Letters From Cynthia Grey Offer Modern Life Advice
In her column Cynthia Grey discusses cleanliness at home and the social impact of odor and tobacco. A reader asks about a long‑lost daughter seeking her mother and requests help to exchange addresses through the column.
Advice for the longing mother in a debate on search and secrets
A reader questions whether a mother should reveal a past out of wedlock to a daughter raised by others. The letter weighs pain, honesty, and risk, advising adoption of another child instead, to spare the daughter from a “beautiful lie.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Grey
Problems of Wives of Missing Men
A letter to Miss Grey discusses marriage before a husband goes to war and the fate of wives when husbands go missing. It raises questions about pay, pensions, remarriage, divorce, and proving death after long legal procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Grey
Enoch Arden
Vanity and valor in a two-ton hippo at the circus
The Sells Floto circus brings Ron the hippo to Fourth Ave and Lenora for two days starting Monday June 24. Girls admire him in the parade while Ron aids Red Cross efforts and offers a one dollar kiss to raise funds for “Over There.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Ben
Red Cros
Tacoma Man Gains Fifteen Pounds on Two Bottles Tanlac
C A Truman of Tacoma describes long battle with catarrh of the stomach and weight loss. After using Tanlac he reports regained appetite, sleep, relieved headaches and back pain, and a fifteen pound gain after two bottles. Tanlac sold in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores under a Tanlac representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taniac
C. A. Truman
Mr. Truman
Tacoma
Tanlac
Tanilac
Seattle
Bartell Drug Stores
I Confess The Wife A Memoir Of Love And Moral Inquiry
In a reflective scene Margie questions how men judge love and the worth of Dick, praising his generosity and flaws. She recalls talks about how men value others and how women are rarely measured by the same standards, then encounters Barclay Sill as the scene ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Margie
Prince of
Altho
Malcolm Stuart
Lady Sylvia
Sam
Americans Capture More Hun Prisoners
On the Marne front American patrols crossed the river and brought back a number of prisoners. Gas attacks were used to a great extent in Lorraine and in the Weevre region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marne
Lorraine
Weevre
Texas Guard cavalry plan reassured by federalization
Dallas June 21 Gov William P Hobby said the 14 000 Texas National Guard cavalry would be federalized and used for border duty under war department authority The move aims to quell fears that the force would be deployed against Mexico amid German propaganda claims and renewed Mexican tensions. The governor noted his authority was to raise the guard and hand it to the federal government to address the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas National Guard
Mexico
Willam P. Hobby
War Department
Gov. Hobby
Also Mentioned on This Page
Doug Fairbanks
Greater Coliseum Symphonic Orchestra
Pike
Elsie Ferguson
Ibsen
GEO. M
Cohan
Holliday
Star Liberty Weekly
Jean Third & Pike
War Mothers’ League
Patriotic League For Women's Service
Soldiers and Sailors
Port Townsend
Preas Club
Fifth Ave
University St
Canadian Pacific
Switzerland
Alaska
Canadian Pacific RY
Second Ave
Columbia
Phonograph
Cynthia Grey
Mina Grey
Mixa Grey
Stevens
Young Lady Assistants
4Th Ave
New York City
Columbia ST
Edwin J. Brown
Vb. S
First Ave
Columbia At
First
Second Aves
Beattie
Barclay Sill
Otto I Algll
Grafonola
Grote-Rankin
Texas Cavalry
Ing
Paibles
Sterling Dentistry
Bradbury
Second Avenue