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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1921
Page
11
Classifieds from the Seattle Star show jobs and notices. Wages, phone numbers, and ad pricing are listed amid listings for furniture, real estate, lost items, and automobiles. The dense column includes employment, personal ads, and miscellaneous sale notices with multiple contact details.
A machinist Thoburn Shellenberger was seriously injured Monday afternoon when struck by a flying piece of steel at Todd Dry Dock Co. He was hospitalized at Seattle General hospital. The page also notes police detentions of G. 8. Kelley and J. A. Trout, a narcotics squad seizure, and mixed classified ads including land sales and job notices.
Directory lists Patent Attorneys and firms with addresses and phone numbers in Seattle Washington. It also advertises financial loan services including personal salary loans and furniture loans, with locations and brief descriptions of terms offered by lenders.
J. D. Manefield of the Seattle Chamber says coastal advocates believe the Interstate Commerce decision will favor their grounds. Coast port representatives backed railroad bids to cut continental cotton coal rates to move export cargo through Seattle and other Pacific ports.
Washington notes portrait sketches of Briand and Balfour at the armament talks. Briand’s fiery presence contrasts with the bland, diplomatic Balfour, while Geddes and Lee, Schanzer and other delegates are described for form and bearing.
Detective F W Richardson located a stolen auto after a two day search. W J Gerry of Western Union left his Lizzie outside in the snow. Lizzie disappeared until Richardson found the Ford in the old police garage.
Washington dispatch reports William Jennings Bryan describing the third session of the arms conference as reaching a crisis. He notes progress on land armament reduction is tied to naval cuts and discusses Briand's plea for German fear and security through moral disarmament, urging a world shift from force to peace.
In Versailles on November 22, Fernando Segiet fainted in the witness box during Landru's murder trial. The fiancé among 285 alleged sweethearts testified against the accused as Landru watched with a calm smile while the witness sobbed after a ferocious glance.
The University chorus glee club and orchestra present Haydn Creation at Meany Hall on December 7 under director Irving M. Glen. Ada Tilley sings leading lyric soprano with soloists Dean Glen Robert Lee and Milford Kingsbury.
Paul Freeman alias Jean Palmer is charged with forgery in the first degree in superior court information filed by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas. Freeman allegedly forged a check for $15.
A Thanksgiving Sonora party at Fraser-Paterson's Temple of Oriental Rugs invites music lovers Tuesday and Wednesday. Cornish school musicians perform with Ruth reading by Mrs. Klingberg in Oriental robes. Harpist Ruth Linrud and violinist Miles Vendelia Hill join Sonora reproductions of Galli-Curci and Caruso as Philadelphia Symphony reproduces. C. W. Dolan discusses rug design symbolism in the East setting.
Portland news reports warm rains ending the storm that battered the Pacific Northwest. Flood waters burst banks south of Portland along the Willamette River with linesmen marooned, houses swept away, and stock drowned. Rail and highway traffic between land and the South threatened. no deaths reported yet. Trains marooned in the Columbia Gorge were expected to reach Portland later today.
Robert S. Boyns, president of the Chamber of Commerce, presides at a Tuesday dinner at the Washington Annex for officials and principal exhibitors of the Pacific Northwest Fruit exposition. Speakers include Col. Howard A. Hanson, W. B. Armstrong, H. M. Gilbert, and John A. Gellally outlining development, marketing, and world market plans.
The steamship Victoria bringing 40 000 pounds of reindeer meat from Nome Alaska is due in Seattle Friday for distribution through Seattle. The arrival news was wirelessed to the Chamber of Commerce by Carl J Lemmen of Nome.
Chief railway mail clerks of the Northwestern division met in Seattle Tuesday to discuss holiday mail handling. Attendees included George N. Fuller Helena Montana George H. Addieman Spokane W H Taylor Ogden Utah Albert B Rand Portland and W Ott Seattle.
William GC Dorr aged 65 was arrested Tuesday by Patrolman CC Meyers for attempting to pass a counterfeit five dollar bill at a Washington restaurant. The note reportedly traced to an original bill.
County officials Lou Smith and Thomas Dobson were subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury amid a secret Monday conference with the port commission. The investigation focus remains unclear though county road work is suspected as Maple Valley witnesses appeared Tuesday.
The Star invites readers to report missing relatives and to help locate named individuals. Messages seek wife or niece links, Hood River ties, and sailors in Seattle with last contact years ago. Contacts include Hermine Clemenson in Hood River and Red Cross notices in Seattle for J E Irby and others.
Grand larceny charged in superior court Tuesday over a $61.08 check. Clarence Knoll faces the charge based on the disputed check as evidence presented in court.
E. B. Benn of Aberdeen, newly appointed United States marshal for the district, arrived in Seattle on Tuesday to survey the area in preparation for starting his duties.
Patrolman RR W Phelps at the police station desk reports from Kansas City Missouri that the area was dry and rocky. He also mentions Billings Montana recording 20 degrees below zero while rotary snow plows operate on Washingtons eastern side.
Three persons were slightly cut in a collision between two autos at Queen Anne Ave and Roy St. R. B. Condon and A. Golleson were cut by flying glass, with a small boy riding with Golleson also injured. Slippery streets blamed for the accident.
J J Keenan bound over to federal grand jury under $1000 bail by U S Commissioner R W McClelland charged with soliciting and selling narcotics to an agent on Sunday. Keenan previously served 30 days in jail and paid a $100 fine for a similar charge in May.
Eugene C. Riley, a Seattle state department passport agent, said Washington instructed resuming passport issuance to Germany. The move follows Ellis Dresel’s bid for American charge d affaires in Berlin, seen as reopening diplomatic ties that had been severed at the war’s start.
Shoe thieves slipped into Currin Green Shoe Co. at 2715 Western Ave Monday night and made off with a valuable footwear consignment.
Early Tuesday the 8 S S Wallingford experienced intrusions as prowlers entered a stateroom harming two sailors J Hanson and BR Craig and stealing 85 in total. The missing funds were reported as 38 from Hanson and 47 from Craig.
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