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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1919
Page
9
In a nostalgic slice of wartime life, a narrator describes spring’s arrival with returning loved ones and festive outfits while war work uniforms rest in the attic. A sergeant is due back, Buddy returns home hungry, and plans for dates and outings bloom as civilians look toward peace and a brighter season.
A fragmentary discussion contrasts tax ideas led by Senator Edwin ees from Spokane and Senator Rockwell the tax commissioner. It notes opposition to taxing intangible incomes mortgages and stocks and hints at constitutional moves and public misgivings amid a broader tax fairness debate.
A critical look at a proposed anti rent profiteering bill urges lawmakers to balance fair profits with preventing abusive rents in Seattle and other cities. The editorial warns against autocratic tendencies and calls for justice, liberty, equality, and honest postwar policy in addressing widespread suffering.
The piece argues Bolshevism betrays workers and peasants, with elections described as rigged and Soviet power as a terror regime. It claims democratic will is suppressed, Bolsheviks act as usurpers, and Germany benefits from Bolshevik propaganda. Continued tomorrow.
Nicholas Auxentieff, exiled Russian leader and socialist advocate, recounts years under the czar, leadership of the republic’s council, and organizing resistance against Bolshevik rule. He describes escaping arrest, front-line travels, and attempts to unite allied aid with the Russian resistance before a Siberian imprisonment and banishment.
Nicholas Avxentieff portrays Kerensky as sincere yet lacking personal force amid a historic Bolshevik surge. He argues the government could not counter Bolshevik propaganda rooted in egoism, forcing actions like continuing war while Bolsheviks urged retreat, land seizures, and factory takeovers. The piece analyzes the clash of ideals and the inability to mobilize public conscience.
A narrator recalls shaving facial hair and forging a passport to slip through Bolshevik lines surrounding Moscow. The journey spanned from July 1 to mid August reaching Chelyabinsk on the Russia Siberia border.
The piece riffs on water shortages and rising costs as it riffs through imagined scenes of perfumed tonics and stage barbs. It contrasts thirsty crowds with inflated stakes in sports in a satirical, late 19th to early 20th century voice.
In Charleston West Virginia on February 24 Senator A E Scherr of Hanawha county backed a resolution to place in department archives a quart rye a quart bourbon and a quart bottle of Beotch to guard and preserve as evidence of past times. The measure passed the Senate and was concurred in by the House of Delegates.
J. G. Woodworth of Chicago traffic assistant of government railroads and M. J. Gormley assistant regional director inspect Northwest roads and say the car shortage experienced during the war period has been entirely eliminated.
The $6,000,000 reconstruction fund campaign of Northern Baptist lay men is advancing in Washington. Upcoming conferences include Cashmere February 28 Spokane March 2 and 3 Pullman or Colfax March 3 and 4 Clarkston March 6 and 6 Walla Walla March 10 and Yakima March 10.
Richard Spillane argues unemployment across industrial centers will rise before improving. He cites 263000 jobless in twelve percent of centers, notes shortages in Philadelphia and San Francisco, and discusses shifts from war to peace production and the need to mobilize labor from abroad and within America.
An old advertisement argues that external liniments fail for rheumatism and promotes S S S blood remedy as permanent relief. It claims rheumatism is a blood disorder and asserts the tonic cleanses the blood and reaches the cause. It offers free medical advice and a book from Swift & Co in Atlanta, Georgia.
Seven of twenty one Guam cable lines are operable per officers aboard the cable ship Restorer under Capt Basil C Coombe. The vessel sails to Guam to repair the broken network and restore communications.
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