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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1919
Page
14
A local notice promotes a Monday night performance of Pellyaenea at the Opera House featuring Little Viola Harper in a lead role. The ad promises optimism and urges families in Seattle to attend, offering tickets via Uptown Store and phone with a war tax concession.
Washington March 25 More units of the 91st division have left France and are slated to arrive in the United States before mid April. Additional units from the 20th division National Guard troops from North and South Carolina and the 40th division from Western states have sailed. The 363rd Infantry and 364th Infantry units with multiple detachments are aboard the Siboney, due in New York on April 3.
Two men in army uniform held up C. T. Batley at 19th Ave and EB First, threatening with a revolver and fleeing before taking any cash. Police efforts are ongoing as the pair escaped in a running vehicle after the night attack.
Overseas veteran Robert E. Cadden plans a 6000 foot drop Sunday using a new tandem parachute invented by W. P. Watkins. The test, lasting a little over three minutes, follows prior successful trials with dead weights at Camp Lewis and hinges on favorable weather conditions.
Puffing and burning feet find relief with Tiz the foot powder. It promises instant pain relief from corns callouses and bunions and claims to reduce swelling for tired sore feet. Also advertised as easing shoe tightness.
Des Moines Iowa March 25 Auto bandits robbed the Town State Bank at Sixth and Locus streets securing $32000. The cashier Mr Phramar and bookkeeper Mr Munter were locked in a washroom after the vault was opened and police were notified five minutes later as employees escaped from the vault.
Mrs. D. D. Ray of East Green Lake boulevard received a notice that her son John KE Ray, a captain in the medical corps, was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross and died in action September 29 1918. Ray says his son is a captain in the 139th infantry and was never with the medical corps, noting the mix up is a coincidence of names.
About 350 merchant marines arrived in port Monday from San Francisco completing a regular cruise to the bay city. Of the men some 159 were graduates of the training course and will be transferred to shipping board freighters to take up duties as members of the U S merchant marine.
A thief broke into the cabin of the bark W. B. Flint during docking at Heffernan Dry Dock Co. on Monday and stole $400 in Liberty bonds belonging to master Captain John Hansen.
The United States placement bureaus that helped thousands of discharged soldiers and sailors to find jobs must be maintained. Director General J. P. Denemore from Washington warns that insufficient appropriations threaten their future, while State Director Laurence Wood says the local bureau plans to continue operations.
The contract for grading and graveling 14 miles of Inland Empire highway from the Spokane county line to Springdale was awarded to Central company of Spokane for 153473 dollars. Signing was delayed a week until federal aid was pledged. The Tokifuku Maru will arrive with 8000 tons of vegetable oils and rice and will load steel and cotton for the Orient.
The Seattle Master Builders Association will entertain the Tacoma association at the Arcade building Tuesday night to mark the opening of its new quarters. Speechmaking will be followed by refreshments.
J. R. Robinson of 132 24th Ave North suffered a broken rib broken ankle and severe scalp wounds after a motorcycle collision on Beach Drive near Mercer Street. The other vehicle was driven by Gus Brown of 1715 24th Ave.
President Wilson postpones his planned journey to Brussels until after the preliminary agreement is signed, as announced from Washington. The change shifts expected meetings with European leaders and alters the timing of diplomatic engagements.
A lively musical comedietta tops the Pantages week with Dave Seed’s clever imitations and a bevy of singing dancing girls. The Aeroplane Girls stun with motorized trapeze stunts, first of their kind in Seattle. Arthur Barrett delivers popular monologue and whistling. Astor Four provide dance, Ilka Marie Deel and John Sheehan perform Tears, Jack and Marie Gray musical act. Pearl White presents a new Lightning Raider episode.
The first published photo shows Woodrow Wilson Sayre the president’s fourth grandchild born at Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia. He is Francis EB Sayre’s son and the president visited the newborn before departing for New York to sail to France.
Private Wallace Eugene Tennant of Co A 116th field signal battalion died Sunday at his mother's home after a long invalid period from a gas wound sustained at the front in 1918. Enlisted just before war, he was 16 at the time, attended Lincoln High School, and is survived by his mother, a brother in base hospital No 50, and a sister. Services are set for Thursday at 2 p.m. from University Undertaking chapel with interment at Washeli. funeral likely military in character.
Professor Richard F. Schola of the University of Washington will discuss the league of nations before the Broadway Parent-Teacher Association in the high school auditorium Thursday night. Mrs. W. H. Brook braved 20 miles of snowbound road from Odell Jake to Bend to attend yesterday.
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