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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1918
Page
7
A wartime appeal asks readers at home to buy thrift stamps to support soldiers in France. The message emphasizes the danger and sacrifice of trench warfare, urging a quarter or dollar donation to aid the war effort.
Judge Neterer warned that treasonable conduct and sedition cannot be tolerated as the United States faces wartime needs. He urged loyalty, stressing that attacks on Uncle Sam and his efforts harm soldiers and civilians alike. The judge urged Seattle residents to reject sedition and support national unity and wartime aid.
A 40 ton coal shipment given to J Pierpont Morgan is handed to Anton G H Hodenpyl the fuel administrator for distribution to the needy. The piece uses satire to mock the idea of one man controlling aid showing social policy in peace as a critique of war profiteers and power.
The piece compares famous rulers who fooled the world to Bolo Pasha facing execution for treason. It argues great figures often mislead only to fall, notes the futility of deceit, and ends with a flippant nod to current events about indemnities and food prices.
Local column blends poems humor and notices about Berger boys sound company addresses and a wartime morale theme. Mentions soldiers Lysie Hose Hal Arity and Whiile Glagies with Camp Kearney duties and jokes about dental and gas mask imagery.
A satirical fragment notes a Chicago bishop surviving on six bits of sugar and flour, a Philadelphia tailor ad seeking an errant boy, Ben Ardy postcards on A J Burgard, Spokane, and Washington County Game Wardens treasurer. It hints sugar abundance and a political alibi for James.
Advertising copy touts St Jacobs Liniment as immediate relief for rheumatism pain and related ailments. It claims the product can be applied directly to tender spots for instant comfort and promotes it as harmless, skin friendly, and effective for neuralgia, lumbago, backache, sprains, and swelling.
The article recalls Parisian life under wartime strain with a cheerful concierge named Philippe, a resilient jeweler, and a public that keeps café culture alive. It notes no more cake but continued tea and conversation, and observes American visitors amid streets emptied by war and sensational shows fading away.
The author argues Seattle must act to attract airfields and aviation industry postwar. He envisions aerodromes across the nation, with Campion machines and aerial tourism expanding by 1926, and contrasts American ambition with French courage and resilience amid wartime.
A reader questions the state’s practice of confining harmless and mildly insane individuals in state hospitals. They urge cost reduction by mutual funding, demand evidence of cures, and call for legislative scrutiny while preserving medical staff appointments based on merit.
Viscount Ishii who led the Japanese war mission to the country has been appointed Japanese minister to the United States succeeding Ambassador Sato. Ishii helped bring the Ishii Lansin g treaty toward better Japan United States understanding. Chicago voters in aldermanic primaries gave Mayor William Hale Thompson a stiff jolt, with one exception, amid criticism of his war stance.
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