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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
7
Washington May 25. President Wilson moves toward action on a peace plan acting for all groups rather than a single faction and may address Teague next Saturday to press the effort.
Gov. Lister appoints C. H. Younger of Kirkland to succeed Edward W. Olson as state labor commissioner. Olson becomes industrial insurance commissioner. Younger has served as chief state factory inspector. The changes take effect June 1.
Andrew Christensen, newly appointed head of the land and industrial department, left Seattle Thursday for Seward to assume charge of the commission's publicity effort. He has been a field agent for the interior department in Washington and Alaska and will oversee the Destiny comedy staged by Franklin High pupils for two nights in the school auditorium.
On January 7, 1915, Dr. J Eugene Jordan was arraigned before the State Medical Board and his medical license revoked. The board found the advertisement running in local papers untrue, claiming Jordan could cure diseases cited in the ad.
The socialist platform will likely center on war opposition and preparedness as a major debate point. It foresees a harsh, satirical keynote on war and a strong critique of those involved in war while proposing no indemnities and keeping borders as of July 27, 1914 with pan American waterways internationalized. It also predicts heavy attention to social conditions and unemployment.
The Hippodrome presents Psycho the mind reader and a vaudeville bill with John and Cornell Rube Shaw Beil and Co in A Day in Paris Leopold Rosen violinist The Serpent stars Theda Bara The Palace features The Quitter a comedy drama Jessie Hayward Leon Hahn Warren Deitrick Anita Primrose Fran cenco and Jackie Light Opera Four and George Freda The Baron of Holland plus the photoplay Sudden Riches Robert Warwick Oak theatre offers Ballon Week Living Models Margaret Tes Co Gene and Katherine King and Du Bois in a Western melodrama starring Victoria Forde.
The article describes Carl Schermer, owner of the largest First Avenue clothing store in Seattle, as a farsighted speculator who bought goods before prices rose due to the European conflict. His strategy: keep prices low and attract 90 to 95 percent of new customers, banking on enduring demand from diverse patrons including workers on the tide flats. He maintains a large cash reserve to cover payrolls and sees continued growth as key to his store becoming the downtown men's buying center.
Promoters lure shoppers at Northwest Food Fair and House Furnishings Expo with envelopes for prizes totaling 2000 tickets at the Arena. The masked red-garbed figure, not a blonde, circulates daily on Second Ave and at the Arena, with a Saturday reveal offering $50 for identifying her.
A crime report from Bannock Montana states Robert Moore was killed when his wife severed his head with an axe in a domestic attack. Police and investigators described the incident as a fatal domestic violence case with emergency responders arriving at the scene.
Seattle residents try Adlerika a quick bowel remedy using buckthorn bark glycerine and related ingredients. A single spoonful reportedly relieves constipation sour stomach gas and may prevent appendicitis with fast action noted at Swifts Pharmacies on Second Ave Pike Street and Broadway.
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