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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1917
Page
2
A Bon Marche sale page promotes 36 inch Cretonnes up to 40c a yard in about 70 designs including Chintz and Tapestry, new Cretonnes at 35c, curtain nets from 19c to 49c a yard in Madras and Filet weaves, with wide width options and finishing details.
Men’s rain coats offered at six and a quarter dollars in good mixtures with velvet collars. Formerly priced twelve dollars and fifty cents, now discounted to six dollars and twenty-five cents.
Stephen A Hull of 711 Madison St offers three 60 by 121 foot lots at Lot 17 Mock 001 Gillman's addition near Thorndyke Ave and Ballard bridge for free from April 1 to any worthy applicant who wishes to farm or garden the land, in a public spirit gesture.
Wry commentary on patriotic homes in Tacoma with red roofs white weather boards and blue basements. Citizens protest a 9 o'clock curfew and plan an upris ing action. Cartoonish humor mentions Kaiser British Isles framing and Uncle Sam rings. Alma Gluck quotes about war spute. Brains as a birthday gift line ends.
Harvard Hasty Pudding Club members face restrictions on appearing bare legged in their dance burlesque show. The piece notes they are American citizens and mocks the idea that only a Russian alien could get away with such behavior in the country.
Annette Kellerman begins a second week of engagement at the Moore theater starring in George Fox's The Daughter of the Gods. The film features beautiful women and scenes, described as a beautiful production and well worth viewing.
Dr. M. A. Matthews of the First Presbyterian church preached that a degenerate sinner cannot save himself and must be regenerated by divine power. He argued that change is impossible because it is in the blood, using the leopard proverb and the Ethiopian question to illustrate inherent nature.
Official denial from Petrograd states former Czar Nicholas did not escape his guards at Tearkoe Selo. Messages received here confirm the new regime will honor all financial obligations undertaken by the previous government.
Latona Bridge will be closed to traffic from 9 o'clock Monday night until an early hour Tuesday morning as government workmen dredge beneath it.
Philadelphia dispatch reports interned German sailors from cruisers Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich guarded by 500 police and 200 marines were loaded onto trains and sent to internment camps at Forts Oglethorpe and McPherson in Georgia.
A nine-pound boy was born last night to Mr and Mrs Chet Neff in Los Angeles. The newborn and mother are reported to be doing nicely. Chet Neff, a Seattle lightweight boxer, is the father and will return home soon.
A brief notice sells two clasp style shoes described as smooth fitting and easily washed with soap and water. They come in white gray and beaver brown with plain stitching on the backs and are priced at 1.25 dollars per pair.
40 inch chiffon sold in 75 yard amounts for millinery and party dresses with trims. Available in colors including black white Nile green cream dark green cerise brown silver emerald Copenhagen violet flesh color sky blue Delft blue lavender turquoise navy gray old rose apricot wistaria and king's blue. Basement salesroom.
Berlin reports a government statement that in the last few days German U boats have sunk 25 steamers 14 sailing ships and 37 trawlers in addition to previously disclosed losses totaling 76 ships.
Edgar Frank former amateur 125 pound world wrestling champion and noted all around athlete died in Michael Rees hospital Chicago following hip abscess operation. He served as chairman of the registration committee of the Pacific Northwest association.
George Vaux Bacon, an American newspaper man arrested in England as a spy, pleaded guilty before Judge Van Fleet to a conspiracy against a friendly nation and was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.
Vancouver reports three of nine miners trapped in the Pueblo mine at White Horse have been rescued. No sign yet that the remaining six are alive, as rescue efforts continue amid uncertainty.
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