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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1919
Page
9
Extensive sale of corsets and waists with reduced prices. Children’s underwaists drop to 75c and 50c for muslin varieties. Women’s corsets include Bien Jolie Grecian Treco and Modart models from $4.95 to $5.95, with multiple sizes and garters included.
Clearance sale features 21 knit underwear sets for children with cotton mesh fabric and Dutch neck options. Union suits in ankle and long sleeve styles reduced to 2.50 dollars, sizes 22 and 26 available.
The city council passed an emergency traffic ordinance after noon Monday to tighten downtown rules. It restricts rush hour parking, bans parking for hire cars in their usual spots, and creates special parking areas.
The board authorized new industrial centers for Cascade Coe Webster Warren Whitworth B F Day and Youngstown schools plus a center in University district to ease congestion at University Heights and McDonald schools. Charles Kirkpatrick, former Broadway high principal, resigns for health reasons. E Fleming elected successor at 3600 annually.
In France at La Rochelle during the war, 63 local brides wed foreign soldiers. Americans took 23, Belgium 19, with Italians 5 and English 3 among others. The tally shows American doughboys leading in wartime nuptial matches.
Ruth Miller head nurse at St. Matthew's Red Cross hospital will marry Francis P. Watts Burlingame branch manager of Watts Electrical Colony The couple met when Watts was a patient at the hospital Watts son of F W Watts of San Francisco is a former Stanford student The bride to be is a daughter of Carlton Miller Oakland and formerly lived in Chico Sacramento July 29 bees prevent taking honey from Governor Stephens mansion attic The yardman and state horticultural officials Bronte A Reynolds observe the swarm
A wartime memoir recounts siege and revolution in Petrograd with scenes of gunfire police clashes and a fatal blaze. The narrator describes hunger raids jail arrest and a tragic death of a girl who manned a machine gun and perished as soldiers burned the courtyard.
Mrs. Ruth Phipps, 20, convicted last Thursday of conspiring to aid in the escape of William Tilgham Jr from a deputy U S marshal, will not serve time if Judge Jeremiah Neterer finds another institution for her. She is unable to post $2,500 bail and is back in King County jail until sentencing on September 1.
London reports that five thousand rats were killed in the Isle of Wight over three months. The county council paid 9 cents per rat destroyed as the pest control program continues.
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