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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1919
Page
5
Thornton W. Burgess recounts Whitefoot the chipmunk facing loss of his sugar house home as Farmer Brown's Boy overhauls the woodpile. After misdirected fear, the boy relocates Whitefoot's storehouse under a box with a hemlock shelter and crumbs guiding the chipmunk back to a safe, snug home. Next story: Whitefoot's Careless.
Mrs. Helen Struve Meserve, sister of F. K. Struve president of Seattle National Bank, died in Paris on Thursday. She was wife of Harry F. Meserve, a Paris banker, and had lived in the city for two years. Survived by brother Capt. Harry Struve and sisters Miss Lascelle McCloskey and Miss Mary Struve, she was daughter of Judge H. G. Struve, Seattle pioneer.
Funeral services for Juliet Bender sixty one year old nurse in Seattle for the last twenty years will be held Saturday morning at Butterworth & Sons undertaking parlors. She died at Providence hospital Thursday night after a general breakdown due to overwork.
D C McDougal of the Right hotel on First Avenue and Cherry Street sheltered a sailor found on the street Thursday night. The next morning the sailor stole $60 and McDougal’s watch from his room and vanished.
George W. Hill was elected president of Seattle's park board with Erwin as vice president. The board moved its offices to the Haller building. A church wedding unfolds with Sidney, Harriet, Anna, and a dramatic procession as observers recall the moment. Joe Drummond exits abruptly.
Carlotta Harrison and Max Wilson continue their tenuous vacation liaison amid calculated moves. Wilson visits her in a small town near the city while Carlotta plans high stakes expansion, possibly marriage, to gain control and outwit the nurses and their pious judgments.
In a tense domestic drama, Max and Carlotta tread between danger and affection. Their affair deepens as professional respect collides with obsession, culminating in a dangerous walk and a confrontation under a tree. The story hints at a continued conflict as track work begins at the 16th W. bridge.
The Seattle finance committee moved to defeat Portland efforts to lower freight rates from Portland to the Inland Empire. Following a port commission protest, the committee asked Corporation Counsel Walter Meier to draft an ordinance and pursue steps to overturn Portland's campaign.
Assistant city engineer Walter H. Tiedemann left Seattle on Friday to study engineering practices in large cities. He will examine rapid transit handling in New York and Boston street grading in Chicago Buffalo Baltimore Dallas and street improvements in Los Angeles and other districts.
The Whitney Boys' chorus performs an open air concert Sunday at 3:30 PM at Hiawatha playfield in Wear Seattle. The event is hosted by the West Side Commercial club with ex-Senator Samuel H. Pilea as speaker.
A. H. Dimock city engineer is set to discuss the Skagit river power project before the King County Democratic Club at its regular Saturday meeting in the Good Bata cafeteria at noon. Adam H. Beeler will lead a Victory Loan appeal.
A truck owned by J. Taurutome, a Japanese national convicted in February for violating the federal liquor law, was forfeited to the federal government by order of Federal Judge Cushman. The ruling, issued on Friday, assigns the truck as proceeds of the offense and reflects the 14 month sentence previously imposed at McNeil's Island.
An 1919 1919 advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a reconstructor of health amid war and epidemic. It claims to build appetite aid digestion and improve assimilation to boost blood and body nourishment. Hood's Pills are pitched as a gentle family laxative.
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