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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1919
Page
10
Dear Miss Grey advises a heartbroken girl, left after a soldier returns with another woman, to seek time and self improvement. The columnist counsels forgetting through work, social life, and country living, urging the young woman to pursue independence and happiness while managing grief.
R H Thomson engineer and city councilman will address the Seattle Chamber of Commerce retail trade bureau at the Masonic club on Thursday evening. He will discuss city planning and future development in Seattle.
Fashion makers unveil spring garments as Easter parade coats go on display. A blue serge cape coat with black silk braid leads, with a graceful silhouette and a throw scarf collar. Center display features a sa and colored duvetyn cape with bright Persian silk lining.
Paris report by Lieut Col de Thomasson cites German total casualties at 6 066 000 with 1 611 000 killed 3 683 000 wounded and 772 000 missing. Prussian losses listed as 1 260 000 killed 2 880 000 wounded and 620 000 missing. Officers heavily hit with 45 000 killed 82 000 wounded 83 000 missing.
In this memoir excerpt, Jane Lorimer reflects on 1918, marriage, and personal direction as the New Year 1919 begins. She compares herself to a forlorn servant from Tehekoff’s The Cherry Orchard, recognizing how age and disillusionment shape expectations and warns that old lessons may guide or mislead future generations.
William A. Ross a Jalil shipyard worker was fined 100 dollars and received zero days in jail for operating a whisky still at his residence 6423 Phinne y avenue. The case centers on illegal distilling and household liquor production.
El made work shirts in blue chambray available in sizes 14 to 17 at 1.35 each. They feature a full cut with double yoke and patch pockets and are double-stitched for durability.
An advertisement from The Basement Store promotes medium weight wool mix shirts and drawers in sizes 36 to 46 for shirts and 32 to 44 for drawers. Price listed at 1.75 per garment.
OMEN'S heavy jumbo woven slip over sweaters with round collarless neck and ribbed waist. Available in Green Orange Blue White Rose sizes 38 to 44. Very warm for under coats or office wear. Price 5 dollars 75 cents.
Berlin scene report notes Gerhard Von Bredow circulating a leaflet blaming the Kaiser for decades of monarchy and praising the rise of the republican Liebknecht. The prominent landowner argues conservatives’ loyalty to a single monomaniac helped bring down the monarchy and hints the Kaiser should have been removed earlier.
In London on January 16 a report says the duke of Sutherland lists 90000 acres on England's east coast for sale as promised land reforms loom. Other vast English estates are also being marketed in the spring, signaling a broader wave of disposals amid reform talk.
A prominent London modiste in the West End shut her shop abruptly amid rumors her fashionable drug teas operation masked a drug traffic ring and she feared exposure.
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