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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1919
Page
14
Lightfoot the deer fears the coming hunting season and asks Paddy the Beaver for help. They agree to partner, with Paddy keeping watch around his pond and Lightfoot staying nearby to stay safe, sharing warnings as needed.
Sixty five bread recipes form a booklet ready for distribution by the Seattle Association of the Baking Industry. Next week is Bread Week as the public shows keen interest in bread campaign to fight high living costs. President G B Rasmussen reports letters arriving from many walks of life seeking literature on bread.
The Metropolitan showcases the long running In Old Kentucky with special Sunday and Monday matinees. John Cort's Flo-Flo brings five comedians and a bustling cast. The Palace Hip opens with the Sutherland Saxophone Sextette and comic acts. Moore features Gertrude Hoffman with a versatile dance program. Wilkes Theatre debuts Remnant by Niccoderi Mor ton. Pantages opens with The Luck of a Totem.
The Western Musical Bureau, led by Laurence Lambert, announces Mme. Tetrazzini as premiere attraction in Seattle at the Hippodrome around January 1. The agency also reveals a Metropolitan season lineup including Pirates of Penzance and Mikado, with a starry cast and the St. Cecelia Symphony Orchestra.
At the New York Hippodrome fair over 600 chorus girls and ballet dancers displayed garments, linens, and crocheted items made in dressing rooms between performances. More than a thousand pieces were shown and prizes awarded by Hippodrome management. Valeska Surratt will tour England next spring in Scarlet and White.
Elmer Tarnard, who escaped from the Oregon penitentiary in August 1916, turned himself in to Gov. Olcott. He asked to finish his ten year term, saying guilt and conscience troubled him. Tarnard was granted parole and instructed to return to eastern Oregon to resume work on a ranch, after a brief meeting in the governor’s office.
New York magistrate Sweetser ruled that the right to hang out family wash is inalienable even if it defaces an apartment court. The decision came after Sam Ginebure complained the superintendent twice removed the clothes line.
Ben Evans, Seattle playground director, returns after six weeks in Eastern cities. He conducted a special survey of recreation centers in Cleveland and Chicago and says Seattle’s system compares favorably with other major cities.
More than 100 University of Montana faculty members organized a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in Missoula Montana. They are framing a salary scale and there is no strike provision in the charter.
Four masked men robbed the Melwood grocery on Spokane's east side Friday evening. They knocked down a cashier, searched him, and took fifty five dollars before calmly walking away.
Aunt Phoebe inspires children at Hal's house to create a Halloween club. Peter Knight joins with a math trouble fraction problem, turning the gathering into a fraction party next Friday. The group receives yellow pumpkin pins and pledges to help others.
The imperial commissioner announces magazines newspapers and books may be imported without a licence. Personal use food up to 11 pounds allowed including margarine fats biscuits crackers macaroni sweet meats tea coffee and cocoa with at most two pounds per item. Prohibited items include butter meat bacon sugar pineapples ginger vanilla crabs lobsters oysters and caviar.
Homer J. Dawson will address Seattle’s Foreign Trade Bureau and Trade Club on the city’s trade future. Dawson has two years’ experience in Ribenia with the Red Cross and the Red Cream project.
Fifty five to sixty five men and women who served with the army navy were recognized at a Friday dinner. The War Council of the YMCA and Seattle YMCA hosted the event to briefly recount their camp service and wartime experiences.
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