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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1918
Page
5
Washington reports a $50,000,000 appropriation to create worker housing at wartime munitions sites. Otto M. Pidlita outlines permanent, sanitary houses with recreation, churches, schools and stores in new labor cities funded by a revolving fund. Communities raise 20 percent, government covers 80 percent. workers may buy their homes.
A men and million conference to enlist workers and dollars for missionary work is in progress in Portland with Christian ministers from across Oregon hearing plans outlined by 11 national board secretaries and presidents of Christian colleges. A similar conference is planned in Seattle tomorrow, with the nationwide fund drive starting April 1.
A Seattle industrial bureau tour visits Richards Prush Co and A G Electric and Manufacturing Co. A Calvary M E church recital features Miss Edna Holt and siblings. The Seattle Bar Association holds its first monthly dinner at the Masonic Club. Funeral services for Daniel W. Bugs, a longtime resident, are set. An Amoy earthquake injures many and topples 100 houses. Funeral for Mrs Millie W Guernsey. widow Mrs. Guernsey passes. El Democrata in Mexico City suspends due to paper shortages. Funeral for Mrs Alice Shillington Wilshire held. heart trouble cited. William Stanley's will filed. estate to eight children.
Indianapolis, Feb 19 Will Hays chairman of the Republican national committee invites all former chairmen to a meeting at the Union League club in New York next Monday night with a conference on Tuesday. Attending are George B Cortelyou Frank Hitchcock Charles D Hillen Win R Willcox Harry S New and Victor Rosewater among others.
Water service interrupted from 7 to 4 Tuesday on W Spokane street from 26th Avenue to Alki Avenue and on Alki Avenue from W Spokane Street to two blocks north.
The three hello girls at Seattle police headquarters juggle calls from burglaries to lost pets and neighborhood quarrels. They inform officers, settle minor disputes, and help avert cases from police court. Neal, Mumbria, and Sullivan staff the center. Sullivan is newly wed.
Dr A N Davia of Piqua Ohio the Kaisers personal dentist says Germany relies on its army after submarine warfare fails Peace is the aim but the people will press on He notes food not serious in Germany and that America is not fully in the war Davia left Germany January 12 on a Kaisers permit This is his third trip to the U S since the war began He says Germans do not blame Americans and that only about 30000 American troops are in France
Ordinary Heitro phosphate promises double strength for weak nerves in two weeks. It claims to replace tonics with a simple tablet taken after meals. A two week supply is available from first-class druggists with a money back guarantee.
An old style advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a safe calomel substitute for liver and bowel action. It claims olive color improves skin and eyes, boosts buoyancy, cures constipation, with no dangerous after effects. Sold in 10c and 25c boxes by druggists.
Washington February 19 W A Appleton of the Puntia labor commission says America needs a national production committee to preempt labor emergencies like the carpenters strike in shipyards. He notes England moved earlier with a system that prompts settlements before strikes, urging U S adoption.
A deadlock over a new working agreement between Alaska salmon fishermen and canners has been sent to the U S Food Administration. Fishermen insist on higher pay and at least one cannery vows to turn plants over to the government rather than concede. Under the old schedule the average seasonal earnings were about 398 dollars.
In Medford Oregon on February 19 Judge F M Calkins ruled that a man past 60 is not inclined to “way and giddy” and granted a divorce to F W Gray despite his wife's charges that he was flirtatious. The decision states there is no such thing as a “giddy old man” stereotype and mothers need not warn daughters.
A mass meeting is set for Friday at 3 p.m. in the Hippodrome to hear Prof. George V. Lomonossoff, famed orator of Blavdom, discuss the real Russia situation and its future. The event, promoted by President RR Procter and union officers, invites all workers and promises a large turnout with an interpreter for his Russian remarks.
Seattle plans a citywide war garden program with the street department funding $500. Owners may request services via the county welfare bureau at Main 5900 and residents lacking land can receive help through the same bureau.
Arthur Frank of the Puyallup experiment station will present a garden lecture titled F Enemies of the Garden and How to Conquer Them at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the YMCA.
County Auditor Wardall reports about 73 percent of auto and motorcycle owners in the county have not filed applications for the 1918 levies. The notice warns taxpayers to comply and avoid penalties.
Funeral services for Mary Felix Phillips, long-time resident of Washington since 1876, will be held at Bleitz Rafferty parlors Thursday at 2 p m. Interment will follow at Washell cemetery.
The note invites more information about the plan to ensure familiarity. It asks for additional context if the recipient is not already aware, aiming to align understanding and proceed with informed discussion.
A paid advertisement by J D Blackwell argues for higher wages and skilled pay, cites 1505 as the annual living cost for a comfortable wage earner, and urges public ownership of utilities to benefit the people. It frames democracy as equal opportunity and condemns high living costs driven by millionaires while supporting small businesses and labor.
Hillsboro Illinois February 19. Cut ford Donaldson 21 is dead and Emory chief of police and Ernest Flath wounded after a search of the Donaldson house for a man alleged to be an I W W member.
The University of Washington will defend the affirmative on China’s protest of the Lansing Ishii agreement against Whitman College in a Thursday evening debate in Meany Hall.
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