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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1921
Page
4
Washington reports that nearly 100,000 women are helping to build, maintain, and operate railroads. The 1920 census showed women at about five percent of 2,000,000 railway employees, with growth continuing into 1921 across heavy and light tasks including engine cleaning, telegraph work, dispatch messaging, and shop carpentry.
The third class in advanced navigation under the U S Shipping Board opens at the University of Washington on Monday. Thirty places remain for licensed deck officers of the American merchant marine to join.
A jumble of names and addresses lists marriage licenses and vital statistics. Entries mention residents of Seattle Issaquah and nearby areas with names such as Lege Vier Edith India Gost, Jennie Frank H, Louise Gates, Elliott Oliver Gatton, Frances Louise Prem, Harold Lee, Margery Heisler, Elmer Merritt, Anna Kerns, Edythe Swanson, Georgie Wright, and many others alongside street addresses and city notes.
William K. Sheldon Jr. of Pacific Net & Twine Co is elected president of the Sound Maritime Circle. Charles Schmutsa is first vice president, W. E. Warrick treasurer, and A. Berglund re elected secretary. Installation to follow at Hotel Butler cafe. Retiring president Joseph B. Mehan thanks members for support. Also a listing seeks buyers for 285 wooden weasels from the government with possible uses as pontoon or breakwater.
Weather bureau notes show rising tides and cloudy thick air at Tatoosh Island with south wind at 14 miles per hour. A four mast schooner passed during the night and the steamer Wapamea was observed at 10 a m. at Port Angeles.
Alaskan ships pass to Seward and Juneau with southbound departures and morning calls. In other ports ships arrive from Seattle and Beattie, with multiple routes to Manila Shanghai Kobe Yokohama and Aberdeen detailing vessel names and timings.
Wireless U. 6 Naval Comm stations report July 29 status of ships and docks from San Francisco to Seattle. Vessels in port include Keystone at Mick Ke, Lurline at Sacramento, Westward Ho near Delrese, and Cube Cuburra at Eldridge Ames Yard. Small coins perforated with the letter A noted as street car fare.
The item lists bank clearings with several figures: 3,750,068.00 835,661.00 1,563,076.00 596,059.00 361,451.00 and a final 7,134.00. No explicit date or institution names. Indicates a financial ledger snapshot or table fragment.
New York July 90 openings show mixed fractional advances as investors react to earnings outlooks. Studebaker gains on anticipated reports while steel and railroad stocks fluctuate with United States Steel rising at 74, Pacific and Southern Pacific mixed, and United Fruit and American Telephone advancing in early prices. Closing prices show varied gains and losses across major issues.
Chicago reports a mixed session with wheat closing fractionally higher after a weak start caused by elevator congestion and July longs seeking to eat. Corn opened weak but recovered some and oats stayed near unchanged. December futures and cash prices show modest gains amid light trade.
Wholesale fruit and vegetable markets saw little new arrival on Saturday as old stock was cleared. Watermelons dropped to 3 cents a pound, canta loupea from Wapato expected by August 5, and Yakima canta prices ranged from 1.25 to 5 dollars per crate depending on grade. Avocados and mangoes from Florida arrived in small shipments with prices at 12 dollars a dozen and 4 dollars a dozen respectively. Oregon squash sold for 6 cents a pound and green corn demand remained strong with fancy stock at 4.25 dollars per crate. butter and eggs held steady with no change.
Quotations cover cattle weights and prices for heavy medium and light cattle, packing cows and sows, calves, steers and heifers with figures like heavy packing cows at 9.56 to 10, feeder steers 5 to 7.25, stocker cows 3.50 to 5.50, lambe 1.25 to 16.40, yearling wethers 5.25, and various sheep prices. Also notes sugar and coffee prices and foreign exchange rates with sterling at 3.56 and lire at 9.0423.
Market nominal for cattle and pigs with mixed lot prices. Prime steers quoted at 12.50 to 15.00, heavies 6.50 to 11.50, calves 5.60 to 11.00, canners and yes related hogs noted with 12.10 for silage and other odd terms. Readers see multiple animal categories with varied price bands and sparse consignments.
Today's cattle market showed weakness across categories with steers at 668.50 and cows and heifers 5.60 to 7.60 per hundredweight. Wreckers and feeders brought 4.25 to 5.50, calves 4.59 to 4. Also reported receipts around 500, top 16 60, bulk 9 to 10.60, and Lambe ewes 4 to 6 with a 25 cent drop.
Police Chief William H. Searing vows to clean up Seattle after a supreme court ruling on the silent salesmen gambling device. He says a campaign will force operators to surrender the devices and punch boards, with violators prosecuted.
Word reached Saturday that the supreme court at Olympia reversed the superior court ruling convicting Harry Greenwall proprietor of Motor Inn as a jointer. The reversal cites improper jury instruction at the first trial.
Washington July 30 Henry Ford's offer to the Mussel Shoals Alabama government plant for fertilizer manufacture has been recommended to Secretary of War Weeks by Major General Lanning H Beach chief of engineers, United Press learned today.
Everett Pekosky of Seattle and Sarah Mae Powell of Liverpool England wed after meeting overseas.
July 30 Cedar Rapids sees Detective Frank Wilson killed and Officers William Milke and James Bailey wounded by John Broksmit an electrician who, cornered by police, became violent and fired multiple shots. Wilson died, Bailey and Milke hospitalized with non life threatening injuries.
JOLIET IL July 30 Governor Len Small Illinois indicted governor is traveling to Springfield next week to finish touring county roads and face indictments charging him with embezzlement of state funds.
In Tokyo on July 30 younger Japanese diplomats oppose militarists and elder statesmen. They state Japan has weakened its world power by making reservations in accepting President Harding's invitation to the Washington conference on disarmament and Pacific problems.
Tokyo July 30. During a clash between striking shipyard workers at Kobe and police, 100 persons were injured. The injured include about 80 strikers and 20 police. The mob reportedly numbered 13 000. Police dispersed the crowd by charging with drawn swords.
San Francisco dispatch reports Congress outlawed cost-plus contracts but the U S Shipping Board continues funneling taxpayer funds into cost-plus pockets. In Pacific ports repairs use inflated labor rates with 36 percent of charges flowing to repair firms. Across Seattle Jacksonville Savannah and other hubs costs rise with little board notification of reform.
Adolfo Braconi the San Francisco consul says Seattle manufacturers supply San Francisco brokers who control South American sales by repeatedly presenting Seattle goods. Fracons has returned from a tour promoting Seattle firms' interests in South American commerce, noting brokers often substitute their own label to keep Seattle in customers’ view.
Republican leaders in the senate face pressure to rewrite the Fordney tariff bill as valuation disputes ignite drag on the measure. A Tuesday senate finance committee clash on customs duties could force the bill to pivot to the foreign valuation standard if the American valuation plan is discarded. Some authorities forecast Ne radium staying in the world decades hence.
A detailed program synopsis outlines a staged Easter pageant titled The Wayfarer and The Nativity at Wartwon. It lists acts from Prologue through Epilogue, including The Babylonian Captivity Birth of Christ Triumphal Entry The Crucifixion Resurrection and The Golden Age with ensemble roles and production credits.
Fragmentary report indicates actions affecting Polson County residents after a show ending with closures and a reference to work and advertisement. No clear names, dates, or organizations are readable.
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