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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
4
A new outbreak of infantile paralysis alerts the county board of health. The latest cases show more severe symptoms, with Alverna Caughreau admitted to detention hospital and two others under observation.
A 1916 critique notes the rise of military toys in Christmas shops and questions if fathers who approve war play set the stage for lifelong militarism in American youth. It warns of shaping citizens and future history-makers through depictions of war at home.
Professor Ben W. Johnson argues children pass through growth stages and can benefit from early exposure to imagined war but warns against encouraging destructive games. He promotes Christmas toys that reflect peace implements while acknowledging some value in battle play for experience.
A celebrated dancer stars in a brilliant satire on politics and frivolities of the era. The piece bursts with humor and whimsy, its lighthearted scenes and sparkling dialogue set to a lilting rhythm that invites laughter and dancing.
Reader asks if oyster patties fit as a mid course and for a recipe. Advice: they may appear after soup in a full course, before the final course, or before the roast if a fourth course is omitted. Recipe provided with puff paste, oysters, seasonings, cream, and oyster liquor.
A collage of cinema notes from Filmicon lists several features and stars. Clara Williams headlines The Criminal at Liberty tonight with Edith Storey in An Enemy to the King at Clemmer. Ramona draws crowds at Coliseum, with Edith Storey and E H Sothern in top roles. The Mission Theater hosts The Reward of Patience starring Louise Huff and Lottie Pickford, with Ruth Stonehouse in Kinkaid Gambler at Colonial. Rex presents A Price for Folly, a Paris‑set photodrama.
Detailed plans to concentrate county and city prisoners in the city jail or county stockade will be set at conferences starting with the first held Tuesday. City representatives are Councilmen Bolton Fitzgerald and Moore. Negotiations faltered when County Commissioner Lafe Hamilton insisted the city pay board for prisoners loaned to the county farm and buy garden produce they raised.
Washington reports the United States government has asked the Austrian government for details about the torpedoing of the American cruiser Chemung by an Austrian submarine. The inquiry seeks facts, potentially shaping diplomatic and military responses.
Six members of the Harlem-Bronx Live Poultry association were indicted in New York on December 6 for alleged poultry trade irregularities. The case targets organizational conduct and market practices within the local poultry trade.
The grand jury today charged several men with violating the Donnelly anti trust statute. The district attorney accuses them of fixing poultry prices.
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