Social events and notices honor Miss Mackay and community figures
Mrs George W Mertens hosts an informal luncheon for Mrs John H Perry. Miss Janet Mackay of Vancouver visits, attends teas and bridge games. Irene McDermott and Jean McMorran perform at White Elephant and Red Cross Jumble Shop. Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs John C Pierce. French relief events planned. Green and Black club dances announced. National League for Women's Service twilight musicales ongoing at Soldiers and Sailors Club with performers including Miss Bernice Neil and Miss Leone Langdon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry
John Hn. Perry
George W. Mertens
Miss Mackay
Janet Mackay
Vancouver
B.C
Charles H. Burnett
M. T. Giesting
George Terrell
Giesting
RS. Hawley
Katherine Howe
National League For Woman's Service
Washington Hotel
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club
Alice Sherman
Bernice Neil
Leone Langdon
Landon Fonald
Constancy
Foote
Ruth Gillespie
Eseree
Cyril Beott
Brunette Dansante
Farrata
Dohnanyi
Allambo Balaton
Hubay
Cupid
Haciecy
Stephens
Zephyrs
Jonaen
Chaminade
Kobler
Mies de Forent Anderson
Bernice Nell Mise
Miss Langdon
Alice Fay Leads YMCA Effort With Le Mana Library
Alice Fay writes from Le Mana where the YMCA library is crowded serving 150000 soldiers and 400 girls with 3000 men daily using scarce books and magazines. Miss Nettleton assists, and Fay hopes for 3000 more girls and a two year signup while planning a move to Oxford in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Fay
le Mana
Miss Nettleton
Clark Nettleton
Alice
Oxford
Coblents
Clarence Wikel’s prank ends badly in West Virginia
Clarence Wikel of Germany suburb attempted a joke by poking his head through a window to scare his wife alone at home. An ambulance transported him to a hospital where he recovers from serious head wounds. his wife sustains minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alderson
W. Va
Clarence Wikel
Germany
Wikel
Club Notices for Saturday Gatherings and Dances
The Classic Culture club meets at 2 30 p m at 4404 Burke Ave hosted by Mrs Clara Hartle with Nellie Sterritt speaking on The League of Nations followed by a discussion and a host provided musical finale. Alumnae chapters of Alpha Chi Omega Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Xi Delta hold meetings at listed homes with 1 30 and 1 p m start times and directions by North Queen Anne car and McGraw St. Overseas club hosts a social with proceeds aiding war relief and the new division march to be introduced on return. Homesteaders' society dances at 9 p m in Odd Fellows temple 10th Ave and EB Priest with good music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Classic Culture Club
Clara Hartle
Burke Ave
F. Moyer
Nellie Sterritt
League of Nations
Hostems
Alpha Chi Omega
A. MacAuley
Smith St
Queen Anne
McGraw St
Overseaa Club
Homesteaders’ Society
Odd Fellows’ Temple
10Th Ave
Local wartime arrivals and moves in Seattle area
Personal notices list veterans and families arriving in Seattle and nearby towns. Mr Park Weed Willis Jr and Mrs Willis return to Philadelphia from Seattle, Lieut Norman Gibbs arrives from France, Capt Peter Ottosen on temporary duty at Fortress Monroe, Ensign Russell White and wife planning to settle in Seattle, other families visiting relatives and making moves to Everett, Spokane, Newport News, and nearby communities. several students and travelers are noted including Miss Mary Ann Shipman and Miss Katherine Jerorfie in Everett, and the Sunder families in Altadena and Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Weed Willis, Jr
Seattle Sun
Willis
Philadelphia
Peter Ottosen
Newport News
Fortress Monroe
Mrs. Ottosen
Ensign Russell White
Mrs. White
Seattle
Mrs
James Kiefer
Ribbons Take Spring Fashion Spotlight for Young Girls
Open season for ribbons drives spring style with hair girdles gowns hats and party frocks.Delicate examples for little girls showcase rove pink grosgrain double fillets canary bows pastel ribbon roses and black green grosgrain hair bows with white picot edges.
How to Force Hyacinth Bulbs for May Bloom
Plan a breakfast table hyacinth display by May First using newly developed forcing methods. Select early blooming varieties in red white and blue and force each bulb in a tall glass vase with water and a dark top cover to keep shoots from emerging until sun exposure. Roots grow while the top is shaded, then exposure and fresh water promote flowering in four weeks. Protect overnight with a stiff paper bag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hothouse
Gart Baldil
Lord Macaulay
Royal St
Madame van der Hoop
la Innocence
Charles Dickens
Dishes From A Historic Menu Archive
A collection of recipe snippets detailing Asparagus with Nut Gravy, Bread Pudding a la Caramel, Divinity Fudge, and Salmon Mould. Instructions cover trimming asparagus, simmering with stock, adding nut butter, baking puddings, making fudge by beating egg whites, and preparing a salmon gelatine mould served on crisp lettuce.
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Readers Debate Ruth Garrison Case and Faith Dilemmas
Letters confront Ruth Garrison murder trial, religious doubt, and moral judgments. Readers discuss faith, love, marriage, and the public’s response, with strong opinions about justice and gender morality in a period-style exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mies Grey
Ruth Garrison
Grace Storrs
Prickly Porky Faces Fear As Buster Bear Awakens
Prickly Porky hides in a tall hemlock while Sam Jay delivers news that Buster Bear is awake. He fears discovery and cannot decide what to do, clinging to his perch and whimpering as the danger looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porky
Sammy Jay
Buster Bear
Buster
Foster
Sammy
Prickly
Fruit salad with citrus and lettuce nests
A simple raisin and fruit salad combines two oranges two bananas and one grape fruit with seeded raisins and lemon juice. The mix is folded with mayonnaise dressing and served in nests of lettuce leaves for a light dish.
Pershing Taught Latest Steps By Berkeley Society Girl
After the armistice, General Pershing relearned dancing at Coblenz on a Victory ball. Miss Elizabeth Witter, Berkeley socialite, aided the general in regaining his one stepping as Crom worker on the Western front watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pershing
Elizabeth Witter
Berkeley
Cal
Ted Crom
Western Front
Coblenz
Dark Men and White Women in War Reflections
A wartime piece embraces Black soldiers as heroes and celebrates women’s roles in Red Cross and home front service. It urges unity across race and gender, lauds Black regiments, praises Clara Barton founded Red Cross, and calls for women to join a broader sisterhood to support men in the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Virginia
Red Cross
Clara Barton
Rudyard Kipling
Julia O'Grady
Trench No
Brotherhood of Man
I Determine On A Real Adventure And Climb Down A Ladder
A young woman narrator prepared for danger as she descends through a closet trap door into a dark well. She contemplates Bolshevik intrigue and personal risk while considering the horrors that might await at the bottom. The scene ends with a cliffhanger as she proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mile
Vanderlyn
Jane Lorimer
Lorimer Mansion
Certeis
Eton
Tony
War era call to action sparks debate on gender roles
A fragmentary wartime speech frames women as active players in society while urging men to maintain morale and continue efforts. It uses metaphor about arms, skirts, and a Red Crows apron to rally persistence and equal participation as the war continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Crows
Soldier confronts man at station and is jailed
John Peterson, a returned soldier, met at the Northwestern station with a woman who introduced an accompanying man, B. O. Woodward, as her husband. Peterson attacked Woodward and was placed in the city jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
John Peterson
Northwestern Station
B. O. Woodward
Peterson
Woodward
Home remedy claims to cure catarrhal deafness and head noises
Advert reads a simple home treatment using Parmint double strength dissolved in hot water with sugar. It promises relief from catarrh related deafness head noises and related symptoms within days claiming about 90 percent of cases improve with this approach.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Betty Brainerd
White Elephant
Irene McDermott
Wight
Anna Thomson Milburn
St. Paul
A. W. Tidmarsh
Lady Maccabees
France
Belgium
John C. Pierce
Olympia
Pierce
United States Naval
Dansant
France Amerique Relief Association
Army and Navy Club
Thomas Bordeaux
J. ¥. Douglas
Alfred Battle
A. I. Bouffleur
N. Hedges
Bert Farrar
James DeVeuve
G. “W. Purcell
Alfred Rollo
H. H. Birkholm
Green and Black Club
Mt. Park
Riemer Phillips
Leon Dover
Hamilton Olin
Arthur Connell
William Dover
Gamma Phi Beta
Grace King
14Th Ave. N
Alpha XI Delta Sorority
Mra T. J. L. Kennedy
44Th Ave
Lieut
Norman Gibbs
New York
Mary Ann Shipman
Spokane
Everett
Stuchell-Carpenter
Katherine Jerorfie
A. B. Newell
Toledo
Ohio
Edgar Amen
Newell
M. M. Bruce
California
Alki Point
Moritz Thomsen
Frederick Sundt
Altadena
V. Stefanason
Los Angeles
William C. Kieth
Idaho
Henry Ristine
Paul Mandell Henry
Mr. Henry
Robert M. Clarke
G. G. Lyon
Stella Webster
Harold Burchard
363Rd Infantry
Presidio
Lake Cushman
Helen Hunt Walker
Smith College
Boston
Middleburg
Mass
William C. Houssey
Charlotte
Victoria
Harold Stimson
Hollywood Farm
John Spargur
Washington Hotel Annex
Betty Brown
Cynthia Grey
Misa Grey
Mins Grey
Mine Grey
Ruth Garron
Sonia
Bunk Atuff
Milas Garrson
Dudley M. Storrs
Uth Garrison
Cirey
Huth Garrison
Mia
Misa
Miss Garrison
Eympathy
Anly
Storrs
Frath Garrison
Mr. Storrs
Thornton W. Burgess
T. W. Burgess
Pauline
Pine Street
Elliott
Megy Igs
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