Alexander Mystifies Patrons at Metropolitan Performances
The Metropolitan theatre hosts a mystic act where Alexander answers audience questions from a sealed envelope and claims to reveal personal details. The show includes slate messages from unseen relatives controlled by a critic, with other acts by the Monarch Dancing Four and Fuller and Vance completing a varied program.
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Alexander
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Theatre
France
The
Palace Hip
Monarch
Fuller
Vance
Miss Vance
Michael Emmet
Birney
Faber and Burnet
Lemon Juice For Freckles
Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white for a quarter pint of freckle and tan lotion. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and blemishes and achieve clear soft white skin.
Soviet Rule Is Hope of Russia by Robins Report
Washington July 29 Raymond Robins head of the Red Cross mission in Russia provides the latest intimate details on conditions there in a report to the state department and White House. His long stay through the revolution and travels gave him first hand knowledge and a rare view of Soviet Russia. However officials caution Robins must withhold certain diplomatic and military reasons for silence, while the public learns little of his views.
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BE. A
Washington
Russia
Raymond Robins
State Department
White House
Robina
Red Cross
Republic
Robing
Chicago
New York
Jean
Robins
300000 Men in Next Draft Call Exceeds by October
Washington July 29 August draft calls expected to reach 300000 men from the provost marshal general reports indicate Class 1 will be exhausted by October 1. Congress must act quickly on the new manpower bill when it reconvenes August 19 and a new registration of men turning 21 will be held before October.
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Washington
Congress
Volunteer nurses sought for service in national defense
Under the National Council of Defense and King County Patriotic Service, a campaign to enroll 25 000 nurses has begun. Volunteers will start training immediately at camps and schools, with a two to three year course. fewer than 25 volunteers enrolled so far, and more enlistments are urged.
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National Council of Defense
King County Council of Patriotic Service
Survivors of Italian Steamer Giuseppe G Arrive Rio
The British steamer Ardgrange arrived in Rio de Janeiro with survivors from the Italian Giuseppe G, sunk July 24 while carrying wheat from Buenos Aires. Seven persons were lost. The Giuseppe G was a 3456 ton steamer.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Ardgrange
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janieiro
Entertainers Offer Juggling and Comedy at Oak Theatre
Pollard and Hie Little Bull provide juggling and amusing monieg acts. Monte Carter stars as a Yakima banker in this week’s Oak Theatre comedy. Inzy travels from Yakima to Seattle with his wife and daughter and roams a boarding house where Lexy courted by an operatic singer and Izzy’s wife, Blanche Gilmore, shows jealousy.
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Pollard
Hie Little Bull
OAK
Monte Carter
Yakima
Oak Theatre
Inzy
Seattle
Atopa
Lexy
Izzy
Blanche Gilmore
New Traffic Records Aimed at Curbing Reckless Driving
Traffic observers and the Chamber of Commerce with the Superintendent of Public Utilities plan a program to reduce accidents in Seattle. A central police station records list auto owners detected driving recklessly or violating car ordinances. George Eloson of Fort Blakley, 59, died at home. services are Sunday at Port Hinkeley Church.
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Seattle
Chamber of Commeres
Morphine
Central
George Eloson
Fort Blakley
Port Hinkeley
Prostration Patient Praises Lydia Pinkham Remedy
West Philadelphia resident Mrs. Fauxk Frevomate reports thirty years of poor health and nervous prostration. After using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained strength and can do housework. She urges other women with nervous symptoms to seek the remedy and contact Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn, Massachusetts. The letter highlights the company’s forty years of experience assisting similar cases.
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West Philadelphia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Fauxk
Red Front Clothing to Reopen With Fire Sale
The Red Front Clothing Company at 1508 1510 First Ave will reopen Wednesday at 9 am after a July 7 fire. Insurance was adjusted and the entire $60,000 stock will be sold at fire sale prices, including Society Hart Schaffner Marx clothing and Walkover shoes.
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Red Front Clothing Company
First Avenue
Rogers
H. M. Rogers
Seattle
Hed Front Clothing Company
Society
Hart
Schaffner & Marx
Walkover
Johnson & Murphy
Stetson
Arrow
Monarch
Medlicott
Eagle
First Ave
Hurley records first year as U S Shipping Board chair
Washington July 29 J N Lurley reviews a year as chairman noting 182 ships completed totaling 1 420 000 deadweight tons 790 keels laid 819 shipways built and shipbuilding army expanded from 45 000 to 250 000 men He highlights higher ocean freight rates 25 percent and the addition and use of 118 German and Austrian owned vessels and their allotment to allied service plus requisitioning of 86 weavels from Holland and chartering of 215 neutral ships for transatlantic work.
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Washington
U 8. Shipping Board
J. N. Lurley
Vemwela
Holland
Transatantic
Three Ships Launched At Beattle Shipyards In One Night
Beattle shipyards sent three vessels into the water Saturday night totaling 23 000 tons. The 9 600 ton oil tanker L J Drake was launched by the Ames plant. Skinner Eddy launched the 8 800 ton steel freighter Weat Hobomac. Patterson McDonald yard sent the Herring a 4 200 ton wooden steamship. The L J Drake tanker was built for Standard Oil and later commandeered by shipping board officials. Sponsor Mrs Laure Miller the daughter of L J Drake vice president of Standard Oil christened the vessel. The Weat Hobomac is a government contract ship launched in a record 49 working days.
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Mre Laure
Miller
L. J. Drake
Standard Oil Company
Skinner & Eddy
10000 Shipyard Workers Added to Seattle Plan
United States government announces that over 10,000 additional shipyard workers will be sent to Seattle. Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding will hire 4,500. Skinner and Eddy and 4 F Duthie plants expect 1,000 each. other yards receive 3,000 to 4,000 more. Campaign to encourage property owners to build homes is advancing.
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United States
Seattle
Oil Importer Starts Pacific Coast Inspection Tour
Frank W. Young, vice president of Rodgers, Brown and Co. the largest Oriental oil importers on the Pacific coast, left Seattle last week for an extensive tour of Japan, China and Manchuria to investigate raw materials used to produce oil. Rodgers, Brown and Co. have subsidiary concerns in all principal Pacific coast cities.
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Frank W. Young
Rodgers, Brown & Co
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Japan
China
Manchuria
Fifteen Vessels Launched and Two Completed This Week
Washington reports 15 vessels launched in the week ending July 25, totaling 72 458 tons. Eight ships were completed during the same period, raising total ships completed since the Shipping Board's creation to 250 with capacity over 1 500 000 tons.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Japanese Shipping Undergoes Change in Canada
Victoria Times reports a decline in Japanese shipping trade in Canada. Nippon Yusen Kaisha plans to shift the Toyooka Maru from Pacific to Shanghai service and other schedule changes are expected. Government vessel chartering limits US embargoes and ship control rules cited as contributing factors.
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Victoria Times
Canada
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Pacific
Shanghai
United States
Hoffman Arrested for Attempted Ham Theft in City
Lee Hoffman was arrested on First Avenue after attempting to steal a ham from an Armour & Co. wagon. He sits in the city jail in default of a $200 bond, awaiting trial.
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Lee Hoffman
Armour & Co
First Ave
Hoffman Isa
Italians Foil Hun Sea Raid
Rome reports Italian admiralty relieved by the destruction of three Austrian dreadnoughts weeks ago. The raid planned by central powers would have pounded Mediterranean bases. Austria’s losses crippled its battle line, leaving the German aided fleet weakened against Italy and allies.
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Rome
Germany
Mediterranean
Powera
Dardenelles
Pola
France
Gibraltar
Austria
Linen Dresses on Special Tuesday Collection
A new group of high grade Linen Dresses features coatee style coats with white pique and gingham plaids in Copenhagen blue flesh rose green orchid and white. Priced originally 15.00 17.50 and 19.50 now on Special Tuesday in sizes 34 to 46. Also includes plaid striped gingham and Voile dresses with pockets and batiste trims.
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Copenhagen
Voile
Batiste
Best Blood Remedy S. S. S. for Catarrh Relief
Purges catarrhal poisons from the blood to stop throat drip hawking and nasal sores. Claims catarrh stems from impoverished blood and cold contact. Recommends S. S. S. proven over 50 years ago as a tested true and tried remedy.
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Lewyvvyy
Madison
Gilson Gardner
Vrance
U. S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps
U. S
U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Station
Wester Way
Pacific Ave
Tacoma
EB. Huren
Aberdeen
U. S. Marine
Lydia Pinkham
Great Store
Hi. M. Rogers
Gaplaya
SILK
Furnitur
Rhodes Co
Reg
Stahl
Fourth Ave
Bothell
Harry Tnh Prietor
Ind
S. S
Swift Laboratory
Lanta, Ga
Royal Rochester
Speler & Hauribut Avenue
Union Street
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