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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1922
Page
8
Tacoma police report 45 year old F F Osgood walked in and gave himself up to Captain John Strickland saying he wanted a home for the winter. He admits passing two bogus checks Saturday and is held for investigation and a prior similar charge.
Across the United States the Volstead act faces a major test as voters head to the polls in November. The Anti Saloon League and other wet groups push for modification or repeal while dry advocates back stricter enforcement and the existing act. Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin and other states tilt toward wet or dry as campaigns frame the question of beer and wine legality and enforcement.
An advertisement touts four ounces of ordinary liquid argon as a nightly scalp treatment to dissolve dandruff. It claims itching will stop and hair will look and feel much better after three to four applications, with squidarvon available at drug stores.
Coroner W N Carson opened an inquest into the death of Max Venter a year old son of Mr and Mrs M C Venter of 2128 N 63rd Ave killed Saturday night by an automobile Miss Alga M Stott of 136 Bardet was driving the car at the time taking driving lessons with her mother Mrs Lillian Stott as a passenger The boy died at Virginia Mason hospital several hours after the collision.
The piece notes wet voters from Indiana and Michigan with a dry majority from Illinois presenting a plan to settle the prohibition question once and for all by electing a larger anti-saloon majority to Congress.
An advertisement touts Freezone a tiny bottle for a few cents that removes hard and soft corns and calluses between the toes without soreness. It claims instant relief and easy lifting of the corn with fingers. The ad emphasizes painless removal and states the product is sold by druggists.
The Colonial presents a lineup of high profile pictures including The Your Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Madelph Valentine as Julio and Alice Terry in Northern France. Other features span Heroes and Husbands with Katharine MacDonald and My Dad with Johnnie Walker, plus Extra Extra at the Winter Garden and The Ghost Breaker at the Liberty.
In the Paramount film directed by George Fitzmaurice the court banquet of King James I features reproduced historic personages including William Shakespeare Ben Jonson and the Duke of Buckingham with Betty Compson Bert Lytell Theodore Kosloff and Walter Long among others. The note also mentions Mary Miles Minter’s age being 21.
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