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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Feb 28, 1919

Page

5

National Construction Board Aims to End Joblessness

A plan by Con M. Clyde Kelly calls for a national board of public construction to employ demobilized soldiers and war workers. It proposes $100 million to fund public works, housing takeovers, logging, mining, and farm colonies under direct presidential direction.

National Construction Board Ashington M. Clyde Kelly Braddock Kelly Post Office Department Interior Department Labor Department Wilton National Board of Public Construction Secretaries of Labor, Agriculture, Interior and War US 8 Construction Service National Foresta Alaska Lane Emergency Fleet Corporation

The Horrible Handicap of Poisoned Blood

A historical medical promotional piece extols Swift Specific No 8 as a vegetable blood purifier claimed to remove inherited taint and impurities. It urges readers to obtain it at drug stores and to write to 433 Swift Laboratory in Atlanta for free medical advice.

Swift Specific Swift Laboratory Atlanta

Blind musician says he was framed at altar in divorce case

Andrew Cornelius a blind musician testified in Judge Clay Allen's Superior Court that Maggie Hunter deceived him into marriage by presenting herself as a young girl. He claimed he was duped into wedlock and sought divorce. the judge dissolved the marriage and returned Mrs Cornelius to her daughter in Midland Arkansas.

Andrew Cornelius Divid Clay Allen Mra Maggie Hunter Cornelius Corneliuus Midland Ark

Give Us Tanks Cry Of Esthonian Minster

Paris February 24. Esthonian foreign minister Joeh Poska says he has come to ask the allies for tanks for the Esthonian army. He also asked for a barrier to be built between Exthonia and Bolshevian territory.

N.eb. A Paris Joeh Poska

Japan weighs liquor sale ban for young men

Tokyo reports the Japanese home office sanitary committee is considering prohibiting liquor sale and consumption by young men. The panel also weighs restricting brewing. The move reflects public health concerns raised by officials.

Japan Star NBA Tokyo Japaneses Home Office Sanitary Committee

Bonds Lost by Workman Near Fort Lawton

J T Griamore of 922 24th Avenue reported to police that he lost $500 in Liberty Bonds on Thursday while working on a house near Fort Lawton. He believes the bonds in an envelope slipped from his pocket and were picked up by another workman.

J. T. Griamore 24Th Ave Liberty Ponda Fort Lawton

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