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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1919
Page
8
May 19 report from Detroit states Judge Shortall granted a divorce to Mrs. Ethel EF Bones after her testimony that her husband refused to take her to baseball games calling it a man's sport. She described distress from his cruelty and cited other abuse as basis for the decree.
New York May 19 A record alimony sum was awarded to Mrs Ellen Ballentine Kendall by her divorced husband Lyman B Kendall a New York banker In the financial settlement property worth 1 0 million was transferred and alimony totaling 900 thousand was allotted Altogether the settlement totals about 4 5 million excluding alimony per her lawyer's statement
Police report 70 arrests over Saturday and Sunday for liquor and drug ordinance violations and gambling. About 73 gallons of grape seized on Des Moines road with no owner found. Chinese arrests at 655 King and 605 Maynard aven. An opium layout found. Lottery tickets and paraphernalia seized to support gambling charges. Three men and four women arrested at 815 Pike street with drugs and sale equipment seized. police call the location a rendezvous for addicts.
Resolutions from the American Manufacturers' Export Association urge Congress to authorize sale of ships owned or contracted by the government to American ship owners at reduced prices. They also call for government set maximum freight rates and compensation to owners for losses in tough markets.
A concise adage states that about two thirds of credit for righteous actions belongs to others, suggesting communal influence in moral outcomes.
Philadelphia mother credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health after prolonged nervous indigestion and weakness. She and her husband said she improved after a week and maintained three months of use, with better appetite and mood. The ad promotes the product to other exhausted or overworked mothers and describes common symptoms.
The American Ace is Lincoln J. Carter’s war melodrama on the Orpheum bill. It features 11 scenes of realistic combat with air raids and a Yank ace downing four enemy planes, plus a romance with a French girl. The act includes about 30 performers, with jazz interludes by Henlere and Deiro, and songs by Nora Kelly.
The Metropolitan Theatre presented two acts Sunday night by the Samuel EB. Grumman players, highlighting I Zole's A Mothers Love and George M. Cohan's The Papan Hanger in Yiddish. The crowd’s warm reception showed Seattle Jews valued the touring company’s performances and the program included Levy's Musical Comedy at Levy's Orpheum with Caught in the Harem and other acts headlined by Ert Hunt, Bob Sandberg, Madge Moore, and Seabelie Wilkes among new cast members. The rest of the program featured The Woman on the Index at the Wilkes Theatre, Delcasse intrigue, Down Below travesty, Belmonte Sisters toe dancing, Jimmy Lyons comic monologue, and the Two Astellas acrobats with Klein and Clifton A Beach Flirtation, Gwen Jacque, and Billy Clark performances.
Washington dispatches report China struggles to free itself from German treaty obligations and pressure Japan to relax its hold in Manchuria. M Sazanoff, head of the Russian delegation at Darja, says there will be no revival of Chinese tension without Russian government consent.
A playful quip contrasts a stubborn hen with an egg plant, then questions why soldiers should not sleep on sturdy knapsacks. The wording creates a humorous image without providing a factual report or identifiable events.
Harold Gorski, 12, appeared in Judge Boyer’s court in Evanston Illinois with coins totaling 9.87 offering to bribe to spare his father Joseph Gorski who faced a health violation charge. The boy’s gesture underscored the seriousness of attempting to influence the court and his father was released on probation.
A 1900s style health ad warns that pimples and skin eruptions signal deeper illness. It promotes a vegetable blood medicine, Swift’s Specific, as the sole cure sourced by addressing the blood, with a free medical consultation in Atlanta, Georgia.
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