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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1919
Page
22
Fifty garments remain from earlier selections offering many capes and coats in various fabrics and sizes. Items include navy serge dolmans, velour capes, satin capes, gaberdine capes, and tricotine dolmans priced around 28 dollars. Sizes range from 16 to 42 with multiple navy, tan, and black pieces available.
A rainy night tale recounts One-One, a lonely boy nicknamed Page page, who admires a war bonnet and learns to craft a wickiup from branches, robe, and corn husk lashings under his mother’s taught guidance. The scene links to tribal life and a possible Boy Scouts parallel.
Peter Rabbit meets Chut-Chut the Chat Warbler a cautious bright yellow throated bird. Chut-Chut shows off a rich whistle concert then chats with Peter before vanishing. Mummer the Yellow-throat adds nest location notes and compares own nesting habits. Next story teaser: A Home in a Bunch of Moss.
Washington July 25 Lack of funds and high operating costs threaten continuation of some railway lines. James D Mortimer president of the North American Company and the Milwaukee Electric Railway Company told the federal electric railways commission. Mortimer criticized the Wisconsin railroad commission for dilatory handling of petitions and for long delays in decisions on filings.
H T Finch 53 of 4022 Eastern Ave was struck by a one man streetcar at 40th and Eastern Ave. Operator J M Folkee 4336 Sunset Pl was in charge. Finch says he hailed the car but it sped 25 to 30 mph and did not stop. He was badly bruised.
Grandpa recalls a December day when ants swarmed from a hollow log chunk in the barn. A frightened boy sweeps the vermin into the stove, gets stung, and endures a swelling but is praised by his mother upon her return.
New York reports Thomas Austin Yawkey, a regular sixteen year old, will receive twenty million dollars from his uncle's estate. He is described as sports-minded, preferring football and Latin study to movies and cars. The piece notes his uncle once owned part of the Detroit Tigers.
London investigators traced 20 of 46 fires in 12 hours to dropped lights. Fire brigade officials said the term refers to matches used to light cigarettes or pipes, explaining their role in sparking blazes.
Cleveland reports the first month of air mail between Cleveland and Chicago without a break. A total of 780000 pieces of mail were carried with fifteen planes and seven pilots. The average speed was 101 miles per hour and the record flight took two hours and forty nine minutes.
Visitors to the Zoological gardens rise sharply with 72,000 more guests in the latest month than the prior year. Total for the year reaches 847,672, up 440,166, signaling a strong leisure rebound after the war.
New York July 25 Charles Pond made a 155 yard hole in one on the 12th at Gedney Farms, breaking the links record with a 73 two strokes over par.
Notting ham is reported to suffer extensive damage from the ermine moth. Many fruit trees are denuded of nearly all fruit and all remedial measures have failed.
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