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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
2
State Food Administrator Hebberd states sugar may still be used in making jams and preserves. An earlier Spokane notice was issued in error and rescinded, preserving sugar use for home canning and related products.
Norma Talmadge headlines a Coliseum bill as The Safety Curtain motif drives a romance with Captain Merryon and a weak but loyal heroine. The program also features Romani themes in The Toys of Fate at Clemmer and other titles at Liberty Strand Colosseum and Colonial, with Hearts of the World and A Modern Lorelei drawing crowds.
Prices for butter sugar eggs and fish advance in a food price committee notice. Wholesalers raise sugar to retailers due to higher basic costs and freight, outlining consumer prices per 100 pounds and per item across multiple flour and grain products and fresh fish.
An old health ad claims rheumatism comes from uric acid in blood and warns pills or salves won’t cure it. It promotes a vegetable blood purifier from Swift Specific Company, promising to purify blood, drive poisons out, and restore health with free physician advice.
The article outlines a proposed conscription-like measure to secure enough doctors for the army and navy and to assign the remaining physicians where most needed. It notes 143,000 U.S. doctors exist, with only 23,000 in military service, and estimates a need for 50,000. Details are not yet finalized but support from the surgeon-general’s departments is expected.
Washington July 18 A group of U S congressmen landed at a French port on a tour of Europe including Representatives Caraway and Tillman of Arkansas Elston of California Young of North Dakota Thompewon and Chandler of Oklahoma Sweet and Dowell of Iowa Reavis of Nebraska and others on a trip to France England Switzerland and Italy
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