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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
7
Safety Week opens Monday with parades and events to urge pedestrians and drivers to exercise discretion. Committees led by Warren B. Crane oversee traffic safety with Lieut. Garr and local volunteers coordinating activities this first week.
Thomas O Hammer, candidate for president, decried cliques that seek to control the Young Men's Republican club in a pre election statement. Mrs Annabelle Barrows, widow of Dr George Barrows, died Wednesday at the Kenney home Fauntleroy. Funeral 2 30 pm Friday at Cremation Society of Washington chapel.
Marriage licenses issued for Scott Mornbeck, Neillq Beat Bape, and others in Herbert with residences listed. Births noted at various Seattle addresses including 604 Sixth Ave and 442 Maple Las. Deaths include Carrie C Mathews and Sarah E Maison among others. obituaries list ages and street addresses. The long list also mentions numerous Beattie family members and local names in a dense city records digest.
In Portland, Commissioner A L Barbur was forcibly returned to the city council chambers by a guard detail at Mayor George J Baker's order amid a council clash over an improvement project. The mayor apologized, Barbur refused to accept, and the dispute flared again before a truce was declared as spectators expected a personal confrontation.
A man found a handbag containing 3400 dollars in jewelry at the intersection of 14th Ave and Main St on Wednesday afternoon. He turned it over to Detective G O Bergstrom, who returned it to Mrs. KB Matron at 2405 Jackson St, who had lost it while moving.
In Spokane on Wednesday night patrolman Knapp arrested 80 year old Chinese fisherman Woo Hoy at First Avenue for carrying concealed weapons. He feared attacks by tong highbinders. The report notes railway workers voting to donate services on trains carrying supplies for Europe and China.
An advertisement touts Danderine as a hair treatment that promises abundant growth and healthier, stronger hair for girls and women. It claims visible benefits and urges immediate use.
Fourteen teamsters were released in police court after city attorney Frank Griffith advised them to stay home and read books. They had been charged with being in a place where gambling occurred following a raid on a Labor temple room Tuesday night.
George T. L. Maxwell, 41, a switchman, was injured when crushed between two freight cars at the Northern Pacific switching yards in Seattle Wednesday night. He was treated at Seattle General Hospital for a bruised and lacerated right leg and ankle.
An interesting display of drawings and photographs of homes is shown in the new offices of J T L Campbell subdivision expert Campbell has moved from the Burke building to the northeast corner of Fourth Ave and Marion.
In Olympia a March 31 notice says after April 1 the state department of labor and industries will ban married women whose husbands can support them. Officials call it unfair to single job seekers and to married men with families.
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