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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1919
Page
17
The Vest of White Novelty Tricolette adds character to the Black Poiret-Twill Suit with bright black buttons on jacket and skirt. Navy Blue option also available priced at $37.50. Pin tuck details enhance the Navy Serge Suit at left, priced at $37.50. Second Floor.
The ad highlights small gingham frocks and a front-opening dress for 2 to 5 year olds. Prices are $1.50 each. Gingham comes in pink blue baby plaids or plain colors with white pique collar and cuffs. Second Floor.
Three youths, two aged 12 and one nine, were caught red handed stealing candy and coins from a grocery at 8407 Greenwood Ave by store owner Frank Frostman. They forced a rear door and were taken to a detention home.
Three superior court judges with county commissioners will renovate and improve the present jail as plans for a new structure are developed. A judicial committee led by Judges Everett Smith Clay Allen and John B. Jury directs cleaning and partitioning of upper floors after Wednesday’s jail investigation.
In Los Angeles on April 30 David Peters testified that rubber heels helped him enter his wife Mary Jane Peters’s apartment by accident and he found her with another man. He was granted a divorce. In London on the same date James Scotter, 70, demobilized after four years of war service, served aboard the steam drifter Sweet Pea from Scarborough, later mine sweeping in the English Channel.
Mrs. Julian Heath head of the National Housewives League cables to President Wilson urging action to lower food prices. She claims 70 percent of American consumers back the plea and suggests importing Argentine and Canadian wheat to push bread prices down while noting wartime stockpiles remain withheld from the public. She asks if Wilson will address food costs at the next Congress session.
Eugene May 1 Oregon editors publishers and University of Oregon journalism faculty meet to review general problems in publishing and printing. C B Ingalls presides as president of the Willamette Valley Editorial association leads the sessions.
In Bryn Mawr California on May 1 the Mexicans of Sonoratown protest the rising cost of living as garlic reaches one dollar a pound.
A New York May 1 report shows a massive outflow of aliens returning to their homelands from the port of New York. An estimated 68,000 of 76,221 travelers processed since November are migrants taking war earnings home, with April 1 arrivals at 1,131 and Mediterranean routes crowded as rates double.
Captain Davia formerly of the Seventh Ohio engineers, sought for desertion and wife abandonment, is confined in the Tower of London on a charge of grand larceny. He allegedly fled in 1917 with 250 dollars from Camp Devens quarters, later enlisted in a Brooklyn regiment, then deserted his wife and joined Canadian forces.
London May 1 Arrangements are being made for the removal to this country of the body of Edith Cavell the English nurse executed by the Germans at Brussels in 1915. The re interment of the body in English soil will be made the occasion of an extensive public ceremonial.
Chicago dispatch reports Captain Dennis McHenry and his morals squad visiting a Davis street apartment. They ordered occupants to open in the name of the law and found two local girls and two Fort Sheridan soldiers gathered around an ouija board. the squad withdrew with apologies.
Indigo denim play suits for boys with red trim, long sleeve high neck or short sleeve low neck styles. Sizes 1 to 8 years, priced at $1.50.
Boston, May 1. Northeastern department issues notice demanding surrender of U S Army deserters who joined allied forces. Some sought action by enlisting overseas when chances with American units were slim. Deserters punished by court martial must serve out enlistments with U S Army. no immunity promised, but completing enlistment might satisfy the government in many cases.
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