Still Time to Act on Daylight Saving Measure
A letter to The Star from Marcus Marks, president of Manhattan borough, urges passage of the Calder-Borland daylight saving bill. He argues it will boost food production by enabling home gardens, align U S time with wartime allies, and save millions on coal and utilities, potentially over forty million dollars, plus health and efficiency benefits.
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Congress
Nier
The
Star
Jones
Miller
Marcus Arks
Manhattan
N. Y
Marks
National Daylight Saving Tion
Liberty Bond Drive Boosts Anti Kaiser Sentiment
A playful wartime dialogue urges readers to buy Liberty Bonds as a direct action against the Kaiser. The characters discuss breaking with Germany by purchasing bonds, noting installments and cent interest, and framing every citizen as part of the war effort.
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Liberia
Mike m
Fimo
Mike
Jim
Kaiser
Guaranty Bonds Urged for County Roads by J F Keenan
A letter to The Star from J F Keenan urges county road guaranty bonds. He notes Shrick company offers a 20 year brick paving guaranty and argues King county roads deserve a lengthy guarantee to ensure lasting quality.
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J. F. Keenan
King County
Keenan
Aid for Abergott Couple Spurs War Effort
The Star recalls the German couple Mr and Mrs Abergott left in hardship after their cow died. War volunteers, men and women, rally to aid them with generous contributions. The piece frames aid as opposition to the Kaiser’s system, not the German people.
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Abergott
Editorialettes ridiculed pieces on war and policy
A fragmented editorial page item mocks wartime prompts and public figures. It jokes about Bradford's bullets bread and bonds, Austin's book The Ford, Uncle Sam, and criticizes insurance moves by Fishback. The piece also lampoons Joffre and Capitol Hill museum decisions amid wartime talk.
War humor and local notices page snippet
A jumbled column lists quips and miscellany about prohibition, royal brides, and war tax rumors, alongside short notes on local residents including Frank M. Bunn and others with addresses. The item compiles satirical lines from Puck and Town Topics and ends with a list of local names and occupations.
The Real Secret of Rejuvenating the Face
An advertisement touts mer corized wax as a safe nightly facial treatment that gradually removes dead skin and reveals younger skin within one to two weeks. It claims the wax is unobtrusive, available at drug stores, and suitable for freckles pimples liver spots and fine wrinkles. It also offers a saxolite based recipe for deeper wrinkles.
The Gold Bug and the Mystery Scarab Legrand
On Sullivan's Island near Charleston Legrand brings a newly found brilliant gold scarab believed to be a new genus. The narrator sketches Legrand's isolation and interest in entomology and notes a mysterious skulllike beetle drawing, hinting at a strange, hidden artifact.
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Star
Chicago
William Legrand
New Orleans
Sullivan's Island
Charleston
South Carolina
Fort Moultrie
England
Leerand
Jupiter
Masad
Legrand
Aupper
Acarabaei
Jup
Antenna Allegory Quietly Unmans Legrand in Tale
In a tense scene a character debates unseen antennae in a beetle-like drawing. Legrand reddens then pales as he scrutinizes the image, pockets the paper, and locks it away. The mood shifts to sombre reverie before the narrator leaves, hinting at future revelations.
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Legrand
Land contracts offered on city land and Alki Point tracts
A reader letters page offers leasing large city land on First Ave near Three Tree Point with timber valued at 800 to 1,000 and three years of tax payments by the lessee in exchange for clearing, fencing, and timber rights. Also lists Hughes addition block and Alki Point parcels for lease under similar terms with a seasonal lot at Ninth and Alder.
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the Star
First Ave
Three Tree Point
Block 11
Hughes
Seattle
Alki Point
Jay GC. Allen
Laura Allen
Maynard Ridg
Word to Seatt pebble workers and farmer’s view cited
Editor speaks to working men in Seattle and addresses D. P. Merriet about farm labor, asking if he considers the farmer’s perspective on wheat priced at $2.70 a bushel. The piece questions the farmer’s stance on the labor question and wage values.
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the Star
Seattle
D. P. Merriet
Mr. Merriet
Lemon Lotion for Soft Skin From Fresh Lemons
Simple inexpensive lotion mixes juice from two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint. Filter the juice through cloth to avoid pulp and store for months. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade tan freckles sallowness and roughness.
A wind in the world wind of liberty and tyranny
Poem fragment praising liberty and the defeat of tyranny. It speaks of Russia and America united against oppression, envisioning a future without kings or chains. The speaker proclaims that slavery ends, tyranny dies, and a charitable, just world will emerge led by God and Pilgrim Fathers.
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Russia
America
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Seattle Star
Seventh Ave
Intem St
Sckires
Northwest League OF Newsrarens
Telegraph
United Preas Association
Thestar Publishing Co
Guaranty Bonds
Bradford
Ry Austin
California
Uncle Sam
Fishback
Jitney
Joffre
Washington
Capitol Hill
Government
Edwin J. Brown
First Avenue
Jeland
Washington and Union Blocks
Lund
P. Ino
New York
World Almanac
Prince of Wales
Abyssinia
Bunn
Army
New York City
Billy Sunday
Hostod
Hilly
Senate
Nellie
Solomon
WASTE
Chevy Club
Puck
Jenkins
Frank M. Bunn
Baker
Geo. R. Wein
Denny
Aaron L. Beers
Carpenter
Edgewood
Peter Rye
Mariner
Archimedes E. Fuller
Central Building
Geo
DD. Full
Western States Life Insurance Co
Central
Zemo
KE. W. Rose Co
Cleveland, O
Hermit of
Leeland
Learand
le Grand
Farmer
Eupreme
John Galsworthy
London Chronicle
Chickering & Son
Kimball
STARR
CROWN
Kranich & Bach
Schumann
Kimball Pianos
Ampico
Chickering Hall
Indianola ‘Beach
Puget Sound
Indianola Beach
Tolo
Pier 3
Madison
Indianola Beach CO
Elliott
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