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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
3
Readers flood a paper with extreme proposals to punish Kaiser Bill after WWI era capture. Suggestions range from cage and execution to forced tours, internment, or even bizarre punishments, reflecting wide anger and calls for deterrence.
The letter criticizes Elaine Blaine’s story for its portrayal of a woman dressing in a frenzied, hurried manner. It argues the heroine’s beauty routine is overlong, revealing a broader attack on wartime propaganda and the imagined burdens on soldiers awaiting their wives at the cinema.
Christmas greens and trees are being commandeered by the American Y M C A for a peace celebration across centers in France. Hundreds of American girls and soldiers are invited to a large party at the Hotel Petrograd in Paris, the major Y M C A hostess house.
Fine quality pink or blue silk pajamas trimmed with heavy pes silk frogs priced at 10.00. Heavy messaline silk pajamas in blue white or tan trimmed with white silk 5.50. Fine soft soisette pajamas in white blue and tan 3.50. Fraser-Paterson Co First Floor.
A miscellaneous listing shows hare sets in collar and muff brown and taupe coney sets and white Thibet sets. The page also references natural muskrat seta white Iceland fox set rabbit fur and opossum with various price figures and a total of 232.50 for a third floor area.
Fine quality pure linen napkins in hemstitched linen with dainty corner embroidery. Sixteen inch size. Christmas special Friday at $6.50 per napkin. A dozen $4.95. Fraser-Paterson Co Second Floor.
Bridgeport in Connecticut reports the sale of the Bridgeport Sunday Post the Bridgeport Telegram and the Bridgeport Venting Post for 1 200 000 dollars to Edward Flicker former Cincinnati Enquirer publisher and Ros well Whiteman Commercial publisher.
An advertisement touts Poslam as rapid relief for itching skin and inflammatory conditions including eczema, rashes, pimples, acne, and scalp-scale. It advises nightly application to affected surfaces and morning checks for improvement, noting quick healing energy and nationwide availability.
Soft plaid blankets 70x80 inches in warm colors offered at deep Friday discounts. Regular stock priced at 20.00 per pair, special sale 16.50, with fine all wool Indian pattern blankets also featured for couch and bed coverings. Paterson Co. Second Floor.
San Francisco reports the East Side bank of Portland theft by Arthur C. Davis may total $50,000. Police say $43,235 has been recovered from deposits at local banks. Detectives expect at least $2,000 more soon. Davis cites a $35,000 figure for the stolen amount.
Chicago Dec. 19 Four associates of former schools chief Ella Flagg Young share a $50 000 estate. Laura T Brayton her companion for 20 years receives two fifths. The Chicago Board of Education will receive a share at the beneficiaries death.
Francis Silk O'Loughlin, a big league umpire, is seriously ill in Boston with pneumonia after influenza. He has served with the ULS department of justice since the season ended and has been stationed there for months. The Green Lake Gun club plans a Christmas turkey shoot at the club grounds Sunday.
In Sacramento on December 19 the prosecution read seized IWW literature to the jury. Poems and propaganda, published after America's entry in the war, were presented from IWW printing houses. Defendants laughed loudly at times, prompting the U S marshal to call for silence.
Advertises Pape's Cold Compound with instructions to take every two hours for three doses to relieve grippe symptoms. Claims it quickly opens nasal passages, stops discharge, eases headache fever throat and sneezing, and costs only a few cents at any drug store. Do not substitute.
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