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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1921
Page
5
A garbled mix of classified listings covers repairs, rentals, employment, pets, furniture, auction notices, and autos. It includes calls for help finding a lost dog, piano tuning, rental inquiries, furniture deals, and several car for sale entries with various prices and contact hints.
Real estate and rooming listings across Seattle area. Ads describe 2 and 3 room homes, bungalow and semi-modern houses with basements, features include water, gas, furnaces, fruit trees, and convenient locations near avenues like Leary, Broadway, and Third Ave. Several properties offer owner terms and cash-down options with calls for appointments.
Misa Emilie J. Wella and Dr. James Bennett Greene of the National Hospital for Speech Disorders call baby talk a crime against childhood. They warn the average American uses mumbled jargon and that early teaching habits contribute to speech sickness in children.
Miss Emilie J. Wells and Dr James Bennett Greene head a free clinic for speech defects and advocate a National Hospital for Speech Detectives. They warn baby talk harms children and promote strict language teaching to prevent stuttering, citing 3,200 treated and 2,000 awaiting care.
Hydrolized sawdust fed as stock food increases dairy output per cow according to Dr Butler findings at a national forest policy hearing. University of Michigan trials showed 7 to 8 dollar per ton production, with further work needed on Douglas fir as a feed and paper material.
Patrolman Knapp found a machine gun and a belt of ammunition leaning against the Lumber Exchange building Friday night. The weapon was brought to police HQ. Saturday two soldiers claimed the gun was theirs, arguing they had watched it all along, while police questioned their care.
The social Purity committee after seven months’ investigation issued a serious indictment of Bombay morals. Nine hundred disorderly houses were located and terrorism of the worst sort existed with many inmates living in a state of slavery.
ARLES France July local authorities allocate 5000 to protect fields from invading air swarms of locusts. Citizens fear damage as crops suffer under the pest invasion.
A platoon of Canadian geese sighted over the Sound prompts speculation on their origin and the season. Some claim an early fall omen while others doubt the reports, noting most geese are in Northern Canada with their young. R. B. Nason of the State Sportsmen's association questions the sightings.
Edward Metzdorf of Seattle is held in Vancouver British Columbia charged with the murder of Mrs Alma Sampson. Investigators say Sampson was killed in a hotel about a year ago with a monkey wrench in a robbery motive. Metzdorf was lured to Canada by Vancouver detectives and later arraigned in Vancouver awaiting trial. He served in the navy early in the war but was dishonorably discharged and is noted to have a long criminal record.
A letter from Daddy Draper of the Des Moines Draper Children's home describes a 22 child and 4 adult caravan traveling in three large autos through Western Washington and Oregon. They camp nightly and perform the drama Bobby the Newsboy in several towns. In Portland officials and locals aided the visit before returning for the fall term.
Joseph Miller, renter of the McKay Annex on Seventh Avenue, was evicted to the sidewalk after a restitution of premises order due to $349 in unpaid rent. Miller claims rent was current and cites desire for lower terms. 46 of 56 rooms were vacated along with furniture valued at over $8,000, half of which has been sold. The annex, built by D. R. and M. P. McKay and managed by West and Wheeler brokers, housed about 46 tenants.
Rolly Faulkner and Dewey Anderson, alleged members of an international booze-running gang, were held in King County jail Saturday after being brought from Port Angeles by Deputy U S Marshal Tobey. A third man, said to be skipper of the booze launch, may be George Livingston. Another two men are sought as gang members. F C Reagan, assistant U S attorney, investigates in Port Angeles.
Dismissal of the suit by the Internal Revenue Service to collect 5719.04 transportation tax from King County ferry system is sustained by Federal Judge E. E. Cushman in a decree filed Saturday.
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