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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1922
Page
3
Miss Anna Adams Gordon of Evanston elected head of the International W C T U at Philadelphia meeting. She pledges global educational work and continued efforts toward world-wide prohibition, praising cooperation of workers and supporters and stressing non use of tobacco products.
Dr W Stuart Leech of Roseau Minnesota argues humans have two bodies a physical self and a spiritual etheric body. While asleep the etheric body explores distant places and returns before waking, with the ego imprinting dream memories on the physical brain. He sees medical potential in this theory including therapeutic psychoanalysis and absent treatment, noting his 32 years practice and a 1909 patent for a gas detector device.
Two year old Anna May Evans stops a ball with accuracy at the Women’s Championship Bowling tournament in New York where her mother competes. The child is not speedy but shows precise aim in this candid photo.
The Buyers Guide Mining Letter Contest awarded prizes for clever entries. First prize went to George Lofquiet of Seattle. Other winners include L Fonda, Mae Reid, W J Smith, and several Seattle and Port Angeles entrants with varying cash prizes.
October arrivals reached 556 ships, the highest monthly total in seven years, with 626 departures. The San Francisco port shows unprecedented activity as both inbound and outbound cargoes fill the plaza, reflecting a peak in peace time traffic per marine department figures.
A Dec 1 London survey reports blue eyed marksmen outperform brown eyed shooters in accuracy and steadiness, highlighting a consistent eye color edge in marksmanship.
An ad lists Bartell Drug Stores offerings including Pazo Pile 60c size and Carter's Liver Pills. It features Formament Tablets 50c, Mayr's Stomach Remedy $1.25 size, Septol Emulsion Cod Liver Oil $1.00, St Jacobs Oil 60c, and Kondon's Catarrh Jelly at various prices.
A catalog-style list shows several pen brands including Waterman Conklin and Dune with model numbers and prices. Entries include S200 and S1.00 marks, price ranges from about 2.50 to 86.00, and mentions of RiverSharp and Duofolde lines.
Washington reports the department of labor details how the typical working man spends about 1460 dollars yearly across goods and services. The study tracks 12,096 families in 92 cities, listing expenditures on housing, church, education, sickness, liquor, life insurance, automobiles, taxes, tobacco, and more with concrete amounts. The figures differ when focusing on families actually purchasing specific items, such as undertaker services.
The 1918 18 nationwide survey reports average household spending with daily newspaper at 95.7 percent of total and soap and toilet preparations fully purchased. The figures provide the latest official word on consumer habits and expenditures.
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