German Front Hat Advice Promises At Home Millinery Guidance
The Star announces a home hat making series by a renowned milliner beginning Tuesday, urging readers to craft personal hats with individuality and style. In Laon France, German field hospitals operate a "human repair shop" to rehabilitate 2100 severe cases while lightly wounded receive first aid and return to bases as shells echo from the front.
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Star
Karl H. von Wiegand
Laon
France
Hague
New York
Bockenheimer
Cheree
Loetkenmueller
Runaway June Leads Colonial Theatre Film Premiere
A story posing the big question of marital wages debuts at the Colonial theatre. June Warner on her honeymoon loses her money given by her mother, exposing tensions as her husband offers funds and she faces degradation over unearned cash.
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Colonial Theatre
Chester
June Warner
Jane
War news flash reports German gains and air raids
Germans admit allied gains near Soissons as heavy fighting stretches across Alsace and the Vistula. German casualties reach forty thousand with ongoing battles in Hungary and the Dardanelles. In Britain, German aviators sighted over Dunkirk and Dover with bombardments killing civilians in Dun. One German airman attacked Amiens where the mission failed and the observer was captured.
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Belgium
Soissons
Alsace
Russia
Vistula
Austria
Hungary
Turkey
Dardanelles
Stantinople
London
Dunkirk
the Times
CIA
Dover
Dun
Amiens
Initiative on Liquor Measures Faces Legislature Vote
Olympia January 11 Initiative Bill No 18 the brewery and hotel liquor measures now before the legislature has 45316 valid signatures out of 46167 with 31896 needed. A special election is proposed for 1915 with a likely vote in 1916 if dry forces block it. The wets claim control in the house and senate while drys resist a 1915 cross vote.
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Olympia
Howell
House
Senate
Kaiser Prepares a New Offensive in Poland
Petrograd dispatch reports both Russians and Germans massing forces in Poland for a general clash. Germans reinforce lines, with indications they plan a frontal assault on Russian Vistula positions.
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Petrograd
Poland
Girl Hidden in Chinese Tenement Rescued in New York
Louisa Rose, 24, was rescued by police from a secret closet in a Chinatown tenement where she was held as a white slave. Nick Ferrari, a woman, was arrested on a white grave charge. detectives say Ferrari was with the girl when they found the captive who had died in imprisonment after her father’s death in Jersey City prompted her move to New York.
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New York
Louisa Rose
China
Nick Ferrari
Detec
Tives
Jersey City
Chinatown
Lundin
Fred Lathe
U. S
Londin
Hugh M. Caldwell
Yester
Alaska
Read M. Whitehead
Fred C
Justie Court
Seattle
Justice Whitehead
Star Boys to Attend Moore Theatre Show Tonight
Four hundred Star carriers and branch boys gather at The Star office at 7 30 for a march to Moore theatre as guests of manager Ben Ketcham. They will see Le Roy Talma and Boaco’s aratery show featuring Hindu mysteries, magic, music, and mirth. Local crowd expected to fill the house.
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Star Office
Moore Theatre
Ben Ketcham
le Roy
Talma
Boaco
Seattle
Branch Boye
Lundin Begins Inquiry As New Prosecutor
Alfred H. Lundin took office as prosecuting attorney and announced an immediate thorough inquiry into police grafting using his regular staff and only a grand jury if needed. He inherits affidavits alleging police protection for Crane, boss of the tenderloin, from retiring prosecutor John F. Murphy.
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Alfred H. Lundin
Helr
Lundin
John F. Murphy
Pen Bel Crane
Oe Tenderloin
Police
Russians Debated In Hungary Invasion Delays
Vienna reports the Russians have not yet pressed the invasion of Hungary. The war office cites heavy snows hampering operations in Galicia and the Carpathians. Russians bombarded heights northeast of Zakuczyn and tried to cross the Nida river, both attempts failing.
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Vienna
Hungary
War Office
Galicia
Carpathians
Zakuczyn
Nida River
German squadron off Brazil reported
Rio de Janeiro January 11. another German cruiser squadron was reported today operating off the Brazilian coast. There was no confirmation of the rumor that the British warship Invincible had sunk the Von der Tann.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazillian
Invincible
Fear Massacre in Constantinople
Rome reports immense damage to outer defenses of Darjane ses after the French fleet bombardment. Observers fear a strait passage may be forced leading to a massacre of foreigners in the Ottoman capital. Turks remain ignorant of their defeat in Transcaucasia.
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Rome
Constantinople
Tramd
Caucasia
Germans Attack Along the Aisne Near Soissons
German forcesreinforced heavily pressed to regain positions along the Aisne and near Soissons as fighting broadened toward a potential general battle in the western war zone.
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Paris
Aisne
Soissons
Fritzi Scheff Faces Bankrupt Hotel Attachments
In St Louis on January 11 a New York customer attached every garment of actress Fritzi Scheff except the nightie on a $2 bill. Her salary and money in the hotel safe were seized and she says she will stay in bed until the Shylocans relent. Hotel attaches say no other course.
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ST. Louis
Fritzi Scheff
New York
Fritz
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