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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1917
Page
9
A cluttered Toledo page features matrimonial solicitations from men seeking widows and respectable working girls, plus numerous ads for clairvoyants, palm readers, and phrenologists. Services promise love guidance, readings, and guaranteed cures with varying prices.
In early 1900s Seattle a pair of providers advertise phrenology and fortune guidance at hotels and rooms near Union and Third Avenues. Readings promise business, marriage, and luck, with guarantees and special two week offers.
An advertisement offers a clairvoyant reading to reveal life past present and future and provide advice on business love health and family. It promises to name a future spouse and provide steps to win them, with claims of removing obstacles and earnings from clients. Location listed is 1631 Becond Ave room 6 at Vine corner.
A naval movement summary lists multiple ships arriving and departing ports. Vessels include Admiral Watson from Anchor ace heading to the 8 W end and KR Alaskan porte, Mukilies from San Francisco via Mort Angeret, Mumboldt from Skagway via porta, Umatilla from San Francisco, Latouche from W Alsekan porte, and Comanche from Bellingham, with various times and routes noted. Other entries cover Jefferson, St Cio porte, Prince George, and Dupont tied to Alaska, Pribuett islands, and Tacoma notices.
The notice lists stalls offering pasteurized milk beefy loaves, olives, cabbage, rhubarb, new potatoes, house tomatoes, coffee, butter, cream, sugar, oranges, onions, apples, prunes, soap, and other groceries. It notes prices and items like granulated sugar, cork wines, and canned goods, reflecting a bustling market scene with diverse produce and dairy on offer.
A fragmentary market listing mentions items such as green onions Bermuda onions and cabbage along with potatoesturnips and other produce. It references homegrown offerings and several unclear prices and brands from a past community shop.
British and French forces renewed their joint offensive seizing German trenches on Mont Cornillet north slopes and expanding the Hindenburg line sector near Stullecourt Fontaines Las-Croisilles. French gains occurred in Champagne from Rheims east to Auberive, as Gen Nivelle's offensive resumes after a week’s lull despite fresh German divisions.
President Wilson announced Herbert C. Hoover as national food administrator to oversee production distribution and marketing of crops during the war. He urged voluntary cooperation and the creation of emergency bodies including Hoover to manage pricing and requisition while coordinating with producers distributors and consumers.
VANCOUVER Wash May 21 A dispen from the war departmen tard E Pullman 20 a member of the United army and hes probably the smallest soldier in the country Pullman stands four feet 11 inches tall and weighs pounds The smallest uniform at Vancouver barracks was too large for him.
The Commonwealth club will discuss the proposed surtax on vacant lands at the regular weekly dinner at Good Fats cafeteria Monday night. Theodore Teepe Charles Shields and Miss Adella M Parker will lead the discussion.
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