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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
2
The Turn to the Right company plays the Metropolitan through Friday night with Lewla Onororvited as Moses an Orthodox Jewish tailor from Russia formerly a baker. Manager George A. Kingebury calls him a great character who speaks little English and relies on kosher food as the troupe finds Orthodox Jewish families to assist him.
A wartime menu guide shows breakfasts, lunches, and dinners designed to conserve fats and meats while delivering warmth and energy. Recipes feature substitutes like vegetables, nuts, olive oil, dried fruits, honey, syrups, and maple products, with meatless New Year options and suggested beverages.
In Wouisa Virginia on December 28 a local dispute over a church aid fund is before the court. Springs alleges rheumatic paralysis and accuses Mrs Springs of seizing his knitting yarn and using up his savings. Springs heads the Women Aid Society and claims church support.
In Hunter Alabama on December 24 Willie Redfern, a boy contortionist, slid into a bayou after applying angleworms oil for flexibility. An alligator grabbed him but the oil allegedly loosened him enough that he wriggled free unharmed from the creature’s jaws.
A factory uses vegetable ivory for billiard balls. Some scientists think the deposit is petrified wood of a vanished tree, while Quinn suggests the strata are solidified acults of a tribe of Indians who perished through shifting sands.
In Picayune Louisiana LeBlair Hampton devised a dyeing method to color cotton plants after saturating seeds with dye. His dyed fields displayed flaming red and blue patches this fall, contrasting white boll formations, and the color resisted rain and did not fade further.
A narrator recounts Pat and Alice as estranged by Chad’s tragedy and Mollie and Chad. Pat’s devotion to Chad reveals where old joy has faded while lingering love for Alice surfaces. Pat recalls fostering Chad and their unlikely friendship that shaped both men’s lives.
An 19th century style ad promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier, Peptiron, Nuxiron, and celery nerve tonics, plus Hood’s Pills as a laxative. It urges readers to use all three for comprehensive relief or choose the single medicine if preferred, and to act promptly.
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