard area. Also seeks exchange for a 9 room home near Chicago valued at $5,000 with Seattle Bonnet trade. Contact Bunset 1515 for details. D Clark 1016 rec Ave Eliott 3765. Far ms City Property Everywhere A G Millis.
Classified style notices list land for sale and rental offers across Washington state towns. Items mention 10 acre and 16 acre tracts near Stanwood, Renton, and Wenatchee, with prices and terms. additional entries include farms, cottages, and loans. Names of offices and streets, plus various real estate and service ads appear in a sprawling OCR fragment.
Eight men were arrested during raids on Friday night at the Union hotel room and a second location. In the Union hotel raid, Gua Stolzer 34 a sailor KR Johnson 34 longshoreman H H Olson 38 logger and John Budd 25 were taken into custody while a $68 265 pot was revealed and a shot fired by Twohig. In the 215 First Ave raid, Tom Wright 26 miner Guy Buchanan 60 barber John Conklin 60 cook and George Moser 32 laborer were held on gambling charges in 25 bond each.
Bronze tokens valued at 40 cents remain in circulation as returns to the railway department continue. Charlie Chambers, cashier, said about $100 worth of old tokens are turned in each month despite a fare raise six months ago.
More than 100 tons of pine tar are listed in the cargo of a steamship operating on the Bwane and Hoyt line between Puget Sound and the Gulf of Mexico, which arrived here on Thursday.
Thelma Stermberger aged 13 months, daughter of J K Stermberger, 100th Street and Woodland Park, suffered a possible fatal fall from a bed early Saturday. While the mother dressed the child, the infant fell about eight feet and may have a fractured skull. She remained conscious since the incident and was operated on immediately to try to save her life.
The Headquarters for the Association of the Unemployed relocates from the Labor temple to 98 Madison Street. An announcement Saturday lists the new contact telephone as Elliott 6047.
King county judges begin summer recess on Saturday July 16 and run until September 3. Courts will operate on an alternating five day schedule during the break and no regular trials will be held until the fall term resumes.
Freight rates for imports including hemp jute flax fibers and various foods are lowered effective August 3 after advice from St Paul headquarters to the local office of the C M & St P railroad. The notice covers vegetable fish nut seed and whale oil butter and dressed poultry among items eligible for the reduced rates.
Captain H M Guptill veteran of the Civil War died Friday at the Old Soldiers home in Orting. His widow and five children survive him. He is the father of Captain James F E Guptill master of the Wenatchee. Funeral planned at Fort Angeles likely Sunday.
Omaha report states one person drowned in a flood after a cloudburst near Harrison and Andrews. The incident underscores sudden river overflow and peril to residents in the area.
Rev. Clark Durea of Monticello tells reporters he cannot stop his wife from eloping with Earl Van Noy. He will not seek divorce and plans to pray for her sin and leave authorities to handle the situation, saying the couple’s separation has long been brewing.
Andrew Johnson who died after eating strychnine sandwiches in a Albany hotel may have killed himself to test a theory that the dead can communicate with the living Police say. A note to his sweetheart Miss Pearl Nelson hints at possible contact through Mr Edison’s machine Spiritualists await a demonstration and speculate on who Johnson might contact death.
British papers quote a Boston undertaker's ad from an American publication offering to sculpt a corpse’s features for $1 to $5. Prices cover a simple look of resignation at $2 a quiet look at $5 for contentment as per the book promotion from July.
New York reporter notes Harry Clark had his wife arrested after she refused to reveal where she obtained a quart of cognac. He posted $600 bail to secure her release, while a mention of pumpkin flour markets follows.
Mrs. Clara Justus charged with insanity fought two deputy sheriffs and two county jail matrons when arrested Thursday night. She locked herself in a houseboat at 114 Edgar St and threatened to kill her 9 year old daughter. Deputies Sears and Hill crawled through a window to subdue her and she was taken to Northern hospital at Sedro-Woolley Saturday morning.
In Croydon England on July 16 a local airplane school opened offering flight training at forty dollars per hour. The program promises to teach students to operate as a ship in three hours and offers post graduate courses with stunts such as loop the loop for those with more funds.
Bavarian hotel owners and staff petitioned the industrial commission for legislation to abolish tips and replace them with a national service charge. The commission said it has no power to act.
The Dutch government rebuilt Lens France presenting the city after destroying occupation damage. Over 300 dwellings were constructed to replace wartime losses. Before the war Lens housed about 24 000 inhabitants.
Seattle patrols pursue a 60 mph fleeing auto through city streets for 15 miles. Sergeant W S Smith fires four shots damaging rear wheels to stop the 12 cylinder Enget car driven by W M McCall, 32, telegraph operator, who cannot explain his flight and is held on an open investigation.
In Great Falls Montana July 16 a riot prompted mayor Armour to seek aid after a thousand sympathizers stormed the city jail. Eight women pickets were arrested for pepper throwing. two sought safety among the crowd as police dispersed the mob. Strikers and city workers agreed to return to work under arbitration-set wages.
Alice Barton, a 14 year old girl missing since Wednesday evening from 510 North 47th Street, was found Friday night on Second Avenue near a downtown hotel. Patrolman A. J. Hill returned her to the juvenile detention home after learning she had left with plans to meet her stepfather and was en route to a restaurant.
Mrs. Helen Hemming, widow of Henry Glover Hemming, will not be charged in the broker's murder. Assistant District Attorney Patridge said no action against her is planned. Hemming tried to calm her husband as trouble with caretaker Frank Eberhardt grew before Hemming’s death. The caretaker, once discharged, had a troubled history with Hemming. Hemming’s wife, 49, witnessed the shooting and was born in Galveston, Texas.
The Building Owners and Managers Association commends Fire Chief George Mantor to Mayor Caldwell for boosting Seattle’s fire department efficiency and declaring the city well protected against fire nationwide.
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