The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1922, Page 14

i - Syrian fruits. Orange American ‘along the most modern Southern Jaffa and Jerusalem are jem for this revived old peons i r of being. 7 ene ‘ is dry and parched the year UNCLE SAM TELLS HOW WORLD EATS Menus From Most Distant Corners Are Published Weekly BY FRANK J. TAYLOR WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-- “Foodstuffs "Round the World is the title of Uncle Sam's new- ‘est and most novel publication. In mimeograph form, this odd it weekly comes ont, telling how the rest of the world eats, Editor Uncle Sam has more cor Tespondents scattered over the world than most of his competitors put together. Every consul and tach trade adviser is a reporter for *Foodstutts "Round the World.” Here are a few items from Uncle Bam's recent editions: Ancient Damascus blooms tn pros ‘again, due to the demand for Apricots, for tn stance, are harvested in quantities, ried, rolled into sheets, and sent to Europe to make jams. “Chinese more than earn thetr walt.” says a headline, telling how the Chinese drill for salt wells with &@ machine resembling a teeter-totter, from which the human weight Jumps, allowing the other end to come down with a piledriver thud. Sometimes it takes ten years to rm Americans have invented a new cracking the GQnother item. These nuts are rich of. A concern is preparing to this nut oil. groves, many owned by capital, and operated Mnes, bloom again in Holy Land, the publication re Palestine industry. Peons of Nuevo Leon and Coa- Mexico, are strong for quail toast. They don't eat it them- but have fust awakened to fact that rich Americans like ! Trapping quail has made richer than they ever the Arabs are taking to tce “| The ship lodged on « sand bar and bright wrappers are tn F these for gifts. Uncle Sam's reporter says, but now they are purchasing for their own use. Too Many Laws Are Hurting the State A multiplicity of laws, according to Tobert A. Hiller, candidate for the State legislature, is now burdening the state and nation. Hiller, who is from the 47th district, declared that congress and the states had passed Over 79,000 laws in the last two de. | aden, increasing the cost of govern. Ment to an unbelievable figure. Hiller said his aim, if elected, would be to abolish cumbersome legislation @ar, pays $1 to enter gate and par. Ucipate in wmtional golf tournament at Oakmo: Country club, when gateman does not recognize him and Fefuses to let him pass. .| wheels and kept moving about on Woman Fights for F ortune “Ma’’ Streeter Game at 75 |Youth Suicides as Scheme Mrs. George Wellington (“Ma”) Streeter BY ROY GIBBONS CHICAGO, Aug. 15.--Taking up a fight her husband waged for half « century before death removed him from the battle line, a Té-yearold woman ts battling for millions of dollars in property adjoining Chi- cago's “gold coast.” Ranged against thie lone woman are some of Chicago's richest land owners and the courts of Chicago and of Iitinota, backed by city police and state troops. But the aged woman ts confident of victory She is “Ma” Streeter, widow of Captain John Wellington Streeter, civil war fighter and Lake Michigan navigator. Streeter, for 60 years before hin death last year, occupied the most valuable strip of Lake Michigan's shore line, despite efforts of courts | and polica.go dislodge him. | STORM SENDS HIM ASHORE Just after the close ef the cfvi! war, Streoter’s veesel was driven | ashore off the Chicago “gold coast al couldn't be budged. The location was pleasant, not far off shore and yet out at sea. Ho the adventurous captain decided to re main there. He began Milling tn the Inlet to land. The wind and the shifting sands helped him. There soon were about 20 acres of this new “made” land. ‘Then the famous fight began, Streeter claimed the “made” prop- erty an his. He called it the “Dis trict of Lake Michigan.” He anid he owed allegiance only to the federal government, The state of Illinois or the city of Chicago had no jurisdic tion over him, he declared. AbutUng property owners lald seige to the land. They claimed it was irs. But they couldn't eject the tain. He built a house on the little domain, HE LOSES HIS FIGHT It was a long Grawn fight but a! losing one for the Btresters. They gradually lost possession of the land Valuable apartment houses were Dispute Seen Over Northcliffe Papers BY LLOYD ALLEN LONDON, Aug. 15—The Eng- lish public was concerned today with the question of who would | succeed Viscount Northcliffe as | the dictator of his 100 newspa | pers and publications, Chief interest was in the dispost- tion of The Times—Engiand’s “Thun derer” for over 100 years, There was | considerable interest in whether the control of the paper would revert| back to the Walter family, from whom Northcliffe purchased a large | interest afters his first success in Journalism, Reports of a year ago that John Walter was given £200,000 for his share in the paper have never been cleared up. It has been said that Northeliffe’s check was returned by Walter, | indicating the latter would dis- pute the deal. Also that the check was again sent to Walter, interpreted as meaning the Northeliffe interests intended to fight for the large block of stock. PALACE HIP ‘7 UNTIL FRIDAY An unbiased story of hi "s greatest sea fight— aides “The Battle of Jutland” STRING BAND The control of Northeliffe’s other papers, it was believed, will rem in the hands of his rd of ors, for a while at | Northeliffe’s funeral services are| to be held tn Westminster Abbey to: morrow. He will be laid at rest in| the cemetery at Sant Mary Le Bow, near where he was born. 20,000 Madly Rush to Diamond Fields CAPETOWN, Aug. 15.-——More than 20,000 men staked out claims when a tract of land believed to contain dia monds was opened at Mosesberg. Seeks Office as Constable N. Johnson, candidate for tho | republican nomi. | nation for con stable, who 1s seeking the office | on an effictency| 4 platform. a eae i nominated fat the primartes jand subsequently elected,” Johnson declares, “I intend | jto be one of the most efficient con- stables who ever the office. My services will be avaliable at all times and I will womumemms a, cstablish regular ¥. N, Johnson hours during which I may be found without fail at my office, “Constables, no less than con gressmen, should do their work well.” ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15.—-A runawny | horse ran into an automobile and two occupants of the machine were killed, “district.” The captain died last year. he pledged his wife to carry on for him, That's just what she's doing. Mitte yacht this keeneyed, white haired woman, stands guard over the She keeps a close tab on| the box office on the Munteipal Pier where the Pageant of Progress ts Quartered .on her “"Varnoose,” “dietrict.” being held. She believes that the revenue Meets Failure the summons and, as she door, the boy is said to he phoned. When they arrived t was dead, near. Breathing a fewent pray vengeance, Seattle copa wer day by the mystery of “who Chief of Police W. automobile?’ Severyna, who drives his short time ago, left the car tion picture show, It was when he came for It. Monday afternoon car Wan found deserted at N st. and Aurora ave. girl on tre front seat as the clue to the thief. Apperentiy left as a chal) identify it, fe ase Crook’s Curiosity Lands Him in GLABSGOD, Aus. 16 Rut | Was recognized and arrested. | BLKINS, W. Va, Ave. 15 ing whisky, | biown off. ken In should her by right of | . . Cencrakin ame to er by Mae of 37 Babies Arrive “They robbed us of our miltions that we took out of the “she says, “and I'm gotng to! wate have justice.” In t that she has to sell “hot keep herself financed. meantime, the ol4 woman's fortune has reached #0 low an ebb But she won't give up the fight. land and ROME, Aug. 15. | babies were born during an | dogs” to PARIS, Aug. 15 two players Jost $25,000. THE BON MARCHE Barcaln BASEMENT Buying for Cash at Bed-Rock Prices —that’s one of the reasons why the Bar- gain Basement can sell so cheaply. Better Than Ever! 275 New Jersey Jackets $3.45 Just unwrapped from their long ride, these black, brown, red and navy jackets present hours and hours of comfort- able sport wear. Tuxedo col- lars, pockets, belts and cor- rectly cut. Sizes 16 to 42, Splendid New Sport Skirts $5.49 black, brown, stripes a full Of prunella cloth pleating. Well made for Sizes 27 to in navy blue, and with checks and in contrast; box year end wear. SEEKS TO DRUG GIRL; KILLS SELF the vial of potwon lying AUTO STOLEN FROM CHIEF SEVERYNS IS il FOUND, ALSO PHOTO mitting themselves baffled Tues B. Severyn's car since he fired his chauffeur, a day night, while attending. a mo Reveryn's Detectives found a pleture of an attractive the picture is causing the police much worry tn their endeavors to Attending, Jerected within the boundaries of the | out of curiosity, the tris! of hike ac complice for robbery, John McLuskey ! Pe ais Whisky Explodes, Blows Off Wrist} Thomas Jordan, a miner, was mak the till exploded and Jordan's right hand and wrist were During Earthquake Thirty-seven quake in the province of Ancona, —In « card game / on a London-Parts aeroplane liner, | then alow way, fight LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—Robert Thomas, 19, killed himself by poison here yeaterday after he is alleged to} have attempted to drug a young and pretty stenographer and Thomas sent in @ call to an em In ployment agency for a young wom: | wheete an. Mise Arlene Alcorn answered | league 1 the | oreaks, eleod € | watloping we gave ‘em in Missourt? | er in his arma and placed « drug aoe 1 ee Ces pose’ 6 Sn In Missourl the tsaue was cloar ged handkerchief over her face, eut; for i PP Soon aa The « ‘" ie " ti the r! The girl ran screaming into the! .cuinst them. One side was hand). etreet and the * wer he boy | © tele} | | thr him We er of ‘ead atole own Sun gone 36th only lenge, Jail “While earth WASHINGTON, When wet Missourl voteth dry, rejoice with exceeding joy and of Hight wines and beer is sounding brass and tinkling eym- bal—it riseth up in the morning and in the evening it is eut down can THE SEATTLE STAR Defeat of Wets Is Acclaimed by D — Ave. — do the leaders of the Anil- om league of America here one to the other, that the of the wets for the return as |Win? tion,” is no more, other words,” says Wayne B who ta chief counsel for the #0 dry that even bis votes “wasn't that a goshawfull by the fact that William the wet candidate for the re | Nomination for United grant a card room license to Earl wenator, didn't divide the wet| ‘emocratic by 4,500. ) A. Gon. 4167 California ave PARIS 15.—Robert h with anyone else, while] The next congress will be even! | “rie navor declared that the || St fi me in “the ni Iry candidates were against |4ryer than the present one, Wheeler! | 0.04 sonm is within a block of the arbizon,” is now predicts. Capt. Bofot, fi consider the victory of R. KR. Brewster, one of the drys, over Backs, to show conclusively that the people | R bli of this country won't stand for the| al drys and in only one instance | epuDlicans return of liquor in any form. If the| —the Peoria, UL, district—has & | vicg President Calvin Gf wets couldn't win tn what other state can they hope to They seem to forget that the| senate two men who will stand ms Republican club at women now vote and that the women} for sirict law enforcement even | formal rece bby are overwhelmingly for a dry na tho they may not be for the rest New Was hotel at of our program Sherstay it wall From the dry standpoint here it ts considered highly significant that the democrats of the Bighth Missouri district should nominate Mrs. St. Clair emeritus of Chrintin lumbia, for congress, Mrs. Mows is characterized as an probibitionist.” the republican landslide of 1920, sent Sid ©. Koach, a republican to congress, but it “In the 178 congressional prt- martes that have already been held we have won three addition |Coolidge to Meet © dry been defeated by a wet “Pennsylvania will send to the Missourt in 1 meet members of the “We hope to lick Jim Reed in Missouri with Brewster, the dry republican.” 4 Tue Mo president College, Co SOE 8 SRCTMPENE ERR SPOR "SALL RIGHT IF HE \ AVOIDS THE HABIT! |" Mayor Brown has vetoed his first ordinance! The bill vetoed wued “ardent | The district, in Stevenson’s Home. Operated as is normally propane to | Jefferson school war aviator Corseting the Larger Women Large women who have suffered the discomforts of ill-fitting corsets will find welcome relief in Bon Marche corsets-——for our cor- set service shop has trained corsetieres always ready to help and advise as well as fit your corsets, B. a la Spirite Corsets of pink coutil with medium bust and long skirt. 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