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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1917
Page
4
The piece argues labor shortages and lack of farming knowledge threaten production. It urges immediate county training camps or farms to teach volunteers essential farm skills, including tool use livestock care crop cultivation and harvest. It compares potential farm service to trench service and stresses rapid, practical training.
An old sea song frames a lesson on thrift and progress. The piece argues most people are average yet capable of great achievement through saving, prudent choices, and seizing opportunity, citing Herbert Hoover as an example and urging readers to avoid waste.
A columnist extols Johnnycake as a cherished staple and urges households to embrace the habit. The piece contrasts corn bread with white and whole wheat and claims corn meal corn bread strengthens bone and sinew, praising its rough robustness and nostalgic appeal.
Seattle women perform A Session of Congress in 2090 at the Metropolitan tonight. The show humorously riffs on the cloture rule and senate talk limits. A note praises a Seattle shoeblacks group for averting price hikes and closes with a baby bond pitch.
Mrs Selena Tanner of Athens expresses deep gratitude for a kindly advertisement and the now successful use of Peruna. She notes initial stomach discomfort lasting about two weeks but then gains a good appetite and improved digestion. she mentions Peruna Tab as an alternative for those who object to liquid medicine.
A Seattle Star article reprints a wartime critique of Chinese laborers known as coolies. It urges workingmen to oppose lifting immigration bans, warns of Chinatown growth, and calls for public letters to Senators Poindexter and Jones and Representatives Miller and Hadley. The piece urges unions to draft resolutions and to vocalize opposition to imported labor for the duration of the war.
A movement in the senate seeks to suspend the child labor law during wartime, with opponents of the law leading the effort. The Herald thanks its correspondents for helping make the paper a standout. Strasburg, 11. Herald.
Public health instructions stressing measles contagion, early symptoms, and isolation. Emphasizes separating symptomatic individuals, avoiding exposure during first four days, and precautions for caregivers including bathing and changing clothes before visiting children. Warns of complications like pneumonia and ear disease, urges prompt physician assessment.
A sprawling tale intertwines the sacrifice of a fearless comrade in the Army of Africa with a veteran exile Royallieu and Venetia. A young French heroine dies to shield Cecil, while the country’s soldiers honor her memory by passing a grave marked with a single name.
Lieut. Seymour Bullock of the Canadian army and former Chicago clergyman has drafted plans for an all American army in England to fight with the Stars and Stripes in France. A congress would accept the offer, forming a 10 600 strong force of seasoned American officers and men from the British front.
A letter urges replacing sole reliance on materia medica at state hospitals for the insane with psychoanalysis and other advanced therapies. The writer argues psychiatrists and legislators block progress, limiting treatment to outdated methods.
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