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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1917
Page
10
A list of various food items with prices and brands appears, including sugar, milk, flour, spices, meats, produce, cheeses, butter, and canned goods. Numerous entries mention nationwide brands and local staples with prices per unit, per can, or per case, implying a bustling market catalog or storefront display.
A long, fragmentary OCR of a market ledger lists varied items with prices including pure lard, sugar cured bacon, canned tomatoes, beans, cocoa, oats, laundry soap, toilet paper, corn flakes, Jello, potatoes, onions, apples, cranberries, butter, margarine, fish, bread, honey, coffee, canned goods, and more. Numerous stalls show item names followed by price marks such as 10¢, 20¢, 46¢, and $2.64, with references to stalls and brand names like Quaker oats and Del Monte.
Fosdick committee on training and activities leader John W. McCourt left Seattle for Tacoma to press impeachment and discuss the city’s quarantine and reform efforts. He criticized lacking cooperation among sheriff, mayor, corporation counsel, police chief, and federal authorities while noting police arrests reportedly rising and isolation measures beginning to take hold in Seattle.
The Cologne Gazette declares that Ukrainian soldiers have left the front for their homes due to armistice proposals between Germany and Russia. The report comes from Amsterdam with the German wire service United Press.
United Press reports a sharp drop in German enrollment in California high schools. Figures by Will C. Wood show about 1,500 fewer pupils studying German this year versus last year as of December 3 in Sacramento.
United Press reports two balloons are roaming Kansas causing wire damage. One balloon tore out Salina wires near Colby at noon. another disrupted lines between Grinnell and Oakley after 1 p.m. as it moved southwest.
King county issued 23 776 automobile licenses for 1917 as a result of money and the car craze. County Auditor Wardall collected 134 126 75 in fees to be turned over to the state for highway improvements. Dewey Patterson 19 and two others faced trial Monday before Superior Judge Ronald's department for attacking a 17 year old girl on the Rothell road November 6.
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