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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
7
A reader urges Thrift Stamp purchases to support W S S drives. She cites wartime units from khaki to blue and white symbols, noting soldiers, sailors, pilots, and families as reasons to invest. Government warnings against eviction by profiteering landlords are mentioned as broader wartime safeguards.
The piece argues for decisive offensive war aims to defeat Kaiser Wilhelm and push American and Allied forces into Germany. It declares the need to carry the war into German soil, reach Berlin, and defeat the Kaiser to avoid future conflicts. It frames American resolve as essential to ending the war and portrays obstruction as unacceptable.
In Be Something in a Name township Barber county Kansas every resident able to work grows food. The 140 people here pledged Liberty Loan bonds totaling 6300 with a ratio that would imply a national subscription of about 47 billion dollars or 15 times the government ask. The note ends by praising Bill Hohenzollern of Potsdam.
The Indiana Daily Times denounces traitors and profiteers who raise rents while Americans fight abroad and at home. The piece calls for accountability, labeling those who profiteer as the lowest in the social scale and pledging harsher consequences.
An advertising style notice extols cleansing the blood to prevent diseases and impurities. It lists conditions tied to impurity such as rheumatism catarrh scrofula eczema and malaria and promotes S S S as a decades old remedy with free literature from the Swift Specific Company in Atlanta Georgia.
The death warrant of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy is signed amid famine and revolt. Czecho Slovaks and other subject nations declare independence. Masaryk leads the Bohemian republic provisional government in exile, with troops fighting for the Allies. Bohemian mission members in America enlist youths to join France. Lieutenant Holy and Niederle recount desertion from Austrian army and service for the Allies.
The notice urges readers to sign letters with name and address and to avoid writing on both sides of the page. It notes that unsigned letters may be rejected and that letters over 250 words have little chance of publication. Readers are asked to indicate if they do not want their name published.
In a June Star letter KB J argues against rent reductions to 1917 or 1914 levels. He cites higher coal, wood, supplies and labor costs since winter 1916-17 and defends apartment owners’ margins. He urges fair-house commissions and expenses-based rent, warning sweeping price controls would bankrupt owners.
A house blaze in the KH Keown residence prompted a quick fire alarm after a daughter alerted HM Tracy. Firefighters controlled the blaze, attributed to a kerosene stove, as residents watched. The incident underscores wartime caution and swift civic response.
Charles I. Taylor, a King County employee living at 4115 Seventeenth Avenue Booth, says Tanlac relieved his years of stomach trouble, indigestion, gas, and headaches. He reports improved appetite, energy, and sleep and says he can eat meat again without discomfort. Bartell Drug Stores in Seattle sell Tanlac through a special representative.
The text describes dry catarrh as a condition following a chronic head cold. It states the lining of the bone including blood vessels and nerves can shrink and waste, affecting the bone itself. The tone is medical, outlining pathological change linked to prolonged nasal inflammation.
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