Rotary club launches citywide Americanism drive for boys
A Seattle Rotary club plan aims to teach Americanism to every boy in the city. At a weekly luncheon, President King urged members to promote devotion to government to counter future sedition propaganda and instill patriotism in Young America.
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Seattle
Rotary Club
Young America
King
Boya India
Alex R. McFarlane
Vancouver
Rotary
Francia M. Rowley
Boston
American Humane Education Society
Sald
America
Mrs Ranke 70 Dies After Heart Failure in Seattle
Dora Duval Ranke 70 longtime Seattle resident died at 1117 Minorave Street early Tuesday morning from heart failure. Funeral plans have not yet been set. The obit notes Ranke's 36 years in Seattle and mentions a Rotary official and leaders in education and humane society discussing kindness and civic ideals.
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Dora Duval Ranke
Seattle
Minorave
Battle on Skis on Front in Archangel
Special to The Star describes winter warfare on the Archangel front where ski runners carry machine guns and shuttle supplies for both Allies and Bolsheviks. The Allies trained regiments to ski and Trotsky organized a ski brigade.
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N. B. AD Christiana
Archangel
Trotsky
Bathonians
Red Finna
Plan Victory Loan Dance by The Maccabees at Carpenters Hall
The Maccabees will host a Victory loan social dance on Thursday night at Carpenters hall 1620 Fourth Ave. The event promotes the victory loan drive and will be held at the Alki tent No 83.
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The
Carpenters’ Hall
Fourth Ave
Local Patent Medicine Prices List
A condensed price list shows common household remedies with varying costs. 50 Sloan's Liniment 50e Wizard Oil 30¢ Pond's Extract 25c Listerine 50¢ Listerine $1.00 Listerine 50¢ Lavoris Lysol (Genuine) are itemized alongside denominations, indicating typical consumer purchases.
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Sloan’s
Pond’s
Caminetti Endorses Nuxated Iron in Immigration Briefing
United States Commissioner General of Immigration Anthony Caminetti explains his use of Nuxated Iron. The ad promotes Nuxated Tron as easily assimilated and safe, claiming no teeth staining or stomach upset, with refunds if unsatisfied. Local druggists Cline Drug Co Martell Drug Co and Swifts Pharmacy carry the product.
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United States Commissioner General of Immigration
Anthony Caminetti
Iif
United States Commissioner of Immigration
Commissioner Caminetti
James Francia Sullivan
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Weatchester County Hospital
Caminetti
George H. Baker
Monmont Mortal Hospital
New Jersey
Rom
Jackson
Cal
California
California Assembly
State Senate
Congress
Cleveland
Haon
California Commission For
Caminett
Baker
Cline Drug Co
Martell Drug Co
Swifts Pharmacy
Books Sent to Men in Woods Support Reading Movement
John Anderson, a retired lumberman from Portland and Seattle, collects books and magazines for logging communities. He reports workers and employers value the reading material, with some companies paying express charges. Last year 182 camps received literature, aided by city blue boxes on street corners. Anderson plans to ship books via lumber schooners and notes higher demand due to daylight saving. Donations may be left in street boxes or at his Seattle office, 1932 Seventh Ave.
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John Anderson
Portland
Seattle
Anderton
Anderson
Puget Sound
Columbia River
Seventh Ave
Wells Urges Labor Party Backing Over War Boundary Row
Hulet M. Wells told the Central Labor council to back the labor party, denouncing President Wilson for meddling in the boundary dispute and calling the draft law against American liberty. He criticized Samuel Gompers and said the war’s end brings a chance to protect liberty won in the revolution. The labor party proposal came from a council committee.
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Wilson
Hulet M. Wells
Central Labor Council
Labor Party
Germany
Italy
Wells
Socialist Party
Samuel Gompers
Revoluton
Congress
Council
Yankee Sets New Letter Record in War Letters
Corporal W L McDoonough recalls Private William T Sheridan of the 194th Ammunition Train sending an ad seeking pen pals, triggering a flood of mail. Sheridan received 12 bags of first class and 2 trucks of second class mail, with funds and goods worth substantial sums, enough to equip two infantry companies.
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Paris
W. L. McDoonough
104Th Ammunition Train
29Th Division
Stars and Stripes
God's Country
New York
Chicago
Addrena
Southern Railway
William T. Sheridan
Brest Soldiers Escape From Fire Delousing Camp
Paris dispatch reports 150 soldiers sprinted from a burning delousing plant at Brest to shelter. Clothes left behind after de captieization caused a chaotic retreat as stripes and insignia were absent. Fatalities attributed to the incident are estimated in the thousands among the cootie family.
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Brest
Paris
Cootie
Yankee airmen frighten geese above the Moselle and Rhine
In Coblenz and Buren two area squadrons of American air service photo men fly over the Moselle Rhine valley. They capture hundreds of pictures of towns, fortifications, plants, and landscapes for war planning, while danger and accidents are part of daily operations.
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Coblenz
Moselle
Rhine
Germany
American Air Service
America
Buren
Trier
Strasbourg
Luxembourg
Army of Occupation
Rhineland
DieRema
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Butler Drug Company
Liniment Specials
Hobson
Palm Olive
Williams
Colgate
Mennen
Keith
Red Cross Kidney
Blue Jay
Red Cross
S. S
Secondh
James
Elliott
Wm. K Kerr
United States
Charlies A. Towne
Towne
William R. Kerr
Kerr
Pres. Wilson
Fiame
Yank
Porter
Artic
Porter Baking CO
George B. Jackson
Lincoln High School
DR. Long
L. D. Long
Kenwood
East
U Club
University Commercial Co
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