Labor Shifts Aid War Effort At City YWCA Session
More than 700 skilled workers are employed in local shipyards to ease wartime labor strains, with expectations to rise by next week. The War Facts Conference, organized by the King County Council of Patriotic Service, met at the YWCA with about 60 women attending. A regular study schedule includes afternoon discussion sessions.
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Lawrence Federal
Wood
Council of Patriotic Service of
King County
Seasion
Yy. W. Co. A
Circus Parade Three Miles Long in Seattle
Barnum and Bailey Circus opens in Seattle next Monday with a three mile parade featuring over 100 animal cages floats tableau wagons and allegorical cars. More than 1 260 participants and 700 horses plus 41 elephants march through the city with 20 nations represented in the procession and a Monday Tuesday performance lineup.
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Barnum and Bailey Circuit
Seattle
Dena
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Circus of All Nations
Faked Poison Prevents Hun Killing Self
Special to The Star from London reports a German liner, weary of war, tried suicide with prussic acid but found the drug was ersatz substitute material. After surviving a rope attempt that broke, he celebrated by eating a lavish dinner and died. The tale, labeled ersatz material, illustrates wartime shortages.
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London
Germany
Paris
Great Old Remedy for Skin Diseases
An ad-promotional notice touts S.S.S. eight three eight as a vegetable blood tonic to purify blood and cure eruptions, scrofula, mesema, and other skin diseases. It claims relief from external symptoms, urges taking the remedy, and offers medical guidance from its Atlanta address.
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S&s
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
New Potatoes Elate as Old Crop is Replaced
The United States food administrator cites a good crop of new potatoes with ample supply for the season. Prices on the new crop replace old potato quotas, with dealers and consumers facing updated pricing for multiple staples including corn flour, flour varieties, cereals, beans, and fish products across retailers.
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United States
Metatiors
Bae
RY Flour Metaliers
SLES
Milo Man
Comnstarch
Japan
Netaliers
California
Lima
Idaho
Washington
Metallors
Ste
Jb. Rutadagas
Netatlers
Canmots
Dow
Puget Sound
Alaska
Fiat
Haliaut
Officers Promoted by Wilsons Order
Washington August 23 President Wilson has nominated 11 brigadier generals for major generals William H Johnson Beaumont Br Buck William Wiegel Robert L Howze Robert Alexander John L Hines Grote Hutcheson Walter H Gordon Eli A Helmick William Lassiter and William McNair Forty four colonels were nominated for brigadiers Brig Gen Merrite W Ireland was nominated assistant surgeon general and Brig Gen Jease Mel Carter chief of militia was nominated for major general
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Washington
Wilson
William H. Johnson
Beaumont BR. Buck
William Wiegel
Robert L. Howze
Robert Alexander
John L. Hines
Grote Hutcheson
Walter H. Gordon
Eli A. Helmick
William Lassiter
William 8. McNair
Merrite W. Ireland
Jease Mel. Carter
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