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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1918
Page
5
A domestic science approach outlines a week of planned meals to fit rationing and busy schedules. Each day lists breakfast lunch and dinner options featuring meats, fish, dairy and vegetables with simple sides and desserts.
A brief note references Cynthia Grey and a column titled Letters, with a casual aside not elaborated, suggesting a forgetfulness theme or personal reminiscence in a newspaper fragment.
A reader asks if she should be ashamed of German ancestry during war. The counselor urges pride in heritage, notes wartime hostility targets autocracy, and defends German people as decent despite hatred. The exchange reassures self-respect and urges resilience against bigotry.
Advert says Cascarets improve liver function clean bowels and ease biliousness indigestion and bad breath. It claims one or two candies nightly clear head sweeten stomach fresh breath and gentle on children without gripe or sickness.
United States Government Bulletin No. 293 notes dried fruits concentrate nutrients and energy per pound, with high sugar content making them valuable substitutes when fresh fruits are diluted. It lists fruit types and fuel values, contrasting dried versus fresh fruits and their nutritive impact in the diet.
The narrator recounts Dick pressing her to endorse a 7000 check and invest it in a mare 7 percent proposition. She objects noting low checking balance and his pushy insistence. She reflects on gender dynamics, contemplates talking to Alice, and plans to seek Harvey’s father’s advice as election night ends.
Hoboken fire at the Battle Quade Paper plant at 8 am spread to a warehouse holding groceries valued at 7,000,000. Low water pressure from cold weather hindered crews as soldiers with fixed bayonets patrolled barred streets. The plant suffered a total loss.
Seattle theatergoers will see John E. Kellerd perform Hamlet Macbeth The Merchant of Venice and Othello at the Metropolitan next Monday Tuesday and Wednesday supported by a strong Shakespearean company. The 13th Chair will remain over Sunday at the Metropolitan for final showings with other acts listed at local venues.
At the Metropolitan John KE Keller presents Shakespearean plays while Orpheum Vaudeville and Gaiety feature The Bathing Girls. Moore Orpheum and Pantages circuits offer vaudeville including Coin's Dogs performing as actors, Tom Brantford chasing the blues, Welp and Cassini song and dance, the Gement Sisters dancing, and George Wheeler playing ten instruments. Reeves and Reeves are listed among acts.
Organized labor initiates a voluntary shift of industrial workers to war needs with the U S public service reserve coordinating with unions to place volunteers in shipyards and munitions plants. Crowder notes conscription threats in his report, urging nationwide cooperation.
The Deutsche Zeitung in Berlin denounces the phrase world conscience and world fraternity in a January 6 dispatch. It urges German power as the guiding legacy of dead heroes and curses those who trifle with that inheritance, per state department information.
New Orleans report says over 2 000 killed in the Guatemala earthquake. A ship carrying vaccines and typhoid serum will depart from a southern port for the stricken city on Saturday.
The Gaiety presents The Bathing Girls in burlesque with bathing girls and water antics. The Orpheum circuit opens a week at Moore with Colare and Sense by Alan Frooks Co and other acts including Elea Ruegger cellist and Toota Paka Hawaiian dancing. Wilkes Players stage Stop Thief. Pantages cards Harry Langdon and Rosa Rosalind with other acts. Mizzi Hayes arrives at the Metropolitan for Pom Pom after Seattle’s Spring Maid tour.
Advertisement for the Next Liberty theatre promoting Haynes repair service for watches.
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