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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1921
Page
11
Classifieds list autos including Overland Buick and Ford models with prices. real estate offers include 20 to 75 acre tracts near Seattle Olympia and Poulsbo with terms. multiple contact names and phone numbers provided for buyers and sellers in a mixed auction-like ad page.
Listings advertise Yakima Valley farm land at $25 per acre with easy terms, 20 and 46 acre tracts. coastal and waterfront properties near Kent and Poulsbo. a 10 acre farm near Mt. Vernon. a 4 room bungalow near Kent. Canadian Pacific land offers and numerous stocks and bonds for sale or trade. includes multiple agents and contact details.
A column of short listings offers farmlets and properties for sale or partnership, including a Colorado Investment Co multiple unit rental prospects, a 18 room boarding house at $1,500 cash, and a jitney bus route with a mail contract. Also advertised are loans on valuables, various services, and local business opportunities in Houston Seattle and nearby towns.
Mrs Caroline M Devenney 19 has been missing since last Saturday from 116 Fifth Avenue. She told her husband J D Devenney she would visit her parents at 2121 24th Ave W Gravland and Gravland, but never arrived. Described as five feet four, 124 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair. At disappearance she wore a black plush coat a small black hat trimmed in yellow and a black dress striped with green and yellow.
A police prowler halted a moving van and discovered illicit cargo. Transfer men fled as officers opened cases. seventy nine and a half crates held port olive a port wine olive oil blend seized and turned to the dry squad. Truck seized awaiting claimant no arrests.
Deputies William Barr William Downey and Charles Jarret were injured during a pursuit of Henry McKinney who escaped custody twice before being confined to the stockade. McKinney, already serving six months for smuggling cocaine to prisoners, was finally dragged from under a bed in a Japanese rooming house on Yesker Way after biting a deputy.
George Gilbert Watchorn, 21, a Canadian war veteran, was found dead in his room at the Georgian hotel 1420 Fourth Ave. by a maid on Thursday afternoon. He had swallowed poison and left a letter to his parents in Ottawa hinting at despair over a failing love affair.
Bernard Seville, 26, was arrested by Chicago police after being identified at the Metropolitan theatre for allegedly passing 1400 in bad checks. Opera star Charles Hackett and Swiss pianist Rudolph Ganz recognized him as a representative for a talking machine company who tried to cash large checks before vanishing. Seville was attending the opera when Hackett alerted police.
The fall campaign for Pacific Coast Biscuit Co highlights regional product boosts and coastal enterprises. It stresses a modern biscuit plant at the center of population and a network of Pacific coast factories reflecting early pioneer visions realized with West development.
Alexander Cropp a waiter at the Butler Hall sues for 6000 dollars alleging humiliation by Louis Law Japanese in Judge Calvin 8 Hall’s court. Cropp says the insult occurred after being pressed by defense counsel and cites a 5000 dollar loss.
Mayor Caldwell proclaims Saturday September 17 as Constitution Day to honor the 1787 constitutional convention. He urges bar associations teachers civic and parental groups and all Seattle residents to observe the day fittingly.
A 38 year old Japanese man named John Doe refused to go to jail and attempted to take a fire plug after police pursued him Friday at Sixth Ave and Main St. He was reportedly drunk, with sake, and hid behind a fire plug before capture.
Mrs. Alberta G. Kelliher and Robert D. Kelliher were involved when a car driven by her son collided with a vehicle driven by G. J. Genereaux at Tenth Ave N and Alpha St. Genereaux's car was reported on the wrong side of the street. 18 year old Robert D. Kelliher was the driver of the Kelliher vehicle.
The Washington state fair opens at Yakima Monday and runs to Saturday with Friday set as Seattle day. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce plans a public party departing Thursday night and returning early Saturday morning, after spending Seattle day at the fair. Chris Nelson was arrested at Tost Thursday night by sheriff units on charges linked to eight gallons of blackberry brandy, ten gallons of mash, and a ten gallon still found in his possession.
The shop opens in Chicago as contractors and workers gather around a wages issue. The carpenters union refuses to accept Judge Landis as arbitrator in a long running dispute between building trades players and employers.
CHICAGO September 16 The union of the plants of the five packers here into open shops proceeded quietly with no trouble reported at the yards. Butchers' union officials have a plan of action seeking conferences with packers' executives who remain firm their decision to treat only with representatives of company unions.
New York September 16. A campaign to organize Southern tile mills is underway with the United Textile Workers America backed by the American Federation of Labor. The effort targets the open movement by focusing on textile districts and is set to begin late this month.
Tacoma reports a superior court granted temporary restraining orders to Carbon Hill Company and Wilkeson Cart Mine unions, prohibiting picketing at the mine or any action likely to cause employees to leave their jobs.
A Zion City jury found Anderson, a workman, guilty of smoking a pipe. Attorney H. C. Litchfield argued the defendants did not live in Zion. The verdict imposed a thirty dollar fine.
Cleveland report says Kilbane and Frush are ready for their featherweight title bout. Promoters expect an $85,000 gate and about $72,000 in seat sales. Both boxers rest easy as fight plans proceed.
G. J. Bauer & Co. dealers to ors trimmings relocate to the Douglas building in one of the stores. The former location was torn down to erect the Cobb annex.
Loyal Legion of Loggers Lumbermen reports 8,100 men are working in Grays Harbor district. twelve mills and ten logging camps are active with only two mills idle as of Friday reports from Aberdeen dated September 16.
Ixion, the Blue Funnel liner, has been in Seattle since Thursday night carrying more than bales of silk. Under Captain George Stout the vessel will move toward the Orient, then return to load cargo and head back to the Orient on the upgrade of its route.
Bureau chief F R Eldridge Jr of the Far Eastern division arrives in Attle on September 24. Plans for his entailingment are being made by the foreign trade bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and the club.
Judge Jeremiah Neterer verified a sale of the Betsy Ross schooner to the Towboat Co for 7500 after a hearing. Government auction bids rose from 6000 to 7500 with claims totaling 000 against the vessel, and the sale was confirmed by the United States marshal. Milk drivers and creamery workers did not accept a wage cut after a conference, signaling a likely milk price increase. The Milk Wagon ers' and Creamery Workers' union planned a meeting at 4 30 p m Friday to respond to the commission.
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