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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1919
Page
6
Advertises a modern Queen Anne Hill home with pleasant surroundings for a couple in exchange for management duties. Family includes three employed girls and two school age girls. features piano and abundant fruit. Contact Main 606 for Mrs. Smith at local 12 between 4 and 5 30 or call 2534 13th WwW after 6.
Classified advertising lists furniture including no junk items with prices such as $645 for a late model sewing machine and $85 for a leather davenport. Also notes large selection of rugs, beds, chests, tables, and lamps. Independent buyers Elliott 3921 and Elliott 43546 W. provide contact details and locations in Seattle area. Livestock includes one tram of mares weighing 3150 pounds with harness and wagon, Box 181 Oak Harbor.
Directory style notice listing a bungalow near the beach with large lot and spring water priced at 1250 dollars. Includes ROBERT MALTBY CO and Ita Ay reference, plus chiropractor listing TH. Consultation offered at 212 Denny Pid and 1408 2nd Street.
Reliable Investment Co and related firms advertise quick sale listings for businesses and properties including apartments and rooming houses. They offer to list with no charges, claim buyers for various assets, and solicit loans with reduced rates from lenders and brokers.
May 12 report from East Chicago says a rad mass meeting by the I. W. W. national convention featured Roberta Bruner urging organization to aid the unemployed and free imprisoned radicals. Police in Gary and Hammond Indiana halted Sunday demonstrations. Hammond a mass meeting dispersed after armed officers intervened and three radicals were arrested.
Ruth Garrison remains in county jail under nurse supervision as prosecutors expect her transfer to the state insane ward later in the week. She was found not guilty by reason of mental irresponsibility for the killing of Mrs. Grace Storrs and will be moved to the Medical Lake hospital when available.
Washington May 12 United Press reports a large list of U S forces assigned to early convoy including the 158th company 2h engineers Sith pioneer infantry 24th engineers 317th field army corps Zith and 721st police companies evacuation ambulance units 66 71 72 provisional evacuation ambulance company 1 advance veterinary base hospitals 3 and 5 base veterinary hospital 1 mobile veterinary section 116 veterinary hospital 11 fourth and fifth battalion Ztnd engineers Ninth Corps HQ troops bakery company 35 company A flat engineers company HB 4th supply train company DP 511th engineers battalion HQ and company A 516th engineers service battalion camp hospital 21.
Clarence Daniel Tichenor planned marriage to Dorothy Adell Taylor and bought a wedding ring and other items, but she refused consent after learning a license had been issued. The plan collapsed as he faced an unwanted engagement.
Discharged soldiers and marines eligible to volunteer for overseas service are invited by the local marine recruiting office at 101 Yesler Way to join a special contingent to relieve troops in France. Recruits will go to France, stay until fall, then be sent home with no training required, and will be discharged on return.
The Fremont Business Men's Association received a carnival license for May 6 to 31 to benefit the Fremont library fund. The group said Carnegie libraries will award $35,000 for a new library building if land is provided. A site at Blewett and Aurora costs $6,000, with $2,000 raised by a fair.
Jurors left the courtroom to inspect John Joyce's land in Duval where a county road was built Joyce claims serious damage The jury spent over an hour examining the property Judge Smith noted the older jurors endured the trip Joyce seeks 6000 dollars in damages from King County.
Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson will address the opening meeting of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's association in Portland on June 8. The 16th annual convention is expected to be the largest in the organization's history, per the Seattle Chamber of Commerce publicity department.
The Ohio Senate considers a joint resolution by Senator Latham to endorse Borah’s proposed congressional referendum on the United States joining the League of Nations. The measure seeks a public vote on terms for any partnership with other nations, reflecting domestic opinion.
Henry Ford's million-dollar Nobel suit against the Chicago Tribune began in circuit court at Mount Clemens with Judge J G Tucker presiding. The case stems from an editorial calling Ford an anarchist over his stance on military preparedness during the Mexican border troubles. Jury selection was expected to take three weeks and the trial about two months.
J L Sokolik a Dresebach Wisconsin railroad electrician was arrested at King Street station while claiming his baggage. He was accompanied by Mrs A B Dickson and her three year old daughter. Sokolik allegedly deserted his family and obtained free transportation for a wife who was not his. Mrs Dickson is held as a witness.
The Camp Fire Girls grand council will meet at 7530 Monday evening in the YWCA to hear Edith M. Kempthorne and Lester B. Scott. A course on Camp Fire organization and psychology will be offered by the university extension division beginning Friday at 7:30 in the Labor Temple Annex. The Camp Fire is a national girls organization similar to the Boy Scouts.
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce endorses inviting the National Chamber of Commerce directors to hold the next quarterly meeting in Seattle. The endorsement was sent directly to the National Chamber president in Washington by the San Francisco publicity bureau.
Five thousand dollars was voted by the Police Relief association to buy Victory bonds. The relief fund totals about $1,000, meaning almost half will swell Seattle's quota in the Fifth Liberty Loan drive.
John Campbell aged 15 of 170th Avenue was struck at Woodland Park Avenue and Ewing Street by an car driven by E Laestrom of 6542 First Ave NW. He suffered a broken leg a fractured knee cap and numerous bruises. He was taken to Minor Hospital after attempting to cross the street with two companions.
Three men died and two were seriously injured when a Wabash freight train derailed two and a half miles south of Moulton Indiana after a spreading rail caused the accident on Sunday evening. The derailment disrupted service in the region as investigators examined the wreckage and rail conditions.
Washington dispatch lists multiple military transports sailing to New York with units including infantry divisions 33rd and 327th, machine gun battalions, medical detachments, supply and repair detachments, and various engineer and field signal units. Names Maj. Gen. Geo. B. Duncan and Brig. Gen. Walsh appear as passengers.
City council factions clash over overtime pay for street railway workers. Union grievance committee plans to press action at Monday meeting while council members resist extra money, calling strike threats bluff and citing higher wages in other cities.
Government job notices invite applicants for a pathology clerk position at $2000 yearly. Examinations scheduled in local offices with dates June 4 July 6 and August 6. Additional exams for plant quarantine inspectors to follow.
Two ports in New York welcomed arrivals from Alaska and Alabama. The Arcadia brought 700 and the 307th ammunition train joined the troop movement, as the 82nd Airborne units neared their destination.
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