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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
3
J M Towney left a Tokyo post to enlist in the United States Army. He traveled through Seattle two weeks ago and has been commissioned in the aviation corps, showing strong patriotic service across oceans and continents.
Police motorcycle units were dispatched seven times Thursday to pursue men who rattled windows knocked on panes and unlocked doors in scattered Seattle areas. No injuries reported and no suspects described.
The Star previews its next novel starting Monday, centered on the disappearance of the Allison pearls and a featured figure known as the Queen of Diamonds. The excerpt teases intrigue, with royal-like mystique surrounding the vanished gems and a forthcoming chase element.
In Chicago on August 10 Mrs. Mary Palamy, overwhelmed by poverty, placed all six of her children with adoptive families after advertising for foster homes. By noon each child found a new home, with more interested families arriving. The eldest, John, initially fled his new home seeking poverty but was persuaded to stay.
Lincoln Steffens, back from Russia, argues the U S must back democracy by solving its own economic problems first. He says Russian workers and women spurred the revolution, cites Rasputin and the czarist regime’s corruption, and notes secret treaties, milin and Kerensky’s stance, and the need for a broad public opinion to support democratic war aims.
Mrs. Margaret Faith Robison Haggin, heiress and former wife of painter Ben Ali Haggin, married a New York magistrate identified as Judge Corrigan. It is his second marriage after his first wife’s 1916 death, and Haggin was chief heir of the late James Haggin, a copper magnate.
A carpenters strike at four army cantonments was settled during a conference in New York. Rear Admiral F Harris chief of yards and docks John Moffitt from the department of labor and Henry Steers contractor of Pelham Bay Park marine cantonment led the talks and a wider walkout was averted.
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