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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1919
Page
9
Grandmother kept hair dark and glossy with a brow of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is advertised as an easy, inexpensive remedy available at drug stores to darken gray hair naturally.
Oklahoma Senator Robert L. Owen praises the Court of Industry as a potential method to resolve employer-employee disputes affecting the public. He argues for advisory initiatives and referendums to express the people’s will, citing the coal miners’ strike and advocating a nationwide plebiscite approach to disputes and governance.
French peasant women, their hands hardened by farm labor, have returned to lace making. Exports to the United States are rising as 6,000 destitute women in Northern provinces receive work. Cluny, Venetian, Chantilly and Trinh lace are now woven, with applique and metal thread options gaining favor.
In Athens a wealthy profiteer’s wife buys $500 of books to equip a house she and her husband cannot read. A bookseller supplies a varied set of magazines bound handsomely, seeking profit as the couple pretends literacy.
Henry Ford has presented a plan to the Mexican government to build a large farm tractor plant. He would train Mexican mechanics in U S plants and then relocate them to Mexico to run the factory. Tractors would be sold to Mexican farmers at near cost on easy terms.
The K 33 on a 36 hour journey from London to Cologne Amsterdam and Paris carried 10 passengers including the Criterion restaurant chief and an elderly waiter. The trip offers a Pullman dinner quality menu with breakfast of eggs bacon coffee tea toast luncheon cocktails lobster salad partridges potatoes beans souffle glace and dinner consomme salmon trout roast lamb potatoes peas jam omelette and champagne.
During the German occupation of Belgium a loyal group of Flanders lace makers secretly crafted a point lace veil for Queen Elizabeth. The veil bears the Belgian arms, carries 12 000 hours of work, and weighs 125 grams.
A. N. Holcomb chief engineer of the steamship Redondo Alaska 8 8 Co is in Providence hospital Stricken with paralysis while on duty Thursday His wife and daughter live at 2216 Federal Ave
A donation party on November 21 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Florence Crittenden home at 9217 Tanner Avenue. Organizers request contributions of groceries and household goods. The item about Brussels sprouts and Brussels carpets is unrelated trivia.
Proposals to supply hacksaw blades tallow worsted zephyr cotton tape and coal burning bake ovens are due November 25 1919 at 10 am. Proposals for ranges bake ovens paraffin and sperm oil are due November 26 1919 at 10 am. Apply to Navy Yard Puget Sound Washington or Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Samuel McGowan Paymaster General of the Navy.
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