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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1918
Page
8
London June 17 The government under Lord Rhondda will require all Britons to register with retailers for tea purchases starting July 14. A nationwide ration may set a 2 ounce weekly limit with a 2s 84d per pound price cap to curb price-cutting and ensure supplies. Individuals must buy only from their registered dealer under the new scheme.
Vaudeville programs headline Camouflage at Moore with a tense counterfeiter plot and strong cast. Other acts include Davie and Pelle equilibrist duo, Carl McCullough travesties, Delliver's Birthday, Vaudeville Vagaries, Valente accordionists, and travel feature Waterfalls of Idaho. Oak theatre features Monte Carters Izzy at Alki Point with Hello Frisco hit and new soubrette Dixie Boyd, plus Mare Gardner ballet and Oak Trio encores. Broadway Jones at Wilkes showcases Ivan Miller in a comic musical tale of the gum factory.
The new Palace Hip show features Long Tack Sam and his troupe performing magic acrobatics contortion comedy singing and stunts. Gray and Jackson present On the Road to Frisco a clever patriotic skit. Lee Stoddard billed vaudeville premier ventriloquist. Billy Newkirk Homer Girls perform song and dance. Davis Evelyn offer banjo cello music. Fd and Lillian Roach present a comedy singing number Teaching a Goop to Sing.
Seattle theaters present a lively bill headlined by Billy Holliday in Hit-the-Trail Holliday at Liberty with George M. Cohan and True Blue at Clemmer starring William Farnum. Colossal Fairbanks action in Say, Young Fellow at Coliseum and Elsie Ferguson in A Doll’s House at Strand accompany The Only Road at Mission and The Planter with Tyrone Power at Colonial.
Mrs. James J. Sherry 60 of 1402 N 50th st collapsed at Colman dock while en route to Camp Lewis to visit her son George E. Sherry. She died of heart failure a few minutes later. Accompanied by daughter Mrs. J. L. Garake of Rend Oregon. Funeral at St Benedicts church Tuesday at 9:30 AM.
A high grade American semi porcelain 50 piece dinner service in Colonial shape with heavy gold band and gold line. Decorated in simple graceful outline. Service for six persons priced at $22.25. Third Floor.
Window shades in green or tan 36 by 84 inches with nickel fixtures self acting roller. Green Water color shades 36 by 84 inches mounted on automatic rollers. Machine made Green Oil opaque shades on Hartshorn rollers 36 inches long. First Floor.
Dean Arthur Priest reports Washington soldiers in France as highly productive with Maj. Allison lauded for leadership. A major bread bakery under construction aims to produce 500000 loaves daily. Contagious illnesses and mumps kept many in hospitals as 1600 Washington men received a Mother's Day treat.
Large crowds head to Tacoma on Sunday for a military riding exhibition paying one dollar round trip under a new Puget Sound Navigation rate set by the state public service commission. The fare is fifty four cents one way, up ten cents, effective Saturday June 15. War profiteering accusations have been filed with the commission against the Navigation company by local residents.
Miss Ella Forbes of 4314 Thackery Place has learned her Chelan school class won a national prize for bird observation reflecting student achievement in natural science.
Funeral services for Frank Smith were held Sunday at Collins Bros undertaking chapel, reflecting community mourning and honoring the deceased.
Washington June 17 Senator Poindexter responds to honors and club organizing at Kent and Tacoma saying he prefers active life and does not seek retirement to the vice presidency while thanking supporters for the suggestion.
Twenty Mexican newspaper editors will visit Seattle on the 2nd and 3rd. The program aims to strengthen U.S.-Mexico ties with entertainment and sightseeing arranged by the Chamber of Commerce for visitors from across the nation.
The 161st company D auxiliary will hold a meeting at the chamber of commerce assembly rooms at 8 p m on Monday.
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