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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1919
Page
7
A reader explains preferring to leave a baby with her husband, praising their partnership and arguing a wife should put her husband first. The column also answers readers on why husbands hide business talk and who should initiate conversations with potential suitors.
A Portland Oregon widow, Mrs. Patrie, widow of a former Idaho secretary of state, credits Tanlac with restoring her health and weight after years of fatigue and insomnia. She says the medicine transformed her nerves and sleep, and she now urges others to try Tanlac through Bartell stores.
Private funeral services for Geo. Claude Bannick five year old son of Police Inspector Claude G. Bannick and Mrs. Cherry Bannick will be held at 2 p m Wednesday from Collins Bros chapel with burial at Calvary. Capt Bannick his wife and eldest son are ill with influenza.
A narrator recalls surrendering to a lover then escaping from an asylum with Tommy. They smuggle her out hidden in a truck load of crates and boxes, riding to safety as guards and police loom. She adopts new cover and orders, promising more to come in a continuation.
In Americus Georgia on February 26 a stash of coins and a bundle of yellow-back twenty dollar bills totaling four thousand dollars was found in the trunk of William J. Tinsley who died of tuberculosis. His brother and heir Jack Tinsley discovered the money.
Mrs. M. D. Gillespie of Kansas City shares a simple home mixture to darken gray hair and add shine. Mix half a pint of water with one ounce bay rum a small box of Barbo Compound and four and one half ounces glycerine. Apply twice weekly until the desired shade is reached. The remedy is not a dye and should not color the scalp.
An advertisement claims ordinary liquid argon can dissolve and destroy dandruff overnight with four ounces applied at night. It promises complete removal after several applications, stops itching, and leaves hair fluffy and glossy. It promotes squidarvon as the product.
The Liberty Legion plans a Thursday conference at the Soldiers and Sailors club with 26 Seattle business leaders to raise moral and financial support for discharged service men. The group aims to provide employment, assist families, seek soldiers' legislation, and expand across the state. Seattle membership totals 4,003 with state figures at 1,?00.
Winnipeg reports a British mystery ship may arrive on the Great Lakes in spring, visiting American and Canadian ports. The craft, built with a 20 foot draft, resembles a slow tramp but carries guns to sink submarines and could navigate the St Lawrence Canal.
Washington report notes the new revenue bill signed by President Wilson makes the capital dry except foreign legations. A Senate pause on a Panama Canal zone dry bill moved to the house, with the zone currently dry by presidential proclamation.
Reports opposing the proposed bond issues for Spokane and Montlake bridges and an additional municipal hospital totaling 2,150,000 to be voted upon March 4 were submitted to the board of trustees by the bureau of taxation of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club Wednesday afternoon.
A Paris Excelsior report claims the Germans surrendered to avert a planned Allied strike on November 12, 1918. It says 690,000 troops under Gen. de Castelnau prepared to attack through Lorraine, with 3,900 cannons and 300 tanks in position along a 70 kilometer front, threatening German soil.
Editorial letter from Olympia Washington urging voters to support Senator Lamping's bill granting soldiers ten dollars a month for service in the recent war. It calls for swift passage and warns against delaying the measure in committee, arguing merit should trump politics and soldiers deserve ready cash upon discharge.
King county senators include L Hiloward PD Taylor 36th district O Hara 11th district Danial Landon 32nd district William Wray 33rd district T D Rockwell 24th district Frank HM Roenick 6th district Fred W Hastings 36th district Geo B Lamping 37th district. Representatives named James T Jones Walter J Lunn Alfred Sc Miller Byran Thomas 41st district Georg N Hodgson IL Bohike 42nd district Pliny Alien Ga Myers 43rd district W W C and Frank Manoguea 44th district Co O Qualheim Robert G 46th district Stephen A Hull Frank Cotterill 46th district W M Pease IE J Gule 4ith district.
An ad promotes 8 8 8, a blood purifying remedy claiming catarrh is an infection of the blood. It argues external treatments fail and urges trial of Swift’s 8 8 8 with free medical advice from the company adviser, Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
The German command faced encirclement plans by allies aiming at Metz then Lorraine and Thuringian Prussia. Estimates put Duke of Württemberg’s force at 160,000 men with under 1,000 guns as German staff anticipated the strategic moves. Theodore Roberts, noted actor, will soon star in Puddinhead Wilson.
An 60 year old medical claim cites Pelouz discovering a organic phosphate later called Bitro-Phosphate. Paris investigator Dr Albert Robin endorses its use for neurasthe nia fatigue insomnia and aging symptoms. Tablets are sold for meals with cautions on weight gain and flesh growth.
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