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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1919
Page
7
The Red Front Store, now occupying a rented premises, faces eviction by March 1. Rogers must vacate with over $60,000 in stock, which will be sacrificed and sold at rock bottom prices to Seattle shoppers before the move.
A local clearance lists Pure Silk Socks and heavy wool socks with vacate prices around 68 to 99 cents. Dress shirts, flannel shirts, underwear, wool union suits and other garments show forced to vacate prices from 3 to 89 cents. Also included are suspenders, sweaters, night gowns, shirts, gloves, suit cases, handkerchiefs and hats with reduced prices.
An advertisement promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as an old globally trusted remedy. It claims imported Dutch laboratories produce a convenient capsule in three sizes with a money back guarantee and urges buyers to demand the original imported brand.
Seattle area drives push to meet a $100000 county quota to aid Armenian and Syrian relief. Executive secretary Earle A How ell warns that failure endangers thousands of orphans and women. Pierce county targets $30000. Seattle hosts a Plymouth Congregational meeting with Armenian speaker Rev M G Papasian and a concert by Wilford Works. Residents urged to give 60 cents at booths or mail to J W Spangler at 421 Second Ave.
J Armour testifies that hog prices, labor costs, and fuel rose while profits stayed within limits. He defends by products policy, stockyard ownership, and past price agreements, denying collusion and praising competition as a standard, ethical business practice.
The Anti-Tuberculosis league of King county is temporarily without a president as Maj. B. J. Lloyd plans to leave for Washington DC to pursue league work there. The shift ends three years of Lloyds leadership and signals a transition in local public health efforts.
Delayed report states party activists blocked national elections Sunday in Hamburg and several Rhineland towns. Early returns show Majority Socialists winning in Berlin and Northern Schleswig, with the Centrists and German Democrats also securing seats in various cities as results filter in from districts across Prussia and Hanover.
Nern e Jan 11 All titles and decorations are abolished in the republic of Wurttemberg's new constitution. It establishes complete religious freedom and uses church funds to pay debts, places all schools under state control, forms a single-house legislature, and creates a president and cabinet elected by direct vote.
Olympia, Jan 21. Organization senators warned against bills to move the state capital from Olympia to Tacoma. Resolutions to block any change will be rushed through the senate. Senator Dick Hutchinson of Spokane arranged a House bill for the transfer with Representative Elliott of Pierce. Senate leaders moved to gain signatures for the blocking resolution. Senator Howard Taylor of King engineered the maneuver.
Fifty sailors from Goat Island were exposed to influenza in varied conditions by the government health service. Dr. W C Billings said the tests showed no infections, overturning prior ideas about Spanish influenza and challenging theories held by doctors.
On January 29 at the Knights of Columbus hall a ceremony kicks off the voyage of three power schooners built by the Foundation company at Portland for the French government. The ships will sail from Seattle soon for France carrying pelter cargo.
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