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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1918
Page
4
Consumer ad claims that taking a tablet of Pape's Diapepsin ends indigestion pain. It asserts relief from gases acidity heartburn and dyspepsia and notes low cost at drug stores.
The ad promotes a store at Second and Union in the Old Times Building offering savings on outfits including suits coats dresses and hats during a reconstruction themed campaign. It frames self-made conditions and environment changes as a backdrop for shopping.
A San Antonio man credits Foley's Honey and Tar with rapid relief from flu and persistent coughs. He reports recovering from pneumonia and sleeping soundly after starting the remedy, and endorses it for all coughs colds and throat troubles.
Armory hosts a Tuesday Christmas party with sprites gnomes and fairies. Santa visits a Red Cross tree stocked with toys and candy for service members children. Tickets exceed 4 000 and require adult supervision for readers at University Street location.
Letters from Corporal Claude Swift of Seattle teased a homecoming as he recovered from wounds in France. He enlisted with the 161st infantry then joined the 128th as a private to see combat. Swift, 22, died from wounds received on September 6 in a French hospital, leaving a large Seattle family awaiting Christmas together. His father Ethelbert Swift and mother lived at 7724 12th Ave N W. he previously worked for a Buick agency and attended Ballard High School.
Charles St. Crane, former member of the Root mission to Russia in 1917, will arrive in Seattle from the Orient Tuesday morning on his way to Washington, D.C. He will address Seattle business men Tuesday noon in the Masonic club rooms. Crane is a leading American businessman with many connections in Russia.
The French government and the Foundation company of Seattle and New York will sign contracts for 174 steel ships. The order surpasses the Skinner & Eddy $100 million contract, bringing millions in revenue and thousands of jobs to Foundation yards in Tacoma Portland Vancouver BC and possibly Seattle. Work awaits formal U S government sanction to commence in the Puget Sound region.
Washington report states American aviators downed 845 enemy planes during the war with 491 confirmed and 354 unconfirmed. On armistice day 39 American squadrons operated on the West Front, while 71 Allied planes were shot down. Casualties totaled 442: 109 killed, 103 wounded, 200 missing, 27 prisoners, and three interned.
Washington reports national banks hold record resources of 19 21 404 000. The comptroller notes the figure surpasses November 1917’s 15 552 197 000. Five year growth far exceeds that of the prior quarter century, with aggregate resources rivaling those of major European and allied banks.
In Guerneville California Misel Lucile Armetorff a teacher was rescued Sunday nine hours after being pronounced drowned. A wave knocked her down and swept her out to sea and an aged man nicknamed Filipino Joe revived her after hours of work.
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