Cat laundered and tagged returns to dock
A white cat sought warmth at Alder Street and crawled into a steam laundry bundle from the steamer Georgiana. After a bath the cat was tagged, charged, and sent back asleep at the dock in Portland Oregon.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1921
Page
10
A white cat sought warmth at Alder Street and crawled into a steam laundry bundle from the steamer Georgiana. After a bath the cat was tagged, charged, and sent back asleep at the dock in Portland Oregon.
Three year old Carmelia Corapolo, daughter of Bryant rancher Charles Corapolo, was found in a swamp about a mile from home. James McGrath located her after 21 hours of searching by Arlington residents. She was exhausted but unharmed, bathed, fed, and reunited with her mother.
A Seattle school board special meeting set for 7:20 tonight in the Central building will hear the tax reduction council present its final report on Seattle school administration. The council urges sweeping cuts including Ira Brown’s medical inspector salary from 53 500 to 19 520 and reducing nurses from 23 to 19 with lower salaries. elimination of the assistant inspector post.
The War Department lists high grade Air Service surplus at a fraction of original cost. It includes thousands of motors 111 planes and spare parts and accessories with engines from 200 dollars to 100 dollars for some motors. Planes priced from 100 to 1000 dollars, some without motors or suitable for classroom work or overhaul.
A car used by four bandits in robbing Leland Higbee, bank messenger, was found parked on 7th Ave between Pike and Union Sts. The vehicle, stolen from engineer Guy C. Howard, was identified by plate 111508. Police suspect the car was driven to the country after the $25,000 robbery and later returned.
A coroner's jury finds the Deaths of Mrs. Joasie Waugh and Mrs. O. B. Hademark from a Renton Seattle street car accident unavoidable. The minority blamed motorman inefficiency, signed by one juror.
Telegrams from all over King County protest the plan to move the proposed Northwest naval aviation base from Sand Point to Camp Lewis. Messages target Lin H. Hadley and John F. Miller, highlighting local opposition to the relocation.
Albert Johnson and John Collins, vaudeville performers, were arrested on first degree forgery charges said to have been preferred in Los Angeles.
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