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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1919
Page
12
Dr. C. L. Miel former rector and War Loan head urged police judges to require minor offenders to buy W. S. S. and warn repeat offenders to carry it in court. Judge Fitzpatrick agreed to convene a meeting with the police judges to plan implementation.
Honolulu report notes profiteers raised fish prices 100 percent after the food administration relinquished control. Eben Low, supervisor, says native families suffer and Behoadl children are under nourished while parents often refuse charity due to pride.
Washington reports rising cost of living as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. November expenditures rose in most of 60 cities, with specific increases from one to three percent in several metros. Minneapolis led annual gains at 11 percent, while some prices fell in a few items.
San Francisco police commissioners consider creating a municipal death by own action room after hotel keepers urge a facility for suicides. Proposals include a fitted room with safe means and even writing materials to ease farewell notes while removing spectacle and crisis reports.
In remote Philippine islands bands of divine healers swindle natives. At one spot diseases were cured by bathing in a well and gifts were deposited for spirits. The constabulary has not overtaken the spirits.
An unaffecting quinine product notes no nervousness or head ringing and advertises Grove’s signature on the box. The label touts laxative effect and suitability for any user.
A dated home remedy explains a cough treatment using 2 1/2 ounces of Pinex in a pint of sugar syrup. It claims fast relief from severe coughs, throat tickle, and chest colds, touts Pinex as genuine Norway pine extract, warns against imitations, and advertises the Pinex Co. in Fort Wayne Indiana.
A Seattle optical shop advertises complete in house lens grinding on First Ave. Free examinations by a graduate optometrist. Glasses not prescribed unless necessary, claiming low prices and full lens manufacture in house.
In Chicago on December 23 Mildred Pratt 16 donated a pint of her blood to aid Policeman John Pratt Jr who lay critically wounded after an unidentified assailant shot him. The girl said her act honors her father’s courage and defense of the public.
London police surgeon outlines simple tests to decide drunkenness. A straight line walk heel and toe without swaying and picking up paper on one leg are used. The test mentions pronouncing words such as tonsillitis and artillery.
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