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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1921
Page
12
United British societies of Seattle held Empire Day celebrations at the Masonic temple on Tuesday with participation by the American Legion for the first time. Organizers hope the event will strengthen ties to the empire and local communities.
Mayor Hugh M Caldwell and Lieut Gov William J Coyle among speakers in Baltimore. Henry A Rowland son of Prof Henry A Rowland a scientist commits death by his own hand with a shooting. Chicago West Side fire leaves 52 families homeless.
Post Office Inspector J Swenson issues posters for Navy mail clerk Leland M Bowen who deserted the steamer Charlotte at Hiremerton last February. He is with 19 year old Bremerton girl Inez Barager. Bowen’s accounts are short 10 600. He was last heard of in California. Prescott Mrs Anna Irene Hopkins jailed five to 14 years for throwing acid in the face of Miss Lucille Gallagher of Jerome last March.
George K O Ban known as a stick up man confessed to robbing T H Lacey Standard 601 collector of $100 in a daylight holdup on May 16 Lacey identified him on Pike street leading to the arrest O Ban had been paroled three months earlier from Monroe reformatory after an 18 month term for three holdups in 1919 Lacey had said he was robbed by a man and a woman which was later contradicted by parole officer Shattuck showing O Ban was in reformatory at the time
A 30 page pamphlet titled The New Church Conscience by Alice Scott of Sheridan Wyoming is described as a philosophy of right living. In Dodge City Kansas Mrs Cash Woods of Kinley dies trying to save her 10 year old son from drowning.
An ad-style health tip claims a proven method to dissolve and remove blackheads using calonite powder mixed with hot wet sponge treatment. It warns against pinching and squeezing and asserts the powder dissolves dirt and secretions in pores, leaving skin clean and natural.
An advertisement touts the book The Inner Mysteries of Rheumatism as a cure for rheumatism neuritis gout and related disorders. Pastor H W Reed and Mrs Need endorse abandoning the uric acid theory and claim the publication reveals scientific causes and remedies. Readers are urged to mail their name and address to H P Clearwater in Maine to receive the work free by postage paid.
A large downtown Dallas fire destroyed or damaged an entire block of businesses. Loss is about 500000 dollars. The blaze began in a furniture store, with Winn Furniture spared. Harwood Pacific Storage suffered the heaviest loss, including 250 cars. Other losses included Hughes Furniture, two hotels, and a Singer Sewing Machine branch. No injuries reported.
The significance of Memorial Day will be explained to grade and high school pupils by members of Stevens post No 1 GAaA. R Vancouver. Joseph Bancroft, former assistant manager Granville branch Merchants' Bank of Canada, sentenced to four years in penitentiary for theft of $45,000 Victory bonds.
Lieut. Col. C A Seoane commanding the Alaska cable system told Seattle post of the Society of American Military Engineers that a new American cable across the Pacific is a vital need. In Vancouver B C a jury disagrees in the Sinn Fein envoy Osmond Es Monde case charged with uttering seditious remarks.
Director Edward selects mediation panel for coal strike ratified by miners and operators. Members include H. Alpert arriving from Pennsylvania, Robert Newsham, Ernest Newsham, D. F. Buckingham, and N. Moore for the operators.
Belfast on May 124 saw seventeen voters stabbed and beaten during riot at Ballymacarell shipyard area. Police and soldiers guarded Saunders Street booth as clashes with Sinn Fein sympathizers escalated from stone throwing to hand to hand combat. Ulster unionists, Sinn Fein and leaders De Valera and Craig urged supporters amid continuing unrest. In Olympia Washington James McQueen ordered to pay 1215 dollars for sheep killed by dogs per supreme court ruling.
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