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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
8
Washington reports heavy public urges to cut taxes as letters flood congress. Lawmakers fear voter anger may outpace war costs and national debt, prompting avoidance of broad tax cuts and pursuit of bond funding while trimming navy spending and negotiating debt financing options.
Police search Friday for Bert A. Turner who forfeited $100 in Justice John B. Gordon's court and faced trial on a charge related to attacking County Auditor D. E. He was issued a warrant for his arrest. Turner, formerly employed in the auditor's office, had been discharged for inefficiency and is alleged to have visited the office about a month ago and knocked out two of Ferguson’s teeth.
A forest cabin robbery suspect is held as a fugitive on charges tied to the incident. The man escaped the night before as deputy U S marshal John Mann attempted to escort him to the penitentiary.
W Sprague Harold Johns and G C Gilpin pleaded guilty before Presiding Judge Dykeman on Thursday. They were accused of occupying a bootlegger’s automobile from which a shot was fired Friday morning on the highway, striking Deputy E Murphy in the left.
Seattle cooperates with Yakima and Wenatchee to revive an Apple Show once led by Col. Howard A. Hanson. State development officials and 2 014 apple growers representatives from the Pacific Northwest meet Thursday to plan the event.
In Hurley Wisconsin a saloonkeeper wagers Wil Jalo 1000 dollars he cannot carry a thousand silver dollars from Hurley to Bessemer seven miles away. Jalo accepts and takes the money in a sack held in his outstretched hands. He completes the challenge and wins.
An Austrian war prisoner returning from Iberia attempted to dispose of a watch and jewels he claimed were from the Bolsheviks. Police learned the items were heirlooms of the empress’s family.
Nine year old Samuel Reeschewski from Poland astonishes observers by playing up to a dozen opponents simultaneously and defeating players from nations including West Point. He learned chess at five and now tours the world with his parents, due in Seattle this week to demonstrate at Standard Furniture store.
Milwaukee June 3 William Menke bet $1 he could keep his hand in a dish of cracked ice and salt for three minutes He won but will lose three fingers due to frostbite in the incident at a local fairground attraction
Viscount Curzon, husband of the English Queen of Beauty, was fined for driving a motor car at a speed dangerous to the public at Melington tournament. The court proved eleven previous convictions, five from last year, and ordered his license suspended.
Paris reports abolishing the piano tax and moving to an elevator and stair carpet levy. Citizens ask who pays and how the burden will be shared, especially ground floor residents with no elevator or carpet use.
A man selling newspapers on Sunday was arrested in Wellsburg on charges of violating the Sunday blue laws. Church members protested the enforcement, creating a tense scene over the restriction.
In New York on June 3 Rev Christian F Reisner of the Chelsea MB church warned that women are rapidly supplanting men as experts in profanity. He cited subway and home conversations showing highly explosive exclamations by women.
The 1921 grape prices set $90 a ton for wine grapes with high colored juices, up from $70 last year. Burgers at $96 per ton, white grapes $60, and leading black varieties at $70.
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