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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1921
Page
5
Fragmented lines show various job offers and notices. Ex servicemen seek work in repair painting decorating and general labor. Ads include keepers bookkeepers and clerks, salesmen and partners for auto shop and blacksmith work. Also listings for used goods furniture and a horse and watch repair notes.
Diverse property ads describe 5 to 40 acre parcels around Cherry Valley and Mount Vernon, plus rental homes in West Beattie and West Seattle. Listings include 6 room houses near schools, 6 to 7 room homes with basements and fireplaces, and various lots with terms from cash to monthly payments. Real estate firms Seely & Callahan, Merri Realty, and H. M. Nelson feature prominently.
In Yakima Valley life, Farms Co promotes irrigation land near town with soil samples, maps, and regular Saturday trips. They offer 26 and 40 acre tracts at 25 per acre and up with easy terms. Also advertised are waterfront docks and Puget Sound properties, including 11 acres with a 350 foot slope and cove frontage, priced with flexible payment.
Directory style items show patent office agents, lawyers, accountants, chiropractors, loan offers, jewelers,optician and medical professionals. Entries mention Frederick Patent Attorney, Reynolds Nolda examiner, Hansen Co accountants, J Jennings graduates, and loan offices on Second Avenue Seattle with hours and contact numbers.
The Metropolitan theatre hosts a patriotic program at 1 p.m. with a 64 page official souvenir. A dazzling stadium tireworks display promises to outshine past golden fairs. Idaho Governor D W Davis arrives Sunday afternoon to join honors and receive silk mags for the battleship Idaho.
A colored woman accuses her husband Moses O Connor of stealing a silk garment from their clothesline. The dog Spot retrieves the garment, hides it, and in a comic moment the brick used in the dispute hits Moses on the head. Reconciliation follows with the dog wagging its tail.
A young man and his uncle began life together in Hutto Texas as a ten pound boy was born to Mrs W H Nelson and a second ten pound son to Mrs Jack Blackman within minutes of the first birth. Frank Williams 53 is jailed on grand larceny warrant held on $1500 bail. He is accused by employer Harold Rogers of stealing $66 entrusted June 22 1921. A $300 chattel mortgage on a six room house at 312 Lyon Building. Elliott Lees for farm and acreage loans. For sale miscellaneous items listed.
Dr. Harry Barringer Cox inventor of the dry cell battery is near death at his home in Angeles. He suffers a mysterious throat disease and radium is being used in an effort to save his life as of June 30.
Washington announces construction of five new tubercular hospitals for World War veterans. The sites are Milwaukee Wisconsin Dayton Ohio Leavenworth Kansas Hot Springs Arkansas and Marion Indiana with immediate start.
Federal Judge Jeremiah Netterer told Army private Jake A. Matheney that selling liquor violated the constitution he swore to uphold. In district court Thursday Matheney was fined $201.
George Hayward a 21 year old sailor is held in city jail charged with burglary after offering $60 worth of stolen carpenter tools for sale at $10. The arrest follows an attempted sale incident indicating intent to deprive the owner.
Justice C C Dalton postponed the hearing in the case against tailor C W Hickey charged with disposing of property by lottery. The delay to July 8 followed an absent attorney as the Better Business Bureau prosecutes a series of similar matters.
A seized launch named Xenial tied to alcohol running will be sold at a public auction. W. E. Theodore, chief deputy U S marshal, will oversee the sale at 11 a m Friday on the Third avenue steps of the district court. The report mentions Matehney in connection with the case.
Seattle gains a new passport office offering 24 hour service for emergency needs. The facility positions Seattle as a destination for rapid passport issuance and highlights city access to federal services.
President Harding sent a message from Washington on June 6 dissenting from the army appropriation bill provisions to cut the force to 150000 by October 1. He approved the bill but warned Congress he cannot urge the secretary of war to discharge soldiers before their enlistments expire.
E L Duncan alias P B Spellany M W Nettleton and M L Chambers accused of a bank money shifting scheme starting with 156 dollars. They allegedly opened five bank accounts and moved funds to create an appearance of an affairsman before a 140 dollar check drawn on Guarantee Bank & Trust Co. was presented to A J Carlson. Duncan claims no money was gained and that tracing the checks would show no loss.
Police pursue Frank Haven 31 day clerk at New Avon Hotel 606 Second Ave accused of drawing out $1,200 from a local bank and leaving wife destitute after fleeing Thursday morning. Hayes disappeared after telling wife he would a hardware store. The incident centers on the missing savings and alleged deceit.
Perry Moore a Seattle taxi driver was arrested by federal and White Cross agents for alleged narcotic sales. He was bound over to the grand jury on $2,000 bond but could not furnish it and was remanded to jail after a Wednesday afternoon hearing before U S Commissioner R W McClelland.
The House passed the conference report on the peace resolution today. It moves to the Senate for action, then to the president for signature to end the state of war.
Howard Hancock, 19, was sentenced to one to 15 years at Monroe after pleading guilty to leaping through a window of Cc. L. Kaltman's tailor shop at 1317 Third Ave on Decoration Day and escaping with a suit of clothes. Hancock had deposited $15 on the suit but said he couldn't wait.
An official board of naval observers began a study of the bombing of the battleship Iowa by airplanes off Norfolk Virginia on June 30. Capt Luke McNamee led the board aboard the Nevada. Only two direct hits were recorded and observers argued other bombs may have struck near enough to count.
Martha Murphy, 36, who reportedly escaped from police custody by jumping from the second story of her home at 2516 Second Ave, was recognized Thursday in the county city building. She was arrested and later released on $500 bail.
Deputies Frank Anderson and Herbert Beebe went to 1133 N 92d St with a warrant for stolen goods and moonshine. They captured two suspects but found no trace of the stolen goods. Otto Ritz, owner of the copper can and the finished product, is in county jail.
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