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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1917
Page
12
A paroled inmate writes of prison life and a cheerful young worker who shares hope through letters. When the man learns his wife filed for divorce after his conviction, his world collapses. he becomes bitter, reckless, and increasingly punished for rule violations.
A newspaper feature promotes a home eye remedy claiming 50 percent improvement in a week. It touts Hon-Opte tablets dissolved in water used as an eye bath two to four times daily and cites patient anecdotes of improved vision without glasses. The piece urges readers to buy from druggists and promises a refund if not effective.
New York date January 19. Professor Robert P. Dow asserts Eve was not Adam's first wife and recounts Lilith as his earlier consort who left him. He credits Lilith's second husband with Heelzebub and states their progeny were secta, a point he ties to antiquity research.
Milwaukee January 19 B F Sunny president of the Chicago Telephone and Telegraph company argues government ownership of hens is as practical as railroads. He says the average person cares more about egg prices than regulation of freight rates telephones or other utilities.
In New Orleans on January 19 Manfred P. Welcher field secretary for the Anti Tuberculosis League of America warned that smoking among women in the United States is spreading rapidly. He said smoking may have some charm but tobacco is poison and women have as much right to poison themselves as men.
London dispatch reports Sergi Flora Sandes, the English nurse who served with the Serbian army, is in a military hospital having just received the cross of Karageorge for bravery on the battlefield.
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