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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1917
Page
8
A large display highlights Columbia yarns as the finest made in America with wide color assortments. Fraser-Paterson Co offers all supplies for knitting and complete instruction on various knitting projects on the second floor.
The Vallier Company announces that all shipments of Vallier French Gloves have arrived and assures complete assortments. New autumn shades in several qualities priced at $2.50 $2.75 and 3.00. Laser-Paterson Co First Floor.
A mother writes to her son about uncertainty over his body and the soul’s fate. She reflects on pain, peace, and faith, affirming that even if the body fades, the soul will progress toward an eternal good guided by God. She concludes that a useful soul has use for a body and the body is only a brief span.
The ad advertises Rialto hosiery in stock at discount prices. Rialto No. 162 Children's Black Lisle Stockings cost 3 for 1.15 or 40 cents per pair. Rialto No. 165 Boys' Heavy-weight Black Cotton Stockings 2 pairs for 1.16 or 40 cents per pair. Rialto No. 161 Children's Ribbed Stockings 2 for 1.00 or 35 cents per pair. Rialto No. 80 Children's Medium-weight Black Cotton Stockings 25 cents per pair. First Floor.
Advertises a 32 piece dinner set priced at 2.95 featuring six dinner plates six bread and butter plates six fruit saucers six cups and six saucers one platter one open vegetable dish. Describes high grade American semi porcelain on white shape. Third Fleer.
Betty Wales Dresses blend charm and simplicity with superior material and workmanship. Left design features plaid serge gores with plaid belt, white messaline collar, gunmetal trim, priced at 22.50. Right design shows gray and gold embroidery, cord loop fastenings, white messaline collar, also 22.50. Second Floor.
A Los Angeles inventor Robert Morton presents an eight foot eight hundred pound wireless submarine. In a demonstration the sub moves forward backward submerges surfaces fires a torpedo and a gun. Morton claims one operator on shore can control several units at low cost and envisions fleets. Paris note reports Guynemer's machine gun with a repeating camera capturing each shot.
The state department has informed American bankers that the U S government will endorse loans to Mexico. Carranza plans to borrow about 250 million dollars and supervise creditor expenditure.
Director L. Wood of the federal employment bureau reports that a labor shortage in Eastern Washington was averted after establishing branch bureaus across the state’s wheat belt. He returned from a lengthy tour noting the spread of bureaus mitigated shortages.
A small assortment of made-up rugs from carpet remnants is offered at low prices. Various Wilton and Brussels rugs in assorted sizes and colors range from 18 to 30 dollars, with ten Axminster floral rugs available slightly imperfect. Second Floor.
Frisco to buy city car lines as negotiations for the United Railroads lines move forward. The public utilities committee asked Lilienthal of the traction company to discuss the city proposal, aiming to settle the strike after a day of disorder and a peaceful tenth day. Car service remains crippled as talks begin.
In Boston on August 21 thousands of veterans from the G A R led a large parade as part of the national reunion. Allied groups followed, including the Navy Medal of Honor league which attends its annual convention with the G A R encampment.
Federal authorities in Butte Montana investigate a charge that one baby was used by seven men to prove dependents to dodge the draft. A woman alleged to have posed as wife of two men also draws federal scrutiny. arrests are expected soon.
War impacts Washington sightseeing as treasury White House state war and navy offices close to the public, reducing the capital’s visitor program and diminishing the usual tour traffic.
An advertisement lists Growing Girls and Infants shoes in patent leather, calf leather, and cloth uppers. Prices range from $1.50 to $6.50 with sizes from infant 2 to youth 7 and widths AAA to C. Sales copy notes classic lasts, hand welted soles, and military heels.
The narrator notes a young bride at breakfast who laments her lonely journey with dry humor, describing her dreams of marriage as fragile and her mood as alternating between anger and hurt. They ride the Santa Fe across a vast desert, a haunting landscape of deathly beauty without vegetation.
United Press dispatch from Chicago notes pork chops may rise to 90 cents a pound with ham and bacon higher as meat prices climb. Robert Miller, head of the Chicago Retail Grocers Association, cites Hoover's meat report and urges federal regulation to shift corn to cattle feeding to curb shortages and price spikes.
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