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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1916
Page
6
Local optical shop PRATER announces PVPERSON as new manager, with duties at the main store on T100 Road near Wainport. The move aims to boost customer service and operations at the university district outlet.
Government land sale notice voices July 27 opening 666 600 acres of fruit farm and dairy lands in Colville reservation Washington. Includes complete scattered maps and descriptions. veterans widows of Civil or Spanish War may register. Free blank forms provided by agents at Room 106 Eagle Building Spokane.
Breall Ibe granulated sugar pure pasteurized milk and many stalls list prices for fruit, vegetables, meats, dairy and baked goods. Olives, salmon, oysters and canned goods appear alongside flour, sugar, coffee, oils, beans and seasonings. The dense list reads like a market inventory with frequent prices per pound or unit.
A fragmented inventory of items for sale at stalls including cherries lemons cottage cheese home-made pies apples butter beet potatoes cucumbers radishes oranges coffee butter pork and beans shrimp cheese and other groceries with prices and quantities in an old marketplace listing.
Mother memories filled Seattle as thousands observed Mother's Day with special services and telegraph messages to living mothers. Children of the dead wore white carnations as symbols of respect and affection while many returned to work Monday.
Members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce plan a meeting on May 31 with Chauncey M. Depew scheduled to speak and Theo Earle Johnston set to perform via long distance from New York.
THIS WEEK is set aside by the Humane Society as a week promoting kindness to animals. School teachers have been asked to inform children about the society's work and the importance of humane treatment.
A historical excerpt asserts white bread surpasses all foods in value except milk, claiming it provides twice the value of potatoes and rice, triple the value of cheese and fish, tenfold that of meat, and at a fraction of the cost. It describes bread from the best flour as nine tenths of matter converted by digestion into vitality and strength.
Petrograd dispatches report a swift Russian offensive across the Persian frontier southwest of Lake Urmia. Russian troops drive toward Nineveh and Mosul, threatening to cut off Sultan’s forces near Kut-el-Amara if unchecked, within a fortnight.
Andrew Marr of Tacoma sues in Pierce County to recover 24 750 from Carbon Hill Coal Co claiming a 1914 contract with mining concerns and Washington Coal Operators' union to influence Martin J Flyzik of Seattle a 10th district organizer of the Mine Workers of America Flyzik says he does not regard the matter seriously.
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