30 May 1921
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1921
Page
1
A mosaic of snippets from daily life and conversations in a city setting. Jokes about prohibition figures, a speedway incident, naturalists and prickly pears, burlesque questions, and casual office banter blend with hotel and elevator scenes.
Ralph De Palma led early at Indianapolis in the speedway classic but retired after 113 laps with a broken connecting rod. He had won $100 for each lap led and set fast early pace as 135,000 fans watched the 5600 mile race for $100,000 in prizes.
ATCHISON Kan May 30 Miss Eugene Dennis 16 is swamped with letters from Kansas and Missouri seekers who want her to read minds The teen gained fame after mind reading demonstrations and has helped locate lost articles While the flood of mails continues women ask about missing husbands men seek business success and couples seek reassurance The calls come at all hours from Kansas and Missouri towns.
Water will be shut off in the district between 16th Ave 8 W and 20th Ave 8 W from W Holden St to W Trenton St Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A veteran verse by Leo H Lassen urges honoring fallen soldiers with memory and truth. It condemns forgetting their names and sacrifice while insisting the living uphold their duty to respect graves and refrain from dishonor.
Gray-haired civil war veterans joined khaki clad World War I and later veterans in a stirring Memorial Day parade in Seattle. Grand Army of the Republic units, American Legion, Spanish War Veterans and Canadian veterans marched and rode in cars, followed by memorial services at Metropolitan theatre and Evergreen park.
In a single car a gray haired veteran of the Wilderness and a khaki clad youth who fought at St Mihiel share a moment of camaraderie. They travel 3,000 miles with the Stars and Stripes bearing black bunting for fallen comrades from 1861, 1898, and 1917.
Investigation will show the pilot was seeking a landing place when the Curtiss Eagle ambulance plane crashed near Indian Head Maryland during a wind and electrical storm killing seven aboard. Lieutenant Colonel Archie Miller and four others listed among the dead.
President Harding planned to deliver his first Memorial Day address from Arlington Memorial Cemetery as thousands of veterans and survivors joined the parade. He stood with bared head at the White House before the march to the cemetery where Civil War survivors and postwar A. E. F. veterans processed by in khaki uniforms.
Seattle detectives say Mrs. Kate Mahoney was murdered and her body placed in a trunk then ferried to Lake Union. James E. Mahoney, her ex convict husband, is charged or likely to be charged with murder as authorities search the lake bottom for the trunk. Evidence includes express orders, quick lime purchase, and sightings by neighbors, with conflicting reports on Mrs. Mahoney’s movements and associates in Los Angeles and St. Paul.
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