22 Nov 1919
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1919
Page
1
A bemused observer recalls a noon panhandling episode near Second Avenue and reflects on wartime drafts, fashion in flowers, and a newly introduced motor bus linked to rail service. The piece contrasts private transit efficiency in Seattle and Portland with municipal fare burdens and profits from utilities.
Princess Daphne of Doll Land headlines Seattle's first major Doll Show to raise about 20 000 for the Mother Ryther Home. The event December 10 12 features a doll contest with a 25 dollar prize and a royal opening with the Prince and Princess of Doll Land.
The King County fair price committee allows a maximum 43.2 cent per ton increase for retail coal dealers to cover operating costs. The measure, effective Monday, follows dealers asking for a conference to push higher coal prices citing losses of about 13 cents per ton under the old scale.
Billy Danzy, 24, disappeared October 8 from Hammonton New Jersey and was found murdered in a swamp near his father's home. A hunter located the body late yesterday ending the missing persons search and shifting to the hunt for his killer.
The piece argues Seattle's municipal management offers more reliability than Portland's private system, noting competition between two big firms there. It warns citizens would endure many impositions under a municipal regime if profits accrue to the public purse or watered stock dividends, urging skepticism of public ownership benefits.
A report notes that thirty two new poisons were covered by the latest munitions activity in the United States.
William Chastain and Frank Mc Kean, former reformatory inmates, robbed Deputy Sheriff G. H. Kearney on the Bothell road October 11 and fled after a gun battle with Kearney and Deputy C. H. Beebe. They were traced to Monroe, stole Superintendent Olson's car, which was found in Seattle next day. Bloodhounds failed to locate them for days. Chastain, 23, had escaped a second term in Oklahoma, was arrested in Portland, sentenced for Spokane robberies, and paroled in January.
Eureka California November 22 Jim Hunter a full blooded redskin and alleged red who sits in the county jail on criminal syndicalism charges was asked how he joined the I W W He said they asked if he had a good bed and he replied he had no good mattress They offered two dollars to join and four bits for clues and he paid two dollars half The remark shows the rustic humor surrounding his arrest and the I W W recruitment pitch
R H Thomson Jr riding a motorcycle was struck and dragged beneath an Everett Seattle stage driven by D F Prothero at Roanoke and Eastlake. Thomson received non serious injuries including cuts to the head and lip and bruises. rescued by bystanders and taken to the city hospital for treatment.
Superior Judge Everett Smith poured 10 quarts of liquor into a sewer to mark the end of a case involving Judge Clay Allen who was arrested and acquitted over possession. Six quarts Boone’s Knoll bourbon and four quarts Scotch were disposed of in the private office of Superior Court Clerk Percy Thomas at 11 30 am. The ceremony ended with officials including Prosecutor T H Patterson and Clerk Thomas filing out after the last bottle was poured.
French law states that no physician may inherit property from a patient who dies leaving them a bequest. This rule prohibits doctors from benefiting financially from the estate of patients they treated.
The Associated Student Body backs a plan to construct a 75000 seat concrete stadium on the University of Washington campus. The bowl would surpass Yale Bowl in capacity and stand alongside the Tacoma high school stadium in size. Financing comes from within the university treasury and 15000 from this season’s profits plus 40000 already saved. The first unit aims to begin before the 1920 athletic season.
Harvard led Yale 10 to 0 at halftime in the annual big game at Cambridge. Ralph Horween opened scoring with a 40 yard field goal and later a long drop kick. Casey scored Harvard’s first touchdown on a Felton pass. Horween added the kick. Yale added a fourth quarter field goal.
Price marks on the soles of shoes curb profiteering in Britain. Prices range from 2.95 to 12 dollars. British manufacturers have ordered thirty million boots to be placed on the market.
The United States uses opium at rates ten to sixty times higher than Austria Italy Germany Portugal France and Holland. The contrast highlights vast international gaps in consumption and policy implications.
The letter urges government seizure of coal mines to end the strike and prevent famine. It accuses injunctions of failing, notes miners’ refusal to work, and compares to wartime rail seizures. It argues for government control pending fair settlement of miners’ demands and probe of profiteering by operators.
Donald S. Phillips and A. B. Murphy, deputies, chased suspects on a motorcycle from a gambling joint at Eighth Avenue and Fifth Street. A bullet forced a retreat. Phillips lost his trousers when the rear seat burned out. They rode to the sheriff’s office, obtaining new trousers at the county jail.
Prince of Wales decorates ninety air veterans aboard H. M. S. Renown in New York before sailing to Halifax. Earlier he reviewed a Boy Scout parade on Riverside Drive as the visit’s final program event. Cocoanut oil noted as a mange cure for dogs in India.
City and country best buys appear in the Classified Section with a READ-THEN-ACT prompt. Prize winners in the RHYME CONTEST are announced today and readers are invited to check if their name appears.
The article reports rumors of an alleged lynching attempt on Ison White and Joseph Morton, youths ages 19 and 16, who were secretly moved from Everett jail to King county jail in Seattle. McCulloch of Snohomish county escorted them to Seattle to avert violence as threats arose. White had bootlegging ties and was seen as the leader. Morton was described as weaker and previously known for mischief. The case ties to a murder near a ditch outside Everett and a robbery earlier that Thursday morning.
Three masked gunmen robbed the Clare tavern at midnight after forcing 25 guests into the hall and rifling the private room. Burgess and Perringer were killed, Marshall wounded as bandits escaped with about $3,000 in cash and jewelry. three suspects held, one possibly knowing more about the crime.
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