75 years ago
Nov. 28, 1941
The boldest and most bizarre shoplifter in Aberdeen police history — a farm housewife who checked stolen articles off a “Christmas shopping list” while her handbag held more than $1,000 in cash and $2,000 in postal savings — had officers “on the ropes” with amusement today.
As Capt. Gillespie followed her to her car after one of her “shopping” expeditions, he said it appeared to be at least the fourth time she had shoplifted her bag full, emptying it each time in her car and returning to the counters for another load.
Items scratched off her Christmas list and found in her car included a boy’s complete suit, a fruitcake, children’s socks, a toy horse, pen and pencil sets, a large set of Christmas tree decorations, a shower bath curtain, five men’s handkerchiefs, a blue dress, a green dress, a pair of women’s suede gloves, a woman’s purse, a man’s billfold, several boys’ and men’s shirts, two sweaters, four knives and a spool of thread.
50 years ago
Nov. 28, 1966
An estimated open house crowd of 1,500 wandered through the Canterbury Inn Motel in Ocean Shores Sunday afternoon inspecting the newly completed 45-unit complex.
All but one of the unites in the $800,000 condominium motel were sold before the building was completed.
Constructed by Rognlin’s Inc., of Aberdeen, the Canterbury Inn features an indoor heated swimming pool, conference and social rooms, and rooms are furnished with cooking facilities, televisions and telephones. Each unit has an ocean view.
25 years ago
Nov. 28, 1991
The Salvation Army has been fighting a Hundred Years’ War with little red buckets and tambourines.
Men and women bundled against the cold drizzle are already ringing bells beside the familiar red kettles to raise money that will provide clothes and food for the needy.
On Tuesday, the Salvation Army distributed 202 Thanksgiving food baskets for 666 people on Grays Harbor.
The Harbor is groaning under the siege of a troubled timber industry and the national recession, so every cent pitched into those little red buckets means a lot in the battle for souls and sustenance, local officials say.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
