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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1918
Page
4
Tampton Aubuchon outlines the Louisville Industrial Foundation annual report highlighting 6,000 feet of film and 20 new industries in the city. The Clemmer shows A Grain of Dust, while Charlie Chaplin in Shoulder Arms and other features play at Rex, Colony, Liberty, and Strand with notable clips of Wilson in France and Bond drives.
An exhortation on power of thinking to create personal conditions and success, urging disciplined mindset and firm belief in an uplifting approach to choices, linking mental attitude to better offers on suits and dresses from a shop.
A fragment list of 1920s era films and figures. Mentions Mack Sen nett comedy Liberty Weekly Hearst News Weekly Lillian Walker The Rainbow Trail and Shoulder Arms with Chaptin. Notes Honest Thieves drama and an animated Short by HMoolican. Includes Wallace Heid Too Many Millienme and a fleet pictorial of Wilson's arrival alongside Crown Jewels indicated by Andersen and Dennett.
A soldiers and sailors placement bureau opened at United States employment service headquarters 110 Cherry Street to aid demobilized service members. The bureau, organized by the soldiers and sailors employment committee in the City County Building, directs veterans to employment and urges employers to offer available positions.
Salem Oregon December 1 The last day of life for the State Council of Defense is noted by Governor Withycombe. The Oregon State Council of Defense has shown high efficiency and citizens are urged to grateful for its wartime work. Funds were exhausted, prompting disbandment earlier than in most states, while local defense councils are asked to continue as voluntary groups supporting reconstruction efforts.
Raleigh C. Frink, a youthful shell shocked war veteran, wandered the streets in a blank mind for 48 hours and was found by his friend James Fraser in the Broadway district. He is living at his parents' Adrian Court Apartments and will be taken to Camp Lewis base hospital for expert medical care. The veteran suffered gun and shell shock injuries that affected his mind.
An editorial note discusses whether London or New York leads global finance after World War I. It notes American banks, especially in the West, expanding abroad while warning that Britain's five banks and Germany's three dominate Europe. The piece cites deposits, branch limits, and the need for trained personnel to build a worldwide banking system.
Four elephants escaped from a vaudeville show and roamed Winnipeg streets on Monday, injuring a man when one trampling hit his leg and knocked a hospital switchboard. Citizens fled in panic as the animals charged buildings and pursued by guards until recaptured.
An explosion of a large gas tank in the Lebanon New Jersey post office basement wrecked the building. Twelve people are reported killed and many more outside were badly injured.
Judge J. T. Ronald spoke on The Divorce Question before the Municipal league luncheon in the Masonic club Arcade building Tuesday noon. John B. Pinella, Seattle Y M C A worker, recently returned from Europe, shared his overseas experiences.
Mrs. Lillian Busch wife of the late St. Louis brewer arrived in Pasadena after nearly four years away. She had traveled to Germany and back and expressed fatigue but happiness at reaching her home.
The narrative notes she aided a wartime hospital for wounded soldiers and faced government obstructions delaying her return to the United States before her American citizenship was finally established.
More than 500 Americans and Filipinos gathered at the YMCA to mark the 29th anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal's death, honoring the national hero of the Philippines.
James Kelepatses of 118 Third Ave L Hughes of Marion est Israel Volstad of 167 John St were robbed Monday night. thieves took three watches. Joe Viviani of Company A 44th Infantry was robbed of $230 after being befriended by strangers during a joyride.
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