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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
11
An ad touts Freezone as a painless corn treatment. It claims immediate relief and easy removal of hard and soft corns and toe corn, with a cheap price and a Cincinnati invention.
A New Yorker Edward J Woods offers a free mailed book claiming to banish tobacco habit quickly and with delightful benefit. Benefits listed include calmness sleep clear eyes appetite digestion vigor memory and reduced morbid desire.
News describes planned American and Allied air attacks on German industrial cities including Mannheim Frankfurt and Conflans. Dispatches note rising German antiaircraft buildup and the aim to cripple munitions output while delivering a psychological blow to Germany.
Chicago July 21 Mrs. Thomas W Allison mother of Brent Dow Allison was arrested by federal officers for participating in a Woman's Peace party meeting held three weeks earlier. She was released on promise not to attend further meetings. Brent Don Allison is serving 20 years for draft evasion.
Clarence L. Gore of 823 KE Sid et withdraws his candidacy for state representative in the 42nd district, becoming the first candidate to do so. The county auditor’s office announces withdrawals will be accepted until ballots are ready for printing.
William Bennett of Redmond Washington recounts his wife’s eighteen year battle with rheumatism. After failing with doctors and treatments she found relief with Tanlac, reporting regained mobility appetite sleep and strength. The ad notes Tanlac is sold in Seattle at Bartell Drug Stores.
Local theaters run a mix of war themed and romance films. The Strand features Pershing's Crusaders with scenes of cantonments and soldiers training. Other screens showcase At the Mercy of Men with Alice Brady, The Balkan Princess flashbacks, To Hell With the Kaiser, Till Come Back to You with Albert of Belgium, and The Pursuit of Polly plus assorted acts and newsreels highlighting WWI figures and events.
A Clemmer showing this week features Making Steel in Seattle documenting the Pacific Coast Steel Co plant at Youngstown. The film explains shipyard steel production and the factory’s vast skeleton structures as 1,400 workers are depicted in operation before the strike.
John L. Golden a Skinner and Eddy shipyard worker wounded J W Whitman by firing a revolver at First Ave and Cedar. Whitman fled but was not seriously hurt and police search continues. Mrs Golden reported Whitman forced entry at 1408 Terry Ave Friday night and attempted her life. Golden is jailed pending further investigation.
Ray A Perrin shot himself in his room at the OK Hotel 212 Railroad Ave after leaving a note saying he was tired of living. He was born March 2 1886 in Grand Rapids Michigan. Body moved to the public morgue.
Mrs. M. J. Atkinson is rushed to Dr Lowe's office after a trolley car ran away on Taylor avenue hill. Witnesses say doors opened and fallen passengers lay on the pavement for half a block. Several injured with bruises and cuts. the car reportedly refused brakes and had been condemned the previous evening.
An advertisement promotes DeMiracle the original sanitary Heald claiming surface shaving fails and true hair removal requires attacking under the skin. It touts a money back guarantee, price up to 66c, and mail order from 120th Street and Park Avenue, New York, with plain wrappers.
An old advertisement advises using plain melted coconut oil as a shampoo instead of commercial soaps. It claims alkali in soaps harms the scalp and hair, while coconut oil cleanses, rinses easily, leaves hair soft and shiny, and costs little.
The welfare committee sets headquarters in rooms 06 and 407 of the Collins building at Second and James. Ed Levi serves as chairman and Hilman F. Jones as secretary for a campaign supporting all candidates endorsed by the Central Labor Council and State Federation of Labor before the primaries.
Gaines, brother of W K Gaines deputy city comptroller, is the first man from the old second Washington regiment to be returned home after wounds. He is at Ella Island under treatment and expects transfer to a Western convalescing hospital soon, per a letter dated August 21.
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