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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1920
Page
9
Miss Lady Bug and neighbors discuss dramatic quick wealth as Professor Skylark schemes a plan to lure a musical family to him. The Magical Mushroom touts high minded plans while Nancy and Nick react with anxious hope. Nick offers a magical Green Shoe to summon the family in moments.
Peter Rabbit meets a new visitor, Unc Billy Possum, who arrives from Virginia with a sharp grin and a curious question about permanent poultry residents. The meeting suggests an upcoming tale where Unc Billy entertains for the next story.
Funeral services for Rev Alson W. Steers, pioneer minister, were scheduled at the Adventist Christian Church on Wednesday afternoon at 1 o clock.
A Victorian era ad urges women to guard health against “woman's trouble” with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It claims the non alcoholic tonic strengthens the whole system, eases nervousness and headaches, and improves sleeplessness. Readers are invited to request a trial package by mailing 10 cents to Dr. Pierce's hotel in Buffalo, New York.
HOOD RIVER Ore April 7 For his heroism 14 year old Homer Lovell will be presented Thursday with $50 subscribed by passengers on train No 6 of the Oregon and Washington line. The boy prevented the train from striking a rockslide that would have pitched the locomotive over a precipice into the Columbia river.
London April 7 Minse Grudge Deacon sister of Princess Kadziwill won 2500 dollars in her suit against the Daily Graphic for publishing a report that she had been expelled from Germany due to friendship with the former crown prince.
TERRE HAUTE April 7 There will likely be no election here as the law provides only 2 dollars a day for election judges and officials. With current high prices few want the job.
In Oklahoma on April 7 Delia Graham, identified as a Black woman, was robbed and then sold a basket of eggs she had bought, on a street corner, to raise funds for her transportation home.
In Yon, April 7, delegates at the biennial Y W C A conference will debate whether girls should be encouraged to attend dances and theatres and be allowed to smoke. The questions will be threshed out at the May gathering.
An old advertisement touts genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin prescribing twelve tablet tin boxes and larger packages. It emphasizes the Bayer name as world famous, mentions uses for colds headaches toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism and general pain, and instructs buyers to seek the Bayer Cross logo on packaging.
Philadelphia readers are offered a free prescription to strengthen eyesight. Bon-Opto tablets dissolved in water and used to bathe the eyes two to four times daily are claimed to improve vision, reduce inflammation, and cut need for glasses. The piece cites testimonials of dramatic improvements and notes a guarantee of 40 percent strengthening in one week or money back, with sale at local druggists.
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