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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1921
Page
12
President Harding's cabinet met for over two hours in Washington to outline a general program to solve domestic problems. The session, longer than expected, aimed to coordinate departments on proposed legislation and followed talks with congressional leaders.
Joseph Allen aged 63 of the Yakima hotel was struck at Fourth Avenue and Dearborn Street at 1030 a.m. Tuesday. He suffered a broken right leg a fractured rib and a punctured lung and was taken to City Hospital. The truck driver was Mike Pontono 38 of 2619 Dayton Ave.
Edwardsville Illinois, March. Joseph Kies won a bet by eating 48 doughnuts and 23 eggs in two hours. Kane challenged Kies to four dozen doughnuts in an hour then two dozen raw eggs in the next hour. Kies finished the doughnuts quickly, the eggs slower, and with three minutes left he ate the last egg shell. He drank a quart of milk to prove his capacity.
The Briscoe home for boy orphans avoids an inheritance tax of 11150 from Elizabeth Foss's $140000 bequest after a Supreme Court decision Monday. The state tax commissioner had taxed the estate, but Judge A W Frater's ruling was sustained. The court held charitable trusts ease government burden.
Cornelius Mehan alleges damage to reputation from a charge of stealing a $5,000 automobile brought by Gordon Prentius. He says he was jailed in Portland two days and five days locally, and that the prosecuting witness failed to appear at trial leading to dismissal. he proclaims innocence.
Norman Ross of the Illinois Athletic Club established a new world record for the 440 yard indoor swim in Montreal with a time of 5 minutes 3.4 seconds, beating his previous Chicago 1918 mark of 5 minutes 8.4 seconds.
Air mail pilot Fadie Hubbard flew seven round trips to Victoria British Columbia in February. Mail Superintendent George E Williams notes increasing popularity of the service with near capacity loads daily and occasional mail left behind. The Seattle Victoria route has remained at 100 percent efficiency since its start on October 15, 1920.
Edward Hope dies in explosion near Auburn with wife and three children surviving. Services set at Washington Crematorium Wednesday.
A Utah legislature bill would make it a crime for women to wear or possess high heel shoes. First conviction carries a fine of 25 to 500 dollars, with 600 to 1000 dollars for each later conviction.
A 67 year old man named George Vits who previously broke his right leg in a fall and had an amputation uses a wooden leg. He fell from the same feed box and this time broke his left leg.
The duke of Atholl, a Scottish chieftain, is the only man in the United Kingdom privileged to maintain an army of his own.
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