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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1921
Page
11
A garbled early 20th century classified page lists female and male help wanted lines including manicure, berry pickers, elder care, and auto mechanical roles. Also includes rental offers, furniture and tool sales, and small job notices, with several phone-style contact hints and a few attention lines for veterans and returnees.
Listings describe multiple rural parcels near Seattle and Bellevue with water, soil, and fruit suitability. Properties offer 5 to 40 acres, terms like $50 down and $10 monthly, some with water piped, some near interurban lines, and prices ranging from a few hundred to thousands. Many ads tout fertile soil, bearing orchards, and proximity to Seattle, with agencies Goodwin King Co and Seely & It Bacon promoting varied tracts.
A dense directory page lists acreage for sale near Seattle, Yakima Valley, and Colby with terms and contacts. It includes 6 acre tracts, 2 1/2 and 40 acre parcels, irrigated land, and waterfront sites, plus regional farm land notes and a buyers section. Also features stocks, business opportunities, and assorted notices.
The Star asks readers to help reunite separated relatives or report disappearances to the paper. Western Union says a message to John Voight of Railway Exchange bids announces a relative's death in Aberdeen SD, but Voight cannot be reached. Seattle college graduation exercises are set for Friday night at Holy Names auditorium.
L Brunn, 32, a laundry worker, was struck on the head with a blackjack by two thugs late Thursday night and robbed of $100 as he left his home to catch the Everett interurban at Greenwood station. He recovered a half hour later and went to his mother Mrs Mary Scotland’s home to report the robbery.
Seven additional customs officers have been deployed along the Washington British Columbia border to speed border vehicle checks. The officers, transferred from Tacoma and Seattle, will operate at Bellingham Deming Blaine and Lynden with two cars at Bellingham and one at Deming to aid border control.
In Cincinnati on June 10 Fred W. Galbraith Jr. national commander of the American Legion and former Fighting 47th Infantry leader lies in state at Memorial Hall before funeral services. Flags fly at half staff as a full company from Fort Thomas arrives at Central Union Station to honor him.
Floyd Romain an 18 year old is indicted for first degree murder in the killing of Abe Givens rancher. Prosecution seeks the death penalty while the defense argues insanity. Romain testified that he shot Givens four times after an argument over money for buying the ranch.
C Osfeld searched his chicken house after missing chicks and found a full grown black bear attempting to climb the roof at 9 p m Thursday. Police and neighbors arrived with gear but the bear retreated into brush and fled by Friday morning.
Castle Rock confirms the death of Joseph Herald, road foreman, in a powder explosion while clearing a new right of way near Tootle. Herald was blown 30 feet into the air and 60 feet from the blast site, dying instantly.
A delegation from the American Legion greeted motion picture star Clara Kimball Young at the Northern Pacific station Friday noon. State Commander Thomas N. Swale led the welcoming demonstration as the Fourth of July committee staged original stunts for her week in the city.
London June 10. Miss Agnes Gooding Reader has just celebrated her 103rd birthday. She is in good health, eats meals with relish, can read without glasses and signs her own checks. She plays her piano with much skill.
Paris dispatch says the French war minister ordered polo became compulsory for mounted troops. The army circular aims to improve morale and physical fitness and is welcomed by the soldiers.
Attorney William A. Gilmore contends in defense of his son in a $50,000 alimony suit that the plaintiff Mrs. Schott is a vampire and adventuress. Judge Ronald calls for legal clarification and recess to examine the case details.
In Hattiesburg a mob of masked men aimed to reach Casey E. Jones at a hospital after Jones wounded Mrs. Mosely and was shot by J. B. Ly. Reverend G. B. Mon, a Methodist preacher in charge, confronted the crowd at the stair head and warned the mob not to advance. Police later arrived and dispersed the assailants.
Boston police seek Alfred J. Beaullieu proprietor of Hotel Vienna in Boston for manslaughter in the death of his wife on May 23. An English police search is requested after a warrant issued by Judge Wentworth. Beaullieu may have fled. The medical examiner cites alcoholism and toxic poisoning as factors in the death amid reports of a physician found dead in the hotel.
Fishermen petitioned authorities for naval aid to exterminate whales described as sardines in the Paris area. The request seeks sets of French navy rifles and munitions to combat the whales impacting maritime industry.
Mme has been sentenced to life imprisonment for ill treating her aged mother by hiding her away in a dairy for a year and starving her. Her husband received one year’s imprisonment for complicity.
London June 10 The Golfers Club recognizes Veteran Ladies Golf members as those aged fifty and over. F W Haigh, first president aged ninety two, recently retired from playing.
State nurses exams scheduled in Seattle on June 15 and 16 at Eagles hall Seventh Ave and Pine.
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