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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1918
Page
6
Seattle and Spokane workers prepare for committee appointments Tuesday to supervise a drive for funds totaling 112 million dollars. The combined Y M C A and Y W C A aim to mobilize support and raise the large sum.
A slate of new films headlines the week with Missing from Liberty, a Seattle theater bill spotlighting Mrs. Humphrey Ward’s story. Local incidents include Emerson and Madden hospital updates, a Northwest merchants convention cancellation, and public notices on arrests and funerals.
H Hunsoko sues Mrs Lillian M de Lion wife of George de Lion of Los Angeles for breach of promise seeking 25000 dollars and 528 dollars loaned to the defendant. He 65 asserts she proposed marriage and he loaned the money to help nuptials then learned she was married.
Mrs Sannin Jaynes of Anderson says severe organic displacement and pain were relieved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound enabling a healthy birth next September. The letters claim widespread merit of the root and herb medicine.
John Dempsey of 1618 Tenth Avenue West credits Tanlac with restoring his health after five years of catarrhal stomach trouble. He reports improved appetite digestion sleep energy and cleared tongue with blotches gone and constipation relieved. Tanlac is sold in Seattle via Bartell Drug Stores under a Tanlac representative.
A Tuesday sale highlights trimmed hats from regular stock priced at 2.95 to 10.00 previously. The offer includes seventy five outfits suitable for street or outing wear and a selection of turbans and flowered decorations. Also 400 colored bordered handkerchiefs with slight defects offered at 8 cents.
An assortment of Women’s Fiber Silk and Silk Boot Hose in pink sky blue canary lavender Nile green and sky blue offers 100 pairs in sizes from 2 to 10 though not all sizes in every color. Formerly 65c now 39c while they last.
May Yoke known as Lady Frances Hope, once custodian of the Hope diamond, travels with Capt. J A Smuts to perform in the Palace Hip show. They journeyed three months from a rubber plantation near Singapore to France due to travel restrictions around the South African cape and the Suez canal.
The Palace Hip show presents Edwin and Lottie Ford with May Yohe as extra attraction. The Van Alstyne Brothers, Fuller Bull in At the Side Show, Addis and Stewart, Charlies and Grace, and Vada Clayton perform. Oak Theatre offers Iezy's Love Triangle with Monte Carter as Izzy, Blanche Gilmore and George White in comedy foils, and Majel Gardner's Come Along My Honey with Dancing Chicks delighting Sunday crowds.
Fathers and mothers of boys in France will gather at Masonic Temple at 8 p m Tuesday under the Parents association of Soldiers and Sailors from Washington to hear overseas reports. Will G. Mac Rae, representing a newspaper syndicate, will share intimate observations after visiting Northwest units. Attorney Robert C. Saunders will preside, assisted by Wm. F. Bickel.
London reports state fourteen enemy airplanes were shot down on Friday by British aviators, with three more driven down out of control and three observation balloons destroyed. Seven British aircraft are listed as missing.
The Continental Times of Berlin edited by Houston Chamberlain struggles to raise funds as German bankers refuse to trust Chamberlain, threatening the paper's continued existence.
London July 22 the Kent food control committee granted Baptist minister 150 pounds of sugar to replace the sugar saved from family rations for canning season, destroyed by a bomb in a recent air raid.
The Berlin Tageblatt reports August bread increases of about 25 pounds in Germany, angering Rhine communities hit by shortages. It cites profiteering, food waste into the Rhine, and authorities criticized for spoiling supplies as meatless weeks loom amid shortages.
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