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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1920
Page
9
French table with two tone vanity dresser and chiffonier offers a four piece suite at 149.50 and a three piece set at 187.50. Includes dresser chiffonier bed and gilt drawer pulls with French plate mirrors. Vanity dresser matching priced separately at 75.00.
March 22 Prague reports looming typhus threat as soap and fat shortages imperil children. Alice Masaryk warns without American aid to supply soap, hospitals cannot wash linen and delouse patients. Red Cross funds shift to food and soap, but soap deemed critical to delousing and child survival.
A Washington State Wool Growers Association letter to the Chamber of Commerce urges support for a congressional bill requiring labeling of all virgin wool products. The state produces over 6 million pounds annually and the bill would shield buyers from shoddy substitutes as genuine wool.
Water will be shut off on N 62d and N 834 between Woodland Park Ave and Burke Ave on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. If a man marries money he should be devoted to his wits.
W. M. Livengood of Seattle will lead a regional drive to raise 830000 toward the Northern Baptists five year budget of 100000000. He serves as Western Washington director and the Seattle campaign aims to contribute more than 446000 during the last week of April.
London dispatch describes a lighthearted moment with the Prince of Wales. After visiting E. Montagu, secretary of state for India, the royal car waited as the chauffeur vanished. Maids invited him to tea in the kitchen, and the prince laughed at the playful ruse.
Berlin dispatches report government reestablishing control in Kiel and Leipzig and pursuing legal action against Dr. Von Kapp and Gen. Baron Von Luellwitz leaders of the insurrection. A new cabinet will use Republican officials with labor union cooperation to end the general strike and nationalize mines and key industries.
Police dragged Lake Union on Monday at the request of Mrs. A Stray of 714 Galeret noting a year old boy did not return home Sunday night. He was last seen at the foot of Stoneway Ave on the lake shore.
Thieves took four suits and 41 yards of cloth from S. H. Weber's storefront at 1404 Fourth Ave Sunday night. Police were informed Monday and began investigations into the theft.
In San Francisco on March 22 a bartender out of work faces a ban on his book Drinks as They Are Mixed. Prohibition enforcers deny publishing, blocking export trade in a period when American foreign trade for January 1920 totals over 1.2 billion dollars, a historic high and 60 percent above January 1919.
Mrs. Alice Woodcock formerly of Tacoma will be tried April 12 on a perjury charge. Judge Ward set the date. A murder charge against her for Edward Kelly awaits trial with defense objections over sequencing and the 60 day rule cited by Attorney Kehoe and Assistant District Attorney Kiley vows to pursue the murder case promptly.
Co. J. McGruder, 45, arrested last week by city police, is still detained at the county jail at the instance of federal authorities. Over $40 worth of portage stamps were found in McGruder's possession when arrested. He is held on suspicion that he may have been implicated in a series of post office robberies in this section recently.
Theo Valmar of 200 Third Ave complained to police that he was kicked out of Check coffee house at 113 Third Ave after losing a $100 gambling game. He was advised to swear out a warrant for the proprietor’s arrest.
Joseph Laundy, accused LW. W. agitator and former reader of a radical Portland labor faction, faces trial on criminal syndicalism charges before Circuit Judge J. W. Belt. District Attorney Evane leads prosecution with Earl Bernard assisting. George F. Vanderveer represents the defense in the first of 26 similar cases.
Tombstone Arizona March 22 Judge Samuel Pattee failed to arrive after weekend at Tucson delaying the Blebee deportation trial. Judge Alfred C. Lockwood sat in and adjourned court to 2 PM Wednesday while Pattee weighs the admissibility of alleged conspiracy evidence offered by the defense.
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