The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 20, 1920, Page 8

Good Numbers From April List “Desert Dreams” Vox Trot. by Lewin--$1.35 “Rainbow of My Dreams” Pox Trot by Freed Wallace—$1.05 “Rose of Washington Square” Fox Trot by MacDonaldHawley—$1.25 “Who'll Take the Place of Mary” Waltz by Dubin4jaskil|- Mayo—$1.25 A New Arrangement of the Hawaiian March, “HILO” Special Attention to Mail Orders Aeolian Player Pianos, $745 Pianolas from $800 ‘ Duo-Art Pianos from $1,225 TATA YN SAGs PV A a2 AS AW ACEI, Nl Less Than a Nickel a Week This is.all that Swift & Com- pany’s profit cost the average American family in 1919. Here are the figures and author ities for them. The average consumption of meat per person for a year is about 180 pounds (U. S. Government) The average American family is 412 persons (U. 8. Census). Swift & Company’s profit from all sources in 1919 averaged less than %4 cent per pound on all products including meat. ‘This averages for the family less than the price of — 1 cigar per .week for father, or 1 street car fare per week for mother, or 1 package of gum per week for the children. The complex service which we furnish the public is efficient and economical. The cost to the public in the shape of profit is too small to be noticeable in the family meat.bill. Swift & Company, U. S. A. Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson St, Jj. L. Yocum, Manager ‘ar. * * * By Ma HOGY had « croupy cold again and even David was too hoarse te go to school. You see that ducking they had wasn't very good for them at that time of year. Peaey wae a dear, She war quite content to play tn the nursery, and make the best of it But David was being, I hate to my cross, but any way Mother dear sighed « very tired sigh, and said, “Seon, one of the first things @ strong man has to learn is eclf contre Now you can make yourself have a good time while you are shut in if you onty will.” ‘Then she closed the door softty and the children heard her going down stairn Peggy sald: “Davy, 1 lieve Mother dear te just th ‘caune you're so erabby, Couldn't you, probity, be eho votea, and beth children jumped, for they hadn't seen Grandmoth- er come in the other doorway, “That's a funny word to call a Ie it David who ts TN te you what we to draw from, anything to 10 get the right kind and any variety from tay to at @ hard time | of food for began 9 THE SHATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1920, Soattle + * * + GF | By Mabel Cleland _» Page 29 “What's barter™ David broke in. “When countries and people are pew,” Grandmother told him, “there never is much money, fo in .the ecarty daye we rarely bought a thing. We bartered or traded tt for what we wanted “The Indians nesded the things we could get from the states farther east--2> we traded ‘em mails and Tunpewder and eleth and bends dnd gum for their fure and fish and crabs end clams and Geer meat and “We had wo dininy jeabin had but ti we called Mother's ream, oer reem eed the Ritchen. peshed over te my side. | very big and hed mere trouble the ethers cracking my rad and ne t the meat And in some when I pulled off the lng I a | him, ‘The others were ait talking and | ne one seemed to netics. oo I qutetty down and picked him up ead | 4 ia When is and “And then eveh © If you have any doubt eheut the abil- ity of @ ered tw rum, you should have bese there. Millen made ive for | him and he ran serom te Father, | then over he went te Mother, knock- tag over the salt vreper as be By ‘his time we were all | ing and scrambling til! the kitchen was in an uprosr end 1 bept Ocoee! my ered & ome one by mistake” (> wae Jap Leaps From Ship, Swims Ashore, But Is You Will Never Have Another Chance in Seattle Like This! North End Property on Bargain Counter Because Crawford & Conover Seek Immediate Liquidation of Holdings—Final Plat Opened Up—Prices and Terms Ridiculously Low — Heavy Sales Nabbed by U.S. Agents|= Mexico Maru and plunging into the cold, dark water swam ashore. And then his troubles began. He couldn't spexk much Enefish, and after vainly trying to explain his plight to a passing stage driver, started up the gravelly beach, tare | Sl jIts Easy to Be Plump, Popular and Attractive ay to be plump, Ropatar, ai ve instead of belng thi ular and ncrawny. | Almont Fiably the trouble is due to weak and consequent fallore to as- | similate You m on-carrying power, jarkably short time ‘Costs Dad 88 Last Week—Choose Your Lot or Tract Now up from Lake Washington. Superb view the lake, Caseade Mountains and Mount Rainier. Adjoins University grounds. Prae- tically 100 homes and 2 stores already up. Mr. Crawferd’s recent death forces the firm of Crawford & Conover to dissolve. There is no thought of profit—everything saust be liquidated IMMEDIATELY. The well Crawford & Conover integrity is squarety behind this sale. cash talks. Please do not ask us to hold lots or tracts for you. They must gv to those who can make first payment on the spot. Come out and bring some cash. Exposition Heights, the big special of this sale, borders right on the waters of Lake ‘Take Ravenna car to end of line, then walk im same direction, eastward, four blocks eur branch office at the corner of 35th Ave. V. J. GREEN, Sales Manager GOODWIN REAL ESTATE CO., Inc “ 312-314 Leary Building, Seattle Per Cent More |0ia Landmark Is to Meet Bills While the retail cost of 22 toe|* | articles increased in cost an aver. age of 95.4 per cent between and 1920 in 39 cities, the advance tn Beat the was 68 per cent, according to fig- ures recetved today by the retail trade bureau of the Chamber of Com- merece In an a@vance report complied by the bureau of labor, Washington, DG Figures show that tn 1918 the av. er ce family expenditure for 22 food arteles, combined, in Seattle, was $265.25. It advanced to $476.97 in De cember, 1918, to $490.60 in Novem: ber, 1919. A month later there was a boost of $1@, and #0 the head of the average Seattle family bad to worry about paying $500.15 in December, 1919, for what he paid only $265.25 1918, “Friend hurband,” tf Birmingham, Ais, was wores, for the aume food coat him $787.24 Other places where the H. C, 1, hit hardest were in At: lanta, Ga, with an increase of 102 per cent; Buffalo, with 101 per cent; Charleston, 105; Detroit, 106; Mem- phis and Minneapolis, 105; Omaha, 08; St. Louls, 104, and Washington, , | Vanced 75 per cant while Seattle was -|advancing 8% per cent. ompiaint, there ta no ou take Blood-Iron rly, you shoul i Zounger, today with the Ow! Drug Co. gther drug: fe Tron Phos treatmet an it at the and of three w aren’ delighted go back rot “yout jmoney. Your drugmint, man’ you know, le @uthorized to give it to you. (METROPOLITAN SAMPPY. USI CRTC SOMES: PRETTY 610LS PT a Pius 10% War Tax NEGRESS SELLS HERSONFORS5S) Court Stops Deal, and the Purchaser Protests SENATOBIA, Miss., April 20.—The! “price” for negro boys has siumpea #4 mightily in this part of the country sinee before the civil war,” sald that before that unpleasantnens | & g00d, healthy pickaninny sold for | around $1,000. In the trial of @ case here over the possession of @ negro boy, the defendant, a Mr, Smith, | swore that he “purchased” the from his mother last fall for $6 and @ shoat. The court stated “that altho it) would take judicial knowledge of 1 |negro's fondnean for hog meat, it wns bound to hold that $5 and a shont shown to be of the common razorback variety, was entitrely too ttle for an: 11-year-old negro boy.” Smith appeared to be greatly cha. arined by the decision of the court, and threatened to take an appeal to ® higher tribunal where “a man's right to trade would be protected.” To get gold from mercury, says Prof, Frederick Soddy of Oxford, ex pel from the atom of mercury one beta particle, which will make thal. Mum; then one alpha particle, which will turn the thalilium into gold. Or to get gold from lead, expel from trom the atom of lead one alpha, particle, which will make mercury, into cordage, brushes or matting, t w @ Charred Ruin Now "Pee, an old barn A Gtirring Comedy. AT THE WILKES farmer, found dead beneath his auto, VANCOUVER, B. C.—Canadian Nationa) raitways to open offices in Geattic op May 1 CALGARY, Alta—Town ef Drum- holler, 140 miles north of here, iso- lated by Moods. 1Q8 ANGELES, Cal—Charies L. Stokes, former army captain, pleads «atity to murder of Dr. KE. R Rob: ert, mat October. NEW YTORK.—Jack Cufford brings quit for divorce against his wife, formerty Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. PORTLAND, Ore—Colambia River Shipbailding Co, plant being dis mantied. BREMURTON.—U. 8. 8. Wyoming, ere for eight months, leaves for San Pedro. EASTEY, 8. C.—Rasty cotton mile declare stock dividend of 300 per cont’ WASHINGTON.—New Mexico ex- cise tax of gasoline held unconsti- tutional by supreme conrt. OUR IMPROVED SYSTEM Does not come as @ surprise to the Dental Profession of Se- attle, ae they know we organised for that purpose alone. Beauty, comfort and unusual wearing quality in the finished Product going out of this office daily is the keynote to the unbroken growth of our practice. Fach operator—an equal partner—devotes his entire time to specializing. That alone is proof and a guarantees that you are securing the beat LADY ATTENDANT. BLL, 4367. Wonder of World PITTSBUURG, Pa, April 20.—The eighth wander of the world. A “for rent’ advertisement in a local newn Paper stipulates the couple seeking a home must have at least one child. Continuing Our Sale of Costly Gowns at-$75.00 HE woman or miss who vant to economize should by ‘ mente oes wie = of * ‘ormerly pri at b 4 $125.00. Included in this impotte ant offering are— ¥4 DINNER DRESSES AFTERNOON COSTUMES EVENING GOWNS UTILITY FROCKS SPORT DRESSES Second Avenue at Sprin Street — (Take elevator to Third Floor.)