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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1917
Page
6
A promotional notice offers fortune telling by Madame Jeneati the Great in a downtown building. It promises guidance on love marriage family health law and business, with palm and tarot readings and a special one week offer at 6 toom liberty Building corner Third.
A promotional notice offers Madam Rushet a phrenologist reader who allegedly advises on business, marriage, and happiness. It promises confidential readings, planetary hints, and solutions to troubles, with rates and hours in a downtown hotel setting.
Advertises multiple clairvoyants and palm readers offering life horoscopes and love guidance. Promises to reveal future spouses, business success, health, and happiness with special readings at various locations and prices. Includes Madam Mellie Royal and others with promises of guaranteed satisfaction and speedy marriages.
A collage of historic advertisements for clairvoyants and mediums in a midtown area. Entries include Madame Sonia Clairvoyant and Phrenologist, Pirat Rik and others offering fortunes, love advice, health guidance, and daily readings. Contact details listed for several practitioners and event times noted.
A fragmented listing of market stalls and prices for groceries including cherries, sausage, pot roast, cream cheese, tea, oats, marmalade, smoked herring, shrimp, butter, Lima beans, tomatoes, peanut butter, pimento cheese, pancake flour, and rhubarb. Prices per item are given with stall numbers and vendor references.
Seven guardsmen and eight unknown men engaged in a pitched battle last night at the Ohio state fair grounds after two loiterers were surprised in the cavalry barn. Captain Simon Nash announced the incident.
Shipping Commissioner James N. Neil warns that German and Austro Hungarian subjects face possible arrest on ships bound for or passing through war zone waters. New rules restrict wireless operators and allow limited shipping of Germans to neutral or coastwise ports. A curios note reports giant whale jaw bones, 20 feet long, weighing over a thousand pounds, found at Vancouver Island’s Strait of Juan de Fuca with a larger specimen in Auckland, New Zealand.
Delegates from labor union locals across Washington will convene at the Labor temple Sunday at 10 a.m. The Washington State Federation of Labor calls the gathering to draft labor’s stance on the war. Delegates from nearly all regions of the state are expected. A free discussion will cover all war related labor issues.
City council and company officials clashed over a petition by 23rd Avenue North residents to route streetcars directly downtown. A. L. Kempster of the 8. E. company accused ex-chair Charles Reynolds of bias after a Public Service Commission reversal. Adair Rembert pressed proof, meetings stayed orderly, and the issue was referred to the public utilities committee with the Madrona petition laid over.
Mrs Frank Petruzzalli a dancing entertainer at the Dreamland Sixth ave and King sr was attacked last night by a man believed to be Peter Leagroia He slashed her cheek and nose with a razor Lea groia had pursued her after repeated marriage proposals while she sought a divorce Surgeons believe the tip of her nose can be grafted back if healed properly.
Washington April 21 America may centralize government for war times as overlapping duties cause friction among the agriculture department the federal trade commission and the National Council of Defense. Secretary Houston and Hoover clash hints at a food directorship while President Wilson urges economy and Coffin of the National Council of Defense warns against excessive economy. Talks mount on broader central control for the war effort.
Private C K Overton of Idaho National Guard was shot on duty at a railway bridge near Spokane. the assailant fled. Seventeen thousand dollars from the Eagles lodge will be invested in US war bonds. Rumor claims Capt C T Hardy and Lt Townsend and Lt Com Jones from ships in Seattle seek Pacific and English naval cooperation. university students vow patriotism. James Rosenberger travels as war unfolds. Royal cavalry officer Murtagh Holmes pushes Canadians to join. Chief Beckingham oversees aviation recruit eligibility. 45 of 138 qualified in the last month.
City finance committee heard arguments for a 20 percent wage increase for employees earning under 100 dollars a month. The proposal would add 316000 to payroll and requires an emergency ordinance and funds next year. Proponents cite high living costs and skilled exits. opponents warn of no current funds.
For the first time a foreign flag will be displayed over a public building in Washington. French and British flags will flank the American flag at the entrance to the state war and navy building while British and French war commissions are in the city. Flag staffs are being erected today.
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