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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1917
Page
9
An American invention claims to locate hidden German cannons by sound waves. The device detects the location of unseen cannon fire on the front lines, potentially changing artillery tactics.
Sibelle Arends, 23, a Dutch sailor aboard the Boeree, reports severe hunger in Germany with women fainting in towns, mothers starving children, and widespread despair. He notes German smuggling through Holland and cruelty in exploiting dead soldiers’ clothing for oil and fat. Arends traveled Amsterdam to Halifax, then Norfolk, Bremerton, where he deserted to work as a Seattle baker.
King County Democratic club members and friends depart from Second Ave and Cherry St on special cars at 1 p m Saturday to Woodland Park for their annual picnic. Gov Lister and family will attend the flag raising ceremony. Aviator Billy Parker will drop prize envelopes from the air. Frank Jacobs films the crowd for Star Liberty weekly. Ball games and races accompany basket lunches.
A husky messenger boy announced he sought trouble but had come for J F Trouble of Alaska at the Frye hotel Thursday night. After much amusement, the purpose was revealed as a misdirected errand rather than a real disturbance.
Upper Harold Lockwood stars in The Secret Spring coming to Mission while Enid Bennett appears in Seeking Happiness at the Strand. Daily program notes list JINERTY Hupert Julien Raby Lafayette and others in varied features.
Hollywood notes recount Frank Darey son of Charles Darey training in San Francisco and a Villa guard past. William Fox’s stars Williams Russell Joe King in a sea chase on The Sea Master. Tom Mix owns horses in Durand of the Bad Lands. June Caprice recalls whip scenes. Bessie Love in Wee Lady Betty at Coliseum. Virginia Pearson writes Superstition to star in Fox production.
A wartime primer on the duties of a dining room orderly in a national army camp. It details supervising cleanliness, handling bread and utensils, waste management, serving, mopping, table upkeep, and the consequences of mistakes, emphasizing discipline and careful conduct.
In Petrograd on July 16 a bank clerk jumped into a fire to recover a dossier marked Kerensky amid mobs burning police records. He warned bystanders and held the crowd as detectives and provocateurs urged the conflagration, sparing the Black Hundred file from destruction.
A dossier of several hundred pages was presented to Kerensky proving the secret police had shadowed him for six months. In Indianapolis a second lieutenant drilled his men, who failed to clear a six foot fence until the officer urged them to follow his orders rather than his commands.
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