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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1917
Page
4
Letters to Miss Grey offer guidance on love, marriage strains, and domestic roles. A reader asks about balancing happiness with a wronged heart, while others seek help on keeping a devoted husband, handling a noisy neighbor, and recovering valuables from a broken engagement.
Five men die in a blaze that destroyed the Cosmopolitan rooming house on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. About 125 residents slept there as fire tore through a flimsy wooden building, with many intoxicated men needing rescue.
The Bon Marche in Seattle launches a carry your own movement to cut deliveries and save costs. Advertising manager Frank M Radford says savings come from fewer driver shifts and freeing workers for war industries. Grocery sectors echo the push as stores cut deliveries to trim expenses. Washington meeting with national defense council discusses war economy and reducing waste, including high delivery costs.
A compact language primer presents French phrases about locating a first aid station field ambulances army corps and the fall of a Zeppelin. It mirrors a wartime classroom dialogue with phonetic cues and translations for quick reference.
The Northern Pacific Railway and the Northern Express Co will pay a 10 percent bonus to about 20,700 employees earning under 5,000 dollars yearly and with non fixed wages for the six months from July 1 to December 31. This is the second such bonus in two months for unorganized staff.
The Junior Chaperon Social Club of Seattle donated 300 dollars to the Red Cross, totaling 200 dollars in handoff funds. The gesture supports local relief efforts and reflects community generosity.
Nearly 100 physicians and surgeons from Washington, Idaho and Oregon participate in the medical and surgical institute and clinic held in Seattle hospitals.
License plates aged years old and rescued from roofs and woodsheds were turned in to the auditor’s office by car owners who misunderstood the rule requiring temporary plates be surrendered for reference in case of accidents.
United Press reports Pershing’s expeditionary army could be positioned between French and British forces around St. Quentin and La Fere in the western front. The sector, once heavily shelled, is being rebuilt with new roads and drainage, offering a potentially pivotal American front.
Retail prices listed for various produce including artichokes cabbage cantaloupe eggplant garlic lettuce peas green onions tomatoes and peppers. Prices shown per dozen per crate per pound reflect local markets in Florida Nebraska and related regions.
The piece highlights Clarkson as working head of the technical branch and secretary general manager of the Society of Automotive Engineers. It notes his drive to standardize the industry, reorganize the SAE, and the society creating military truck specs for government use, enabling rapid access to top automotive engineers for war problems.
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