Get Out Your Shovel and Help Seattle Tourists
Seattle citizens nominate three men to pressure railroads for a rate compromise that would end a tourist blockade. They urge residents who use the O R & N to contact J L Brass and demand an explanation to prevent higher round trips via Southern routes.
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Seattle
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Joshua Greeny Perry Polson
A. C. Mitchell
Northern Lines
Chicago
San Francisco
Southern
J. L. Brass
Road
O W
Birth registration and the 1915 census effort in the United States
The article argues for nationwide birth statistics tracing to the 1915 census birth registration area including ten states and D C. It notes returns for 1915 will be available around January 1 1917 and links birth records to military estimates and child labor laws, stressing individual benefits of registration.
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United States
District of Columbia
Preparedness call urges national kitchen economy
The piece argues the United States must become more economical and conserve resources starting at the farm. It highlights the role of the Bureau of Chemistry in reducing spoilage, improving preservation, preventing adulteration, and cutting waste in kitchens, noting housewives hold the key to large savings.
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United States
United States Bureau of Chemistry
Germany
England
German scientists extract potash from air, argues columnist
A German writer claims scientists have tapped air for nitrate of potash essential to gunpowder. The piece notes nitrogen from air via electrical methods, cites prewar nitrate production, and argues government electricity policy could enable cheap nitrates as a fertilizer.
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Herbert Quick
Advice on cooking lessons and romance letters from readers
A reader asks if a novice should learn to cook before marriage. another asks how to win back a returning lover with proper boundaries. A column responds urging lessons in domestic basics and advises restraint, while a long letter from Minnie B. Frazier argues for birth control science and women’s rights, praising Mrs. Sanger and Abigail Scott Duniway.
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Miss Grey
Mrs. Sanger
Europe
Thinking Club
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as the surest quickest relief for colds and grippe. It claims instant action, a safe taste, and low cost of 26 cents, with instructions to take a dose every two hours up to three doses to end misery and stop nose and throat symptoms.
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Pape
Inception of a Bayonet Charge Described by Lieutenant
Robt Minor presents a restrained look at bayonet charges from the trenches. He cites a French lieutenant describing a grim scene with mud and cold waiting, then bombs, dodges, and a dispatched order. The piece emphasizes correspondents lack of firsthand sight.
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Robt
Robert Minor
the Star
Leutenant
Miss Jones the socialist foe of smoking in restaurants
Charlotte F. Jones, the sole woman candidate for council, denounces smoking in restaurants and cigarets. She cites ancestry to Lord Burleigh and Sir Walter Raleigh, proclaims bold independence, vows to do ten times more for women and workers, and asserts she was born January 3, 1879, as a Linden Hall graduate and practicing attorney. A separate wartime paragraph details officers urging men to escape enemy trenches under fire.
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Lord Burleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh
Raleigh
Queen Bessie
Burleigh
Nicotine
Council
Charlotte F. Jones
Marjorie Cecil
Miss Jones
Anta
Willam Plumstead
Pennsylvania
Mise Jones
Linden Hall
Litiz
U. of W
Outdoor Sleeping Turns Fad Into Home Essential
The open air sleeping trend, once a tuberculosis era remedy, has grown into a common practice. Pioneers faced doubt, but now a hundred sleepers exist where one did a decade ago. A sleeping porch and proper warm garb are seen as standard home features enabling healthy rest outdoors.
Iron Nuxated Iron Promises Great Strength Gains
An article by Dr Saver extols Nuxated Iron as a safe iron supplement to boost strength and endurance. It urges two five grain tablets three times daily for two weeks and claims marked improvements in fatigue, digestion, and athletic performance, with money-back guarantees and citywide availability at Bartell Drug Co and Swift's Pharmacy.
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New York
N. Y
Dr. Saver
Noth
Dr. Sauer
Bartell Drug Co
Swift's Pharmacy
Deliverymen Plea for Cleared Parking Strips
August Oleson, owner of Ballard dairy, urges residents to clear parking strips and walks so delivery wagons can access streets. He says butchers, dairy men, and grocers support withholding deliveries if obstructions persist.
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August Oleson
Ballard Dairy
Ballard
Oleson
Family of lawyers shapes notable Seattle arrival
Miss Jones arrived in Seattle in 1909 as a delegate to the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, drawn by the city and choosing to remain. Her kin include Elbert F. Jones, first district attorney of San Francisco, and relatives of Chief Justice Salmon F. Chase.
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San Francisco
Elbert F. Jones
Salmon F. Chase
John F. Penrose
Philadelphia
U.S
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Whitman College
Miss Jones
Seattle
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Flashing Q and A From Kay Kolum Column Flash
The noisy panel mimics a gossip session with names like Miss Flossie Flim Flam and Julian Beek. It features mock Q A exchanges about film gimmicks and odd on set anecdotes including actors using garlic and goose grease in hair.
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Miss Flossie
Julian Beek
Pyramid Pile Treatment Trial Prompts Reader Response
A promotional notice invites readers to try Pyramid Pile Treatment with a mail coupon and a 50 cent box from any druggist. It claims the trial will feel like meeting a good old friend and urges immediate participation.
Pyramid Drug Company Free Sample Request in Marshall
A reader from Marshall Michigan asks Pyramid Drug Company at 636 Pyramid Building for a free sample of Pyramid Pile Treatment in a plain wrapper. The note requests postal delivery and shows a consumer offer style typical of mail order requests.
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Pyramid Drug Company
Marshall, Mich
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Hag
Dicebox
Chickenfoot
Anaene
Foike
Kautty Kolum
Harold Oatcake
DELIA
Jay Hyde
Schmaltz
Vincent Bruise
IL Rene Iadine
Cage
Emma—Archibald Hick
Bella
Percy Stanton
Filibert
Bleitz-Rafferty Undertaking and Cremation CO
Kilbourne
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