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THE SEATTLE STAR savings for every room in the house this MILLION DOLLAR JANUARY SALE! the verdict of those who have shopped: quality; variety; value—at the Standard! Dummy Gas Tank an BY RALPH J. BENJAMIN | + A fine any-cylinidered Amer ican motor car bearing Washingtor Heense plates fore and aft, i# being B,C, au has helped All held by the |thorities, The pay His Majesty's war debt noouver, driver up to 35% this because the Vancouver street | ' care run onthe left side of the! ¢ ff —since the beginning of this - street during the day and. run ‘ at MILLION DOLLAR the driver in telling his! : ANUARY SALE, throngs The big mact slithered ddim | of customers have filled the slippery one morning this store, delighted with t week Just their purchases and eager car, caromed off a truck Jexitimate: to buy more. If you have saih crunched inte 6 tassGnane not visited the Standard, Had this ccourred in the States, the { y whi i rei driv ight have gotten away with. | ; sale is in progress and king's man was at his post | ; share in the savings of this | Mecause ‘the driver's breath a» { great economy event. |sayed more than 2 » was jailed. a hundred different styles rear 4 tans, radiator was | | ‘Your Credit IsGood!”| of bed davenports reduced “* as ; 4 and he 4 further. The ry ood ehape® the rake Bic ay degesada eu -ohere be _ pare fine a mys Ph nal, tank | : ew ot Wee bee BOW suring “« big %0gailon tin on the rear et this eule—buy at eale prices—pay in 7 0 0 to 35 0 i roe Ar aga ' weekly or monthly payments to suit ee oe ie aie tae, toe i -padbanciiemaar wos may be confiscated and the driver a H —the entire line is included, not one piece excepted—including fo ely Sheng oe Feeds| ‘ such well-known makes as the Pullman and Kroehler lines and fh inissea the telephone pole it prob-| : many other famous makes—we quote these few sample values: ably eek are. aatentes Ms neat | = q ma the mn day JANUARY srobably cont the + regular SALE he re | price ti ’ "aati pion PRICE piggy P ye tion ee @ —<duofold davenport, fumed oak, artificial leather up- 11,600 Profit—if there ee holetering 2... :ccccsesecss “ye be ++e $87.50 $56.85 [hada Lowy any secidqnt—betwoes | at —duofold davenport, fumed oak, artificial leather up- vane Abie MAT ] ri holstering ....... Ceccccccesecaeionevsceccsccccs Che 51.50 OTHER SCHEMES i —duofold davenport, fumed oak, artificial leather up- Did somebody ask why the booze! ; Dolstering .......ceccscsccceccccssccccccevcccosn S0—9 61. Oye te ae tial: instant text ; . 01 1 —duofold davenport, fumed oak, artificial leather up- always used. There are many, Ob! : DOMAINE a0 <s doh ches ore tkcie ds tp sd pan 9sthi' OEMS 64.85 FT many otter aebemen —duofold davenport, mahogany finish, tapestry up- f wi, Ge er ase nae ; OMIM 55 oech Ob We dos Nolen ce cheba cats cee 185— $7.95 il Scen, “sorted sarees the internation-| av al border into the United St | F bed davenport, fumed 0 122.50 97.50 The Gaptasie ettionrs pursued 4 I os on 5 Ko b's RPA swede « dhincind Ghee 22.5 = cone Ered a. sb00, he wate —duofold davenport, tapestry overstuffed........... 200— 175— driver fell. He's in the ben tal oor or Vv oouver, sictans —bed davenport, tapestry overstuffed..........++.. 225— 187.50 — 8 Regge ean ae Sones! ien't always fatal, There wasn't a Crop tn, around, or about the motorcycle, But, wise ones in Vancouver my that two Cadillacs that quietly bummed across the border while the motoreycie chase waa on, carried full cargoes of glassware. This is an old scheme It doesn't ways work. Spare Ures have Been found full of booze, During the gas shortage a favor (te method waa to fill half a doxen fine gallon cans with liquor, strap them to the running board, drive biandly up to the customs office at the border, pay duty on gasoline, and drive on. Hip and overcoat loads are still numerous, and always will be as jong as there are hip and overcoat pockets, and dry, craving throats. In well informed booze circles in B.C, it i stated that emuggters | who “know how" are not bothered at the border, However, it’s only & rumor, I didn't try to bribe a} customs officer@® I didn’t see one bribed; I'm not a detective nor a $100,000 worth of rugs go on sale at reductions up to 35% —the rug department is a maze of appealing beauty and VALUES. Your selection is almost unlimited. The quality is high—the prices surpris- ingly low—they’re all JANUARY SALE priced. VELVET SEAMLESS RUGS: SIZE 9x12 ft. $35— regular price S30— —low in price—but not to be confounded with a regularly low-priced velvet rug. Rug» that show quality in wear lens Hea weave and pattern exactly as pictured, a large roomy fireside : . a Pras sor | rocker, in genuine brown, fine avaitty | imported Wilton rugs— heavy high-pile Axminster rugs-- | B0ia2 trices "ts Srunery be Spanish leather; regular price $55 special a 1 y * : mans with the ordinary human/ for this JANUARY SALE, $39.75. $1 5— $108— Sah ‘ane: temas ame hestek and regular price $750 lar price $135 a few are not ; nize 9x12 feet sperms TELLS OF TOYN THAT —thia anf bundreda of other similar —the type that forms such an excellent cleo Sx18 fost GREW “RICH” ON RYE special values are to be found in our tremendous stock of rockers- all JANUARY BALE priced. background in modern decorating——the kind that gives long wear and satisfac Uon—and they're sale priced. take 25% off I wax informed by @ Vancouver man who has a large circle of ac quaintances, and who should ki bat he is talking about— nowspaper man—that mililons of dol- lare’ worth of booze has been «mug: across the border into astern nington «ince early summer. “There ls one town of 2.500 people that has been made prosperous in spite of the industrial slump,” he| said. “Thru this town went more} than $1,500,000 in telegraph orders | to Eastern Canadian liquor dealers. That means at least twice that sum went by mail, and it is a cinch that this town didn't drink up all that liq vor, There are other little towns that have experienced similar great prosperity because of the American thirst "I don't believe that more than a fourth of the liquor ts smuggled across the line west of the mpun. | } —purchases made during this sale will,.be held for future delivery, if desired, without extra charge. —we urge apartment house and hotel furnishers to take advan- tage of the great savings of- fered during this sale. | 4 3 — UPSTAIRS You Save $2 to$5 on Your Shoes SELLING SHOES ATW COST —and some less than cost, Every shoe in our stock included. The “Armstrong” and many other well- known brands are on sale, EVERY SHOE MUST BE SOLD over three-quarters of million dollars worth of living room, bed room and dining room furniture on sale at reductions of from 10% to 35% our entire stock of: DAY BEDS DAVENPORTS LIBRARY TABLES SERVING TABLES ROCKERS DINING CHAIRS NOVELTY FURNITURE CHINA CABINETS and hundreds of other items— STANDARD FURNITURE CO. L. SCHOENFELD & SONS Founded 1864 DINING TABLES BUFFETS BEDS CHIFFONIERS DRESSERS DRESSING TABLES CHIFFORETTES Dawes & SHO SEABOARD 303~ « HMUILDING Thasred Floor ORRIS co. Seattle Tacoma in |/Booze Running! Decoy Motorcycle a Frequent Method. Eastern Washington Grows Rich. One Hundred Carloads a Month. , TY whipped into Brit | planning to supply their American jalways good to me ™ | Confederation of Labor has decided Old Standby. tal ne. The arry the bul ma of course, seattle and NOTHING SECRET IN ORDERING WHOLESALE ly "There ia a reg tem of or} * and deliver The whole tor hou (do net dabble in 1 however, for they deat direct with | the big pure ind Jet these pur: | chane ! me of the deputy « sin the thru Which the liquor passes to Tacoma and Seattle are very beral, and do NOt interfere too much with the traf: | fle, realizing that some of your best citizens are regular patrons of the boone amurgiers * ! There's nothing secret about the ordering of boos thru the big whole Columbia gov. report on the | very little tw linted | to the United staten.| Ji "4 : —_ ; offics son has on the quantities of open. | rt ish Colurnbla for |age the r as transshipment into oe Ce. the state department in| that linuee in DOE comes the report | ta shington. The bolshevike NURSERY STOCK ing into British Columbia in ever-| claim she was a “spy” for the —_ ineréasing amounts. tr road| UJ, S, government, a charge| GET OUR PRICES ete ae in te ear load lots &| refuted by government offi-|| PLANTING GUIDE—FREE month are going to British and other Canadian provir some of thin goes to the provinces that have voted to go bone dry. Liquor} shipped inte provinces before the bone dry lawn take effect are not liable to selz stocks that are legally thone ure, tho future importation» are "petal mae stopped. But 100 car loads a month | nature of E,W. Grove. 30c.--advertise for Western Canadian provinces is | ment exactly 10 times as much as the nor: mal demand calls for This can mean only one thing, say | the liquor dealers and booze runners. near: 103 St tndaee the’ tein | flee), they are exceedingly low. BEST is the immenne etocks are MAKES. Pear deatined for the United Staten, It means that the boome runners are customers for a long, long tima Next article: Dry Vancouver Aft or Saneet. MAN IS SLAIN; WIFE REPENTS Says She Is to Blame for Husband’s Deed DENVER, Colo., Deo, 29.—Repent- ant and demanding that she be given the right to bear the penalty for her husband's crime of killing Albert Snook, with whom, it is said, she was intimate, Mra, James Monroe today continued to blame herself for the tragedy ‘here Monday evening. Monroe shot and killed Snook and fj perhaps fatally wounded William Wade, who was tn Snook'’s room. th Monroe and his wife are being held by the police “It's all my fault,” Mra. Monroe dectared. “AYter meeting Snook, 1 became infatuated with him. He wan madly in love with me and wrote me impassioned note@ Like a fool 1 answered them. My hushand wan I wanted fine clothes and would not quit working to make him a home. “My advice to women who have food husbands ix to stay home and let them love and support you and don't try to break into thelr world and do their work.” Ban on Bolshevism by French Labor PARIS, Dec, 29.—The national ag- rieultural committee of the General to refuse membership to all agricul: tural unions affiliated With the Mor ow International YOUR TEETH X-RAYED FREE Dr. L. BR Gark each morning between the hours of 9 and 10:30. No cost or obligation whatever. . We have & fine, brand new X-Ray Machine which we are placing at your dis- posal without charge be- tween the hours men- tioned above. Please come as early in the morning as possible. REGAL DENTAL OFFICES Dr. L. K. Clark, Manager 405 THIRD AVENUE Northwest Corner Third Avenue and Union Sireet Diagonally Across the Street from the Postoffice Lady Attendants en Duty as All Times MROMARGUERITE E HARRISON United ment, according to reports to cials. 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