Greene Advises Home Letters To Ease Soldiers Homesickness
Gen Henry A Greene at Camp Lewis urges families to mail cheerful letters detailing everyday life and small wins to comfort 30,000 soldiers. He cautions not to dwell on sacrifice and recommends sharing ordinary moments to keep spirits high as troops stay through hardships. He notes home papers and postcards lift morale and urges consistent correspondence.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Henry A. Greene
Dormer
Prince Douglas
John
H. A. Greene
Seattle
Meany Hall
University
Seattle Mayor Backs Stricter Vice Crackdown
A military probe officer urged Mayor Gill to close dance halls and grills used for vice, replace Chief Beckingham with a law enforcement minded leader, and bolster red light abatement efforts. He pressed for detention and treatment of diseased immoral women at public expense and urged stronger prosecution with the prosecuting attorney.
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Gill
Seattle
Mr. Heckingham
Bockingham
Lundin
Trombones
Lodge
Weat Lake
Plaza Hotel
Beckingham
Fraser
Cecil
First Ave
Yeasler Way
Woodamen
Joe Whalen
Fifth Ave
Mercantile Listing Fragment with Mixed Figures
A read fragment shows wholesale prices for hay and grain and various numeric tokens. The OCR yields scattered numbers like 45.00 16.90 22.00 18.00 76.00 24.00 29.00 alongside garbled words and stray references to streets and vendors.
Police Threat Puts Public Vice to Rout
The piece recounts a city cleanup push against vice districts with closed bars and vanished police presence. Ministers critique police powers while officials discuss legal steps and bond abetment, amid a Seattle vice crackdown. Map Gen H A Greene criticizes authorities and pledges protection for soldiers in the city.
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Ministerial Federation
Plymouth Congregational Church
A. G. Murphy
Two Shows at Metropolitan Theatre Vaudeville and Film Reels
The Metropolitan presents Boris Karloff in The Virginian and film reels of the retreating German forces from Arras. Moore and Wilkes feature Baby Mine at matinee Sunday with side acts including the Wilkes Players circus next week. Pantages and Palace Hip host vaudeville with stars such as Clifford and Wayne, the Full Dream Indian, Keane and Keane, and the Leon Sisters, along with Ethel Clayton in Woman Beneath and Miss Springtime in Klaw & Erlanger’s musical. A varied program includes aerial feats by the Four Casters and act by Harry Jolson.
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Boris Karloff
the Virginian
Metropolitan
Olen Marwig
Moore
Ruth Roden
Palace Hip
Norman Feuster
Wilkes
Harry Jolson
Pantages
Stewart
Orpheum
Ore
Crimmins and
Gore
Orpheum Theatre
Clifford
Wayne
Steamboat Stewart
Keane
Cupid
M. D
Jack
Kitty Lee
Aldeans
Curtin
Rubellering
Ethel Clayton
The Virginian at the Metropolitan and other shows
The Virginian will be staged at the Metropolitan on Sunday for one performance. The New York Producing Co presents lavish scenery, thrilling action and humor in this Owen Wister Western tale. Also planned are Here Comes the Bride for six nights starting November 5 with a strong Klaw & Erlanger cast led by Beatrice Nichold and J Anthony Smythe. Sophie Tucker headlines at the Moore with her five kings of syncopation, a top vaudeville act. Bert Baker & Co offer Prenvarication, Tower and Darrell present Food for Squirrela, and Private Louis Hart, a British soldier on furlough, performs feats of strength along with other acts by Frank Weatphal and Harold Du Kane & Co.
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Palace Hup
Roess and Wise
Howard, Moore
Metropolitan
Owen Wister
The
West
New York Producing Co
Joseph Montrose
Klaw & Erlanger Western Enterprises
Beatrice Nichold
J. Anthony Smythe
Sophie Tucker
the Moore
Sophie
Orpheum
Vadeville
Bert Baker & Co
Tower
Darrell
Louis Hart
Jon Furlough
Frank Weatphal
Harold du Kane & Co
Letters Asking Training Advice and Personal Woes
A reader asks about starting training to become a professional strong man at age 20 and joining the navy at 21. Advice notes strength can grow in any gym, MC A examiners can advise, and that age is not a barrier.
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Mise Grey
Navy
Mac
Dr Van Vieck Absorption Treatment Piles Ad
Poverty of proof aside this old advertisement claims a home treatment for piles by Dr Van Vieck. It promises relief from itching bleeding and protruding piles with a one dollar trial after a free initial offer and urges readers to mail their address to Jackson Michigan for a plain wrapper package.
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Ofan
Dr. van Vieck Co
Dept
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Baby Mine
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