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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1918
Page
14
The text presents a weekly meal plan labeled Loyalty Menus with daily breakfast lunch and dinner items. Entries include baked apple with cream, planked whitefish, cornbread, mutton with vegetables, oatmeal with applesauce, baked beans, hamburgers, beef heart, codfish dishes, oyster soup, and various desserts and beverages.
A Palm Beach fashion note introduces the Bagasoll a clever two-in-one accessory combining a knitting bag and parasol. The invention aims to ease hot day balancing acts and accessories while maintaining grace. The piece previews the product with a description of its opening and two-tone design.
Washington food administration warns of a wheat shortage exceeding 450 million bushels and urges the public to observe wheatless meals and substitute corn rye and barley flours. The appeal stresses Europe’s need and Hoover expects the public to conserve to ship remaining supplies.
War era essay by Winona Wilcox critiques how women practice food conservation. It argues many women focus on substitutes and buying without cooking, missing government aims. It suggests women join a defense corps and master diet economy as central wartime duty.
A fragmented statistical note discusses the ideal body weights for men and women as considered by leading American life insurers. The text appears partial and dated, with missing context and unclear figures.
Fashion notes present three new skirts in wool velours serges gaberdines and flannels. A plaid worsted full-plaited skirt with a 4 inch belt and trousers pockets priced at 12.50. A wool jersey skirt in bright rose green or blue with cord tucking and simple design priced at 16.50. Second Floor.
Warner's rust proof corsets offer seven new spring models for slim medium and stout figures. Models F-934 C-915 C-384 395 with varied pink brocade stripes white coutil and double material. Prices range from 1 50 to 3 50 plus brassieres 50c to 2.00 on the second floor.
Basement Salesroom offers women and children's middies in heavy twill all white or trimmed with color or stripes. Sizes range 12 to 20 years and 36 to 44 bust, priced at 95 cents and 1.25 dollars. Lip-over and coat styles included.
Robert E Lee and William Jennings Bryan join Uncle Sam's navy with Lee enrolling at the local naval recruiting station and Bryan’s namesake pledged to a 16 to 1 bet Kaiser Wilhelm II will not be admiral of the Atlantic. Lee favors the navy over cavalry, while Bryan Lurber was born days after the war’s close.
A note recalls the memorable presidential campaign of 1896 and identifies a Mason City native serving as a landaman for a ship's cook.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of the Interior Lane pressing for a faster test of the Giragossian free energy device the Garabed. Congress debates a time limit as suspicion grows that the inventor cannot back his claim and the test is said to take about 20 minutes.
Large selection of hats in rough straw satin chenille lisere and Georgette styles with trims. HE Shoe in gun-metal calf Blucher style priced at 2.00 for sizes 11 to 13 percent and 2.50 for 1 to 6. Boys' tan calf shoes on Munson last priced 3.50. Misses and children patent Vidi Kid button shoes range 1.95 to 3.00. Casement Salesroom and Basement Balesroom showcase black lacquer hats and quill trimmed novelties with tailored lines and single ornament accents.
Large array of Gingham Dresses in plaids and solids for school and play wear. Empire and middy styles with full skirts and sailor collars. Sizes 6 to 14 years priced 75 cents to 1.95 dollars in the basement salesroom.
Bargain lineup includes boys corduroy suits at six dollars, overalls and jumpers in blue or black denim, white overalls for carpenters and painters, work gloves, and shirts in sateen chambray and khaki with half-hose offered from the basement salesroom.
Sandwich boards help coeds sell thrift stamps at the university booths. The group invested 309.91 for thrift stamps with Helen Van Doren, secretary to Dean Charles H Parker, topping with 840 in sales at lunch. City thrift clubs form to boost War Savings, 277 Lyon building noted as headquarters. War savings run near 2 000 000 daily nationwide.
Hulet M Wells, Sam Sadler, Morria and Joe Pass were convicted recently in federal court of seditious conspiracy. All four have filed motions for a new trial.
Washington observers view the coming German offensive as camouflage to mask a broader strategy. Berlin seeks to isolate Russia with buffer states on its western border and the Baltic, then press an eastward drive to control industrially and politically via German capital. Russia’s Pacific access, and routes through Siberia and Persia, would threaten Asia and the U S. Germany aims to seize Ukraine grain and push into Finland, Sweden, Romania, and Petrograd via a strengthened axis with Austria and Ukraine.
The passage notes Odessa grain can travel by water up the Danube to Vienna and Constantinople while rail lines isolate Petrograd and North Russia from South Russian grain. PRA will throw them we open.
In March 1917 at Newport News a chalked warning on the Union Line steamer Rotorua warned it was its last voyage. Harry T. Gray, a Rotorua storekeeper who had arrived from New Zealand, recalls the ship’s February coal stop en route to England with soldiers and the later sinking in the English Channel, with uncertainty whether a torpedo caused it.
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