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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1919
Page
3
An old advertisement touts Genuine Bull Durham tobacco as a reliable choice for rolling your own cigarettes with emphasis on quality and tradition.
The Seattle Tennis Club scene hosts Lieut. Col Charles Sweeney of the Blue Ridge division, veteran of the Foreign Legion and American army, famed for commanding 16 18-ton tanks during Verdun and Chemin des Dames. He wore multiple French and American decorations and awaits congressional testimony after discharge at Camp Lewis.
Mrs Frank Hoffman 66 wandering into the city county building sought to swear out a cruelty complaint against her husband Fred Hoffman 62. She alleged he beat and kicked her since marriage and threatened death over $600 from property sale. A warrant was issued for Hoffman’s arrest.
A San Francisco naval officer, away over a year and a half for duty, asks Superior Judge Thomas F. Graham to intervene to prevent his wife from divorcing him. He cites submarine service in the North Sea and a newborn son, enclosing commendation letters. the judge moves to reconcile.
A terse poem recalls a man who slept under the moon and loafed under the sun, living a life of to be, but dying with nothing accomplished. The verse contrasts idle days with a final unfulfilled fate.
London report recalls wartime dinners as Wycombe husbands planned secret postwar suppers for victory. In retaliation the wives staged a clandestine dinner, a toast promising future dinners to teach the erring sinners.
A telegram to the Primitive Methodist conference president urges saints to refrain from smoking at Ebenezer. It calls the habit insidious, destroying stamina, youth bloom, and manhood virility, with a reflex influence on morals, and concludes God should not smoke.
A trout that lived about twenty years in a well near Beattoch signal box in London finally died after being fed titbits by signalmen. The creature was so tame it swam to the edge for its visitors each day. Also noted a Christie sale where a Louis XVI table fetched 11810 dollars, purchased originally for 2000.
A group of strike breaking telephone operators were escorted to work in a car. Union guards chased the auto and police arrested the driver after he kept the women from standing on the running board. The case was dismissed when the complainants did not appear. The judge called the laughing striking girls the brightest part of the day.
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