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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
3
An old advertisement markets Chinese and American firecrackers serpents and paper caps with notes on license requirements and pricing. It invites orders via Steve at 719 King Street and promises prompt filling from a warehouse outside city limits.
Definite arrangements for summer swimming instruction were made by the park commissioners and the school board. Instruction will begin shortly after July 4, from 4 to 5 p.m., with three instructors supplied by the schools at Alki Green Lake and Madrona beaches. Ice cream sales in parks by the Parent Teachers Associations will fund patriotic purposes, under Director Mrs Martha Steele. The Knights of Pythias received permission to use Volunteer Park on July 2 for a patriotic show.
A pine and fir guitar crafted in Skagit County by W Stratton of Port Orchard was donated to The Star tobacco fund. Stratton, with two sons in service, plans to dispose of the instrument to raise funds for Yanks in trenches and hospitals. Mrs. K Glover of Concrete sent $15 to The Star tobacco fund and continues monthly support. Tickets for auto prizes are on sale at 612 Second Ave with draws set to stop July 14 or sooner. 40,000 tickets max.
A list of stores offering auto tickets for a Tobacco Fund in France appears with numerous shop names and addresses across Second Avenue, Pike, First Avenue, and surrounding blocks. It includes Meadquartere, J Dicard Ceetdental, Yeeler, M A Gunet, J W Brewster, Tinted Cigar Storee Co, and United Cigar Stores Co among many others.
A wartime notice invites readers to clip and mail tobacco offers to support American troops in France. Each dollar buys four packages priced at 45 cents each, with a postage card inside for a soldier to send a thank you message.
City officials and Puget Sound Traction Light and PowerCo discuss an exchange of privileges to improve street car service for shipyard workers. Capt J F Hain of the Shipping Board urges a city traction joint effort or government takeover. City officials seek Third Ave municipal operation during the war and insist the company satisfy franchise obligations. The state supreme court rulings support the city on gross earnings tax and on paving requirements near tracks.
Malcolm Judkins and Stanley Chinery both 12 are missing after taking a small white rowboat from Mrs A H Kopp and spending Friday night near Magnolia bluff. Police patrols search Puget Sound area as authorities track their course toward open water.
Soldiers from Seattle serving with Company L, 161st Infantry in France found a dirty sleeping boy in a Y M C A hut. They bathed him, clothed him, cut his hair, sent him to school, and plan to bring him to Seattle after the war if he wishes. Pat lost his father at Verdun and his mother soon after. funds from Company LL auxiliary will feed clothe and educate him. Christmas packages to Companies L and M arrived six months late, some marked Dont Open Until Christmas.
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