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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1919
Page
11
Russian residents will mark Christmas Eve Monday with family carols and home customs. A Russian delicacy named Kootla will appear at twilight, and Kocotla of wheat hearts and seeds will be eaten at dawn of Christianity. Special services led by Rev. Alexander Vinchewlavoy will be held at Rumalan Creek Orthodox Church. Christmas Day follows on Tuesday per the old calendar.
Seattle attorney Penrose McElwain died Sunday from pneumonia after a Spanish influenza attack. He was 34 and lived at 6716 17th Ave N E. Funeral services Tuesday at Seattle Undertaking Parlors Sixth Ave between Pike and Pine. Burial at Washelli Cemetery. Survived by wife Claire, daughter Mary, and uncle W. P. McElwain. He served in the aviation section of the army and was honorably discharged before active service.
An explosion at the Donworth and Todd legal firm included John C. Higgins William F. Froude Lieut Charles T Donworth and Hyman Zettler. Judge Donworth who leads the firm has practiced law in Seattle for 30 years.
Mrs. W. H. Mileham of Seattle recounts severe stomach pain and vomiting misled by X ray. After taking Tanlac she gains weight, reports normal nerves and sleep, and plans to resume university studies. Bartell Drug Stores sells Tanlac in Seattle under a special representative.
Scene from Fair Enough at the Mission showcases Margarita Fisher as an Indian maid. Normal Talmadge stars in The Heart of Verona at the Coliseum, with Thomas Meighan and Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran comedy rounding out the bill. Louie Aleotti presents Little Women at the Liberty, retelling Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy’s story on film.
Janet Newell played by Olive Tell in Recital Strings at the Colonial leaves her smooth crook of a husband. When fortune smiles, he returns, and Janet foils a home robbery she has learned to love again.
Aonto Dickson plays a society-bending role in Fair Enough at the Mission, resisting a highbrow push as the family’s social ascent. Fanny Ward and Sessue Hayakawa star The Cheat at Hex, with Ward’s character coerced into debt and a violent climax. Marguerite Clark leads Little Mini Hoover at the Strand, featuring a white Leghorn rooster in a pivotal role as a witty poultry plot unfolds.
The page lists a slate of silent era films and actors with titles such as Laugh, Ways Chat, The Wear of Western, and Untamed. Stars include Marguerite Clark, Josephine, and Pathe News style pieces. The short notes read as program blurbs and comedy features from a period weekly.
A woman from Christopher, Illinois describes four years of irregularities and nervous weakness and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with her recovery. She reports improved health and regular cycles and endorses the remedy for female troubles, noting doctors failed earlier.
An old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a reliable cold remedy. It promotes relief for coughs colds and bronchial attacks with a dose regimen and warning that it is sold by druggists everywhere for 60c and 1.20.
Special dispatch from Tsinanfu, China, notes the city as the noisiest town worldwide. Barrows screeching through streets, cicadas, night food vendors, rickshaw horns, bell feet, barking dogs, and constant activity from twilight to 2 a.m. marka a roaring urban soundscape.
A published remedy promises relief from grippe and severe cold when dosed every two hours for three doses. It claims to open nasal passages, stop discharge, relieve headache fever sore throat and sneezing, with no taste or inconvenience, and stresses to obtain the genuine product at drug stores.
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