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PAGE 3 “URS is a nation of homes. The realization of our highest hopes lies in the continued construction and im- proved character of our homes, because they have the first influence in the standard of American living.” —Warren G. Harding from those of contact with homefurnisher. business window and floor displays— —thie great homefurnishing store has a national reputation for its magnificent window and floor displays—its show windows and floor showings are pictures of enchantment that “talk” in a language understood by all—reflecting in every way a strong appeal to the interested pubtic extensive, efficient delivery service— —a great fleet of White automobile furniture vans always ready for instant service, makes It pos sible to offer, even during sale events and other busy periods of the year, exceptionally efficient and prompt delivery service to a wide range of surrounding Seattle territory, We commend the painstaking and courteous attention extended by splendidly trained delivery men who render service, meriting your approval and entire satis- faction. authentic advertising illustrations— —to the thousands and thousands of interested readers of this store's advertising we direct at- tention to the fact that only authentic flustr tions, sketched directly from the merchandise, are used in our Sunday and daily advertising, ¢liminating the possibility of misleading iilustra- tions. Our strict polley of truth in our advertising and picture representations of merchandise is thoroughly established. “MEMBER OF AMERICAN HOMES BUREAU: FOR BETTER AMERICAN HOMES" free Rental Department— —this department will be found of utmost assist ance to those who desire to locate a suitable home. Very desirable houses, * of apart. ments are listed from every section of the city, If you have a house to rent telephone this de- partment and we will gladly place your loea- tion on our Rental Ust—this service is extended without charge for your convenience all-year-round Toy Department— located only a few steps trom Second Avenue, in our jarge Downstairs Toy Store, it Is a place where 12 months In the year little folks and grown-ups take pleasure in making xn occantonal Journey to see the ever-changing and interesting display of toys efficient Radio Department— —our enlarged and interesting Radio Department now located, for the sake of convenience, on our Main Floor, is meeting with instant approyal. It is a place where you can select your Radio Bet or enno with the assurance of secur. ing ONLY the best of equipment and supplies. Sound-proot Radio booths will ve found here for your convenience, THE SEATTLE STAR «prehensive ex National Better Homes Week, October 9-14 —this store dedicates itself to forwarding the idea for, the observance of the nation-wide Better Homes movement. —our extensive facilities will be devoted to the com- ition of furnishings for the home in’ featured displays and demonstrations to which. the public is most cordially invited. some reasons why this great homefurnish- ing store will help you to a Better Home! _ —this great homefurnishing organization celebrates its 59th year in business, over a half century devoted to the single pur- pose of providing happy, cozy Better Homes for thousands and thousands of home makers, in promoting home interest, in supplanting the commonplace with the artistic, in bringing about those refinements which distinguish the home of today ryear. These are the attainments for which this store takes pride in celebrating its 59th year of helpful —the achievements of this mercantile institution have been made possible by an economically sound faith of HONESTY, BROADNESS and UNIFORM FAIRNESS; the creed of , TRUTHFULNESS, VALUE and unexcelled SERVICE! Mail Order Department— thie department offers unlimited facilities for efficient long-distance shopping. Competent as sistante Who are thoroughly familiar with the handling of mail orders, give prompt and per- sonal attention to every order received. Upon request we will mail you our new mail order catalog THRIFT. This new 18923 edition con- tains 180 pages illustrating necessary and useful homefurnishings—extending our lberal, helpful credit service for the out-of-town Better Homes. our 6-reom model bungalow— Just a love nest, cozy and warm, with an atmosphere of comfort, even luxury—yet no bint of ostentation, our model roam bungalow lo cated on the fifth floor has been an inspiration in the planning of their “Better Homes” to the thousands of visitors who have visited this charming place, talking machine demonstration rooms— this exceptionally well equipped and convenient ly located department (Main Floor) with its complete assortments of Victrolas and Aeolian Vocallions, pleasant and comfortable demonstra tion rooms, with the greatest measure of cour teous and instant service, 1s a place music lovers take delight in visiting, —during this National Better Homes Week all departments = feature special, appealing dis- plays for the consider. ation of you and your friends. —this store announces “Open House” Satur. day evening, October 1Mth, from 7 to 10 Pom welcome! mJINDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1 | Serellars from CHIEF SEATTLE To the Nefarious Fuel Dealers Gentle Criminals; ‘The papers say you've been arrested for giving customers too much wood for their money. More, daddy, more! CHIEF BHATTLE, To Herbert Schoenfeld, Standard Furniture Co. Dear Ierb; Gos, I'm sorry I lived so long ago and couldn't be tn the furniture business and have movie actresses sleeping in my wir | dows! CHIEY BEATTLE. | To Jim Spangler, Seattle National Bank Dear Jim: I know the Seattle National's a fine, big, dignified tnat! tution, But, honest, now, doesn't It feel nice to have all the youngsterr around, catching the shower of gold? Bo much more human, don't you think? CHIEF SKATTLE. Across Conti To the Park Board MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. $.— ; Dear Sirs: I was passing the city hal square the other Gay and |ing her complete fiying time oa | noticed how bald the jawn was in front of the county city butiding j San Francisco to New York to have | Don't you think, dear stirs, that aslarge bed of colored hollyhocks | been 27 hours and 11 minutes, Slag “turning their gentle faces to the sun” would be an improvement? | Lillian Gatimn, first woman to the United States, arrived at field Sunday in a United States To Mr. Kemal ~th Sir; 1 see by the papers that you are murdering poor Armenians {trip was made under the auspices ter General : oun displeasure, Mr, Kemal, and I hupe that when you read this you | rorowed th will be properly repentant. CHIEF SEATTLE. Mins Gatlin lett fan Francisco di | . ‘ . t Reno, Salt Lake Cit | To William W. Shields, Candidate for Treasurer i ae ne / Dear Billy: Congratulations on your victory in court! I trust that ship or something for the gen- | pettefontaine, Pa. | temanly cop who forgot to appear against you. Girl Makes Flight Chief thinks so. CHIEF SEATTLE nental fight sero jal service De Haviland airplane, 1 | Ansintant Post and making a scarcity of Greek bootblacks, You have cauned me serl | (nn een nnn enroute taal eernnan |tober 5, making stops along the wag lowa City, Chicago, Cleveland and | you'll provide « nice assistant treasu CHIEF SEATTLE Ponce de Leon Outdone in New ~ Gland Discovery “Iam just as young as I used te” be, and it’s all due to gland pitiy © Here I am 72 and feel just as spry | and full of vim and pep as if I were only 20 or 40." This testimony te the virtue of gland treatment was Your Highness; I'll say you rate that title! You may not be royalty, | voiced recently by Robert Georges but with local phone calls at 20 cents per— CHIEF SEATTLE. Laws, prominent retired London || 2. iat 26 broker. Mr. Laws, whose health has | To Max Stern, Hell Ship Reporter been poor for several years, claims that a glandular tonfe put up in cap © Dear Max: Now that they’ve ruled Mquor off all ahips entering this [suis form has restored him to the” country, your experiences on the hell ship may become commonplaces. Nest co pas? CHIEF SEATTLE. health and vigor of his earlier days, To Mr. F. P. Morrison Such a treatment is now obtainable in the form of Glandogen, @ highly Dear Cupid: No, I'm not writing to you In quest of a matrimonial agency bride. I merely wish to comment, after reading some of the concentrated glandular tonle pre pared from the glands of healthy bunk that you scatter about the city, that Barnum must have been right. CHIEF SEATTLE. young animals. Glandogen has had To Seattle Rental Agencies remarkable success Dear Business People: I have heard ft eald that new people coming to Seattle have found it difficult not only to find suitable houses to lve . but also find anyone interested in trying to help them. of giving newcomers the cold ehoulder or manifesting an alr | of indifference because they ask to rent instead of to buy a home, wouldn't It be good business, and Chriatian-like, too, to show a friendly int wt and help them along? You might cultivate an acquaintance that would prove profitable, CHIEF SEATTLE. —— To Puget Sound Clam Diggers Dear Beach Combera: Remember Congreseman Cushman? It he who told how our stomachs, dering the hard times, rose and fell with the tide because clams were the only food we could obtain. T was thinking of him the other day when I paid 50 cents for a plate of steamed clams that I could get in the old days for 26 cents at any restaurant. Have clams adopted race suicide or Is it the freight rate that adda to their cout? Anyhow, we're glad, aren't we, that we can still go out and dig them and bring home sacks an@ micks of them without a cent of expense? CHIEF SEATTLE. To the Folks Who Bet on the Yankees Unlucky Ones: Don't you hate the guy who says, “I told you so"? CHIEF SEATTLE. To Mayor E. J. Brown Dear Doc: You are now, I notice, trying to make the foreman of your farm superintendent of street# and sewers. As you have lots of live stock he must have plenty of experience in throwing the bull—so he ought to feel right at home at the city hall. CHIEF SEATTLE. Radiographs — the only reliable method of knowing the exact condl- tion of your teeth. One X-ray free. Our treatment of pyorrhea is com sidered the best; $2 per tooth. In One Location for 21 Years BOSTON DENTAL CLINIC 1420% Second Avenue To Lischetti’s Restaurant Gentlemen: I Ifke your food. I Uke your service, And I like your prices, But | DO wish you'd change your menu every week or so. CHIEF SEATTLE. To the Weatherman Dear Salisbury: Some of the mornings have been chilly, “If Winter Comes” will spring be far behind? CHIEF SEATTLE. To the Old-Timers Sire: You remember when all Senttle'¢ big men, her “first citizens,” her bankers, her firemen and policemen, all had mustaches. Well, just look about you, for history is repeating. But look not at the faces of the doctors and the lawyers, but at the young men, The hatr which adorns the upper lp is thin and fine and allky. It's not unitke the newly shaved eyebrow of the flapper. For, in very truth, the bobbed halr of the flapper is nothing as compared to the mustache of the flopper. CHIEF SEATTLE. To Professor and Mrs. Tiernan Dear South Bend, Ind., Reatdents: We're glad that the Judge who | listened for dayr and days to the sensational story about another man being the father of your third babe decided that the story wasn't true. Yours is one of those cases I like to forget tn a hurry. CHIEF SEATTLE. Do your gums bleed easily? Ifso,takeheed. Itstrikesfour persons out of every five past forty, and thousands teeth and health. Brush your teeth with —_——. To Henry Ford Dear industrialist: Your announced plan of spending your great wealth for the promotion of industry and in providing more Jobs for men Is @ happy philosophy that might with profit be exemplified by a score of other rich manufacturers. CHIEF SEATTLE. |To Local Transfer Companies | Boys: Where do you get all these strong guya who work for you? A little insignificant geezer came up the other morning and calmly walked away with a Victrola loaded with records as if it were a sack of flour, and in the afternoon another meager chap single handedly moved out a big trunk the wife and I together could not budge, Herpules was 4 tramp alongside these little giants. CHIEF SEATTLE. LETTERS TO CHIEF SEATTLE Dear Chief: Many of your tribe are patronising the new gambling hall in the basement of the big house at —— King st. It ts a bad place, with all the old games running wide open. Winter is coming and the squaws will need the beads to buy corn and calico, You better ask the big Medicine Man with the long hair, FREMONT FRED, 4119 Interlake Ave. eee “How come?” Dear Chief; 1 noticed In a recent Issue of The Star your reference | to the failure of the Northern bank a few years ago, As one of the | depositors, I wonder if you cannot stir up enough interest in that | failure to get another dividend for us ‘Tho interest in that failure seems to have turned entirely to the | failure of the Scandinavian American bank and its victims. ‘The | Northern bank up to date has paid 20 per cent. ‘Ten per cent, {he last payment, wax in August two years ago, and I think we, too, are entitled to another payment, Yours for success, ted, ne Nujol Rn eS Babee keeps k / A DEPOSITOR. and therefore helps to remove them. Nujol is @ lubricant —not a medicine or laxative — 80 — — naierierereeepnneetiininzonintes ne straining. Doctors ag City Would Enter Be ge -- sulfering of Storage Business See eh a, oul City-owned auto storagp facili: | I e I ( : thes for the downtown district are| AN A urged by the city engineering and public utilities offices, Nature's Tonic Medicine Municipal storage would not only relieve congestion and make easier ends stomach the enforcement of city regulations, | troubles and bi charge to sutoists, City Engineer e Jamey D, Blackwell believes, bui d | 30 Million Bottles Sold ¢ Ask Any Good Druggist " 1, CELEBRATION of the : Pasco tol bridge, whieh | opened to traffic Sunday, will be held on October 21,