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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
2
An ad touts a home treatment expected to relieve Neuritis Neuralgia sciatica and related pains without drugs. The method claims to cure chronic conditions and offers a free trial at no cost from Mutha Co Room 764 Arte Bidg Buffalo NY, urging immediate contact.
The city council finished the Grand Theatre fire inquiry on Wednesday but will defer recommendations pending talks between probe committee members Hanna and Erickson. Witnesses included Eugene Levy operator of the Grand James Stephen Chas R Aldrich and Israel Nelson. Levy said he protested Building Superintendent Ober over moves at the Grand, Ober who was later removed by Mayor Cotterill. An insurer had previously refused liability coverage for the Grand.
A naval commission report calls for immediate development of Pacific coast naval facilities. It proposes $2,500,000 each for Puget Sound and Mare Island yards and $1,500,000 for the San Francisco bay site, selecting from Hunter's Point Alameda Goat Island or Richmond Albany.
A court ordered forfeiture led to the destruction of 100 barrels of whisky and 50 barrels of beer valued at 75000 dollars. The liquor flowed from a Fifth Avenue gutter into a manhole near the public safety building as city officials supervised the wrecking. Onlookers gathered to witness the removal, while the Scandinavian American Bank expanded its space in the Alaska building.
George Holmes and John Moran, two Alaska miners who lost their sight in the mines of the North, will open the largest broam factory in Seattle at 3405 Rainier Ave.
Navy offices in the American Bank building stay open late to recruit, with Lieut. Commander Kail ordering intensified efforts. About 20,000 vacancies exist, and recruitment will continue nationwide. In case of war with Germany, the fleet would be mobilized to combat submarine warfare. Also, Seattle sportsmen plan to press Olympia lawmakers to shorten county game commissioners' terms and separate fish and game agencies.
A notice promises two thousand free packages of Gauss Combined Treatment for catarrh sent by parcel post. It claims to cure at the root and provide permanent relief, inviting readers to fill out a coupon to receive a sample package.
Jail Superintendent Sheilberg stopped a planned jail break after receiving an anonymous telephone tip days earlier. A bar in the receiving tank was found sawed almost through and tools were recovered. Deputies questioned inmates as officials investigate possible ringleaders of the proposed escape.
The Society for Better Film Miime presents a two hour program at the Moore theatre Saturday for children. The first show starts at 11 o'clock followed by a second at 1 o'clock and a 6 o'clock showing. The films shown are Patchwork Girl of Oz and a new dramatization of Snow White.
Dr. E S Barnes a Seattle dentist will present a free stereopticon lecture on Teeth Friday night at John B Allen school under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association of the school.
A Cincinnati man touts Freezone as a quick safe method to remove corns. Apply a few drops on the corn, it dries fast and shrivels the corn without irritation. Lifted out by fingers, the root and all should come away with little pain.
An old advertisement promotes Adler-i-ka as a simple remedy to prevent and relieve appendicitis and constipation. It claims bark and glycerine mix clears foul matter from the bowels with a single spoonful, marketed by Swift's Pharmacies on Second Avenue Pike and 235 N Broad Street.
A speaker questions political leaders and the concept of cooperation. He demands plain, concrete definitions of cooperation beyond wartime slogans, asking if it ends wage slavery, shifts wealth production to public ownership, and secures workers and women in a cooperative commonwealth with secure rights and full social value of toil. He urges clarity for the exploited class.
The text argues that cooperation ends the surplus value wall built by profits and ownership. It contrasts the passive profiteer with the worker, mother, and child looking from want. Cooperation would empower workers and abolish what it calls modern slavery in production and markets.
A call for universal military service and a strong navy. The speaker advocates a graduated income tax on incomes over 1000 a year to fund eight million manpower units with four 250000 divisions and a large navy. The plan includes yearlong service for one division, half‑day weekly drills for the rest, and pay, arguing protection for global elites and the need to end exploitation through economic federation.
Washington dispatch from Gilson Gardner argues that in a U S war with Germany the United States would stay defensive, aid allies by supplying munitions and food, convoy ships, and mobilize credit rather than deploying troops. He cites navy and army officials who favor limited involvement and notes Japan as a model ally. The piece emphasizes financing the war effort through bonds or taxes to support France and Britain.
Sixty newly married couples arrived aboard the Hawaii Maru of Osaka Shosen Kaisha in Victoria British Columbia. The wedding party heads to San Francisco via Seattle. The group is part of an 80 Japanese delegation that toured their former homes last summer. twenty failed to bring wives to their American homes.
Seattle grocers crowded the Press Club to oppose a proposed publicly owned market and cold storage plant. The Retail Grocers' association passed resolutions against further bonded indebtedness and called the $600,000 bond issue an invasion of private business. They schedule another meeting Friday to organize a campaign against the bond.
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