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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1918
Page
6
All Seattle boys aged 15 to 20 will be called to serve in the Junior National Guard next week. The group formed at a meeting at Central school Sev enth ave and Madison st. and aims to enroll every city boy in the age range. The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday.
An overheated stove started a fire at the Fairview Apartments 224 Fairview Ave Sunday. The blaze damaged part of the roof and other areas with about 1000 dollars in building loss and 200 dollars in contents.
A report by physical director Clare W. Sexsmith for President Suzzallo shows the average freshman is 19 years old, 67.21 inches tall and weighs 139.93 pounds.
A storm warning was ordered displayed at 7 40 a m Monday in all Washington seaports and at the mouth of the Columbia River. The storm center near Vancouver Island moves eastward bringing fresh southerly to southwesterly gales Monday afternoon and night.
An exhortation on physical fitness and health, stressing blood purity as defense against disease. Promotes Swift Specific Co. blood purifier as a fifty year old remedy and offers a free booklet from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Moore theatre showcases 20 girls in Vanity Fair of 1918 plus acts like Drop Us a Line and Adam Killjoy. Other features include The Cycling Brunettes, Officer 666, and a variety of skits, aerials, singing and dancing numbers. The Orpheum adds six vaudeville acts, a Fatty Arbuckle film and a William S. Hart thriller with performers Kelania Perer Ernest Light Miller Fields and Brown among the lineup.
The article advises readers starting a war garden to study seeds and gardening with seed catalogs and library books, involve children, and plan a family garden. It suggests growing small vegetables in limited spaces and using vacant lots when possible, plus a preview of planning steps for later lessons.
Mrs Ernest Berer of Watertown New York says she suffered severe female weakness before pregnancy. She used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and recovered enough to deliver a healthy baby with the doctor noting no better outcome. The ad urges others to try the root and herb remedy and offers a written suggestion service.
In the last week of the mayoralty campaign Ole Hanson and Bradford spoke nightly across the city. Hanson secured endorsements from three opponents in the primary and Bradford faced questions from Dr EB Brown. Hanson leads in betting odds as Bradford addressed a Dreamland rink crowd.
Ole Hanson the mayoral candidate urged rapid development of the Skagit river power site to provide work for men displaced by war industries. He called for more dry docks, cited a Tacoma yard, and said Spokane should build local capacity to keep work from going to neighboring cities. He advocated employment, factories, and support for government efforts, opposing treason. Other speakers included John F. Murphy and state Senator Dan Landon.
Editor Ault and Bradford campaigners dispute a phone call claim about Gill’s indorsement. Bradford and Gill foes doubt the rumor, while Ault defends his report and rejects being made a scapegoat in the debate.
Tacoma February 25 A Benson president of the Benson Hotel Co Seattle announces a $2,000,000 hotel to be built at Greene park near Camp Lewis. The four unit structure will open the first section July 1 1918 and will include two dining rooms with 2000 person capacity and 2400 sleeping rooms. Reservations have begun even before the foundation is laid, mainly by officers desiring family proximity.
Under First Lieut. J. V. Rown, the reclamation department of the quartermaster corps collects junk from barracks. Old shoes leggings steel cartridge cases hair clipped from horses and other materials are sorted for shipment to factories to be reused. The department is a new War Department creation patterned after the English army salvage unit.
Ernest Schmitt of Brownsville faced a Port Orchard justice of the peace on Monday charged with defaming the flag by calling the emblem a dirty rag.
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