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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
12
A Marseilles teen club of 13 men born on the 13th celebrated luck with an auto bearing the number 13 arriving at 1:13 p.m. The text notes 13 francs bets and 13,000 franc winnings at the roulette board, reflecting superstition surrounding the number 13.
Detroit June 3 A Michigan Episcopal bishop says he may resign as the church faces pressure over industry ties and funding. He argues the church should shift from monetary support to service and independence, even if it means reduced resources and being persecuted.
At the wedding of Miss Caroline Cummins Seward and Halsey Emory Crosby in Middletown New York the bride wore her grandmother s dress and wed in the same room her mother did. The cake was cut with the sword once carried by the bridegroom s father and later by the bridegroom in his navy service.
The Seattle Everett interurban will start half hour service from 7:30 a m to 7:30 p m daily, with hourly runs until midnight and extended half hourly service to 9 p m on Saturdays and Sundays. Trains depart Beat tle and Everett on the hour for limited runs and on the half hour for locals with stage connections to Mount Vernon and northern points and between Everett stations for Arlington Granite Falls and other towns. A stage depot is added at the expanded interurban station to link motor transport with the railway network reaching north to the Canadian boundary.
Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson announces a new Arctic dash aiming for the center of an unexplored ice field 360 miles from the North Pole. He expects 18 men, will assemble the expedition in New York, and believes weather and ice dynamics affect the pole’s position.
June 3 report from London states Col Heald is appointed assistant medical officer to inspect all passengers arriving at Croydon aerodrome to curb the spread of infectious disease carried by aliens arriving by air.
Mrs. Madeline Clyde of Seattle says Tanlac restored her help after two years of stomach trouble and rheumatic pain. She reports improved appetite, sleep, and strength, with back and chest pains gone, and praises the medicine and local Bartell Drug Stores for distribution.
Washington reports that Rafael de Montis is back in Seville while his wife, Myrtle de Montis of Gig Harbor, Wash., seeks him. Representative Albert Johnson notified her after international inquiry. De Montis claimed he was unmarried in Spain and free under Spanish law. The royal minister of state in Spain has commented on the matter.
The Sisters of the House of the Good Shepherd appeal for roses to support their work. The home cares for 190 children aged 15 months to 18 years, mostly orphans, with a department for delinquent girls. Since establishment, the home has aided 8,000 girls and carries a debt, prompting the annual fundraising roses event this Saturday.
Taka gis, a famed Owaka, Japan newspaper owner, told a Rainier club luncheon that the press can foster peace between the United States and Japan. He praised American papers for studying Orient issues and banishing prejudice at the publicity bureau of the Chamber of Commerce event.
Atlantic City reports Dr. W. Gelsten told New Jersey dentists at the convention that tobacco chewing can keep teeth healthy. The claim was presented during the state dental gathering in New Jersey.
A harsh fitting room scene exposes a fitter belittling customers over size and looks. Frances Boardman notes a barrage of degrading remarks about figure height and style, leaving patrons humiliated and questioning their right to be seen.
Miss Orcella Rexford, a cook psychologist from Los Angeles, told 900 women at a conference that red dining rooms provoke anger and illness in some diners. She noted warm colors like orange red pink and yellow heighten emotion while blue black white and green tend to calm. Children should choose their own colors.
A London shoe firm has installed an X ray machine to let customers see whether new boots or shoes fit. The device promises to show how well a shoe conforms to the foot, offering a new fitting method as of June in London.
Bing the fox terrier leaped 1,500 feet from an airplane at Cantte Field in a stunt to prove dogs can carry messages when planes cannot land. He freed himself from his harness after landing, outmaneuvered a guard dog, and delivered a pouch message to a headquarters. Pilot Sergeant A. G. Shde maker oversaw the drop aimed at testing canine message delivery.
Provisional figures show births down by over 61 000 from last year’s first quarter and the birth rate, excluding the war, is the lowest on record for any first quarter. Deaths also declined to the smallest first-quarter total since 1868.
Emma V Perkins also known as Emma Desmartas, 24, arrested by Lynn and Boston police at a Boston restaurant on an Essex county grand jury indictment for bigamy. She says husband John B Desmarais deserted her. he claims she was previously married in Maine. Authorities note two children live in Hampshire with her father. she remains in Salem jail.
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