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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1917
Page
10
A collage of ads in Seattle offering palmistry clairvoyance and readings by prominent mediums. Names include Germain Madame Sonta Presaitta and others with hours and addresses for private consultations and readings on love luck divorce and business prospects.
An advertisement touts ENTIFIO Phrenologist services claiming to read a person’s life from the head. It lists areas covered from marriage and health to love, family troubles, investments, and pregnancies. Special readings offered at 501 Hours am to p.
British and German forces exchange heavy fire and air clashes along the Western front. Reports from London Paris and United Press describe heightened artillery raids, fierce air battles, attempts to regain air mastery near Ypres, and a Belgian Nieuport sector engagement with German detachments driven back. In Champagne German assaults near Mont Teton were repulsed.
Warren Frana, 25, died Monday afternoon at Seattle General Hospital from a skull fracture after a car he rode in crashed into an Alpha Street vehicle Monday morning. J. K. Bertrand, the driver, was released on $200 bail and faces charges of driving an automobile while intoxicated.
The American ship Kansan was sunk, destroying consignments of supplies for YMCA buildings in France. The loss affected postwar relief and reconstruction efforts as crews reported the damage and assessed remaining cargo.
The contract for paving the road between Enumclaw and Auburn was awarded to Kaiser Paving Co of Everett on Monday.
The page lists numerous stalls with assorted groceries and prices including butter at 40¢ per lb, eggs 49¢ per dozen, margarine 0¢ per lb, honey, coffee, peanut butter, milk, sugar, rice, beans and whale meat. Multiple stalls show fish cuts, meats, produce and household staples with price markers and occasional unit details.
A dense OCR of stall prices lists goods from sugar to butter, milk to raspberries, onions to potatoes. Items show per unit or per sack pricing across stalls 20 through 192, with numerous cents and dollars per unit, pound, or container.
Local boards will pass men who are then scrutinized by army physicians in concentration camps. Albert Moodie oversees select service in the state and notes the examinations will be more or less perfunctory.
Police presence at shingle and lumber mills Tuesday aimed to prevent trouble between strikers and workers. No violence reported at noon, while officials dismissed rumors of cut cables. Branch libraries open late to collect pledge cards as Women’s Service League activities continue.
July 17 United Press reports John A. Lyon of Pittsburg, 54, jumped from the Unt Fruit steamer Calamares on July 14 near Havana. Lifeboats searched the sea but the body was not recovered. a cabin note directed notification to his brother George A. Lyon of Pittsburg.
Report says 350 men employed on the Great Northern snow sheds at Tye went on strike Monday demanding higher wages and better living conditions. They were brought to Seattle Tuesday by shed workers, with unconfirmed reports that some quit.
In Petrograd three cabinet ministers resigned prompting Kerensky to return from the front. Kerensky called the move a dagger blow in Russia's back as he commented on the serious times.
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