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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1918
Page
5
An advertisement invites readers to visit Right Drug Co at 169 Washington St and 1111 First Ave for a free examination and prescription. It promises careful service, good treatment, and money savings for those who are ill.
The U S Government has purchased thousands of Stearns Electric Paste packages for rat and mice extermination. The product is sold in small boxes at stores for a few cents and is effective against roaches and waterbugs in homes, stores, and barns.
Bishop EF Johnson of the Methodist Episcopal church travels from Seattle toward Yokohama on a world evangelism tour. He will proceed to Hongkong Singapore and then Africa directing missions in Portuguese East Africa Belgium Congo Portuguese West Africa Rhodesia and Angola. An open reception is planned in the church parlors at an evening hour Thursday.
Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt is expected to arrive at Camp Lewis from New York today and will succeed Colonel B. E. Jones as camp commander. Maj. C. D. Houghton of Camp Sherman will serve as camp adjutant under the new regime.
The Coliseum features Douglas Fairbanks in fast paced desert stunts aboard a moving car while Illy Parsons and his son clash in a comic finale. Also advertised are James Warren Kerrigan in The Time of Card and Hearts of the World at the Orpheum, with Path Storey in The Demon at the Mission and Mary MacLane in Men Who Have Made Love to Me at the Colonial.
Picnic plans announce attendees must bring sugar. Coffee and cream provided by the committee. Marines will drill, Congressman John F. Miller will speak, and sports events planned at Woodland Park this Saturday.
Fifty suffragists tried to demonstrate against delay in the Susan B Anthony amendment near the White House. Police arrested them late Tuesday in Washington as the Senate delay controversy flared.
Charles Wills, Seattle hardware man, named chairman of the Seattle and King County committee to handle the Fourth Liberty Loan drive.
War emergency welfare conference at Olympia August 28 29 will tackle equal pay for equal work for women and minors. It will set minimum wage scales and establish standards for hours meals seating and sanitary conditions. A list of occupations to exclude women will be drawn up and weight lifting by women examined. Representatives include George G Black Seattle garment manufacturers James McCormack Tacoma department stores Miss Jean Stovel Seattle department store clerk and theatre ushers office clerks and waitresses as delegates.
The King County Legislative Federation of Women met at the Frye hotel on Monday and passed resolutions endorsing Dr. W. T. Christenson for health commissioner and condemning modern motion picture plays now showing in the city.
Gen. Botha arrives in Johannesburg from London and issues a message to natives warning of an incipient revolt and stating the government will suppress it. He urges vigilance against enemy agents and calls for calm and loyalty.
Margaret Ford aged 17 of 310 Dexter Ave plunged from the observation platform above Snoqualmie Falls to rocks 300 feet below. Her husband Clarence Ford is in the national army at Camp Lewis after being drafted. The couple married eight months ago.
The ad promotes S. S. S. as a blood remedy for rheumatism, claiming temporary external treatments fail and promising permanent relief by cleansing the blood. It invites readers to write to the Medical Department of Swift Specific Co. for a free book and expert advice.
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