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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1918
Page
11
Kitsap County commissioners on Wednesday voted to build a ferry slip at Harper and to construct a road connecting to the main highway in line with King County resolutions adopted Tuesday. King County offered funds contingent on Kitsap completing the slip and highway project.
Exaggerated testimonial style ad promising clear skin through "pure blood" cleansing. Claims pimples, blackheads, eczema, and liver spots vanish in days and offers a free trial package and a 50 cent box via mail order. Domestic druggist purchase urged.
The Strand opens Saturday with Douglas Fairbanks and Katherine McDonald in Headin' South under Jensen & Von Herberg. The program includes One More American at the Coliseum, The Birth of a Nation at Clemmer, Real Folks at Mission, The Hand That Won at Colonial, and The Avenging Trail at Class A with Harold Lockwood.
The Seattle and King County Public Service Reserve reports about 6,000 members so far with 4,000 on file in county headquarters and 1,000 with enrolling officers. The drive aims for 30,000 and must intensify to meet the goal. all men not in active service or shipbuilding are urged to join if they show patriotism and a desire to serve the country.
U S marshals and customs officers seize liquor in Alaska since prohibition began. The confiscated cargo will be sent to Seattle once ice floes melt in Anchorage harbor. Question arises about its destination and use in Seattle.
An advertisement extols Getwit for removing corns and calluses with a few drops, promising no pain and easy peeling like a banana. It claims widespread sales, cost of 25 cents, and availability from K. Lawrence & Co in Chicago and Owl Drug Co in Seattle.
Dr Edwin J Brown announces move to 106 Columbia Street at First and Second Avenues in Seattle. He states his new entrance is at Columbia Street midway between First and Second Avenues and that he will not raise prices due to the war, hoping increased practice will offset higher costs. He asks to be known as the only man in Seattle who did not raise prices because of the war.
The Star reporter Victor Morgan, after studying conditions at the Swiss border, answers reader questions about wealth, food variation, Red Cross funding, women soldiers, caution cards, internment, border searches, the Basel border gate, the Belgian underground railroad, suspect lists, labor, prisoners, Constantine, the Kaiser’s sons, Frau Hofrat Becker, prisoner exchanges, and how German women in wartime work dress.
An advertisement touts Hyomel as a fast, safe cure for catarrh. It claims breathing the antiseptic into inflamed membranes kills germs, soothes soreness, and heals inflammation without stomach dosing. The piece urges readers to ask Bartell Drug for the Hyomel outfit today.
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children. It claims the product clears waste, bile and fermenting food within hours, restoring health and playfulness, and notes to ask for genuine California Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from the druggist.
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