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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1916
Page
5
A dental office urges readers to fix teeth for better health and digestion. It touts modern equipment and graduates, promises lower prices due to high volume, and invites families to visit for immediate, long term savings on dental care.
A column uses colorful slang to describe a bumpy route to success with repeated ups and downs. The writer employs rural vernacular to tease persistence and luck in navigating life’s climbs.
San Francisco August 11. Mayor Rolph urges a joint five member labor employers board with Arch bishop Hanna and four clergymen to arbitrate all city industrial disputes. The plan aims to quickly ease friction and prevent strikes and boycotts. Building Trades Council endorses. others silent. Police panel rejects picketing misdemeanor ordinance.
Beattie housewives and club women joined a Friday protest against flour increases launched by the National Housewives League in New York. Fisher Bros. and local mills raised Seattle flour prices 40 cents on August 4 and another 40 cents on August 9. Seattle suffrage and Mothers Congress members urge investigation of grain and milling conditions to halt the rise.
The National Association of Master Bakers petitions Congress to impose a wheat embargo to prevent bread prices from rising beyond the average consumer. Vice Chairman Hurley of the Federal Trade Commission travels to Chicago with authority to investigate the proposed price increase, announced at FTC offices.
The Seattle area paper highlights Dr Charles C Tiffin as a notable coroner candidate, noting his background from Colorado mines, farm work, and a career as a salesman and physician. It lauds his energy, brisk campaigning, and aim to boost public service and prestige. The piece positions his bid as the marquee political story in the district.
Chicago August 11 wheat prices remained firm at market open with September wheat near 1.44 1/2 dollars a bushel after a brief dip, then rising above the initial level within moments.
Cleveland attorney Bradley Hull of the humane society claims blue-eyed men are largely unfaithful, citing figures that 75 percent of husbands who abandoned families in seven years were blue-eyed, arguing the eye color correlates with infidelity.
The steam trawler Easthampton landed 400000 pounds of fish off Sambro bank near Halifax, N S. Aug 11 port officials confirm this is the largest single catch ever landed at a port in this country, achieved in under two weeks.
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