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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
6
Tallard Eagles Aerie 172 will host a smoke benefit on May 18 at Magles Hall Ballard for the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund. Admission is 24 cents. Seattle Natatorium Co and Austin & Salt contributed significantly to the event.
Harmony Homestead No. 1743 in Seattle hosted a Moosehall event on April 24. Proceeds totaling 34 dollars were donated to the tobacco fund today, reflecting the organization’s charitable activity.
Letters from Private Matt Feeley and Private K Thum of Company L praise the tobacco ration gift, calling it life saving and essential in wartime. Donor Mrs. J. Mitchell lists a tobacco fund and addresses in Harmony Homestead, reflecting local wartime generosity.
A wartime note describes packages of toherce for American fighting men in France. Each dollar buys four packages each valued at 45 cents. Each package contains a postcard addressed to the sender, promising a message of thanks from the unknown svllier. Street
Washington May 9 The condition of the winter wheat crop on May 1 was 86.4 percent of normal, up from 78.6 on April 1 and 73.2 on May 1 last year, the agricultural department reported today. This condition forecasts a total yield of 672,539,000 bushels versus 418,070,000 for 1917.
An advertisement touts a delatone paste that promises hair removal from the face neck or arms in two to three minutes. It instructs mixing water with powdered delatone and washing residue away to leave clear skin, urging buyers to obtain real delatone from a druggist.
In Seattle readers report a quick bowel cleansing with Adlerika using simple buckthorn bark glycerine and similar ingredients. One spoonful flushes the entire tract relieving sour stomach gas and constipation and may prevent appendicitis. Fartell Drug Company and Swift Drug Company are named in ads.
The history of the National Dental Association, which opened offices in Seattle years ago, shows an unbroken series of successes from the start in the challenging field of modern dentistry.
The Liberty opens Mile A Minute Kendall with Jack Pickford and Louise Huff as stars. Lotte Pickford plays Rosalynde d Aubré. The Clemmer features Twenty One adaptation at Colman, and Bryant Washburn in Battling Dave at the Coliseum. The Strand screens Cyprienne Marcey and The Vortex at the Minion. Also Leet We Forget at Clean A and The Kaleers Agenta Exposed at Colonial.
A compact list highlights Liberty with Jack Mickford and Louise Huff in Mile a Minute Kendall. Clemmed Mhrgent Weehbern performs Twenty One. ColiseLM Alice Hiredy presents Her Silent Sacrifices. Straid Oillie J Warke offers Let's eet Diverte. Mission features Mary Werren and Joe King in The Vertes. Colontal presents Destin Parnem in The Kaiser's Agents Paposed. Class A Kite Jelivet performs Lest We Forget.
The fifth and last Philharmonic concert was at the Metropolitan last night with Alice Gentle delivering bold arias and the audience encoreing repeatedly. Maude Adama begins a three day Metropolitan engagement in J M Barrie's A Rise for Cinderella with Adama as modern Cinderella. Palace Hip presents the Johnson Dean Revue and Ruth Howell Trio in a new show opening Thursday featuring The Three Tivoli Girls and Ten Minutes of Harmony. Other vaudeville acts include Tom Mix in Six Shooter Andy and a comedy lineup from Downs Bald win Lillian De Vere and Mayne and Mayne.
Foreign Secretary Balfour announced that the Foreign Office had been informed Belgian boys and youths were being compelled to perform labor behind enemy lines in Germany.
Waterman in Kitsap county with about 1000 voters subscribed to $6,450 in Liberty Bonds in the latest drive. The amount is $900 more than the town subscribed in previous Liberty Loan campaigns.
An advertisement promotes malsified cocoanut oil as a pure greaseless shampoo option. It claims ordinary soaps and shampoos dry the scalp and damage hair, while rubbing cocoanut oil with water creates rich lather that cleanses hair and scalp, leaves hair silky and easy to manage, and is inexpensive and widely available at drug stores.
May 9 London dispatch says Finland's constitution will be revised under German influence and reactionary forces, with Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklenburg Schwerin as the German candidate likely to be seated on the Finnish throne.
Mrs. Mackie, a New York actress and grandmother, endorses Orlex powder as a home solution to darken gray or faded hair. The ad claims the box costs 23 cents, includes full use directions, contains a $100 gold bond guarantee, and asserts the product is free of harmful metals and chemicals, leaving hair non greasy and youthful looking.
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