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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1916
Page
5
Crowds flock daily to the Oak showing ten cent vaudeville and photoplay acts. The theatre is clean cozy and attractive. Admission for children under ten is free with parents at matinees except Saturdays and Sundays.
A reflective excerpt discusses nursing as a profession and questions how refined women choose it. The narrator notes reading in nurse Alice’s face and wanders into thoughts on relieving pain and aiding suffering bodies.
A reader narrator discusses nursing risk and emotional strain with Mrs Waverly and Alice. Alice reads a farewell letter to Harvey revealing a breakup, regret, and acceptance that their shared story is finished. The scene ends with Alice declaring the book finished.
Dr. Wilbur 7 Crafts, head of the International Reform Bureau in Washington, D. C., will address a business luncheon at the YMCA on the topic Moral Victories Won and On in the State and Nation.
Major Langhorne's cavalry freed Americans Jesse Deemer and Monroe Payne captured by Mexican raiders at Glenn Springs Texas. They were left with a Mexican family at El Pino and instructed to be killed if they escaped. No clash occurred as raiders departed.
An advertisement touts Sargel as a safe fat producing tonic to aid thin and weak individuals. It claims improved digestion, strengthened nerves, and nourishment from food, with a promise of ten pounds of flesh for nervous users, urging druggists to offer a money back guarantee.
Dr L H Clark promises painless dental work and nerve removal in one sitting. He cites nerve-killing as outdated and offers testimonials from Seattle residents, with high quality dentists and state board certificates on display. Free examination with no obligation.
President Wilson sent a reply to Pope Benedict a letter on peace and neutral aid. The message was delivered to Apostolic Delegate Ronzano on Monday night and expresses strong desire that the United States stay neutral to aid a postwar readjustment. The pope is said to urge No war with Germany.
British destroyers and monitors fought German destroyers in a brief engagement off the Belgian coast. The Germans withdrew with no British losses reported.
Over the past years reports have noted bisulated magnesia as an antacid that curbs fermentation and neutralizes stomach acid. A new 6 grain tablet now contains the same antacid properties in convenient form, replacing powder for easier use.
An ex convict is sought across Oregon for a brutal double murder case. Helen Jennings, 41, was killed in her home between Tualatin and Sherwood near Portland. The blood soaked jitney driver Fred Ristman is missing and investigators fear he is the second victim as the killer may have disposed of his body.
A Paris correspondent for the London Chronicle claims three hundred thousand Germans have been killed and wounded around Verdun to date. He says the losses preclude any serious Teuton offensive toward Riga and that only a curtain of Germans remains on the Russian front.
A government patrol boat steamed from Elliott Bay to accompany the fishing schooner Liberty on Wednesday morning. The escort aimed to shield the vessel from striking fishermen feared to trail in a launching craft.
Paris reports German attempts to push lines northwest of Verdun near Dead Man’s Hill were checked by Allied fire. The official communiqué notes the grenade assault failed heavily with limited gains for the attackers.
A special train will leave on June 1 carrying more than 60 travelers including 14 Republican delegates and 14 alternates and 27 Progressive delegates with five alternates. A. Sims coordinates reservations for delegates and their wives.
The University of Washington Cadet Band will perform Wednesday night in Meany Hall on campus. Spectators are invited to attend this campus concert featuring military band selections and school repertoire.
Knights and Sisters of Pythias will elect officers Thursday at the annual state grand lodge convention. More than 200 delegates and grand lodge officers attend the final day session. Frank S. Grant invited delegates and lodges to attend the July supreme lodge gathering in Portland. Post Office employees who are Civil or Spanish-American War veterans will be excused May 30 to participate in Memorial Day exercises.
A jit ney bus crashed into a telephone pole at Ballard Avenue and 22nd Avenue Northwest when steering failed. Six passengers and driver A. D. Brown were bruised and cut. Walter Galbraith of 2426 10th Street West suffered a dislocated hip.
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