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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
12
A peat bog near London yields an ancient slipper believed to be a girl's. Allan Macone finds a roughly pound weight artifact that resembles a Chaplin style trilby in its shape.
Submarine chasers need 52 more recruits to fill crews enrolled at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in the naval reserve. Lieut. F. W. Becker of the U S N R F oversees the recruiting office located at the New Richmond hotel.
The article touts Lily Leitzel born in Prague Bohemia weighing under 100 pounds who can perform 40 consecutive one handed spins on a rope. It notes she is part of Milo Laurel's act and that Ringling Brothers Circus arrives next Thursday and Friday with Cinderella a large spectacle and a 1000 cast.
A Canadian engineer, Art R. Biggar of Edmonton, writes from the French front about building railroads under shell fire. He details overseas transfer dates, constant danger, near misses, and a wish to live and marry in Seattle while noting wartime camaraderie and morale.
Tokyo August report states Professor Kenzo Futaki of the imperial government research laboratory has identified the special cause of typhus fever, a breakthrough long sought by medical researchers worldwide.
From Aug 17 dispatches Henry Wood reports St. Quentin cathedral reduced to a smoking ruin after German destruction. Fires raged through the town and convent, with roofs collapsing and looted furniture scattered as smoke rose over nearby villages.
Make a cheap beauty lotion at home by mixing two lemon juices with three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint of freckle and tan lotion. Apply daily to face neck arms and hands to reduce freckles blemishes and achieve clearer softer white skin. harmless.
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