Red Cross Drive Reaches $100000 Milestone Across Mills
Workers at Pacific Coast Steel and general mills pledge wages to the Red Cross drive. Tonnagemen and locals contribute as police and city departments sell Red Cross licenses and walking tags. Ques: county towns report subscriptions, with Crawford Vaughn addressing Allen Shipbuilding staff and workers deciding to donate two days pay.
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Pacific Coast Steel Mills
Red Cross
Crawford Vaughn
Allen Shipbuilding Co
Mountains of death in Kaiser and Keenan letters from the front
The letter from Keenan describes brutal frontline fighting, claiming heavy German casualties and steadfast defense. He boasts stout resistance, recounts a wounded comrade with teeth pulling bombs, and presses for news from home while lamenting lack of reliable reports. He asserts Canadian and allied resilience in a name-by-name voice from the trenches.
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KE. M. Keenan
A. Keenan
France
38Th
Haig
Passchendaele Ridge
Keenan
Kaiser
Frita
Japan
Germany
Russia
Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Peptiren Promoted for Blood Health
An advertisement touts Hood's Barsaparilla before meals to purify blood and Hood's Pep/iren after meals to strengthen blood. It promises relief from weather related illness, exposure, colds, fevers, diphtheria and other blood poisons. It also claims Hood's Pile to rouse the liver and soothe liver tls, all compatible with Hood's Sarsaparilia and Peptiren.
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Hood
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectandy
N. Y
Paris Air Raid Brings Down Enemy Plane
Paris reported one enemy aircraft shot down during a night air raid. Bombs fell in the suburbs causing casualties and damage, with additional artillery claims of another plane downed.
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Paris
Hanson Appoints Woman to Seattle Park Board
Mayor Hanson selects Martha Forster Steele to replace Otto Roseleaf on the Seattle park commission becoming the first woman member. Steele, wife of attorney Frank A. Steele, vows to prioritize park use for public benefit and children. She previously taught in Seattle schools since 1889 and helped organize Washington's first P. L. I. chapter in 1893.
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Martha Forster Steele
Frank A. Steele
Hanson
Otto Roseleaf
Park Commission
Steele
Park Board
Seattle
Washington
Unclear OCR fragment hints at World Athletics event
Fragmentary text mentions a penalty or provision related to a team or event for a world goal. details are unreadable and no specific names, places, or dates are preserved.
Demonstrations of cottage cheese as meat substitute
A home demonstration for using cottage cheese as a meat substitute will be conducted on request by Mies Margaret Van Hoosen, United States department of agriculture official. Contact Main 5900 local 62 in Olympia for details.
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Mies Marcaret van Hoosen
United States Department of Agriculture
Olympia
Warren W. Tolman
Spokane
J. Stanley Webster
Supreme Court
Lowell
Mass
John Karliner
New York
J. C. Haines
Henney Watson
Herbert H. Gowen
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Altho
Anna Columbus
Seventh Ave. N. EB
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co
Robert C. Saunders
Smith's Cove
James Duncan
Union Pacific Railway
Ketchikan
Tenino
Adama County
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Madison St. Orpheum Hida
J. Browns
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Madison
Beecham
Bence
Teliton
She Rhodes Co
Ossard
E&m-C
Batiste
E-M-C
Broadway High School
Hilton
Kilbourne & Clark
Navy
University of Washington
Lloyd George
Baggies
Mount Rainier Lodge
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Redding’s Hall
Metro
Politan Theatre
Seattle Elks
Duwamish
Foster
Frank Gates
King County Council of Defense
Council of Patriotic Service
West Seattle
Sergt
Donald Leehy
Coast Artillery Corps
West Point
Robert R. Tate
Westlake
Victorine Noble
Providence Hospital
the Red Cross
Haynes
Columbia ST
Edwin J. Brown
Columbia
First Ave
O First Ave
Columbia T
Stuart Wiley
Yeepye
Fairbanks
Ernhece Sype
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