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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1921
Page
10
The Metropolis stage brings Aphrodite to the Metropolitan theatre for one week starting tomorrow night with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Demetrios the sculptor pursues Chrysis in a grand spectacle famed in Paris and New York, with Percy Anderson's striking costumes.
A multi act program tops the week with Billy Arlington and company offering Mistakes Will Happen a burlesque comedy and Two Young Una a European juggle act. Channing Pollock's The Sign on the Door stars Miss Adele Blood in Seattle premiere with Thomas Chatterton ensemble. Plus Loew's Palace Hip gives Sam Dura Mickey Feeley acrobatics and musical acts from Luceiana Lucca De Lyte Marmon Monte and Patti. Chick Haines headlining Pantages with Jan Rubini Kuba quartet and Harry Antrim comedy.
Probate of the will of Mrs. Louisa M. Cody widow of Buffalo Bill Cody reveals an estate valued at 95000 dollars.
A Star investigation reveals bootleg operations around Detroit as a structured trade. Smugglers, organized like a chamber of commerce, move 60 000 dollars worth of liquor nightly from Windsor and beyond. Little enforcement, open depots at Beorse and Ecorse, and transports via boats and trunks to Chicago and other cities.
An advertisement invites attendance at Brights located at 1604 Fourth Street for a Get Acquainted Night on Tuesday.
A fatal crash on Friday night leaves nine year old Hobson dead and Louis W Hobson critically injured while the mother sustains severe cuts and bruises. The family was en route from Yakima to Everett when their car left the Sunset highway near Camp Mason and plunged down a steep embankment. They were transported to Snoqualmie Falls hospital by W B Smith.
Lapeer Michigan October 29 train wreckers tore up rails on the Grand Trunk line near the city ditching number five the crack passenger train. Three people were injured when the train plunged into a ditch shortly after midnight as sheriff's posse and railroad detectives hunted suspects.
In Beatie Star's 1921 remark, Walkerville ferryboats are ruined and ferryboat smuggling is dismissed as trivial while acknowledging that larger, organized smuggling operations continue unseen.
In New York on October 29 Evelyn Nesbit who attempted suicide with morphine amid eviction threats for nonpayment of rent was reported "all right" today by her apartment staff.
MH Hardy 40 an ex convict offered to sell 7500 dollars worth of Liberty bonds at a low figure. He was jailed Saturday. Police hold the bonds believed to be part of the loot from the January bank burglary at the Lyman state bank Mt Vernon.
Some sorority girls at the University of Washington faced tight funds after a burglar hit the Kappa Alpha Theta house for 5 dollars and the Delta Zeta house for 15 dollars. The incident left residents joking about the long wait for allowance day.
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