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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1922
Page
10
A London power firm engages a weather observer to monitor conditions likely affecting energy supply. The appointment aims to improve forecasting for outages and optimize grid reliability amid seasonal fluctuations.
An advertisement touts a home remedy mixing juice from two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to create a quarter pint of freckle and tan bleach. It claims daily massage on the face neck arms and hands will fade freckles and blemishes and yield clearer softer rosier white skin.
Mrs J T Hazard and seven other Mountaineers were caught in an avalanche on McClelland butte Mt Rainier Sunday. Hazard treated at Beattle General with cuts bruises and shock. Eight climbers were carried down about 400 feet while seventeen others were uninjured. climb to the summit was abandoned.
More than 400 delegates attended the opening session of the second annual Pacific Northwest Credit Men convention at the New Washington hotel. They will discuss plans for the coming year and exchange views on methods of extending and handling credits.
Suquamish ranchman Frank Waring declares Tanlac cured his indigestion and rheumatism and restored appetite. He says he gained 26 pounds in weight and can sleep well again, praising Tanlac as sold by reputable druggists.
An old advertisement claims 8000 deaths yearly from ruptures and promotes the PLAPAO self treatment. It attacks trusses as ineffective and dangerous, touting a home method that supposedly closes the hernial opening without straps or springs and offers a free trial from PLAPAO CO.
A car plunged 20 feet from Live Creek bridge on the Des Moines highway killing driver E. L. Collins 29 and seriously injuring J. M. George 45. Passengers Mrs Ethel Tamblin 82 and Laurence Dibyinson maybe hurt. George and Collins employed by Peter Thomas & Co. Incident occurred after a dance headlong into a gulch. survivors hospitalized with injuries.
A sequence of motor crashes reports multiple fatalities and injuries across cities. Names include infant daughter of Joseph La Patkin, Bruce Drummond, Thomas Newell, Gustave Schiegass, Julia Kershaw, Paul Knute the deaf student, John Pazie, Grace Morelli, and Willstar Gordon with various ages and circumstances. Major locales include New York, Troy New York, Flint Michigan, Monroe Michigan, Detroit, Denver.
Federal Mine Head HW Foster Bain heads to Seattle en route to Alaska coal fields to inspect and set government policy. He will address the Seattle section of the American Institute of Engineers at the Engineers' Club at six o’clock Monday evening.
A local sale offers lace curtains at 3.75 per pair and curtain rods at 11 cents, with rods 27 inches closed and 4.5 inches extended. Yardage includes colored Madras 48 to 60 inches wide, Cretonnes, Marquisettes, and oil cloth, all discounted for Tuesday. Several items note former prices and dramatic reductions to 23 to 25 cents per yard or pair.
The Standard Furniture Co announces cash prizes of 235 dollars for its amateur radio contest held over the last two weeks. W. M. Du Cette L. C. Waynick Barton Harwood Milton Stapp H. M. Gow John Munsell Zell Parkhurst William L. Curtis and Frank Harris win shares. over 100 entries will be exhibited on the second floor Monday and Tuesday this week.
The supreme court sustained the city’s power to refuse renewal of George Sayle’s billiard and pool hall license at 4326 University Way, following persistent local efforts to bar pool rooms near the University of Washington. The case was argued last week.
More than 100 Seattle workers sign up to join a shipload of Pacific Coast enthusiasts leaving July 1 with tools and supplies to aid Soviet development. Al Delmore says 60 men from Kirkland area have deposited 65000 for supplies and machinery. Workers head to Siberia and Southern Russia.
Thirteen people, mostly women and children, died when a tram car collided with another and overturned into a canyon near Mexico City. Seventy were injured in the crash.
Chicago obituary notes actress Eugenia Blatt dies in her dressing room at the Cort Theatre. In Washington state, O E Hale, insurance man, elected mayor of Wapato.
County treasurer William A. Gaines announces candidacy for the first district county commissioner seat to succeed Claude C. Ramsay. Gaines cannot seek reelection as treasurer due to the four year term limit.
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