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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1921
Page
10
A reflective piece notes how the four year wartime fervor faded and asks why four minute speakers on election hustings fail to address unemployed veterans. It recalls Kipling on humanity and comments on the changing public mood and support.
Four year old Bobbie Ridgley disappeared from his Renton home Monday afternoon. His mother and Miss Mae Connelly, his aunt, mislocated him until late evening. Renton city marshal and a deputy sheriff investigated for hours before locating the boy asleep in a chicken coop.
Pallard will stage a farewell for Frankie Kiolet Miss Ballard and winner of The Star Universal beauty contest. A parade with decorated cars will escort the big machine Miss Kiolet rides in. Farewell exercises follow at the Majestic theatre after the parade leaves the Elks club at 7 15. Ballard Commercial club and others cooperate with the Elks.
Business leaders contribute to a campaign to raise 24500 dollars for the Benton Franklin inter county bridge over the Columbia between Pasco and Kennewick. The project would open a corridor from Ellensburg to Colfax and include parts of Idaho and Oregon, linking a growing farming region.
The special coal strike committee examines whether high prices come from too many middlemen. Of about 200 Seattle retail dealers, fewer than 75 are track dealers who deliver coal directly to bunkers. Robert Harlan states overhead must be cut to compete with foreign coal.
In REMSCHEID Germany on June 7 a high school stirred by a student soviet strike for 10 days. School heads suspended the soviet members and parents later disciplinarily punished the youths with birch rods before classes returned to normal.
Lemuel L. Bolles national adjutant of the American Legion will speak at the Fourth of July celebration in University stadium. Bolles, a former Seattle resident and former member of the Washington Guard, was reported locally.
The Matsonia arrived in San Francisco at 1015 a m bearing Mrs Lydia Southard from Honolulu to face murder charges in Twin Falls Idaho. She is accused of killing four husbands and her brother in law and is under escort by deputy sheriff W H Ormsby and Mrs Ormsby of Twin Falls. She denies the poisonings, claiming typhoid fever caused her husbands' deaths.
Dr. Christopher Schott plans a handsome monument over the grave of Elizabeth Ford Griffith a 17 year old found shot to death in his office a year ago He was cleared by a grand jury and after estrangement with the girl's parents a reconciliation was reached and her body was moved to the physician's family lot.
Judge Boyd J. Tallman denied citizenship to three men after federal examiner John Speed Smith showed they claimed draft exemption as non citizens despite having taken first papers during the war. The men are George Olaf Olsen, Sigvard Julseth, and Carl Victor Holmquist. Olsen and Julseth are natives of Norway and Holmquist of Sweden.
John B. Burnham of the American Game Protective Association and Andrew Taylor, pioneer Alaskan, will depart Seattle for Nome Alaska on Wednesday. They intend to cross into Siberia by pack horse route and travel about a thousand miles in search of a new mountain sheep species. Burnham leads the association and the expedition aims for scientific discovery.
Madge Anna Sawyer, recently acquitted of murder in Seattle, testified before a coroner's jury in Vancouver linking W. D. Grant to a manslaughter charge. The jury held Grant in bail at four thousand dollars pending outcome after noting Miss G. E. Garland died from injuries in Grant's automobile wreck two weeks earlier. Mrs. Sawyer attended on crutches.
The Rhodes Company presents Laine, Poiret twill, Velour, Polo Scotch Tweeds in a broad color selection. Available sizes range from 16 to 40. Special pricing or terms may apply.
A store advertises 700 yards of cretonne on the lower Main Floor in assorted light and dark colors with prices previously $1.00 to $1.50 now 95 cents a yard. Also offered are 275 pairs of 16 button silk gloves in white mastic and pongee, sizes 5 1/2 to 7 1/4, formerly $2.50 to $2.85, with a special Wednesday deal.
Northwest Products made in Seattle offer tuxedo vest sets in organ die with lace trimming and matching fichu and sash. Prices range from 1 75 to 8 00, plus a complete display of white hose and varied stockings for women and children in white, lace, silk, and lisle, with colors and styles highlighted for summer wear.
Four Seattle women were elected to attend the Grand Circle session of the Neighbors of Woodcraft in Portland. They are Mrs. Josephine McLaughlin Palm circle No. 66 Mrs. Lulu Conner Seattle circle No. 549 Mis Elnora Chute South Park circle No. 639 and Mrs. Janet De Long Olympic circle No. 87. The session begins June 11 in Portland.
In preparation for carrying air mail between Seattle and Victoria the post office department seeks sealed bids for the contract expiring June 30. Bids will be received at the local office until June 20 and in Washington until June 25.
Ina Cross of Everett and Mrs Ida Filler of Bellingham were among those chosen in the event or committee referenced in the article fragment.
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