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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
10
The FOX TROL 74 presents modern dances for juveniles and adults with daily instruction from 1L to 6 in Hip podrome. Maternity sessions and adaptable fables are noted along with references to Edna E P, CATT, bh eon etl in Washington.
The ad column markets Madam Lesslie Egyptian phrenologist and medium offering business, love, marriage guidance with promises of fast unions and happiness. Also promoted are the Egyptian clairvoyant and Mrs Nona clairvoyant reader, each claiming life readings, luck advice, and guaranteed results with fixed prices and locations in city hotels and rooms.
Advertisement for psychic readers promises life reading and advice to overcome obstacles and win love. Special readings 60 cents daily and Sunday. Location: Room 12 Abbott Hotel over On drug store 305% Pike. Also Raphael Famous Medium offers names and dates in love marriage and business at 200 Liberty Bidg 1464 Third Ave.
A dense page of ads touts Madam Angeline and other Egypt ian palmists offering readings by the hour or week. They promise love life guidance, business advice, and in some cases divorce insights. Locations include Hotel Durnside and 623 University, with prices from 50 cents to 1 dollar.
A fragmented listing shows lawyers and firms offering general practice probate mortgage collections patent services and consulting. Entries include Wille Billott Blinn Gorin and others with addresses on Lyon Street Central Avenue Main Street and 123 N Y Mook Mason Venwick and more. The page highlights free consultations and evening office hours amid a dense directory-like advertisement.
Tacoma reports a German spy aboard the British freighter Erlesburgh, bound from Tacoma to Havre via the Panama Canal with flour, believed to have caused an explosion awaiting passage through the canal. The crew included a German agent who joined before sailing. attempts to contact the captain by wireless failed.
Dutch steamer Soerakarta sails with 2,000,000 feet of Oregon fir for Balfour Guthrie & Co. of China. Followed soon by Japanese Kenkon Maru VIII with 41,000,000 feet for delivery in Shanehal. Lieut Demissiesy to launch from Skinner Eddy yards at 6 pm. Cedar lighthouse tender to Alaska for six months. Queen sails to San Francisco with 145 passengers.
Long list of stall numbers and items from Pine Street and Westlake markets. Items include coffee, oil, chocolate, tomatoes, butter, milk, peanut butter, sardines, peas, ketchup, tea, cleaning products, fish, flour, sugar, and produce with varying prices and weights.
Readable fragment lists various foods and prices from a market stall. Items include sliced pink salmon 40¢, whole salmon, pot roasts, short ribs, hamburger and sausage, pure lard, cottage cheese 10¢, potato salad, cabbage salad, ham loaf 40¢, pink beans 26¢, bulk cocoa, rice, ammonia 4¢, hot tea 2¢, beat milk 26¢, flour $2.40, farina 260.
Edwin T. Coman a Spokane businessman marries Mrs. 8. W. Mitchell of Columbia Missouri. Other news notes report two districts seeking more help for blackberry harvest, academic appointments for Dr. Lutz and Dr. Plum, a motorcycle crash injuring C Behrens, a 63 day jail escape, police riot details, medical volunteer pledges, a divorce suit by John H. Lawrence, a King County jurors picnic, Mrs. Jennie Knight's death, Sweeney teaching tank operation in Virginia, Red Cross fund drive, fish stocking at Lake Whatcom and Padden, Pope peace appeal affecting stocks, and a safe-cracking demo in court.
Premier Lloyd George told the House of Commons that Britain's current food situation is improved over many years with wheat stocks at 16,000,000 bushels above last year. The submarine campaign was cited as not derailing supply.
Linemen and electrical workers at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co plan wage and condition demands. IBEW vice president L. C. Grasser said the increase amount is undecided. Seattle union officials say coast locals meet in San Francisco to decide on a potential coastwise strike if no agreement. The company denies knowledge of the developments. An unrelated reader query about lawn crops follows.
Elizabeth Freeman of New York City addressed the Labor temple gathering as part of the People's Council of America conference. She urged refusal to send conscripts overseas, aligned terms of peace with Russia and Pope Benedict, and criticized Congress. The event, part of a national series ahead of a Minneapolis assembly, aimed to promote peace without annexations or indemnities. Dr. Sydney Strong chaired the Seattle council with sessions at the Arena.
Gerald Tomkins, an English teacher at Broadway High, was discharged by Canton school officials after an eight week examination over his stance on select service. He reportedly claimed he would not fight for the United States and sought exemption as a conscientious objector due to weak eyes. J. J. Sullivan announced Canton’s resistance to select service, and the vote to discharge was four to two. Anna Louise Strong, visiting elsewhere, protested, while Judge Richard Winsor opposed E Shorrock G A Spencer and Nathan Eckstein without stating reasons.
Sheriff Jack Stringer says he cannot run his office next year within the 1917 budget cap of 2 percent overage. He plans to request $115,000, though he warns that amount covers normal conditions only and would fall short in widespread disturbances. Deputy Brackett questions the law’s constitutionality but says only a test case can settle it.
Deputy sheriffs led by Chief Deputy Frank Brewer raided 14 houses at Cumberland and Kratn on Wednesday night and seized 550 gallons of raisin wine. Two hundred fifty gallons were kept as evidence and the rest destroyed. One owner, Charles Vaneshnik, attempted to dump 250 gallons by pulling bungs as officers arrived. No arrests were made.
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