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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1917
Page
4
An advertisement touts Q-Han Hair Color Restorer as a safe permanent solution to gray hair. It claims natural color, health benefits, and money-back guarantees, with ordering details from Owl Drug Co Bartell Drug Co and Heassig-Ellis Drug Co Memphis Tennessee.
The Woman's Army Against Waste repeats its enlistment coupon in The Star for the final time. Sign and mail your name and address to the Waste Editor to be included in the muster roll sent to the Department of Agriculture after tabulation. Notable officers include Mrs Handsaker and several volunteers who boosted signups.
The Federal Trade Commission files a formal complaint accusing over 100 Western lumber firms of conspiring to undermine mail order houses selling lumber and building materials. The dealers are ordered to appear in Washington on July 31 to answer the charges.
The article cites Julius Von Gerat, deputy sheriff, and Mise Katherine L Braden as a couple wed by a license filed, with residence listed at 1112% Denny Way. It also reports new officers Hodgeson and Hickerson at the adjutant general's office and honors for Jabez Nelson and Kenneth Beaton by the Press Club on Thursday.
A directive asks the reader to sign the coupon with their name and address and mail it to the Waste Editor at The Star. The item reads as a household or community submission instruction found in a periodical. It reflects an audience task rather than a reportable event with outcomes.
The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Washington ends its 60th annual two day convention in Seattle with officer elections. More than 500 delegates from across the state attend at the Masonic temple on Harvard Avenue and Pine Street. The Amaranth hosts a separate one day convention with 200 delegates as Mayor Gill gives the welcome. Delegates toured to Bremerton in the afternoon.
Spugeen Wieeman of Hamilton and Agnes Warfield of Concrete were married at Madison Park in A. W. Davis's airplane. After a flight to the clouds they landed at the hangar ten minutes later and received a baptismal ducking as water spilled from the craft.
The Stone Avenue bridge over Lake Washington will be cut Friday and the Fremont Bridge opened simultaneously. Traction Company cars will use the Fremont span, with city payment settled later. A breach for ship passage will exist within 48 hours after wrecking begins, and the opening celebration is moved to July 4 with Lake Washington Canal Association plans.
A reader questions calling a train acquaintance after a pleasant ride with him and two friends. The adviser says it would be proper for the mother to invite him to call at the home. Other questions cover underage marriage and elopement, and a young woman asking if a hesitant partner loves her or is using her for jealousy.
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