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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
11
The Star outlines postwar Britain moving to a government led home-building program to shelter soldiers. Local authorities will build affordable, airy cottages with gardens, guaranteed against rent profiteering, while the empire covers most costs and price readjustments. It also muses on punishment for the Kaiser with unlikely relocation options.
Paris reports a novel method to protect windows during German bombardment. Wide strips of paper pasted over glass let light through and reduce cracking, though this offers no protection against direct shell or air bomb hits.
Downtown beauty shop operator Helen Goodrich recounts a bizarre incident involving her hen and a nest of eyes that the bird allegedly stared at for 73 days. She says she finally discarded the eyes and the hen seems calmer.
Edis on A Holt of Stockton, son of the Caterpillar tractor inventor, enrolled in the new American tank corps as recruiting opened in San Francisco. He is 20 years old and will be sent to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for training.
Alpha Ajela a Hoboken wholesale grocer died in New York on August 3. His funeral was delayed as no regular coffin could hold his 400 pound frame. Carpenters built a six foot three inch oak casket twice the usual width, eight pallbearers assisted, four horses pulled the hearse, and a double grave was dug at Holy Name cemetery.
A British Dominion Woman's Suffrage union meeting heard a speaker claim more than 1,000,000 married people have separated due to war marriages. The Aug. 2 report notes the speaker highlighted marital strain linked to wartime separations and related social shifts.
President Wilson presses for the suffrage amendment in a letter to Senator Baird of New Jersey and previously to Senator Shields, arguing democracy at home and abroad depends on passing the constitutional vote. He urges Baird to vote in favor and to use influence for the reform.
Fifty sharks were caught off the Varallone islands and shipped to a glue factory in San Francisco today. Fishermen say catches have fallen this week and no one trawler turned in a cargo of glue material. Special to The Star by N. SP. A.Amsterdam. The Imperial Bank of Germany advertises urging the public to surrender gold and jewels to replenish its gold reserve.
In Everett on August 2, attorneys cite J I Lyon former banker as alleged to have disposed of 21000 dollars of property to evade a jury verdict. The suit involves 17 defendants including Citizens Bank and Trust Co Irving National Bank and National Bank and Trust Co. The trial before Judge A J Strawley continues after a six day presentation of evidence.
In Los Angeles police say fingerprints from the Westlake Home Bank vault door may match prints on file. Photographs of two men under suspicion were mailed to California points as investigators seek the robbers who took about 5000 dollars yesterday.
Washington August 2 The torpedoed Argonaut sank after 40 minutes under fire. Chief POs Mate Zelmer Barley and crew are commended by the navy department for staying at their guns and for individual acts of heroism in rescuing drowning sailors.
In hard times Tom finds relief by approaching a slot machine and discovering you can still buy something for a penny, according to the New York Tribune.
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