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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1920
Page
8
A reader recounts chronic muscle pains in the thigh easing after using Foley’s Kidney Pills. The testimonial notes relief from backache rheumatic pains and stiff joints following a friend's recommendation at Lottie hotel Plansville.
New York March 1 The American Telephone and Telegraph company reports 1919 net earnings of 60 million dollars. Dividends total 25.906 million and interest charged 15 million. Balance added to surplus 4 million and to contingencies 5.0009 million. The firm has paid at least 7.50 a share in dividends for 28 years and 4 a share for 13 straight years. Shareholders on December 21, 1919 numbered 120,480, up for the year.
In Angeles on March 1 Yoichi Yau, a Japanese interpreter, told the court “Oosu tsuki.” Judge Trippett sentenced him to nine months for contempt after questioning a female interpreter about payments. Interpreters described the remark as meaning you are a liar.
The German potash syndicate says it can supply only one third of domestic demand this year. The domestic need totals 15,000,000 double hundredweights, with foreign orders nearly matching that amount.
For the year ending December 1919 total imports to the United States amounted to 13 904 406 327 dollars, up from 3 031 212 710 in 1918. Total exports for the period were 7 922 150 592 dollars, compared with 6 149 087 645 in 1918.
The ad claims Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood after flu and relieves fatigue, loss of appetite, anemia, and nerve exhaustion. It says the remedy improves digestion and nourishment, restores appetite, and brings back cheerfulness and energy, with Hood's Pills as a gentler laxative.
A bustling program features Harold MacGrrath's The Luck of the Irish at Liberty, with Colburton and Ruth in a globe-spanning romance aided by Irishman Grogan. Ford Weekly and Strand bring Other Men's Shoes and Mind the Paier Girl, while William Farnum's Heart Strings headlines the Coliseum lineup with a melodramatic tale of sacrifice and redemption.
A mixed film page reviews two features at Rex and Strand. Dardanella directs a tale of moral transformation led by a deaf patriarch and crooks, while Mind the Paint Girl follows Anita Stewart from slum to stage stardom. The Colonial showcases The Walk Off with Allleen as a society woman.
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