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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1917
Page
5
The piece urges total effort to win the war, prioritizing national safety and allied support while ignoring peace talk. It calls for systemized food production, registering vacant lots and converting them to war use, and urging legislation to bring unused property including railroad holdings into production for war needs.
The piece notes a federal food price inquiry focusing on New York and nationwide trends. It cites price speculation, held up nuts, and distribution gaps from producer to consumer, urging government price regulation as the cure and deriding the inquiry as ineffective for not addressing producer commissions.
The New York World highlights pride in the Allies and the U S stance of backing the war while noting two party dynamics in alliances. Russia’s potential separate peace and Germany’s diplomacy loom, with public debate over whether The Star Spangled Banner qualifies as classical. Bread prices rise on physic factors.
Cecil, known as Beauty, riffs through debt and courtship with Lady Guenevere as Forest King’s victory stirs a dangerous mix of gambling, honor, and a deer-chase rescue that tests loyalties and vows.
Former Congressman Will Humphrey declares he will not run for mayor and is not considering public office. In a separate note, Diamond Jim Brady’s will faces contest from relatives alleging mental unsoundness, while noting the odd contrast between wealth and mental stability.
A collage of humorous lines and vignettes. Billy Sunday jokes about France and gardening. jokes about elephants and geese. remarks on streetcar conductors and Roosevelt era troops. A railroad losses a massive steel girder and quips on public curiosity.
A quoted dialogue mocks career ambitions from boyhood dreams to adult roles. A ray of humor frames a physician’s path against a druggist’s quip about wholesale versus retail business. The exchange reflects playful nationhood and language snatches in a Yale professor’s aside on French.
A letter from A MILLWORER argues daylight saving benefits brain workers but harms lumber and shingle industry laborers. He describes 10 hour shifts, dangerous conditions, and tiredness, urging focus on an eight hour day to aid workers and families.
The store touts $49.50 talking machines rivaling $100 models and higher priced sets at $62.50, $74.50, $99.50, and $123.90. Officials boast superior design and living sound compared to $250 plus machines, with a selling price now at $174.50 plus small down payment and monthly terms.
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