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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1921
Page
12
The verse recounts Noah’s Ark satire and neighbors’ laughter as the family raft drifts eighty miles from shore. The pessimist’s warnings are mocked then proven right, with a grim fatal twist. Frances Fpoardman mulls how ridicule of forecasts may backfire.
Helen L. Shannon, wife of Dr. Charles D. Shannon, age 26, died Thursday at her father-in-law Dr. James Shannon’s home after a severe asthma attack leading to heart failure. A native of California, she came to Seattle a year ago after marrying Dr. Shannon in New York. Funeral plans are not yet set.
Seattle hosts its eighth annual rose show with 52 trophies awarded across rose groups. Attendance over two days reached about 13 000 as visitors hailed the exhibit a success and plans were announced for a larger display and affiliation with the American Rose Society next year.
A Seattle man left a $50 bill attached to a card stating it was for the undertaker after a burial rite. The conductor handed the bill to the lost and found bureau, seeking to return it to the giver.
The Scotch societies of Seattle stage the annual Scotch Highland games at Denny field on Monday July 4. The highlight is the international bagpipe contest for a $1000 cup to be held in the stadium at 6 oclock.
Alfred Wickham aged 15 risked his life by diving from a high bridge into the Vancouver river to save 6 year old Georgie Halfknight. A crowd praised the act and urged the Royal Humane Society medal and the Carnegie Medal for heroism be awarded soon.
PATIS June 24 report says a German village case shows a family of eleven driven to derangement by rapping and spiritualism. The parents and nine children burned furniture and china and planned to sacrifice their three month old infant to a spirit of pure love, but neighbors intervened.
Mrs. E Thompson of 724 10th Ave Seattle credits Tanlac with curing her daughter Edna after a long pneumonia illness. Edna suffered loss of appetite heartburn headaches and weakness before recovering weight and strength and now appears a perfect picture of health. Tanlac is sold in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores and leading druggists.
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