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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
10
Remnant tables offer silk dress and waist patterns, silk skirts, wool suit patterns, skirts, and coats at greatly reduced prices to sell quickly. A rack of women's wear is tagged at $5.00 with suits and coats originally priced much higher. Sizes vary. check for your fit.
Trimmings Laces and embroideries in odd pieces and discontinued patterns at very worthwhile savings to delight the home dressmaker. Great price reductions here.
A local sale features gloves for women and children from Trefousse and other French makers in white and lambskin. Prices range from 5c to $1.95, with items including Cape Gloves, mittens, and fleece lined options in black, white, tan, and pearl, plus repaired and mended gloves in various sizes.
Readable sale blurb lists women and children's hosiery styles with lisle top double toe and heel in tan brown white black and stripes. Remnant Day price 1.00 a pair for silk lisle and cotton hose sizes 8½ to 10, tomorrow 1½ a pair. Children’s cotton and male hose in black and white sizes 5½ to 9½ tomorrow 19¢ a pair. Fiber and silk boot hose in several colors 55¢ for three pairs. Black cotton hose with wool split sole 65¢ a pair.
A list of discounted items including Jergens Toilet Waters Roman Talcum Powder Armour Bath Tablets Roger & Gallet Iris Blanc perfume Goodrich Hot Water Bottles Hub Tyrian Celia hot water bottles novelty beauty spots La Duchess powders hand and hair brushes White Ivory brushes jewelry novelties ivory items card holders cream jars ink wells and related accessories with reduced prices from regular figures.
Ninety five blouses in Georgette crepe and crepe de Chine and 59 wash fabrics in lingerie textiles are reduced about half or more to sell tomorrow. Prices now about 7.95 for Georgette pieces and 95e for the wash fabrics.
Readable catalog item lists women and children underwear including medium weight union suits in high neck short sleeves ankle length sizes 34 36 38 priced 96c with regular 1.50. wool and cotton union suits sizes 36 to 46 priced 1.75. children's fleece lined pantaloon ages 10 11 12 three for 1.00. boys and girls union suits sizes 32 34 at 1.15. black wool tights for women sizes 4 6 knee to ankle priced 1.50.
A crowded catalog entry lists infant and girls clothing with prices for white dresses slippers skirts and sweaters. Items include wash dresses cap sets and cloth coats with prices ranging from 25c to 16.95 and multiple wool and felt garments.
A catalog-style sale lists boys garments and accessories with prices. Items include K. K. Play Suits at 3.45, cloth helmet mats at 1.95, O. D. sailor tams at 1.45, sailor tam variations, cowboy suits at 0.95, wool Norfolk suits at 5.95 and 7.65 and 8.96, raincoats at 2.35, wool caps at 0.45, wool military suits at 9.85, and white plaited blouses at 0.85.
The Gray Linen Shop advertises 21x52 inch Huck scarfs with 4 inch hems offered for 50c reduced from 85c. Hemmed bedspreads 74x84 priced for tomorrow at 1.50 down from 2.00. Turkish towels 13x24 guest size 35c, white skirting 36 inches wide 65c, colored wash goods and white wash goods priced at 25 cents per yard.
The Central Labor council debated a general strike in all industries with two sides arguing for a broad walkout versus a targeted, industry specific approach. The plan favored by the majority would keep shipyard workers out until other unions rejoined, while opponents warned a citywide strike could keep 65 000 union members idle for months. James Duncan urged a single purpose strike and warned Seattle’s actions would affect national labor and trigger wider unrest.
Hanson charges Brown tried to use pull to release a vice suspect for 250 votes. He cites mothers’ stories and wartime quarantine raids, claiming underworld funding from San Francisco, with officers confirming a drop in vice cases among drafted Seattle men.
A bill in Olympia provides a state industrial home and clinic for female delinquents to curb social diseases and offer rehabilitation. Sponsored by Mrs Weeks and Mrs Trumbull, it seeks $500,000 to buy a site, build facilities, and operate for two years, aiding an estimated 700 to 1,000 women.
President Wilson is expected to return to the United States around February 15. The dispatch suggests Baker may have been chosen to serve as proxy for the president at the Paris meeting.
Franklin High School professor George B. Jackson will address a Thursday evening gathering before the naturalization class at the YMCA. The talk focuses on municipal government and its local impact.
Police probe the brutal murder of Peter Cudich a 47 year old Austrian laborer whose battered body was found under a bridge near the Washington Mattress factory at 1934 Fourth Ave. 8. The motive appears robbery as pockets were torn and shoes removed. Cudich had $1400, last seen at the Main hotel.
Paris dispatch reports the peace bureau moving toward League of Nations trusteeship for former German colonies. Britain and the United States seem poised to push claims under the league, with France and Italy easing ambitions and Japan and Australia facing mounting pressure.
Demonstrations swept Hungary in support of the peace conference note. Crowds warned that forceful gains would not be recognized at the peace table, accusing Romanians and Jugoslavs of encroachment. A cabinet crisis emerged in County Karolyi's government amid bourgeois attacks.
Paris dispatch reports M Longuet editor of Populaire unofficial Russian Bolshevik envoy will urge the soviets to back President Wilson. He was asked by Russia’s Tebiche rin to assess allied talks on a joint conference at Principal Island and plans to tell the Bolsheviks Wilson’s effort is world peoplerespecting and would succeed with popular support.
George Steele filed a $1000 claims suit against the city alleging his land near Rattlesnake Lake flooded when the Cedar River storage reservoir broke on January 3.
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