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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1917
Page
15
Walter Damrosch conducts the New York Symphony at the Moore Theatre this evening with violin virtuoso Emil Zimbalist. The distinguished conductor and the acclaimed ensemble will perform standard symphonies and selections for Seattle audiences.
Marlton New Jersey April 13 George Olt lit a match at a stalled auto to judge a puddle. Firemen arrived as he concluded the liquid was not water. Sand Point Idaho closed stores and declared a holiday when Elizabeth Gurley Flynn visited town.
An old advertisement extols Camderine as a 25 cent cure for dandruff and scalp irritation. It promises rapid relief as hair roots shrink and shedding slows after several applications.
An old ad promises to cure dandruff by applying four ounces of liquid argon at night. It asserts the scalp will be moistened and rubbed in, with most or all dandruff gone by morning after nightly treatments. The copy claims repeated applications destroy all signs of dandruff and improve hair texture, noting argon is inexpensive and available at drug stores.
Far above the troops in France, 35 000 aeroplanes provide the eyes of the armies. Sitka spruce from Puget Sound mills fuels the war effort, with high grade timber selling for 200 to 400 dollars per thousand feet and shaping strong, flexible aircraft components.
Short news notes report a core floor being laid in a new Home Economics hall on the University of Washington campus to improve acoustics, plus coverage of the Industrial exhibition dedication, theft at a department store, a funeral service, and various local events and notices.
At the 21st biennial meeting of the state Degree of Honor held yesterday in the Odd Fellows hall Mrs. Anna M. Crosby of Spokane was chosen grand chief. A reception and vice honored visiting delegates at the same venue. The Degree of Honor is the women's auxiliary of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs as a gentle liver and bowels cleanser for sick or peevish children. It claims a teaspoonful clears foul waste and sour bile, restoring health in hours. The note emphasizes choosing a genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company and keeping a bottle handy.
Houdini signs to appear in a Williamson brothers film to be shot in the West Indies showing an escape from a two inch glass window of a submarine camera chamber. Envy theme leads the Liberty theater contest with stars George Le Guere Shirley Mason and Ann Murdock in Ring Rivals. Clara Kimball Young returns at the Clemmer in The Price She Paid ending tonight. Pauline Frederick stars in The She Devil at Rex and Paty Arbuckle’s Paramount release nears completion for Coliseum. The Phantom Buccaneer features Richard Travers in a dual role at Feesaway. Kitty Gordon appears in Her Maternal Right at Class A then The Argonauts at Strand. Numerous wedding rumors and daily life vignettes punctuate the page.
A pupil in advertising art wrote much of the copy that secured six million soldiers for Kitchener. Kehler is being spoken of as Uncle Sam's army ad writer.
New York report says Mrs. Della Conway of Conway died from erysipelas believed to result from a facial pin scratch suffered weeks earlier while fixing her hair. The incident led to a fatal infection.
Washington reports that in the last six months nearly as many immigrants arrived in the United States as in all of 1916 despite submarine dangers and other risks.
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