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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
12
City health officials may raise purity rules after A N Henderson reports to Health Commissioner McBride. Henderson cites dry law boosting ice cream and buttermilk use. His division tested 6 000 cows finding 200 tubercular and 3.7 percent of milk samples below standard in bacteria count for 1916.
Philip McLellan sixteen and his brother Donald seventeen perished by their own actions after a gas ignition caused an explosion at 2112 B Union Street. Philip entered the house after the gas was turned on and suffered severe burns along with his mother Mrs McLellan who was badly burned about the head and arms.
John McCann of Chestnut Street says he voted for Wilson and adds that his family totals twenty three votes. He lists six sons four daughters four sons-in-law seven grandchildren and his wife all voting Wilson.
In January 1930s style reportage Jack Jungmeyer chronicles Butte Montana as the world’s richest hill. It describes 16,000 miners at 4.75 a day wages, a 4.9 million dollar monthly payroll, bustling saloons, vaudeville, and a city of chance in a dramatic mining boom setting.
Advertises Stuart's Calcium Wafers as a beauty aid for women promising clear complexion by cleansing pores and removing blood impurities. Claims quick results and a natural action. Sold by druggists for 50 cents per box.
London reports say the peace door remains open but near term results are unlikely. Britons doubt Germany will accept terms now, though expect eventual submission by military and economic pressure. Public view shifts from anti American meddling to cautious support for Wilson and Allied diplomacy as discussions continue.
Chicago Jan 12 report says the question of calling a general railway trainmen strike if the Adamson law is struck down and unions are ignored will not be considered at today’s railroad brotherhoods conference.
In Appleton Wisconsin on January 12 a new high school course teaches girls to raise a two month old baby scientifically. The program aims to instill infant care skills and responsibilities among students. A separate note mentions a bat stomach digesting three times its weight in one night.
Winona Wilcox argues that modern fiction erodes traditional duty in marriage and that men should uphold loyalty to wives and children. The piece contends society overvalues divorce and self interest, urging a sober view of matrimony as a lasting, duty driven institution.
Jewelry valued at 500 dollars was stolen by burglars who entered the Misses Grace Esther and M Anderson's apartments at 602 North 42nd Street using a pass key. In front of a large London building a pigeon's nest made of hairpins was recently found.
Stomach relief fast and safe with Pape's Diapepsin. It cures indigestion gas and sour stomachs, widely trusted for rapid action and gentle effect. A fifty cent case keeps this dependable stomach doctor at home for sudden digestion troubles.
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