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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1921
Page
12
A left handed robber burst into professor Edgar Stanton's bedroom at 4814 44d Ave South. He demanded money and fled after Stanton yielded six dollars. The incident drew attention from Washington School principal Georgy A. Stanton. Police could not locate the suspect.
The Royal Arch Masons moved to elect officers for the coming year during the 37th annual session. Grand High Priest PF L Janeck of Yakima opened the meeting in the Masonic temple as state officers answered roll call. New officers will be honored with a reception and ball tonight after the day’s sessions.
A repeat arsonist set a blaze in a two story rooming house at 525 Weller Street early Monday. A passerby saw smoke and firemen extinguished the flames before major damage. Fire inspectors continue to investigate the incident.
The report notes five passengers accounted for after yesterday's disaster involving the ToKuyo Maru built in Japan. The vessel on its maiden voyage, 400 feet long with 32 feet beam and 5400 tons gross, carried lumber and other cargo and docked at San Francisco before resuming to the Orient. A fire's cause remains undetermined, though suspected to have started in the coal bunkers.
Daniel McKinnon of Seattle reports his sword case vanished from a Ballard streetcar and now sits in the railway company’s lost bureau as the search continues.
The 10 month old Enrico Chiappara’s body was recovered in the bay near San Francisco. Victorio Chiappara, the infant’s father, identified the child and led detectives to question Mary Chiappara, the mother, at police headquarters after he described a strange account to officers.
A prowler flashed a light on the back yard fence by B A Partlow at 1133 35th Ave Monday night. Police concluded the man was a window peeper, not a burglar, due to two gates in the fence.
President Harding ordered all cabinet members to cap their departmental expenditures to the funds appropriated by Congress. In a letter to each secretary he condemned a dangerous pattern of departments exceeding approved budgets and seeking extra money after.
Egbert Wilbur a 79 year old resident of Sedro-Woolley Washington died after a heart attack on a highway five miles below Redding California He was returning home with his wife and son from a car trip to Los Angeles The death occurred today and the party had been traveling in an automobile
A court ruling states that Telephone dogs that refuse to hang up to allow a fire alarm cannot be prosecuted, per an opinion by city attorney George A. Mempher. Extra appropriations before Congress total 216 million dollars.
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