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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1921
Page
3
A jumble of classified listings from a Seattle area directory includes furniture for sale and rent, real estate notices, appliances and wood prices, job ad seeking workers, and various services from repair shops to professional offices. Names of businesses and addresses appear with prices and contact numbers.
The San Juan Canning Co plant at Friday Harbor was seized by the Internal Revenue Department for unpaid 1917 income taxes. The sale of the premises is set for June 15 at 10 a.m. A audit found additional taxes totaling 4536.27, as stated by chief deputy William T. Beeks. The plant and assets will be exposed to public sale on the premises.
Twenty Broadway students from high school and university returned safely after a weekend party on Vashon Island ended with near disaster. Chaperones Mr and Mrs Pollo Frick led the group. supplies ran low as two campers disappeared and later reappeared. A clambake with sand in the shells concluded the tense episode before dawn.
Claude W. Sprague Harold Johnston and G C Gilpin are jailed on $3500 bail each after admitting to Deputy Sheriff Murphy being shot on the Fell highway Friday morning. They were seized by Detectives Strickland and Sheriff Starwich in Tacoma following information and later confessed to deputies Beebe Sears and Murphy.
Police report by Morris Stewart of 621 First Ave W notes an unidentified child struck by his car near the ball ground in Woodland Park at 4 15 p m Monday. The child, crowing the road with parents, was uninjured and did not provide a name.
Nine ex service men were sent to work Tuesday and three more registered for work in The Star American Legion employment campaign. They remain well over one hundred veterans waiting for jobs and need work urgently. Elliott 0479 handles calls for any work.
Proposals urge bar and cabaret venues to enforce higher standards as Seattle considers a license committee recommendation. The plan would ban staff mingling with patrons and require managers to uphold strong moral conduct in line with temperance era norms.
A Monday night pursuit on Jackson Street ended with C. F. Cowen 49, F. C. Byrne 25 charged with disorderly conduct after moonshine was found. H. B. Sears 25 faces speeding counts. all three fled then halted. Officers pursued eight shots fired. Cowen allegedly tossed the bottle into a vacant lot.
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