Steam liner CELILO to sail May 19 from San Francisco
The steamer CELILO of McCORMICK LINE will sail Saturday May 19 to Southern California ports. It offers large outside staterooms, good service, and meals. Full details at CTTY TICKET OFFICE 109 Cherry St Phone Elliott 3436.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Celilo
McCormick Line Co
Southern California Porta
CTTY
Cherry St
Elliott
Petain Named Generalissimo of French Army in Major Shakeup
Paris May 15 General Petain was named generalissimo with supreme command of all field forces. General Foch becomes chief of staff succeeding Petain. General Nivelle to command certain army groups as part of sweeping ministerial decisions.
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Paris
Petain
Foch
Marne
Batte
Nivelle
Council of Ministers
Hair and Fuzzy Growth Removal Method Ad
A safe method claims to remove hair with a delatone paste. Mix powdered delatone with water, apply to hairy skin for about two minutes, then rub off and wash to remove hairs. It warns to ensure genuine delatone for best results and notes the process is harmless and rarely repeats.
Walkover Shoes Sale in Seattle at Deep Discounts
The Red Front Clothing Co proprietor announces a Seattle sale with Walk-Over and Florsheim shoes marked down to under four dollars. Ladies, misses, and children's styles like Red Cross tops and Walton leather shoes are priced from 98 cents to 3 1 2 dollars, with men’s dress and work shoes also heavily reduced.
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Red Cross
Red Front Clothing Co Great Stock Sale in Seattle
A Seattle clearance at the Red Front Clothing Company announces deep discounts on men s suits and overcoats with prices cut from values up to 30 dollars. It highlights price points at 4 85 for lower end suits up to 15 for select coats and offers numerous additional bargains on shirts suspenders undergarments and work wear. The sale opens Wednesday at 9 am and runs all week with orders limited by stock and delivery constraints. leading firm is Rogers and address listed as 1508 1510 First Avenue opposite the Public Market.
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Griffon
Collegian
Society
Strauss
Cluett
Rogers
Seattle
RED Front Clothing Company
First Avenue
Pike Street
One Day to Enroll for Select Service
War Department announces one day only for draft registration. All males in designated ages must register on the day fixed by the president. Absentees must follow clerks’ guidance to mail a registration card. registrars cannot grant exemptions.
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Washington
War Department
Guard
U. S
Naval
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard Service
National Guard
Commonwealths
Public opinion on registration day plans revealed
A survey page shows varied citizen views on conscription and a patriotic registration day. Quotes include Cronin Owen Quinn Jones Rivers McClelland Reed Newton Hughson Sage and others offering support or opposition to select service and how to observe registration day.
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East
Wynne Jones
N. E
F. H. Rivers
A. J. McClelland
15Th
Albert
Reed
University Blvd
J. Newton
Chicago
G. F. Hughson
East 70Th
Herman C. Sage
Wheeler
Plans to End Gambling in Grain Markets
Chicago May 15 Representatives from the grain exchanges of St. Louis Kansas City Minneapolis Toledo Omaha and Duluth met with Board of Trade officials at 3 p m to discuss uniform action to halt futures trading They considered setting a maximum wheat futures price mixing May contracts banning July and September corn removing speculative activity and enforcing strict margins with suspensions for noncompliers The meeting follows recent grand jury sessions and government awareness of grain stock activity coordinated with allied governments in Chicago
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Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Toledo
Omaha
Duluth
Board of Trade
U. S
Spy heads 10 to be taken soon reported in confession
Ar rests of German spy bureau heads at Chicago Los Angeles and San Francisco expected soon as result of a confession by German agent Frank E Wolf arrested in San Francisco. Rudolph Flammerginger was in custody at San Diego. Six men are said implicated and hints tie prominent figures to financing Mexican plots through Wolf. The probe concerns food supplies army and shipping moves.
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San Francisco
Chicago
Los Angeles
Frank E. Wolf
Mammerginger
Pastor Denies Ax Murders in Red Oak
In Red Oak Iowa May 15 attorneys for Rev. L George J Kelly entered a not guilty plea after reading an indictment accusing him of killing Joe Moore his wife four children and two Stillinger children in the Villisea murders of June 9 1912. Kelly with his wife was remanded to the local jail with a Des Moines safety transfer order to be argued today.
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Red Oak
L' George J. Kelly
Joe Moore
Joe Stillinger
Kelly
Des Moines
French Repulse Wide Front German Attacks Near Bouvelle
Paris May 15 German forces launched a broad assault against French lines near Bouvelle after a heavy artillery bombardment. French machine guns checked the attack, with only a small advance trench briefly taken. Other German assaults southeast of Filan north of Craonne east of Hill 108 and northeast of Auberive also failed, French defenders holding firm and taking many German prisoners.
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Paris
Bouvelle
War Office
Filan
Craonne
Hill 108
Norrtheast
Auberive
Hands Across the Seas dance and card party planned
The Supreme Council will host a dance and card party on May 25 at Odd Fellows hall located at 10th and E Pine in Seattle. Proceeds support the Hands Across the Seas charity.
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Supreme Council
Odd Fellows’ Hall
10Th and
E. Pine
Seattle
Noted Citizen Jos H Choate Dies Sudden
Joseph H Choate former ambassador to the Court of St James and dean of the American bar died at his New York home at 11 30 p m last night He was 85 and his wife and daughter Mabel were with him Doctors were unable to reach him in time Choate had recently re entered public life amid wartime tensions and social duties for New York society
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New York
Joseph H. Choate
Court of St. James
Choate
Mabel
Balfour
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Waldorf-Astoria
U. S
Torpedo Nearly Missed Baltic liner by Ten Feet
New York May 15 A German submarine torpedo fired at the White Star liner Baltic on April 19 missed the ship by about ten feet according to travelers in New York who provided the information today
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New York
Baltic
Reames Fights Oregon Booze Ring in San Francisco
U S District Attorneys Prenton and Clarence Reames hold conferences in San Francisco to crack down on liquor shipments into dry Oregon. Reames gathers evidence against dealers charged with shipping whisky into the state.
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San Francisco
U. S
Prenton
Clarence Reames
Portland
Reames
Oregon
Hair Care Advice From a Courier Advertisement
Soap and shampoos contain alkali that dries the scalp and ruins hair. Use refined coconut oil with water to cleanse hair. a small amount creates rich lather and rinses clean. Coconut oil leaves hair soft, silky, glossy and easy to manage. Available cheaply at pharmacies for family use.
Hats Adorn Spring and Summer Styles at Reduced Prices
Sport hats of crepe priced at 2.50 2.95 and 3.95 now 1.95 for women choosing from a spring summer assortment. Two tone gray blue gold blue rose sand with wide and medium sailors small sailors and turbans featuring straw braids ribbons and ornaments.
Abbott Hunts Harbor Pirates After Dark Patrol
In a night voyage along Seattle harbor, Abbott and the crew “shake down” rowboats and check alert watchmen. They tour shipyards and Salmon Bay, scoping activity under rainlit hills while a new boat looms nearby and Kinney muses about ownership and leaving the patrol.
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Rudd
East Waterway
Bell Street
Seattle
Salmon Bay
Kinney
Night Watch on the Drift and Chinaman Tale
During a long night shift aboard a ship the crew recalls hazards and a Chinaman caught in drift. Vic notes a drifting figure with a blue pall, while Kinney and others discuss fires, munitions dock explosions, and stealthy ships evading pursuit.
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Vic
Kinney
Vic Is Sent Home Miss Abbott Stays
Night watches around the buoys as gulls scatter and the bay darkens. Vic finishes sketches and is sent home while Miss Abbott remains on duty with Rudd and Kinney at the floating post under gathering clouds and rain.
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Vic
Miss Abbott
Black Bay
Rudd
Kinney
Harbor Sleuths Talk About Planting Spuds
The conversation centers on planting with two men joking about spuds and corn while recalling a frightening night incident. The dialogue shows casual banter among harbor workers as they move through night duties.
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Harbor
Vernon Funeral for Mrs Mary Adelia Vernon
The funeral of Mrs Mary Adelia Vernon wife of Deputy County Clerk Edwin F E Vernon will be held at 2 o clock Wednesday afternoon at the Cremation Society crematory on Queen Anne Hill.
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Mary Adelia Vernon
Edwin FE. Vernon
Fifth Ave. W
Queen Anne Hill
Phelactine Hair Remover Promises Quick Rootless Results
An ad touts phelactine as a harm free odorless hair remover that dissolves hair including roots in seconds. It claims it is safer than depilatories razors or electricity and offers a money back guarantee if not delighted.
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Woodhouse-Grunbaum Furniture Co., Inc
California
Edwin J. Brown
TS Piret Ay
Nlen Block
Mall
Right Drug CO
First Ave
Gen. Petain
H. M. Rogers
B. Schneider
Emporium
Red Front Clothing Co
Stringer
Jos. H. Choate
Columbia Grafonola
Columbia Successors
Cilercloll Lhing Machine Co
Columbia
The
Rhodes Co
Viescersceces Etree
Chinaman
Bartele Drug CO
Raminol
Baltimore
J. R. Binyon
Sary Binyon Optical
Seneca St
Glasses
Marcum Optical CO
Madison
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