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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
10
Real estate entries for Ames area include several clean modern cottages near shipyard with prices from 1,280 to 2,260 plus terms, a beachfront mainland property priced at 400 with owner terms, and multiple near-city homes on easy payments. Also job ads for female help, dress and coat sales, and child care opportunities appear alongside real estate items.
On Sunday at p.m. under United Irish societies Miss Kathleen O' Brennan of Dublin Ireland will discuss Ireland Today at the W O W hall Fourth and Marion.
Special lectures by Mrs Vernon Kellogg, representative of the Food Administration, detail her Belgium experience during the Hun invasion. She speaks at a Sunset club luncheon, a public meeting at Treadway high school, and a lecture at First Methodist Church. Wheat from local farms may be milled for human use. shipments of dressed poultry eggs and butter are allowed June 1 to September 15 in 20,000 pound lots.
City hall workers will host soldiers and sailors at a June 15 and 16 event at the soldiers and sailors club on Yourth Ave and Cherry. Secretary Conklin appointed a committee of six women from city offices to lead, with Civil Service league support.
Charles Couch, former cashier of Union Savings & Trust, was sentenced by Judge Hoyd Tallman to a state penitentiary term of one to 10 years after pleading guilty to falsifying entries. The judge noted leniency appeals influenced the relatively light sentence.
Stall by stall items at Pike Place market include sugar cane, milk, corn meal, beef cuts, veal, soap, canned goods, soap, cereal, matches, prunes, toilet paper, baking powder, milk brands, citrus powder, washing powder, cheese, butter, margarine, and bulk coffees. Prices range from fractions of a dollar to a few dollars.
A group of prominent New York women launches a national drive to send powdered milk to France, aiming for a ton daily. The plan, quoting “Milk powder and gun powder, of equal value,” has French officials promising transport across the ocean and through France. The dry milk, endorsed by physicians, requires only hot water to mix and keeps well without ice. The first shipment of 25 tons is already prepared, with a hay rack tour by actresses collecting pennies nickels and stamps at busy city corners. The committee operates from 675 Fifth Ave New York.
Marie Scalia of San Francisco faced the loss of a diploma when her father killed a man he blamed for their misfortune. With her mother ill and siblings to support, she gave up graduation to become the family breadwinner, illustrating how a diploma can be valued more deeply after tragedy.
The naval training station on the UW campus will be closed to visitors after Saturday, with Sunday the last day for public viewing from 1 to 4 p.m. The camp commander issued the order and the facility likely will remain closed for wartime duration.
Judge John Jurey ruled the Washington courts would not waste time returning a hall to I W W members. The hearing was on a demurrer in a case by Charles Bernat against Police Chief Joel Warren seeking a court order to restore the I W W hall on South Second Ave.
A stranger showed a pearl as big as a hazelnut in a West Plains shop. Mel Fry bought the pearl and two experts later offered 2500 dollars if it proved perfect, an offer that was refused.
C Kinnear Company and the Brawley State Company filed Saturday for an injunction against the city to stop the construction of an elevated railway extending from Holgate Street to Hind Street.
In Norman Wardall’s private office a midnight wedding joined nurse Mabel V. Miller and her former patient Joseph C. Abear. Abear, a Canadian American, served seven months in French trenches and was wounded at the Somme before returning to Canada for convalescence.
Dr Henry Van Dyke chaplain and writer told naval training camp men on Saturday morning that we must lick the devil out of the Kaiser and cannot make an agreement with a constitutional law.
Cows entered Hector Hanson’s war garden at 2910 Tenth Ave causing destruction by chewing lettuce spinach onions and radishes. A separate note mentions Claudie Maxine Rogers hosting a lawn party for 50 children to benefit the French war relief fund.
A burglar robbed Capt. H. Finley of a $50 Liberty Bond at 1188 15th Ave Friday night.
A thief stole the five passenger car of Officer Rh Van Buskirk from under the Yester way bridge at Yourth avenue on Friday night. The vehicle is described as a blue model with a dented rear bumper and license plate missing. Police urge witnesses to come forward with information.
A seven passenger car belonging to Dr H J Leng was stolen from its position at Sixth and Pike Street on Friday. The car, registered to Car olina Court with offices in the Green building, was taken from its parking spot.
A $500000 plant for building marine engines will be developed on six acres at Balmon Way in Seattle, creating 256 to 400 skilled jobs. The Gujousen Greil Engine Co. of Norway plans to produce fleet engines and later larger auxiliary schooner engines, with construction to start within weeks and completion in three to four months.
The 3 000 ton wooden steamship Fondaco was launched at the Sander son Porter Shipbuilding Co. yard in Raymond on Monday. An estimated 5 000 people witnessed the ceremony. The Alaska Steamship Co. liner Alameda departed Pier 2 Saturday with freight for interior Alaska ports. Capt Gustave F Swanson, master of Ketichkan, and Miss Clara Dayton were married last Thursday night at St Benedict s church Green Lake.
C. A. Dahlberg, 55, a driller for Skinner & Eddy, died after leaving a pot of coffee to boil on a gas flame at 424 Jefferson Street. The flame went out, gas escaped, and he suffocated. He was found after 18 hours by Dr. K L Simpson. Dahlberg leaves a son, Charles Dahlberg, who also works for Skinner & Eddy.
The United States Shipping Board reports 71 ships launched in May totaling 344 450 tons. Forty nine are steel with 225 750 tons and 32 are wood with 115 700 tons. May launches exceed April by 26 ships. England's record monthly tonnage was 102 931 tons in 1913.
The Norway- Pacific Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. starts a new Everett shipyard site with a large dry dock planned before building shipways. Crews and machinery arrived from Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge Co. and American Pile Driving Co. began operations.
San Francisco June 8 Every six weeks 400 men will be sent from the training ship Iris to man the new merchant marine per an announcement by Capt Isaac N Hibbard of the United States shipping board sea service. Worker killed in fall from bunker 60 feet at Drummond Lighterage plant Max Murphy 35 laborer died Friday night.
Karl McCormick a 34 year old shipyard worker at the Riverside plant of Erickson Construction was seriously injured at 4 a m Saturday when a crane boom fell on him as he unloaded a flat car crushing him. He suffered internal injuries.
Police and the mother seek James English a 16 year old Broadway High student missing since Friday night. He left home at 2317 East Union Street without clothes or money for a long absence. Local authorities cooperate with family to locate him.
Shipyard laborers from Seattle and Tacoma gather for a first postwar convention rally praising patriotism and a permanent U S shipbuilding industry. Officers are elected including C B Young as president and J Singer as first vice president. The convention hires for 1919 location as Victoria B C and notes a large Tacoma turnout with families.
The old Pacific Coast Co vessel Congress, rebuilt with new paint and reinforced sides, will soon sail to Seattle from San Francisco under Mail Steamship Co ownership. The ship was badly damaged by fire off the Oregon coast while en route to Seattle.
UK shipyards completed nearly 200 thousand tons of shipping in May 1918 and launched ships for service. May tonnage surpassed April by about 5 thousand tons, signaling a general speeding up of ship construction across the empire.
The funeral for Charles Wood of West Seattle will be held at Holy Rosary Church at 9 am Friday. He died at his home on West Atlantic Street at age 77 after more than 32 years in West Seattle. Wood served as chief career of the West Seattle ferry for 16 years before the port commission took over.
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