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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1921
Page
3
Classified column from The Seattle Star lists help wanted ad rates and items. Includes positions for postal service, manicurist and massage services, barber and beauty work, and various job notices. The page also advertises reduced rates and contact details for applicants and advertisers.
Classified ad fragment lists furnished housekeeping rooms with rents around 2.40 to 4.00, plus boards and rooms for families. Mentions places such as Thrift at 1823 Sixth Ave and Woodlawn Hotel 2616 Third Ave, with various board offers and household services.
Real estate ads across Seattle offer 1 1/2 to 75 percent acre plots on Rainier Ave and Greenwood Blvd, 3 to 4 room houses with terms like $150 down $20 monthly, partial terms, and various acreages near Cherry Valley. Agencies Gilbert & Co and H C Peters list multiple properties, including garden cottages, view homes, and 40 acre parcels with owner terms.
Multiple listings from Seely and Callahan describe farms for sale in Washington state towns including Olympia Enumclaw and Mount Vernon with 20 to 80 acre parcels. Prices range from 1500 to 4500 with easy terms and various improvements and orchards noted. Other notices advertise land tracts near Seattle Tacoma and Port Townsend and a Northwest Land Settlement Association program offering 10 20 30 or 40 acre parcels from 36 per acre.
Portland report notes a noisy hotel roomer with long hair who blasts a brass wind instrument nightly. The roommate of J Owen asks police to curb the sound, likening it to a human calliope amid jazz and tuba shrieks. A separate item: Harry Farmer drowns in Sandy river. Public notices include a lumber yard application for Queen City Lumber Co and numbered local business listings.
The Seattle Star directory lists J P Ball patent attorney Frederick P Gorin Captain John W Maupin Pierre Barns and other patent and legal professionals with offices on Burke Bide Second Ave and Hinckley Bidg. It also notes public accountants chiropractors opticians physicians and service providers with contact details and hours.
Birth notices list Alfred Gibson, Walter Linton, Clarence Christie, O P Wadaen and others with addresses and newborns. Additional entries include Henry Prane, Robert Anderson, Philip Mars, and Edgar Root among boys and a girl for Anderson. Marriage licenses record multiple Seattle, Kent, and surrounding residents with ages and surnames.
A reporter follows a young boy at a ball game who works the ticket window and craps at the bleachers to help his sick mother. The boy, earning seven dollars and sixty cents on a Sunday, reveals the era of child labor and crowd complicity as the story ends with newsroom disappointment.
Berlin dispatch reports that over the past decade at least 100 previously unknown Rembrandt works have surfaced, with two new finds in a week: Susanna in Haberstroh Galleries and St. Peter with the Warriors in von Diemen Galleries.
Five attorneys including two from the Seattle Bar association will defend George Dewey Davis, Seattle ex service man, in Redding California for perjury court. Davis and Gerald Calahan were arrested after testifying about treatment of William Norris, 17 year old slayer of a local policeman. Norris, sentenced to hang, allegedly coerced plea. Davis jailed since March as habeas corpus attempts failed. Seattle lawyers Clarence L. Reames and Frank A. Steele head the defense. local attorney Laurence J. Kennedy and J T Maddock plus Martin L Welch will jury for Davis.
Community groups in Seattle plan to elect officers for the local ministerial union during a Monday afternoon session at Woodland Park. Sunday school activities continue as St. John’s Episcopal holds a Wood land park picnic. Summer camp programs open at Moran Lakeside for Moran Schoolboys. Households urged to support local farmers by using Washington potatoes for one week.
K. R. Foster and W. Gregg were arrested after an auto stolen from G. W. Matthews on 2628 Irving Street Monday morning was found. Both suspects are held for investigation.
Dr. C. H. Gilbert of Stanford told the state fisheries board that the Puget Sound and Washington salmon industry is dying and only drastic regulation can rehabilitate it. He warned that future runs will be small and noted both dam construction and discrimination in fishing as causes of decline. Edward Sims cited irrigation dams and restricted fishing as reasons for dwindling salmon runs.
London reports the cost of living in Berlin now lower than since March 1919 yet still ten times prewar levels. Major reductions occur in shoes clothing and certain foods as Berlin prices ease after the war.
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