Washington Shipbuilding Surge Reaches Puget Sound
The article notes Seattle as a rising shipbuilding hub after completing the first steel vessel in the United States to be built by the Emergency Fleet Corporation and launching the first wooden vessel for the Shipping Board on Saturday. It highlights government plans to triple output and attract 20,000 more workers from the East and Midwest, praising Seattle and Aberdeen for rapid growth.
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Seattle
United States
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Shipping Board
Puget Sound
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Middle West
Aberdeen
Eve and the first dress rehearsal in leaf fashion
A social writer muses on Eve’s fig leaf garment evolving into modest dress. The piece speculates Eve’s original modesty outfit grew into a skirt and ultimately an apron, suggesting women today mirror that simplification while avoiding dressmakers.
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Eve
Food politics and wartime shortages stir public view
A critical call urges swift action by food authorities to prevent hunger as food rots in rail yards and storage. The piece notes the risk to the national plan for food conservation and mentions meatless days and Hooverism. It also touches on wartime tension, prices, and public sentiment about rationing and coal access.
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Food Administration
Thrift Stamp Sale Opens As War Savings Plan Starts
Washington launches a vast war financing program offering four percent compound interest. Families with small savings can buy 25 cent thrift stamps, paste them on a certificate, and grow their money to maturity in 1923 with a guaranteed return, while certificates stay registered to their owner.
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Mary Jones
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Post Office Department
Mary Ban
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Ageat
John Jones
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Marge Jones
War Savings
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Peachy Opens Local War Savings Headquarters in Lyon Building
Peachy vice president of Seattle National Bank and state war savings assistant director opened the local headquarters on the Lyon building's second floor. The war savings committee led by Daniel Kelleher aims to boost government loans by 31 million dollars, with Gov. Ernest Lister as chairman and a state committee including Julius Lang and others assisting.
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Lyon Building
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Beatrice National Bank
Thetate
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Julius C. Lang
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W. A. Peters
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BR. L Proctor
Alexa Fr. McEwan
Joseph A. Swalwell
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Big Money Boy Promises Windy Deals and Laughable Schemes
The column mocks a so called big money scheme, ridicules a traveling con artist selling empty promises, and lampoons a Jester style pitch. It notes distractions from real news and parodies a flood of far fetched financial tips. The piece also references a mix of jokes about a pool room, a secret mediation committee, and odd anecdotes about stingy men and unlikely bets.
Labor unity at AFL convention signals new era
The AFL delegates vote 21 679 to 402 affirm pro American solidarity and war readiness. They override German influence, pledge government representation, oppose injunctions, and seek unified policies with farmers while recognizing the president and promising a square deal during wartime.
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Wilson
White House
Gompers
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United States
Letters to Cynthia Grey on love and perpetual motion
A reader asks about a self running device that fails due to increasing speed. In a long letter sequence, a married woman seeks guidance after a broken engagement and a former lover reappears. another reader asks if a two year old unused marriage license is valid.
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Mian Grey
Mies Grey
Milk poisoning scare ends with arrest in Cleveland
Mrs Ellif Bass faced arrest after confessing she poisoned a milk bottle left on her porch by a milkman in Cleveland. She hoped to deter milk robbers by making them sick. Three boys drank the milk. one, John Pearke, aged eight, died, while the others were saved by emetics given by their mothers.
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Cleveland
John Pearke
Mra Bass
Origin and meaning of Hun term in wartime talk
Miss Grey explains the origin of the word Hun as a contraction of Hungariana while the Kaiser frames Germans as ruthless descendants of Hun rulers. The dialogue notes that awaiting a loved one in service is permissible with no disloyalty, and cautions against seeking serious attention from others.
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Miss Grey
Kaiser Haa
Europe
Hard Luck Victim Fractures Wing
Topeka local story tells of a man disabled by an accident that cost both legs and led to tuberculosis. He remains bedbound with a tubercular shoulder and recently suffered a broken right arm after a fall from bed.
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Topeka
Dec
France
Cold Night Sends Police Runners Amid Frigid Streets
Officers struggled to stay warm as a cold snap hit the city and they had to sprint to stay warm. The scene described includes officers moving quickly through icy conditions to reach locations.
100000 Firemen to Ask More Pay
Wage demands from more than 100 000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen may be added to those presented to railroads Saturday by the brotherhoods of railway trainmen and conductors. Chairman of the firemen are to meet in Chicago Dec 15 to discuss the advisability of asking increased pay.
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Ralroada
Chicago
Hood's Sarsaparilla Heralds Blood Purifier Standard
The Old Reliable Blood Builder retains supremacy as a trusted tonic and purifier. Advertised as a family favorite for three generations, Hood's Sarsaparilla is described as purifying blood, expelling humors, aiding appetite, and relieving fatigue. Originating from a Boston physician's prescription, it combines roots herbs barks and berries.
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Hood
Boston
Amazing Power of Bon-Opto To Strengthen Eyes
A 1920s style home remedy ad claims Bon-Opto tablets improve eye strength and reduce the need for glasses. It features testimonials of restored vision, reduced eye strain, and easier reading, with instructions to dissolve a tablet in water and bathe the eyes. A physician endorses the remedy as safe for general use, noting a 60 percent improvement in some cases with money-back guarantee.
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Lewta
Enid
Impeachment Call Sparks Seattle City Debate
A letter urges Mayor Gill to address the impeachment issue and present a plan to clean Seattle. It condemns liquor and gambling networks, calls for enforcing laws equally, and asks for public disclosure of motives while supporting a mass meeting to back soldiers and a decisive police crackdown. The author insists the mayor can act to remove corrupt officials and curb bootlegging.
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Navy
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Gill
Seattle
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Police
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