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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1917
Page
3
A reader asks whether career or marriage suits a college student. The column urges not to rush into matrimony, encourages continuing education, and promises that the right partner will appear. Later, a crafts question about stiffening pink crocheted baskets is answered with guidance to avoid overcooking syrup and to add a touch of red ink for pink shade.
The Red Cross does not run a nurse training school. Applicants need a two year general hospital course with at least 50 beds and experience caring for men. Minimum age is 25. Pay is 50 dollars monthly in the United States and 69 abroad, plus maintenance travel and laundry allowances.
The Rainier Valley, along the Beattie Renton and Southern railway, blooms with war gardens on hillside and flat plots. Fr Hackman and Mrs Hackman cultivate a 50 by 40 foot plot behind their cottage at 9630 Getave, detailing dense plantings, tall peas, blue Victors potatoes, Danish Ball cabbages, scarlet runner beans, and a thriving diverse bed. They report rich yields, careful spacing, open walks filled, and lessons from a first gardening effort, including lime amendments and access to water.
Des Moines reports 1200 plus black trainees drilled ten hours daily and studying nightly at Fort Des Moines to serve in the war. Negro student officers receive praise as crowds note their bearing. leaders Dr. George W. Cabannis and Dr. Joseph H. Ward left lucrative careers to aid the effort.
Washington reports Uncle Sam's embargo on Germany tightens with a growing American export licensing system. A three permit process plus British assurances governs shipments, while neutrality squads monitor port activity. The goal is to replace British controls with a unified American export regime, reducing German access.
Summary of wholesale prices for fruits vegetables and meats with varied items including artichokes asparagus cantaloupe lettuce celery cucumbers and citrus. Also includes feed grains hay and farm staples with prices for hogs poultry and beef and notes on regional suppliers and package formats.
Judge Calvin A. Gantenbein of Portland received a 16 day leave from the Presidio to return home after the sudden death of his wife, leaving four sons and a baby daughter motherless. He said the family need may push him to abandon his army career and return to civil life after this leave.
Archie Reynolds and Albert Moore, both 29, inmates at the King county stockade, escaped yesterday by concealing themselves in a farm truck bound for the city. No trace of the pair was found by nightfall.
George Creel announces a bulletin granting Pacific Coast steamer owners permission to publish arrivals and departures of trans Pacific ships to and from Japan and China. The policy limits revealing vessel names routes and cargoes and may be canceled by the navy if needed.
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