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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1919
Page
4
An advertisement lists canned vegetables including tiny green peas lima beans and asparagus plus a Princess Fruit Cake made with crystallized pineapple candied nuts raisin and citron. Cakes priced from one to ten dollars per pound with Cresca Fruit Cake tins available by weight.
Food shortage in Petrograd grows acute with supplies scarce and rationing via prescriptions noted in unofficial state department dispatches from Helsingfors.
A photographer records simowflakes as they descend to create new visual art designs. The effort blends natural motion with artistic interpretation to explore texture and form.
An ad touts a tiny bottle of Freezone from drug stores that dissolves corns and calluses with a safe application to remove the corn. It claims instant relief from pain and easy removal by hand without humbug.
The Seattle Union Record failed to obtain a federal injunction against Postmaster Edgar Battle to stop using the mails for the paper. Judge Cushman ruled the issue falls to the postmaster general, noting the Record had been denied privileges after printing alleged sedious material. Washington post office authorities had not acted as of Tuesday, according to Postmaster Battle.
Washington reports tentative plans for the king of Italy to visit the United States have been called off due to opposition over the Fiume crisis. Italian circles say the people blame President Wilson and a royal visit would be unpopular at this time.
A reference lists officials including United States Treasurer Roper, Internal Revenue Commissioner, and Charles W. Hamlin as governor of the Federal Reserve Board. The arrangement places them among senior federal finance authorities.
Mrs. Josephine Totman faced a decree of absolute divorce to her husband Dr. C D Totman after a court found she forged a birth certificate and claimed another woman's infant as hers in Vancouver British Columbia. Judge A W Frater ruled cruelty and inhuman treatment and ordered two physicians to examine Totman as she failed to appear in court with the baby.
Deputy prosecutors Howard A. Hanson and William Parmalee sue James B. Hall and his wife Sophia and James Hall and Agnes Hall in superior court for 1493.06 claiming the Halls started a brush fire while land clearing on August 19 near Issaquah, asserting the blaze caused Oil-based feather oil costs for the state.
Nine I W W members face U S charges of sedition and conspiracy to oppose government authority. The defendants Dan Murphy John Rainy Sam Golden William Cunningham Sam Healy George Rainey Ed Park Arthur J. Smith Ernest Emil Albert Heitmiller are accused of distributing disloyal material and inciting resistance to the United States. The complaint was filed in the office of U S Commissioner KR W McClelland and drawn by the U S district attorney.
Washington November 25 Henry Means and others are making every effort to mobilize strength in the Ninth North Federation district. Interest centers on the belief that Senate rejection of the treaty will influence the campaign and show how observers view the Senate action. The election is set for December 14 to fill the vacancy from Eawin V. Webb resigning to accept a federal judgeship.
Miss Effie I. Raitt head of Washington University Home Economics unit leads statewide campaign to organize women against rising living costs. Seattle women's clubs to aid federal effort to curb profiteering with a speaking drive teaching sane buying.
Fred Cann of Melbourne was fined $100 by Justice Otis W. Brinker after pleading guilty to unlawful liquor possession. Deputy Sheriffs Julius Van Geret and Earl Ramage said they found a bottle of whisky in his hotel room at 1414 Third Ave. The incident occurred Monday, with the court action Tuesday.
The government's case against Jimmy Sato for operating a still in the city collapsed when witnesses failed to identify him as the operator. Sato was arrested on Spokane Avenue when driving into the city, with three kegs of brew found in his car and over 3,000 gallons of mash located near his home.
James Duncan and Albert Wilson two longshoremen were arrested while leaving the Manila Maru with seven bottles of whisky concealed about their persons. They were bound over to the grand jury by Commissioner R. W. McClelland and held on $500 bail each.
The report notes about 3,000,000 mohair goats in Asia Minor and an annual mohair yield estimated to cost around $4,000,000. The figures reflect substantial livestock and textile resources in the region.
A Brussels conference set for December 1 by European league supporters may shift leadership of the League of Nations from the United States to Europe. France seeks a stronger voice and Belgium aims to move the league seat from Geneva to Brussels, signaling possible changes from Wilson’s covenant. The Brussels meeting could precede the peace conference league’s initial session, now not yet convened.
General chairmen of the railroad brotherhoods met in Cleveland and remained undecided on Director General Hines’s overtime pay offer for slow freight workers. Industry officials expected a definite statement within the next 24 hours.
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