Veterans Welcome City Welcomes Doughboys Home
Soldiers and sailors receive meals and entertainment from Red Cross Salvation Army and other groups after arrival in Seattle. Doughboys tour local clubs and theaters with tickets to meals, films, and social spaces as part of the homecoming. Contingents from Seattle are named and greeted with a lengthy welcome at King Street station.
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Red Cross
Salvation Army
Delver
Soldiers and Sailors’ Club
Soldiers and Sailors Club
Crystal Pool
Knights of Columbus
Elke’ Club
Moose Hall
Transportation Club
Chamber of Commerce
Labor Temple
A Home Recipe for Chapped Hands
A face or toilet cream to soften rough skin helps prevent chapping and sunburn. Made by dissolving grexite in glycerine with water, yielding a thick antiseptic greaseless lotion. It costs only a few cents to make and lasts months, cheaper than store bought tubes.
Canthrax Shampoo Promises Easy Hair Care
An aid to beauty emphasizes careful hair washing to prevent troubles. It recommends Canthrax as a dissolving shampoo to remove dandruff oil and dirt, creating a soothing lather that cleanses the scalp and adds natural color and fullness.
Red Cross Women Feed 600 Men in Seattle Yard Staging
Red Cross workers kept eight volunteers busy for nearly an hour serving coffee doughnuts rolls and fruit to 600 hungry men who lined the King street yards before breakfast. A straw ballot found the men backing commander Mrs W KR Crawford and praising Seattle committee arrangements.
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Red Cross
King St
65Th St
Yanks Break Hindenburg Line by 77th and 32nd Divisions
A town welcomed a group of veterans from the 77th Liberty division and the 32nd division Tuesday morning. They wore shoulder insignia, the 77th claiming Broadway origin and the 32nd a pierced tine emblem. They said their unit never struck and pierced the Hindenburg line, and failure was not in their dictionary.
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77Th
Seattle
Camp Lewis
Med Cross
Argonne
77Th Division
Broadway
32Nd
New Nordica Choral Club Debuts With Concert
The Nordica club presented its first concert in Odd Tellows hall Monday night under Milton Seymour. Mendelssohn Bizet Schumann and Weiser were performed with Woodland Breezes praised. A large audience attended and amateurs showed some good voices despite difficult solo parts.
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Nordica Club
Odd Tellows’ Hall
Milton Seymour
Mendelssohn
Bizet
Schumann
Weiser
Private W A Hayes recounts Argonne assault casualties
Private W A Hayes of Co 1 South Infantry from Lone Ore recalls the Argonne battle where his unit of 90 men suffered heavy losses and only 20 survived. He describes machine gun fire, comrades falling on every side, calling it hell on earth and noting his luck to return unharmed.
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Argonne Forest
W. A. Hayes
South Infantry
Hayes
Lone
Ore
Germany
Argonne
Men Say They're Champ Marchers of Yankee Army
H F Ottestad of Maine Wash declares Northwest heroes of the 77th division have marched more than any other unit. He recalls Meuse Argonne fighting from late Sept to mid Oct and late Oct to Armistice, then a 200 kilometer march to base before finally returning home.
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H. F. Ottestad
Maine
Wash
Seattle
Northwest
Tih
Meuse-Argonne
New York
Hair removal method with delatone paste ad
An advertisement promises fast facial neck and arm hair removal using a stiff delatone paste applied for two minutes then rubbed off. It claims the skin will be free of hair or blemish if real delatone is used.
Hazel, love, fire and a bad cough reveal all
A fragment hints at emotional strain and health symptoms as a person named Hazel contends with a difficult situation. The line implies that affection, danger, and illness cannot be concealed, suggesting public exposure or scrutiny.
Man credits Tanlac with twelve year illness relief in Seattle
Louis J. Belanger of 3112 Admiral Way Seattle says Tanlac cured longtime stomach trouble and back pain after a twelve year period of poor health. He reports improved appetite weight gain and renewed strength while working at Seattle Cornice and Sheet Metal Works. Bartell Drug Stores sells Tanlac in Seattle under a special representative.
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Tanlac
Louis J. Belanger
Seattle
Taniac
Bartell Drug Stores
Red Circle Club Memorial Opens At Navy Yard
Charleston opens the Red Circle club memorial auditorium at the Navy Yard City Tuesday night with a 20000 dollar War Camp Community project. Built to honor navy men and Bremerton sailors who fought, the 70 by 100 foot structure dedicates the entire second floor to the memorial torium and will function as a ballroom or theater for gatherings and events.
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Charleston
Sound
Navy Yard City
Bremerton Yard
Red Circle Club
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