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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1919
Page
12
A large assortment of living room and sun porch furniture in a two tone ivory and brown finish is shown. The collection includes chairs rockers and settees upholstered in cretories tapestries and velours with moderate prices.
A narrator notes streets steaming with heat haze and visits a cool restaurant, marveling at New York’s high lobster prices. They contrast ordinary lobsters costing up to $3.50 with baby lobster offerings at $1.25, hinting Chicago's inland advantage 20 hours away.
Rosh Hashanah begins Wednesday evening and runs until October 16 at the Temple de Hirach. Rabbi Samuel Koch will speak on The Main Truth as songs and chants celebrate the Jewish New Year. Yom Kippur services follow on October 3 and 4 with a fast from Friday evening to Saturday evening.
Two women, Mrs. Jane Welling and Mrs. Andrew Davia, were severely bruised when an automobile overturned in a shallow gully at Avalon Way and 32nd Avenue in Tacoma. They were rushed to the city hospital after the Tuesday night crash.
RB. T. Ivy of 1413 Park Place, timekeeper at Riverton, sustained a fractured leg and is hospitalized at Seattle General after a Tuesday fall. Rodo Stoner, 49, of South Park, is also at Seattle General with chest injuries from the same incident at Skinner and Eddy.
The Metropolitan theatre screens The End of the Road this Sunday and for a week, a dramatized educational film starring Richard Kennett and Claire Adama. It tackles avoidable sex diseases with a serious, entertaining approach directed by E. H. Griffith and praised by physicians and women's clubs.
In Port Townsend on September 24, Marie Jeffries pleaded guilty to bigamy after marrying two soldiers, Werner and Jeffries, who later compared notes and filed a complaint. She was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary. Werner had left for France, then returned. Jeffries was stationed at Fort Worden.
In New York on September 24 the eel glide debuts as a new dance. Dancers glide with sliding steps never lifting feet, turning in ennuous motions to a music blend of jazz and minor chords, challenging the former jazz craze.
R P D Pinneo traffic manager for the Pacific Steamship company urged American firms to send capable young men to China Indo China and Japan. He spoke at the Army and Navy club luncheon Tuesday after returning from an extended Orient trip.
Capt. Clifford Sands, formerly a temporary cavalry officer in France, has been given a permanent commission and appointed captain of the Third Cavalry, now at Fort Meyer Virginia.
Oklahoma City September 24 report notes a new verb to describe swindle or double cross. Sheriff escorts manacled prisoners on a train while bystanders discuss high jacking in relation to bank robberies and a waiter billed for dishes not broken.
NOME Alaska September 24 Three vessels are frozen in at the mouth of Kolyuchian bay on the east coast of Siberia a trader at Anadyr Siberia reports. The revenue cutter Bear will go to the rescue.
Four models sketched in an assortment are shown from left to right, illustrating the Rhodes Companys Crepe de Chine line in a similar display style.
Textile display highlights 32 inch satinette for pajamas and underwear in rose blue navy white cream pink tan and lavender 60 cents per yard. Crepe-figured lingerie crepe suitable for gowns and combinations at 56 cents per yard. Batiste negligee fabric in bluebird pattern at 60 cents per yard. Batiste plain colors 40 inches wide in light blue pink mass lavender white at 60 cents per yard.
Practical coats priced at 34 75 present belted and looseback styles with large collars of black dyed opossum coney fur or self material. Wool velour coatings in dark brown green burgundy navy taupe and black and polo cloth in natural taupe sizes 16 to 46 offered.
The election results list Bernard Pelly as honorable president and I G Pattullo as president. Other officers include Alexander Baillie as vice president, Robert Gillespie as first vice president, W J McDonald as second vice president, W W Dow as treasurer, Rev F R Bateman as secretary, and a slate of trustees and members.
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