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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1918
Page
10
Advertisement lists a 17 year old price of salary for after school work at The Star with Mr Parish or Mr Donohue. Also promotes government war positions and various quick hire ads including messengers and laborers. Some entries show Clarke era local business offers and employment services.
H W Cunningham is named campmaster of the Seward Park camp. He teaches in the Lincoln high Manual Training department and will oversee weekend visits on Bailey peninsula. The camp, on a five acre tract, can host at least 40 boys overnight and offers affordable weekend outings, drawing many boys each weekend.
A fragmented page lists various offerings and notices including curing ailments, massage and face treatments, dancing lessons, piano teaching, ministerial services, rooming or business partnerships, diamonds and watches on credit, and miscellaneous ads from multiple locations such as Fifth and University, New York, and San Francisco.
A noisy catalog of grocery stalls lists assorted goods with prices including blue ribbon tea eggs butter coffee sugar and canned items. Multiple stalls such as Pike Place and Corner Stall enumerate produce meats dairy and pantry staples with unit prices and delivery notes.
Classified notices detail dance instruction at Fifehand University with hours from 1 to 6 and 7 to 11 led by Prof. Onwald Milcott. Other listings include a GIRTA wanted in paper, wages, and various job ads for fireworks, laundry help, agents, auto accessories, and fuel products with locations in Dayton, Louisville, and surrounding areas.
The cod is estimated to yield 45,000,000 eggs each season. Reports claim as many as 8,000,000 9,000,000 and even 9,500,000 eggs have been found in the toe of a single cod. An eel caught in Scotland years ago contained upward of 10,000 eggs.
Special Correspondent details the Heney investigation into meat packers led by Wilson & Co and their Navy orders. The 200 839 pounds of ham delivered to the Brooklyn yard were mostly moldy and rejected.
Clarence L. Reames special assistant attorney general warns both citizens and enemy aliens to avoid talking about the army or navy. He notes federal espionage act violations can be proven by intent to obstruct operations even without proving influence on a specific person. Judge Jeremiah Neterer instructed a jury in the Joe Zittel sedition case that a broad reading of the act applies.
Paris reports a German raid below Amiens was repulsed. Artillery clashes continue between Lasigny and Noyon on a seven mile front. France says it carried out surprise attacks taking prisoners east of Rheims and repelled enemy efforts west of Butte Du Mesnil where American artillery is stationed.
Swedish Danish and Norwegian socialists protested to the Vasa in Copenhagen against the execution of Red Guard prisoners. They urged the White government to take a conciliatory line to end the civil war.
Superior Judges delay sentencing jitney drivers found guilty of operating cars for hire without license for ten days. Otto Frederickson ordered to pay $20 and costs after stating plans to join the national army. Seven of eighteen defendants appeared. others to be heard next Friday and Saturday. Sheriff Stringer will not arrest until the grace period ends.
The Rotary Club of Seattle pledges 24 phonographs for 24 sub chasers leaving Bremerton. Scouting volunteers request hundreds of records and ask donors to contact Elliott at 4713 or leave them at 443 Henry Building headquarters.
The Salvage Department of the American Red Cross invites Seattle women to work at 2010 Westlake Ave. Daily duties run 8 50 a m to 5 p m with many sales led by women on duty. A pressing need for help exists and inquiries can call Elliott 4512. Office hours end Saturday afternoon.
Government operated steam trains begin at 6 30 a m Monday for shipyard workers. King Street station bound for Seattle. Fast Marginal Way service departs Yesterday at 7 a m with 4 15 p m return. West Seattle trains depart 6 20 a m returning 4 20 p m with a single shipyard stop for Duthie workers. Streetcar service remains for workers.
North west wooden shipyards may start before sunrise and run two nine hour shifts to hasten construction. Builders argue this plan would maximize daylight use, reducing the amount of artificial light needed for workers.
The 8,800 ton steel Western Queen built by Skinner and Eddy will be commanded by H A Smith, former master of Daisy Gadsby. The Western Queen, last core Skinner & Eddy ship, is to be turned over to the Shipping Board next week. Smith is a San Francisco native.
Col. Thompson is named chief of Prussian air service directing all air activities including raids on French and British towns. The claim frames him as the architect of infant casualties in aerial bombardments.
In Amsterdam April 20 a French monk serving as confidant to the ress confessor is blamed for a forgery in Emperor Karl's letter to Prince Sixtus De Bourbon. Dispatches from Vienna say Karl wrote in German, had it translated into French by the monk who allegedly inserted the word justified about France's Alsace claims and then took the letter to Switzerland.
Irish nationalists planned to present objections to conscription to the world. A Mansion House conference in Dublin ordered the move and asked the lord mayor to travel to Washington to explain the situation to President Wilson. Cork county magistrates have endorsed the resistance exhortation.
In Rio de Janeiro on April 20 the government seized hundreds of thousands of dollars from Germans planning to ship the money abroad. The funds are now deposited in the national treasury.
Kingston on Thames April 20 Sir George Caves home secretary declared that the United States is preparing to help but will take time so Britain must rely on itself and its European allies in the interim.
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