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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1922
Page
7
Local apples from White Bluffs sell at 3.50 per box. Yellow tar from Hartford and Washington peaches arrive. Watermelons move heavy at 4 to 4 1/2 cents per pound. Los Angeles white potatoes bring 2.25 to 2.50 per sack. Carloads of plums and other produce listed with varied prices. Meat dealers noted as active in the market.
Chicago June 29 Wheat prices advanced on the Chicago board of trade with corn steady to higher and oats down. Kansas crop reports raised expectations of a 117,000,000 bushel yield. millers held old wheat in sight and cash demand stayed firm despite bearish news from Kansas. Corn and oats traded irregularly on receipts and rust reports. provisions rose. Cash wheat quoted No 3 hard at 1.14% and other grain prices fluctuated alongside live stock activity in Chicago markets.
In New York, professional pressure hit oil stocks again at the opening of trading. Shorts fled after Mexican Petroleum’s rise. many oil shares fell as investors awaited labor and market developments. Notable moves included Standard Oil California to 100½, Pacific Oil to 54, Producers & Refiners to 47½, and Texas Company to 46.
A scanned excerpt shows stock quotations with many firms listed such as American Can, American Locomotive, General Electric, and Baldwin Locomotive. Prices display varied percentage changes from small gains to notable losses, with notes on exchange values, bonds, francs, and foreign securities.
Gertrude and E L Estes sue Arlington hotel and Beattie city for 10084.50 injuries from a ride in an Arlington hotel band on October 31 1919. A previous trial awarded 3000 and the supreme court reversed the lower court decision.
Mrs. Plumley through guardian PUGET SOUND CHAPTER No. 160 Loyal Orange order sues in superior court to collect 4000 dollars on two life policies held by her husband Hugh Crandall Plumley who is serving a state penitentiary sentence for his murder. The Puget Sound chapter announces a July 12 picnic at Defiance park Tacoma in cooperation with Bremerton and Tacoma lodges with special interurban trains departing Seattle at 10 am.
Washington June 29 final arrangements set adjournment of the house as soon as the third deficiency appropriation bill is cleaned up likely tomorrow or Saturday.
Jack Schafer reports $45 loss at 719 Olive Ave. Jeroy Kelly finds the money and, with Ralph Smith and Crandell Neftzger, ages 13 and 9, invest in two firecracker packages ice cream cones and candy. They resell to Leroy for 45. Detectives Gordon and Ducett later recover 56 from the boys. They were studying a car catalog.
Classified brief notes a $1,650 small ranch listing in the Seattle region with 8 acres, fenced fields, a small house, barn, windmill, gas engine, well, water system, tanks, and tools. The ad highlights a best buy on the market and mentions the listing broker Cord Land Company at 617 Third Ave with evening hours.
After incorporation of Community Hotel Company Seattle and partners plan a week of bond sales from July 17 to 25. Seven percent first mortgage sinking fund bonds worth 2.7 million dollars will be offered by volunteer businessmen to finance a new hotel on the University tract. The Metropolitan Building Co. holds the lease, with $25,000 annual rent and a 18 month build deadline.
Regulations No 64 under the 1921 revenue act set the capital stock tax deadline. Returns are due on or before July 31. The Tacoma internal revenue office has mailed blanks to all corporations in June. Every corporation must file whether or not it has operated in the past year.
George Wheeler of the Seattle park board was elected president of the International Association of Park Commissioners at its annual convention in Tacoma. New officers include Mrs. F. A. Steele of Seattle as vice president, Jesse Jackson of Seattle as convention secretary, and A. B. Wotton of Vancouver as secretary treasurer. Seattle was named next year’s convention city. Mrs. Ella Wilson, elected mayor in Hunnewell in 1911, is noted as the first woman mayor in the United States.
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