The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 27, 1920, Page 11

Still an Opportunity for You to Save Big Money at Shafer Bros.’ Semi-Annual CLEARANCE SALE For a Short Time Only, Then Prices Advance to Almost Double The Season's Buy in MEN’S SUITS Regular $40.00 values cut to... .. $28.8: Regular $50.00 values cut to .$38.75 Regular $75.00 values cut to.... |. $58.75 Men’s Odd Trousers 3 Just the thing to go with that old work. Here is @ large assortment, fine values among them. All are « able merchandise. A large variety materials and sixes at most attractive prices, oat or for SURE AS ELECTION DAY is the fact that all men’s clothing is due for a sharp rise in price this spring. As usual Shafer Bros. are protecting their customers and giving them the advantage of old prices as long as possible. It is im- ible to continue this much longer. oral: Invest in cléthes. Buy several suits. Buy now. You'll never regret it. Clothes for the Boy That Are Sure to Please The style and cut of these garments is patterned after those worn by Dad and big brother. Real honest to goodness togs that stand the wear and tear of the healthy boy. BOYS’ SUITS $12.50 values cut to........... $15.00 values cut to...... $18.00 values cut to.......... | SHAFER BROS. + Second and University First and University Closing Out Boys’ Suits in Several Odd Sizes Real bargains for the lad. Splendid buys last year at $12.50 and $15.00. Wide range of colors and fabrics, Well | | tailored and finished. In sizes i 15, 16, 17 and.18. Reduced to $4.85, $5.85, $6.75, $7.65 a Whole Block Long THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE U. S. 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK The year 1919 was the most productive in the Equitable’s history. NEW INSURANCE issued and paid for in 1919 ..... .$454,839,437 An increase of $151,615,578 over the previous year. During the year the Two Billion mark in Outstanding Insurance was ance was passed. OUTSTANDING INSURANCE, Dec. 31, 1919 .....$2,270,903,931 An increase of $346,365,353 over the previous year. PAID TO POLICYHOLDERS IN 1919.......... $73,990,176 4 97% of the domestic death claima paid in 1919 were settled within one day after receipt of proofs of death. PAID POLICYHOLDERS Since Organization .. .. -$1,302,291,677 677 ASSETS, December 31, 1919 $599,42 423,919 919 INSURANCE RESERVE............... $493,390,577 : Other Liabilities.................. +++ 17,418,765 510,809,342 é For distribution to policyholdersin 1920 17,191,084 Awaiting apportionment on deferred dividend policies .. 54,300,085 For Contingencies............. 0.2.4. WA 23,408 88,614,577 $59,423,919 The above figures are from the 60th Ammal Statement which will be sent to any address on request. . The Equitable issues all standard forms of life insurance.and annui- ties, including the following: A LIFE INCOME POLICY under which the beneficiary receives a monthly income for life— the safest and the best kind of insuranée for family protection. A GROUP POLICY by which an employer protects the families of his employes. A CORPORATE POLICY to safeguard business interests. A CONVERTIBLE POLICY can be modified from time to time to meet changing conditions " AN INCOME BOND to provide for the declining » purchaser AN ENDOWMENT ANNUITY POLICY maturing at age 65, providing thereafter an income for Nfs. AN EDUCATIONAL POLICY providing a fund for the college training of a son or daughter A CASH REFUND LIFE ANNUITY under which the total return can never be lgss, than the years of ti may be more, but purchase price The following provisions will be added to the policy when desired: 1, In case of total and permanent disability: (a) Premiums will cease. (b) The Insured will receive a monthly income. (c) The beneficiary will receive full face of policy at maturity. 2. Double the face of the policy will be paid in case of death from Accident. An Accident and Health policy completes the circle of Equitable protection. 1. A. NADEAU, Agency Manager Empire Building, Seattle W. A. DAY President | When You Think ” Advertising Think wy The Star } | i | reiti SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, nese savor bk 26, 1920 » Cows Made a Mistake, El Eh, What? Coming to Seattle With Red Riding Hood Moderatelv Dig spectacular successes of the eea- bim. “The joke’s on you. For This Is “Little Boy Blue’’ BY AILKEN CLAIRE If you were out walking in the woods and you ran across a vision such a# you ae here, wouldn't you think, just for a moment, that you had jumped right into the middle of & falry tale? Well, you wouldn't be far wrong. The young lad In the velveteen suit, with that entrancing, faraway look about the eyes, in Miss Zara Clinton, principal in the big production, “Lit. tle Red Riding Hood," which comes to the Metropolitan for @ fivedays’ sojourn next Tuesday, Zara was the principal “Boy” of | those famous pantomimes, “Alad- din,” “Robinson Crusoe" and “Cin- derella,” that ran for months and months in Lendoa. really looked ike this, what a wom |derful place this world would be! The pantomime, “Little Red Rid ing Hood,” promises to be one of the son, ‘The action of the piece in di- Panorama ef Fairyland and the tales of Mother Goone, While the thrilting story of “Lit tle Red Riding Hood” fofms the central theme of the plot, the other favorites of childhood have not been overlooked, and the long list of char acters includes Little Boy Blue, Lit tle Bo Poop, Tommy Tucker, Little Jack Horner, Jack and JM, Oid Mother Hubbard and her Dog, Old King Cole, and last but not leant, the very wolf you used to read about. ‘These pantemimes, famous for cen turtes in the Ristory of the English stage, are being introduced to Amert- ca by F. StuartWhyta the noted authommanager, PASTORS HALT AID TO YANKEES Object to Benefit Movie Scheduled for Sunday KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 27-—Be- cause the ministers of this city view it as & “proposed violation of Gedy holy day,” the Ka@xville Elks’ lodge cannot show @ moving picture here on Sunday for the benefit of dix abled roldiers! Convinced that every cent taken at the exhibition would go to the re- let of soldiers torn by war, the Knoxville Ministers’ association nev- ertheless protested to the city com- missioners. ‘The commissioners Instructed the chief of police to arrest the Mika’ committee if the picture was shown in violation of the “blue law” of 1803 that forbids “any kind of show, feat, circus or theatrical performance or play of any kind In publie places for usement, gain or profit,” on Sun- day. “The law is the law and right ts right.” said the clergymen. The picture was available only on Sun- day. Jailed After Telling Holdup Yarn as Joke| ome morning and inhale the vapors, ST. LOYIS, Feb. 27-—Police Ser geant Denis Gleason saw a big man get off @ street car. Then Gleason walked away. When he had gone about a block the man rushed up be hind him, “Sergeant,” he said. “Why weren't you back there a few minutes ago? I was held up by @ man with a re volver. He took $15 away from me.” “What kind of a man was he? the sergeant wanted to know. “A little fellow.” “Well, I wns right on the spot, |and I saw you get off the car. Come along, we'll go to the station.” “Never mind, sergeant,” the big fellow pleaded, “It was only a joke on my mother. 1 was out with some friends and she bawls me out when I come home late. Good night.” “Oh, no, you don’t,” Gleason told TN book you, ‘suspected of highway rab- bery.”* The practical joker gave his name as Lawrence Perricon and said he jwas 19 years old. |Alligators May Lose Their Homes EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 27—Houg ing conditions are getting worse. Even the alligators will have to move out of their home—one room, with bath—4f Councilman W. T. Griffith is given support on his plan to erect a new city hall on the site of the alli- gator farm in San Jacinto plasza, MIRACLE MAN IS COMING ‘te die: REX/| Tomorrow | bb i) SEGRE Ee | aiding Zara Clinton School Children Given Milk Daily PENDLETON, Feb. 27-—-Fifteen eNMidren of the first and second aries in Lincoln school are being provided each Gay with a half pint of milk thru cooperation of the school's Parent-Teacher association and the county home demonstration agent. Children whose daily diet appears not to contain sufficient milk are given it each morning at recem Parents pay for the milk at the rate of alx half pints for 25 centa, de Kivered ta the aches. How to Use Vick’s VapoRub to Prevent Flu ue ies pian te to melt a Intie Vick’s VapoRub in a spoon night agply @ little up the nostrils creel times a day, expecially just before being exposed to crowds Treat All Colds Promptly Above all, keep free from colds, as colds irritate the lining of the air Passages and make therm real breed ing grounds for germs. Prompt use of Vick’s VapoRub aids in prevent- ing colds. For head colds, sore throat or hoarseness, rub Vick's well over the throat and chest and cover with a warm fannel cloth. For deep chest colds, severe sore throat or bronchitis, hot wet towels should first be applied to the throat, chest and back between ‘the shoulder blades to open the pores. Then Vicks should be rubbed in over the parts until the akin is red—spread on thickly and covered with tw thicknesses of hot flannel cloths. Leave the clothing loose around the neck, #0 the vapors, released by the body heat, may be freely inhaled. These vapors, inhaled with each breath, carry the medication directly to the lungs and air passages At/ the same time V. absorbed thru and stimnuiat: akin, thus to relieve the congestion within, Use of External Treatment for Colds Increasing viex's VapoRud is tho discovery of a North Carolina druggist who found how to combine in Salve form the standard time tested remedies, Camphor— Menthol — Eucalyptus— ‘Thyme, etc.—-so that when the salve fs applied to the body heat, those ingredients are liberated in the form \of vapora, Vicks ts particularly recommended |for children’s croup or colds, since it is externally applied and therefore jean be used freely and often without |the slightest harmful effects. ‘The best evidence of the value of | Vicks ts the steadily increasing num- os of people who have been con |verted to the use of this “outelde® treatment. Beginning with the customers of #mall retail drug store, the use of Vicks has grown—yenr by year state by state—until now more than 17 million Jars are used annually. And this tn ite of the fact that Vicks is a form of treatment to many folks in the North and ‘West. Vicks can be had at all drug. Glate im three alzea=A0e 606 or $1.20, speak new Si in Pumps, Boots and Oxfords, and following the usual Brown- White policy, they’re passing these good shoés on to you at an attractive saving on each pair. Fine 9-inch All-kid Boots fn new shade of beaver brown and all-black. Made on long, slender lines, as pictured .... Priced Seems almost ridiculous to of even moderate prices, doesn’t it? This big ‘store, however, has been very successful in locating some exceptional values in $9.85 ROWE WHIT Second Avenue at University or Patent Leather, $9.50 ne a les Oxfords and Pumps An assortment of popular Low Shoes, embracing sev- eral good styles in black, brown and some novelties —high and low heels ig- cluded — not all sizes in each style, but every pair a real value at $5.80 E Co: FOR PENNIES AT THE MORGUE 8ST. PAUL, Minn, Feb. 27.—The) “auctioneer.” “I don't suppose any- estates of dead men sold for pennies here. Behind a marble table in the county morgue the coroner by w disposed uction last week of the pitiful fragments of property left by St. Paul ‘s unknown dead in 1919. When relatives or near friends of those whose bodies are brought to the morgue make no claim to their “estates” the law sale. CoM: and onee, Th used was “A back their all- confirmed auction fiend, for 7 There was a knife. requires public SOME JAZZY MENT “This watch,” sai the coroner, held it up, battered, worth $1 “stopped when its owner died It says 10 minutes to 10.” “Maybe that was his zero hour,” commented a woman in black, 25 cet “I bid mts." en came the razor an old man to elit his throat. The bidding high, but the woman in black, bought it 6 cents. little rusty,” said the coroner, “I think we found this fellow in the river.” Posteards, bits of cloth, a bottle | 97 opener, keys, a locket with a broken | ,, “jl the things that meant in own private way much--maybe to someone once, were heaped on the marble slab and pawed over by the woman in black and her rival bidders, then sold by the state for copper and silver. He’s a Hero But ’t Know V body wants this.” He held up the sofled, blood-stained discharge paper of James Alton, one time soldier of the land. “IT take that. Here's a dime,” snapped a bidder with two gold stripes on his sleeve. “My American Legion post'll try to find his folks.” “And this,” continued the coroner and carried t6 view a bedtaggied Bible, its imitation leather, puffed and swollen by motsture. why, or perhaps he’s more than most heroes. At any only explanation he gave ed what service he rendered that might win him the ae © ie, ne ee ‘ A brief note sccompan; medal sai letter would fo “Gimme,” barked the woman in| Pending the arrival of the black, “I want that! I bid 16/ Dickinsan a he “doesnt conta.” why” he should be accorded such 4 She carried away the Bible that once was Ole Johnson's. “He gave his heart to God at the Union Gos pel mission, December 2, 1914." was the tading degen on the flyleaf. Wedded 73 Yess, Couple Celebrate MARIETTA, Pa, Fob. 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