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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1920
Page
3
In Maine, growers push for protection against Canadian imports as potatoes sell at two dollars a bushel locally while some buyers pay up to eight dollars. The Aroostook region faces concerns that tariffs would help stabilize prices and reduce cheap foreign competition.
An advertisement touts Marmola tablets as a safe method to reduce weight and improve health. It claims the product removes fat with a dose recommended by thousands, available from druggists or by mail from Marmolia Co in Detroit.
Acting Gov. Louis F. Hart refuses to call a special legislative session to ratify the woman suffrage amendment, saying lawmakers would waste state funds. Mrs. Josephine Preston criticizes Hart, urging ratification and noting the high cost and Washington’s leadership role.
Insurance Commissioner Fishback, State Treasurer Sherman and others say opinions depend on the governor. Land Commissioner Savidge and Attorney General Thompson defer to policy and the governor. Secretary of State Mowell would back a special session if ratifying suffrage alone cost no millions, otherwise oppose.
A small package of Hamburg tea from pharmacies is advertised as the most effective cold remedy. A tablespoon of the tea steeped in boiling water and strained is consumed as a tea cupful to open pores relieve congestion loosen bowels and break a cold. The product is marketed as inexpensive and entirely vegetable and harmless.
Aurelia H. Reinhardt president of Milix College Oakland California travels to Washington with a crowd of over 20 000 California women to urge Congress to immediately ratify the peace treaty and the covenant of the League of Nations.
President Wilson accepted the resignation of Henry P. Fletcher as ambassador to Mexico. The move had been known several weeks earlier and was reported from the White House сегодняш.
M. B. Hannum sues Tacoma tugboat owner L. G. Wallace for 60000 alleging alienation of affections with Mrs. Charlotte Hannum. He claims Wallace pursued her with costly parties, rides, meetings and gifts after their 1919 meeting. the couple married in 1916 in Sioux City and still live apart.
Ralph Hays, recently named assistant to Secretary Baker, will travel to France at week’s end to supervise preparations for the repatriation of American soldiers buried outside the army zone in France, the War Department announced.
A dispatch reports the U S destroyer Fred Tablet standing by at Odessa after Bolshevik capture. It notes more than 200 sick and 150 refugees boarded the American merchantman Navahoe, as a butterfly farm begins in France to supply scientists with insects.
Four cars of the Great Northern Oriental Limited derailed a mile west of Laclede Idaho on February 11. A defective rail caused the wreck. Cooks Mary Baron of Minneapolis and Alba G Fuller of St Paul were seriously scalded when the diner toppled over the bank.
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