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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1918
Page
8
Special values are included in these suits and coats with regular stock portraying splendid values and new styles. Garments use excellent materials and are tailored and finished better than typical twenty five dollar garments.
This ad promotes deep discounts on top tier Player Planes Baby Grands and Uprights with prices from 245 to 715 dollars. It highlights reduced costs on $600 and $700 models to 400 500 with monthly payments as low as 6 8 and 10 dollars. Also lists used Harvard Knabe pianos at 150 175.
Far and Near TACOMA Knights of Columbus will spend 25 million dollars for war work during the year. A naval radio station observatory party will study the sun’s eclipse in June. David A. Gates named supervising agent for revenue collectors west of the Mississippi. Mrs C F Thomas learns her brother C E Marty killed in motorcycle accident at Camp Zachary Taylor. Minute Men meet at Warren Ave school Tuesday at 4 am. Hugh M Caldwell to speak at Municipal League luncheon. J E Johnson arrested for selling liquor at Spokane hotel. Community sing at West Seattle High Tuesday. Council of Patriotic Service No 4 meets at Queen Anne Library Tuesday. Cyrus Peirce speaks on Thrift at Transportation Club Tuesday. Two entertainments to dedicate school service flag. Wheat crop prospects reported from Minst Seipp Valley to Pacific. Sidney Phillips to serve in France with postal service. Leaves Thursday for Pacific Lutheran Academy commencement. Council No 10 to launch membership drive Tuesday at Greyerbiehi’s Hall. Thrift stamp sales in Seattle public schools total 43 694.91 in April. Funeral services for Francis Sim at University Presbyterian Church Tuesday. Clarence L Reames speaks at Red Cross event Ballard High Wednesday. Albert Maples, 15, injured by fall in elevator shaft at Mill and Mine Co plant. A Bloser and W Bailey jailed for stealing peanut. City’s opening arguments in condemnation for elevated railway right of way.
A chorus of 10 000 voices under one director will gather at Camp Lewis depot brigade Friday afternoon. The group, drawn from the third draft quota, will meet after their first review at the reviewing stand with Robert Lloyd as singing director. The review begins at 1 15 o clock.
The War Department urges verification of telegrams from soldiers asking relatives to wire money. Messages claim discharge or travel plans and request cash, often waiving identification. This is cited as a common swindle preying on worried families of soldiers.
Kummer Lauderbeck Qualhelm Landing and Schreiner station form King county's Teutonic quarter. The towns lie along a railroad and rumors claim troop trains tend to stop and linger when station names appear.
Confirmation in Seattle that Skinner & Eddy merges with Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co under former control. D B Skinner declined comment while representatives report closed negotiations with the United States Shipping Board. War duration lease likely for swift ship construction as the Aikoku Maru docks and will be handed to the Shipping Board after unloading.
Contract valued at 23 million dollars from the U.S. government for war materials involves Erickson Construction and Twohy Brothers of San Francisco with branches in Seattle Spokane and Portland. Ten steel weasels of 9400 tons each are under construction in Beattie with 4 plants on the Went Waterway. Orders for 2000 steel underframe freight cars will be filled at Portland and Spokane totaling six million dollars. A new aviation field at Hiverton California was finished by Twohy Brothers at a cost of one million dollars.
The Seattlebuilt steam schooner Ypres commanded by Captain B Shaw is ashore at Port Royal near Kingston Jamaica. The grounding occurred Sunday, and the information comes via a cablegram to Thorndyke and Trenholm, ship brokers.
The shipbuilding program in America will probably be increased 59 percent, according to Charles M. Schwab director of shipbuilding for the emergency fleet corporation. He said the rise is feasible and advisable in the current declaration.
Crawford Vaughan former premier of South Australia Sergt May H Smith of the British army and F L Cann New York pastor arrived in Seattle Monday to conduct a series of patriotic lectures to shipyard employees.
The retired transpacific navigator Captain G H Dobson was announced Monday as commander of the rebuilt steamer Nanking, formerly Congress. The vessel had undergone almost a year of repairs at Beattle Construction and Dry Dock after a fire on the Oregon coast in fall 1916 damaged its hull.
Major J. B. Eagleson calls for 50 Seattle men to join Case Hospital Unit No 50 stationed at Camp Fremont. The unit will be expanded from 500 beds to 1,000 beds.
Food Price Publishing Board urges housewives to rely on potatoes until next harvest to conserve wheat for soldiers. Bakers use substitutes for bread and shoppers should purchase potatoes in limited amounts, with prices and retail terms for grains and related foods listed.
In Jerome Arizona May 14 a mother Manuel Mateias entered a burning home to rescue her baby, but she was overcome by flames and killed. The infant remained safe in the father's arms outside the home.
Boots described as Napa Tan tramping style for women with glove-fitting ankle pattern. They stand nine inches high, have a hand-turned sole and full Louis heel. Prices listed at $9.50 per pair, with a $6.50 pair also noted. First floor location referenced.
Infant dresses in white batiste with hand tucking and feather stitching. Valenciennes lace edging and fine embroidery veil. Long style for infants and sizes for one and two year olds. Price highlighted at 1.75 dollars. Second Floor.
Ribbon for sweater knitting marketed as aiding servicemen. One spool of one hundred yards sold for 1.45 dollars. Available in multiple colors at the Ribbon Section on the first floor.
Cotton Crepe kimonos pictured in cream color in good weight with pink or blue piping and front tassel tie priced 75e. Women s white crepe bloomers with elastic at waist and knee in sizes 25 27 and 29 priced 63c per pair.
Silk-Lisle Hosiery for women at 40 cents a pair features flare tops in sizes 8 to 10. Children’s Cotton Half-Hose with fancy tops sold in assorted stripe patterns at 25 cents a pair. Basement Salesroom offers items up to 7.50 dollars each.
In Los Angeles on May 14 1917 Miss Maud M Lochrane captain and owner of the steamer Alexander Agassiz launched a federal court fight to prevent the vessel seized as a German raider from being declared a prize of war.
The University of Washington will offer engineering courses this summer to high school graduates to meet rising demand. National engineering schools have been cut in half while demand has doubled.
London reports G M Barnes urged Ireland Scotland and England parliaments modeled on the American state legislature. The plan is viewed as a government test of public opinion with a federal scheme as Ulster’s potential path, a view echoed by Daily News and Express. Barnes sits in the war cabinet representing British labor.
Sacramento news confirms the war council opening with speakers of international renown and a wide range of war workers. Attendees include national state and county defense council members and Father Perigord of the French army is slated to speak.
The annual encampment and convention of the Grand Army of the Republic and allied groups began in Tacoma. A standard silk flag was presented to Lincoln High School during the Tuesday morning session.
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