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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1916
Page
10
Massive clearance event at 1510 First Ave announces discounts on suits up to 15 dollars, now 5 75, with over 100 suits and hundreds of shoes and shirts reduced. Spring and summer attire for men including belts, underwear, hats, and kids wear with further cuts. sale ends August 1 after two days.
Seattle patrons flock to the Strand to see Mme Bertha Kalich in the film Slander a mother’s love story. William Fox’s production features lavish settings and Kalich is praised as a top tragedienne with a limited run ending Saturday night at the comfortable Second Avenue venue. Admission is 10e for matinee or evening showings.
Bertha Kalich hailed by William Fox as a top tragedienne may lead Slan der at Strand Theatre. Mary Pickford and Mae Murray star in The Foundling and The Dream Girl while Pauline Frederick headlines The World’s Great Snare at Coliseum. The Mummy and the Hummingbird plays Alhambra with Keystone Alice Howell. Charles Cherry leads the cast.
Brownsville reports describe the Third Iowa regiment as taller and sturdier than many European troops. Captain Fred S. Hird notes 280 Quaker cavalrymen organized in Iowa, many initially refusing the federal oath. 170 finally swore in, with 40 still refusing as mobilization nears.
Miss Violette Stitt Wilson, former UC student and granddaughter of ex Mayor J. Stitt Wilson, plans to go East to pursue interpretative dancing and speaking roles after rejecting a motion picture offer. She says university life cramped her soul and seeks a freer artistic realm.
An advertising pitch claims freckle removal with ethine double strength, offering a money back guarantee if it fails. It urges purchasing from any druggist and suggests one ounce suffices for even the worst freckles to achieve a clear complexion.
President Wilson nominates former House Military Affairs Committee head Hay to the Court of Claims. The 65 year old Virginian will earn 6000 dollars yearly and may retire with full pay after ten years. He succeeds Judge George W. Atkinson of West Virginia.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Co steamship City of Pueblo will run a farewell trip from Seattle to San Francisco and then head to New York for sale after its long career as a transport and notable palatial coaster.
Dr. H. H. Gowen urged state university summer school graduates in Meany Hall to avoid becoming “mechanically perfected machines” in teaching. He warned teachers to point out rather than cram, likening education to a Ford assembly line of neuro ecological principles.
A new westbound rate schedule regulated in Seattle affects prices from the East to Northwestern points. The schedule requires abrogation of water transportation rates through the Panama Canal and notes a marked increase in nearly every commodity.
A reader forum in The Star answers questions on primary voting privileges political alignment and names. Topics include sugar cube etiquette census timing household work choices solo widows and companionship, delaying marriage, contraband food in war, postal security and reporting, and the origin of coffee houses in Turkey with historical notes.
Market report lists prices paid to producers for fess, poultry, veal and pork. Includes onions from Australia and California, green onions locally, potatoes white and new from Cal White River and Yakima Gems at 0.30 per unit.
Women and Red Cross workers study plans for the final hop night as the Rainier camp nears close. Mrs Hugh Rood will entertain the committee and staff officers at a formal line before the big evening dance on August 3.
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