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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1920
Page
5
A chaotic classified page lists lost and found notices, job ads, room and board offers, and various sales. It includes prices, contact hints, and multiple small notices across housing, transport, and household items, reflecting a bustling urban ad section.
Real estate ads seek buyers for multiple properties in Ballard and Queen Anne. Listings include 4 to 7 room houses with variations in price from 1 250 to 7 000 plus terms. Some parcels feature farms, stock, and orchards with diversely sized lots and proximity to car lines and streets. KEAN BROS and others advertise brokerage services and exchange opportunities.
A ragged real estate listing shows acres for sale with varying down payments and monthly terms. Descriptions include soil quality loam and timber, near Beattie, Cherry Valley district, and adjacent roads. Also offers unplatted city lots and small houses with terms.
Directory listing attorneys at law patent and general practice with firms on Third Avenue Elliott and Burke Building offices, plus public accountants chiropractors loan services jewelers optician painting and plumbing firms, and various home services in Seattle. Includes contact info and free consultations.
In Cairo Egypt September 20 a dispute within Coptic clergy reformers led by a local bishop ended with an ecclesiastical court ordering the bishop to spend three years in a distant monastery or face deprivation of his office. The reformers seek abolition of clerical celibacy and other changes.
In Marietta on September 20, Clarence Miller, 16, of Lawrence township, Washington county, is noted as likely the only boy in the United States paid 1 dollar daily to attend school. The local board of education, required to provide transportation for students living over two miles away, chose to pay him cash instead of sending a bus or other conveyance.
In Columbus Indiana on September 20 a farmer Ward Jones reported an ill tempered bull roving in a grove with many squirrels. Hunters narrowly escaped harm as J H Hitchcock the justice of the peace sought cover among trees until assistance arrived and James Newton sprang a fence dropping his gun in the rush to safety.
Paris reports war-made millionaires losing fortunes at the Casino deauville with baccarat losses ranging from five hundred sixty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars between dinner and midnight. Tension rises as bad luck sparks uproar and scenes of displeasure among players.
Mrs Mary Harris Armor president of the Georgia WCTU was honored with a luncheon at Plymouth Congregational church. About 150 attendees heard Judge J T Ronald Dr M A Matthews and Miss Mary F Brown praise her devotion and role in home protection and prohibition. Armor urged continuing victory and national impact of the movement. She is set to speak again at First Presbyterian church Tuesday night.
A Centralia farmer courted by mail. Rose O'Reilly of Butte delayed, was arrested by post office inspectors for seeming deceit. The delay was due to a late train, and Cupid resumed its course.
Three people injured in a three car crash on Rainier Ave near Taylor's Mill Sunday night. Miss Florence Anderson suffered a scalp wound. Her brother’s car attempted to dodge a standing vehicle and struck one from the opposite direction. Two men in the other car were only slightly hurt. Anderson, of Taylor, reported to police Monday.
Mrs KR Gibson a fair fat and forty widow in New York City announces through a letter to Mayor Caldwell that she seeks a husband in Seattle. She bans money gifts avoids cards and calls and prefers Western men using a 1920 Leap Year approach to courtship.
The United States circuit court of appeals sits en banc in the federal building north courtroom at 10 am with Judges Gil bert Hunt and Wolverton. The first case is Diamond Drill Co. v Mitchell about patent infringement. Other listed matters include Farley v Boyle and Rewe v Boyle among numerous civil and federal actions.
Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer fined B. H. Peters $400 after a guilty plea for breaking the dry law. In San Francisco James W. Horton was found dead with five bullet wounds believed linked to liquor thieves during a raid last night.
Police investigate a wave of thefts across multiple addresses from 711 West 55th to 4733 14th NE. Items stolen include jewelry watches rings a gold band a lavalier 40 dollars clothing and underwear with several victims reporting attempted entries and door removal during the burglary spree.
Republican state and congressional nominees met at a Washington hotel forenoon to plan the campaign. A resolution urged unity under the state central and county committees with a new state committee to be formed by county committees. Sam Walker, Charles Hebberd, and Tom Murphine were named as prominent candidates for state chairmanship.
The Police ball squad traveled to Black Diamond on Sunday and lost to Issaquah 3 to 2. Wohl and McDonald pitched for the Police, McQuade and Rose for Issaquah, as top talent tasted defeat by the league champions.
Howard J. Acheson a 41 year old carpenter of 6533 Fifth avenue No W was taken to the city hospital Monday with a bruised eye and body abrasions after falling from a scaffolding while working in the Ballard district.
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