Gas Shortage Skeptic Sees Fuel Myth on Coast Trip
A reader recounts a Seattle to Centralia journey denying a gas crisis, noting no stalled cars and praising roads. He reports finding a pump selling imported gas at 38 cents a gallon, questions distribution failures, and urges reassessment of the fuel shortage narrative.
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Seattle
Portland
Go Shriners
Kalama
Standard CW
Wroth
Centralia
Kelso
Kansas City
De af Man on Jury Aids Sawyer Case New Trial Motions
Attorney Edward C Hyde files affidavits for Madge Anna Sawyer seeking a new trial. An eight member jury heard the prior verdict with one juror claiming deafness hindering witness hearing. Affidavits allege new evidence including a prowler with a revolver and Sawyer near a boat deck.
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Edward C. Hyde
Madge
Anna Sawyer
Howard Pewter
Louis Helliger
Sawyer
Vw. Ia Warren
Rhodes
The
Eddy
Hyde
Boyd J. Tallman
Cinnamon Beauty Miss Cinnamon Wins Seattle Salesgirl Crown
Miss Cinnamon, 117 John St, will represent Seattle in the Ziegfeld national salesgirls contest. The Star voters chose her as Seattle’s most beautiful saleswoman after a lengthy judging of seven candidates at Bushnell studio. The judges weighed beauty and potential stardom in stage and film engagements.
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Miss Betty
Cinnamon
John St
Seattle
Ziegfeld
The
Star
Bushnell Studio
Misa Cinnamon
Misa Lillian Barth
Miss Hazel Elaine Miller
Fortune
America
R. A. Walsh
Miriam Cooper
Neysa McMein
Albert Cheney Johnston
Pher
F. A. Walsh
Mayflower Photoplays
James Quirk
Photoplay Magazine
NEWS
Bushnell
A Star
Hagen J. Titus
Chauncey Wright Restaurants
Com Pany
Miss Cinnamon
Betty Cinnamon
Sign It Mr Mayor Promotes Tindall Bill Against Jap Hog Monpoly
City officials urged to sign the Tindall bill to curb Japanese control of Seattle restaurant garbage and hog raising in King County. Advocates warn of swift Jap dominance if action is delayed and frame the measure as a health and economic necessity.
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Caldwell
King County
Seattle
Read
Sporting
Brewington nabbed in Tacoma for baby kidnapping plot
Orville Brewington, once a turfman and racing follower, was seized by a deputy sheriff in Tacoma and confessed to hiding his son with the Donnellys in Portland after eluding capture. He led investigators toward a hideout while claiming he could guide to the child's location.
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Orville Brewington
Tacoma
Portland
Pete
Dan
W. Mount
Herbert Beebe
Seattle
Bee
47Th St
Brewington
Donnelly
Elmer
Donnellys
Oregon
Colorado
California
Williams
Policeman Kills Rampaging Cow in City Park Chase
A runaway cow roamed downtown Seattle injuring pedestrians and scattering a Shriner tent before being killed by Officer F H Broadway near City Hall Park. The beast charged pedestrians and a wooden camel, threatening a girl and injuring a man at Fourth Avenue and James Street as officers pursued.
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Seattle
Shriner
City Park
Ing Fi
F. H. Broadway
Cherry
First Ave
Yester Way
Shriners
Third Ave
Yesler Way
City Hall Park
William Cheyne
Cheyne
Jack Lavigne
Fourth Ave
Lavigne
James
Bertrand
P. P. McNamee
Public Safety Building
Fourthave
James Sr
Columa F
Freckle Faced King Crowned After Saturday Show
Seattle children aged 7 to 14 with freckles compete at the Liberty Theatre at 10 AM Saturday. The frecklest kid wins a $20 prize plus a touring car ride to city hall for a coronation by the mayor. Fifteen runners up receive free Liberty admission tickets.
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John von Herberg
Liberty Theatre
John
Seattle
Wesley Barry
Liberty
von Herberg
Ray Fox
Buick Company
Hazen J. Titus
The
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