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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1917
Page
5
The piece urges immediate mass military preparation and total national effort to win the world war. It calls for universal training a strong bar on profiteering coordinated mobilization and full support for allies until final victory and lasting peace. It promotes a world free of kings and wars.
The article quotes Secretary Baker stressing that future plans aim to train an army ready for actual conflict within a year. It argues the US must be prepared to avoid August 1914’s helplessness, showing strength in peace or war and building American manhood through training even without firing a shot on European soil.
Figures shown to Congress reveal 600 million bushels of grain used for beer and whisky in a year. The Washington state food commission argues food must be distributed to feed the nation at reasonable prices rather than diverted to alcoholic production, calling it criminal to waste crops on drink while the poor face high prices.
A scrambled item lists retailers and services from shoe and jewelers to a port order at 6 am. It notes potato handling guidance from Friedlander and Gates and remarks on rare potatoes in Tacoma. The piece closes with a restaurant remark about potatoes being overcooked.
A lady and a gentleman arrested Saturday evening pleaded guilty and were fined fifty dollars and costs. Devlin notes Germany may refuse to recognize the United States declaration of war. Carrie recalls an Easter mishap as she wore a bonnet backward in church, handling the embarrassment with composure.
Grace and her uncle discuss proper grammar guiding her on not saying I aint going and using Im not going. He tests phrases like You are not failing We are not going They are not going and asks if she can say them correctly. The tale humorously contrasts formal language with Grace's confident reply.
A letter to The Star editor argues that all U S property including church and charity buildings should be taxed equally with citizens to fund World War I. The writer cites church wealth and loyal preaching while calling for proportional contributions from religious groups.
A Philadelphia linguist Prof Hertzog praises Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild non narcotic laxative ideal for children and families. The notice urges avoiding harsh purgatives and notes the product sells for fifty cents with a free trial bottle offer by writing Dr W B Caldwell Illinois.
W. 8. Babb was cleared yesterday by a jury in Judge Tallman’s court of conducting a gambling resort. He was arrested by deputy sheriffs in the Lions Club room in the Liberty building on February 1.
Aboard a Pullman train, Connery tracks Philip Eaton amid a tense cast including Harriet Dorne and Avery. Dorne senses a larger plot as Eaton and others move through reserved compartments toward a dangerous, unfolding motive.
Eaton lingers in the observation room as Harriet Dorne and Avery enter. Harriet nudges Eaton toward conversation, and Avery oddly yields to arrange the meeting. Harriet probes his identity while he recalls a long-past closeness and muses on engineering, law, and art.
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