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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1919
Page
6
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha liner Cal Maru will sail soon from Seattle after completing cargo. Six days after running inshore near Cape Flattery the Canada Maru was floated and has since undergone repairs at Esquimalt replacing 135 plates. A new woven skirt design allows length adjustment and conversion for blooming.
Police investigate the death of a 78 year old Bremerton woman believed to be Mrs Ww Ss Jones after she was found unconscious at a First Ave restaurant Saturday evening and died Sunday in hospital. Authorities suspect poisoning. A Paris based Belgian Colonial office society forms to promote Belgian subjects migrating to the Belgian Congo.
A roundup of new film entertainments features Mrs. Charlie Chaplin in Borrowed Clothes at the Coliseum with Fatty Arbuckle in Camping Out at the Strand. Pauline Frederick stars in A Daughter of the Old South. Constance Talmadge in A Lady's Name at the Liberty. The Fighting Parson stars Daly Kenyon and Frank Milla at the Mission. Lola Dupre leads The Danger Zone at the Colonial. Elaine Hammerstein in Her Man at Rex. Madge Kennedy headlines A Perfect Lady at the Clemmer with a church-friendly comedy backdrop.
Dr. William L. Hall, a Seattle physician just back from China, states the Spanish influenza symptoms are identical to the pneumonic plague that devastated Manchuria three years ago. He says rigid quarantine in every case is the only way to stamp it out.
For meteorological use, balloons are produced in Holland from rubber treated by a chemical process, designed to ascend to greater heights than previously recorded.
A 19th century patter about women’s endless housework and the relief offered by Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The ad cites Mrs Huff of Cottage Grove Oregon describing recovery from weakness, nervous headaches and insomnia after using the pills. It promotes the pills as a household remedy to tone blood, nourish nerves, restore appetite and color, and urges readers to request the pamphlet Building Up the Blood and contact Dr Williams Medicine Co.
A report notes that reform efforts aim to shape the Prussian school system after the model found in the northern European countries. It discusses the type of schools proposed and their role in modernizing education.
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