Patriotist Widow Refuses government Checks in 1918 Letter
Mrs Emma Brantley of McAdoo Texas writes from the home front praising war effort and returns November December allotment checks totaling 70 to the Treasury. A Washington reply commends her patriotism and suggests reinvestment in Liberty bonds or War Savings certificates. Hog Island publicity staff salaries noted as 2000 a month.
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Emma Brantley
McAdoo
Texas
Treasury
Warren
Treasury War Risk Insurance
Washington, D. C
Tex
Berlin
Mrs. Brantley
Bureau of War Hiak Insurance
Treasury Department
W. G. Madoc
Hog Island Company
Hog Island
Red Cross
Mr. Hen
Bill
Hoover
West Seattle War Garden Drive Mobilizes Citizens
West Seattle people rally to grow food for the war effort following Herbert Hoover’s appeal. Residents call Welfare Commission to list vacant lots and arrange ground planting or plowing via local officials. The Star offers garden lessons under County Agriculturist Floyd and notes Seattle’s high plant and car counts.
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West Seattle
Herbert Hoover
West Tes
West
Seattle
Councilman County-City
Seattle's effort to curb vice faces jaillike quarantine
The Interned Women Seattle drives a nationwide plan to suppress vice with a quarantine station in a public safety building. Critics call it a jail with a grim, dark floor and no exercise for confined girls, arguing sunshine and country locations would better aid minds affected by sorrow amid war rhetoric and War Thrift Stamps appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
United States
Gual
Camp Lewis
Public Safety Building
Germany
Russia
Belgium
Testimony on Fruitola and Traxo Relieving Gall Stone Pain
Nashville resident W C Dillehay credits Fruitola with relieving his wife’s severe gall stone attack after doctors urged operation. He urges others to try the remedy, made by Pinus Laboratories in Monticello NL, without prescription.
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W. C. Dillehay
Morton Street
Nashville
Tenn
Pinus Laboratories
Dillehay
Monticello
Mont
Analysis of War Moves by J W T Mason Tro Unite Press
The article argues Zeppelins are a costly myth in modern warfare as Allied air power grows. It notes Hindenburg’s limited aircraft, a shift back to Zeppelins for London raids, and rising American involvement expected to tilt air superiority in the Allies' favor. It frames Zeppelin raids as a cautious but necessary tool amid evolving aviation dynamics.
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J. W. T. Mason
Unied Press
Germany
Hindenburg
Great Britain
von Hindenburg
West Front
Paris
London
England
America
Garden Lesson No 15 on crop rotation and succession
The article explains crop rotation and succession in garden planning. It suggests sowing lettuce and radishes with later peas or parsnips and carrots with kale and beets, recommends avoiding same or closely related crops in same spot for two years, and advises planting root or foliage crops to interrupt disease cycles while starved crops and resistant choices reduce pests.
Beauty Lotion From Lemon Juice And Orchard White
A home mixture blends juice from two lemons with orchard white to create a quarter pint skin lotion. Strain to remove pulp and store in a bottle for months. Applied daily on face neck arms and hands it may lighten and smooth the complexion at low cost.
Unclear ad touts phonograph records in quirky mirth
A fragmented OCR advert mocks home music storage and needle care with humor about a phonograph and records, ending with a strange prompt about standing naked before a mirror in the ad copy.
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United Presse Association
Seattle Wash
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Star Publishing Co
Beck
ROF
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Der
Kaiser
Caesar
William
Nero
Mach
Wilhelm
William von
William von Hohenzollern
Lucifer
Heaven
Milton
Hell
Right Divine
Aasecialon
Floyd Rader County Agriculturist
Kline
RH. Kune CO
Oor
Union ST
IKX
Colyum
Seattle Restaurant Co
Trotsky
Henry A. Greene
Jimmy Greene
Madelaine
Patriota
Unele
Pisa
Stetson
the Star
Sretaon
Mr. Steteon
Jurey
Jack Horner
Ile
Cascarets
Benjoy Iife
Art
J. Brown
Mer
Orpheum Theatre
Third
Madison St
Will
Brock la
Rome
Maslin
Express
O’hara
O'Hara
Oe Market
P. J. O'Hara
O’hara’s
First Avenue
Pike Street
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