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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1917
Page
5
The Christian Endeavor Union denounces the Easter dress parade accusing it of drawing attention to new clothes rather than the resurrection and the meaning of Easter. The critique frames the event as a moral distraction during the holiday.
A fragmented note argues German editors and their autocrat favor restraining press tensions with President Wilson. It suggests retaliation by the American press is possible but cautions against a newspaper fight, referencing a Pittsburg report on hog prices and a whimsical line about a cow jumping over the moon.
The piece debates farmers versus bosses in political influence, mentions Vrooman and Sullivan in cabinet fights, notes a circus offer for Billy Sunday, and argues pacifists enable autocracy while urging strength and timely peace. It reflects partisan tensions and antiwar sentiment.
May O Neil of 400 Harrison St opposes a bone dry law and asks why the legislature changes a people backed prohibition. She warns bootlegging will rise and argues each person should decide to drink or not.
Aged column mixes politics and fashion with humor about women’s rights and men’s roles. It cites Miss Jeanette Rankin and notes shifts in who decides about war and gendered expectations, ending with a quirky digression on barbering and hair trends.
A war poem reflects on casualties and meaning amid global conflict. The speaker questions official narratives as a single soldier lies dead and another wounded, urging readers to consider human cost beyond grand reports and rulers.
Eleven departments at the University of Washington vote to drop the senior examinations long debated between graduates and faculty. Examinations, however, will continue in some form.
The excerpt notes that all seniors majoring in Journalism English and chemistry face a requirement while the college of engineering forest ry mines pharmacy law and the library economy have never required seniors to take senior examinations.
A home prescription claims to improve eyesight by 50 percent in a week. Ron-Opto tablets dissolved in water are used as an eye wash two to four times daily. Doctors endorse the remedy as non patent medicine with a printed formula and a money back guarantee if not effective.
Lester learns Felix Armand uses a hidden cabinet mechanism to execute traitors with a poisoned stab to the right hand. Godfrey and Simmonds tail Armand, uncover a dead man and a giant assailant, and reveal the scheme ends with Armand’s secret power threatened by a treacherous act.
A confused memory shows Godfrey pausing over a body and sprinting to a doorway. He crashes the door with force as hall laughter echoes, then kicks it in. The narrator, in a trance, retreats down the stairs and sits on a step while Godfrey returns in frustration.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsia as the quickest most certain stomach antacid. It claims rapid relief from indigestion heartburn and gas with a fifty cent case available at drug stores for home use. The copy urges readers to keep it on hand for daytime or night attacks and dietary mishaps.
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