Social events and gatherings fill Seattle week notes
Informal teas birthday parties and luncheons mark a busy social week in Seattle. Mrs. Ballinger Berryhill hosts a tea for guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ballinger while Master Stewart celebrates his fifth birthday. John W. Eddy plans a Lydia cruise with about 25 friends, followed by supper aboard. Other gatherings include a luncheon at Wing Point, a White Elephant Shop event with Miss Cancey performing, and several house parties and dances at local homes and clubs.
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John W. Eddy
Lydia
Stewart
J. H. Ballinger
Stew
Births Marriages and Social Events in Seattle
Betty Brainerd notes the birth of a daughter to Lieut. and Mrs. Edgar Anderson who expect to locate in Seattle after Camp Lewis. the Victory club announces a jazz dance at Leschi pavilion. an informal dinner hosted by Mrs. Nugent. Ruth Beatrice Homan and Ensign Irving Dibble Smith announce their upcoming marriage with the couple due in Seattle August 1. Miss Laurencia Vradenburg wed Mr. O Eugene Thurmond in a Portland ceremony. details of attendants and floral decor.
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Edgar Anderson
Ada Tweed
Lieut
Anderson
Camp Lewis
Seattle
Victory Club
Lescchi Pavilion
Nugent
Robert Homan
Unadilla
New York
Ruth Beatrice
Ensign Irving Dibble Smith
Everett Smith
Ensign
Laurencia Vradenburg
George F. Vradenburg
O. Eugene Thurmond
Portland
Ore
Frances Braid
Bert Williford
Beulah Pinneo Announces Engagement and Wedding Plans
Miss Beulah Pinneo names her wedding party for the August 9 ceremony at her home. Maid of honor is Katherine Pinneo. ring bearer Jeanette Betsy Pinneo. groom’s attendant Herbert Bryant. Lieut Lucien L Lasnett, the fiancé, recently returned from overseas with Rainbow division. home in Atlanta now plans Seattle residence. Floyd Horton to host Lake Washington dancing party August 2 in her honor.
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Beulah Pinneo
Roger Pinneo
Lucien L. Lasnett
Katherine Pinneo
Jeanette Betsy Pinneo
Herbert Bryant
Foreign Trade Department
Pacific Steamship Company
Orient
Lasnett
Rainbow Division
Atlanta
Georgia
Seattle
Floyd Horton
Lake Washington
Japanese booth at Little White House under women’s charge
Miss Mary Dudley Walker and Mrs Margery Stevens will run the Japanese booth outside the Little White House for the coming week. Mrs C R Collins and Mrs George Riley were in charge on Monday at the Little White House.
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Little White House
Mary Dudley Walker
Mises Margery Stevens
C. R. Collins
George Riley
White House
Lieut Cronkhite Awarded Distinguished Service Cross
Lieut. Leroy G. Cronkhite of Selah Washington has been notified by the Seattle recruiting office that he received the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in action at Barville France between September 26 and October 1 1918.
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Leroy G. Cronkhite
Selah
Wash
Seattle
Biiarville
France
Social Roundup of Summer Motor Trips and Visits
Many Seattle residents embark on multiple motor trips and visits with friends and relatives. families tour Paradise Inn Harrison Hot Springs Pacific Beach and Yellowstone while others head to Victoria Vancouver Tacoma and Belingham. The notices note hosting guests from St Paul Portland and Washington D C with plans to Lake Chelan Banff and Lake Louise.
Canadian Woman's Club Plans Fall Recess Meeting
The Canadian Woman's Club meets at Red Cross headquarters at 10 for work, its last gathering before resuming on September 15. The Writers' Club convenes at Erickson club rooms Y W C A at 8 with papers by Mrs. E L Jenkins and Mr Edith N Smith. visitors welcome. Seattle Civic Improvement Club holds annual basket picnic at Alki beach with members meeting between 10 and 11 at the shore.
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Writers’ Club
Erickson Club
E. L. Jenkins
Edith N. Smith
Civic Improvement Club
Seattle Civic Improvement Club
Alki
Adler-i-ka Ends Stomach Ailments Claims
Mrs Anna Wagner of Statesbury Missouri attests Adler-i-ka curbed her constipation and bowel troubles and expelled gas and sourness, claiming instant relief and complete flushing of the alimentary canal. The advertisement says it prevents appendicitis and often cures constipation. It is described as a buckthorn caseava glycerine and nine other simple drugs sold by Swift Drug Co and leading druggists.
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Adler-i-ka
Anna Wagner
Statesbury
Adler Lnt
Swift Drug Co
Dolly Hints at a Summer Trail and Brave Adventure
A diaristic letter from Dolly, age 26, reveals plans for a transformative summer. She reflects on loneliness, stalled romance, and a vow to pursue adventure on a train, investing her savings and risking her job to chase fate and new love.
Gift to Match the Ruined Pearls Promised by Certeis
Chrys reacts to the loss of the heirloom pearls and the extended drama of the Certeis engagement. Bob Lorimer and family maintain restraint as tensions rise around the impending marriage. The narrator notes Chrys coldly suppressing emotion while debating trust and intimacy in the couple. The chapter hints at a grand wedding gift and raises questions about who will retrieve the jewels and how.
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Chrys
Hamilton Certeis
Mother
Certeis
Bob
Altho
Katherine Miller
Jim, Jr
Mary
Frillin Frills for a 9 Year Old Miss
A description of a young girl's simple frock featuring tiered frills of fine white cotton net with picot edges and no ribbon sash. The accompanying white ermine bonnet is slashed to reveal a blue satin ribbon bow, tied with a rose edge.
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Miss
Milady
Erin
Vary Breads to Tempt Appetites
Tempt the capricious summer appetites with different varieties of breads. Nut bread and brown bread offer tasty sandwich options. Brown Bread uses cornmeal rye meal and whole wheat flour with molasses and buttermilk baked in steamer for three hours. Nut Bread mixes pecans or walnuts with custard maple sugar and butter then bakes after standing 25 minutes. Baking Powder Biscuit combines pastry flour salt and baking powder with shortening milk to form a soft dough, cut into rounds and baked. serve hot with berries sugar and cream.
Planes Crash Kills Three Birdmen in Panama
Panama July 28 The death toll from a collision between an army and a naval airplane includes Machinist’s Mate L J Thomas who died yesterday. Lieut Albert Ellis and Sergt Emil Von Berg were killed instantly in the crash.
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Panama
L. J. Thomas
Albert Ellis
Sergt
Emil von Berg
The Confession and the Racial Purity Question
A reader urges Miss Grey to clear a troubled conscience and confess past deceptions to restore peace. The letter shares a man’s path to forgiveness, then pivots to a controversial question about white racial purity and interracial marriage, arguing double standards and calling for moral accountability across races.
Alleged Bad Check Artist Arrested in Downtown Incident
G. W. Lang, 51, known as a bad check merchant, was arrested Sunday night by Detectives Lennan and Ben at Third Ave and Blanchard. Lang is charged with passing two $10 checks and one $5 check at downtown stores and is held on the charge.
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G. W. Lang
D. J. Lennan
R. E. Ben
Third Ave
Blanchard St
Lang Arer
Lang
Chinese in Battle Leave One Wounded at Ivy Hotel
Louis Wing, 40, a Chinese man, was shot four times by Louie Dee Ock at the Ivy hotel on Ave and King streets Saturday and is expected to recover. Wing has three bullet wounds and Ock, also Chinese, confessed during arrest but refused to talk at city jail. Both men are Bing Kung Tong members.
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Louis Wing
Louie Dee Ock
Ivy Hotel
Ave
King St
Providence Hospital
Wing
Ock
City Jail
Bing Kung Tong
Watch the Little Pimples They Are Nature's Warning
Alarmed by pimples and skin disfigurement this ad urges prompt blood cleansing with S. S. S. a vegetable remedy sold by druggists for over fifty years. It claims lotions cannot reach the source and offers free instructions from its chief medical adviser. Specific Co. 260 Swift Atlanta Ga.
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Swift Atlanta, Ga
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Wing Point Y
V. Stefansson
M. J. Carkeek
W. Stef
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Miss Cancey
Olympia
Howard Taylor
Sena¢ Taylor
M. Hodgson
Magnolia
L. K. Tappan
Co. H. Bartlett
Bridge
Creosote
Bainbridge
H. H. Canfield
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Walter H
Yakima
Betty Brainerd
Lieut. Cronkhite
Boldt’s
3D Ave
2D Ave
Grady
California
Rialto Building
Old Frederick & Nelson Bldg
Second Avenue
Alexander Baillie
Montgomery Russell
George BB. Nicoll
Paradise Inn
Frank Waterhouse
Gladys
Muriel
Mary Waterhouse
Hazel Archibald
Harrison Hot Springs
Pierre P. Ferry
Barbara
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Harry Whitney Treat
Victoria
Ellen Messer
Eunice Ford
Tacoma
Charles Castien
Charles Ross
A. C. MacCallum
C. W. Lea
Gleason
Pacific Beach
L. K. Yott
Vancouver
Pauline
Josephine Yott
St. Paul
George Raymond
Margery Stevens
Dorothea Sharples
Fort Lawton
Frank Allyn
Theodore Haller
J. W. Maxwell and Sons
Oakley and
Willard
J. F. Lane
Yellowstone Park
Grace Bradley
Orcas Island
Lawrence Bogle
W. Sherritt Barkley
Piedmont, Cal
Bogle
Mr. Ballinger
Marion Ballinger Berryhill
Washington, D. C
Alaska
Bruce Farris
Westminster
B. C
Hiram EB. Hadley
Mason Hawkins
C. W. Barbour
Yellowstone
C. J. Smith
Robert C. French
A. F. Overstreet
Green Castle
Ind
A. C. Malloy
Hutchinson, Kan
Edward W. Goss
Anne Turner
Lake Chelan
Charles BE. Patterson
Tom and
Hiram
Omar J. Humphrey
Lake Crescent
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Catherine Howe
Bellingham
Ellen Howe
Banff
Lake Louise
Dolly
Joan Dearest
Randy
Dorothea Saltonstall
Dorothea Saltonstall Varick
Joanie
Mrs. Stuart
Joan
Church Club
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Daddy Lorimer
Certels
Irene Castle
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Strand
Betty Brown
Cynthia Grey
Miss Grey
America
Nature
Heinrich Bros
Ana
Waich
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