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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1922
Page
8
Wool prices remain firm as looming foreign auctions approach. The Australian sales start in a week with about 250000 bales expected in U S and other auctions. London offered about 14000 bales yesterday and Australia plans 90000 more bales in coming four months.
The city council decided to purchase nearly three acres surrounding the G. A. R. plot in Lakeview cemetery and set it aside for veteran burials. The expanded area will form part of the memorial cemetery.
In San Francisco the government announced 226 wooden ships built on the Atlantic coast during the war will be dismantled or sold as barges. George D. Perry bought them for 3917 dollars each at the Washington sale and plans an immediate hull inspection likely bringing most hulls to San Francisco for dismantling. Perry leads a syndicate including J. J. Tyson of Charles Nelson Co. and others unnamed.
Dr. Rh. Bishop explains water makes about 60 percent of the body and must be supplied in amounts from two and a half to three pints daily. It builds tissues, dilutes body fluids, prevents membrane friction, distributes nutrients, removes wastes, and helps regulate temperature.
J. C. Jeaneph Pacific Northwest district manager of the United States Veterans bureau departed Tuesday for Washington D C to attend a national conference of bureau officials the week of September 16 He traveled with Dr F P Carter district medical officer and H L McCoy head of veterans rehabilitation They will discuss government compensation vocational training and hospitalization for injured veterans
Grunbaum Bros and about 60 Seattle furniture men gathered Tuesday for a pow wow featuring Vaudeville acts music and a speech by O B Grunbaum. In Manila Gov Gen Leonard Wood postponed a trip to greet Sir Laurence Guillemard governor of the Straits Settlements who arrived Tuesday.
Washington reports Mrs Izetta Jewell Brown urging a platform to declare American women not legally happy in all states. She cites Alabama common law where mothers lack power and inheritance favors husbands, detailing disparities in guardianship wages and property. Brown plans a crusade to reform these laws.
In Washington on a cool day, former President Woodrow Wilson rides in a touring car with a chauffeur, Mrs. Wilson, and a secret service guard. He travels slowly, about 15 to 20 mph, smiles at onlookers, and is described as aged and frail with white hair and a wan, tired face.
New York theater patrons may complain that a play is immoral or risqué and a jury will review the production. Commissioner John F. Gilchrist announced 150 names for the first venue and twelve jurors will be chosen for each case.
A New York grand jury returned thirteen indictments charging involvement in distributing poison liquor linked to twelve deaths in Brooklyn's Red Hook area. Authorities say the cases center on the bootlegging network and its deadly products.
The estate of the late Viscount Northcliffe, famed publisher, was provisionally sworn at 2,000,000 pounds. The announcement came in London on September 13 as the value of the estate was recorded for probate.
The Federation of Women's clubs opens a Washington tea room and bans smoking inside. They explain the policy by saying the best people aren t doing it anymore.
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