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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1922
Page
12
Shelton was released following an investigation conducted by Corson. Shelton testified that West walked diagonally across the street making it impossible to avoid the collision.
Two Virginia graduates, Annie Mae Wright and DD M Staples, dubbed bravest women in the world, lead a Nashville rat extermination campaign using the barium carbonate method. They have conducted campaigns in 16 states over three years, catching rats daily and transforming pest control in urban areas.
A twelve week deadlock between workers and cotton mill owners in Pawtuxet valley Rhode Island grows into a wider Passive Resistance strike across Rhode Island Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Seven thousand workers join in the Pawtucket area and Blackstone valley with 13 mills shut down. The union wages cost about 7200 dollars weekly while providing free restaurants and a shoe repair shop and rent free company housing. Living conditions are harsh with unsewered housing and rising costs for essentials. National guard deployment has ended with one fatality nearby.
Mrs. Rose Grainger of White Plains New York mother of composer and pianist Percy Grainger was killed yesterday in New York City when she plunged from the 18th story Aeolian Hall building. Believed to have fallen while leaning from a window after complaining of dizziness. her son Percy Grainger was in Los Angeles on a concert tour and left for the East after hearing the news.
All residents in Seattle aged four to twenty one will be listed within three weeks by census takers who started Monday. Ninety two workers are employed to carry out the count. The census results will determine the current school fund.
The Socialist Party in Seattle will host an International Labor Day celebration at 8 p.m. May 1 in Painters Hall located at 1916 First Avenue. Representatives from multiple organizations will speak.
The advertisement lists bedspreads 80x90 inches with scalloped edges at 4.50, wool blankets 66x84 inches at 7.05, wool comforts 84x? at 85.95, cotton comfort sets at 3.50, plaid wool finished blankets 66x80 at 3.75, pillow cases 42x36 at 0.18, seamless sheets six to? at 1.10, towels 25x48 at 1.00 for 3, and crash toweling 1000 yards at 0.10 per yard, all marked as special Tuesday sales with former prices listed.
Richard E. Croker Jr says four Croker children were disinherited from a 2 million dollar estate. He states the estate has passed to the Indian princess his father married in 1914. Also noted is Daniel G. Vucetich organizing a relief drive with the Serbian society for Monastir disaster victims.
School board candidates will speak in the Ravenna school assembly room at 8 p.m. Monday. Reports on candidates for the city council port commission and for mayor will be given.
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