Letters To Custin and Miss Grey In Wartime America
A collection of readers letters and Miss Grey responses touch on civic duty, wartime charity, economic equity, and seeking guidance. Queries cover age-dating fish, film star names, Los Angeles as a seaport, and household tips while noting a man asking for a pension after limited meals.
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Miss Grey
Misa Grey
Theda Hara
Norma Talmadge
Florence Lawrence
Theodosia Goodman
Mra J
Los Angeles
Cal
Wan
Ouport
Greta
San Pedro
Sample Suit Sale Slashes Prices on Coats and Suits
Men's sample overcoats and suits in gray brown and blue reduced from eight to eighteen dollars, now six eighty five. Sample suits and overcoats worth twenty two fifty go at nine eighty five. One of a kind samples in all sizes with top tailoring and Pure Wool fabrics. Buy any suit or overcoat and receive a free two fifty hat from over five hundred hats in stock. Offer valid Saturday only. Union store hours close seven.
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Kaufman and Strauss
Seattle
Rogers
Walk-Over Shoes Sale Storms Prices Across All Styles
The Larsen-Mueller Portland stock offers deep discounts on Walk-Over and related brands. Boys and girls school shoes from $1.95, ladies and men’s styles from $1.89 to $3.89, with many items marked down from high original values. Stock clearout targets 2,000 pairs plus extensive selection.
Rogers Sale of Arrow Collars and Menswear at Union Store
Rogers announces a massive closeout with 4300 Arrow Collars at 2 for 15 cents plus hundreds of men and women’s high grade shirts under 1 dollar. Bargains include pres ser 50 cent suspenders 23 cents and wool socks, underwear and shirts at deep discounts as Seattle shoppers rush to the sale starting Saturday 8 AM.
Exonered SGT White Cleared of Check Fraud Ties
SGT Bergt Merritt White of Truck Company 60 was arrested and later released after evidence showed his innocence in a Tacoma check fraud case. Sergei Douglas Proud of Truck Company 50 confessed to cashing bad paper with estimated losses between 700 and 1000 dollars. Lane alias Lane was linked to the checks. Col Saville and Maj Strong affirmed White’s 21 years of service and clean record.
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Likewis
Tacoma
Sergi
Douglas Proud
Truck Company 50
Red BE. Lane
Lane
Proud Canhed Lane
Proud
Bergt
Merritt White
Truck Company 60
White
Judge Advocate Strong
Maj. Strong
Col. Saville
Market Report Lists Wholesale Prices for Fruits and Grains
Wholesale prices cover apples oranges prunes cherries and cranberries with case and per pound figures. Grain and feed prices list wheat corn meal alfalfa and timothy hay with term and package details. Prices reflect producer and dealer rates for commodities including dairy produce and meat products as supplied.
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Ooss
Groend Darley
Free to Asthma Sufferers New Cure Offer
A bold ad promises a free trial of a new asthma method at the advertiser's expense. It targets long standing and recent cases, claiming relief from wheezing and paroxysms and invites immediate action with a coupon.
Soldiers May Take Wrestling Lessons at Camp Lewis
Walter Miller of St Paul world welter and middleweight champion offered to donate services as wrestling instructor at Camp Lewis Tacoma saying he will enlist if not accepted. Miller, born in Poland, naturalized US citizen, trains in Spokane and Hellingham plans. Riveting local note on athletic preparations and wartime morale.
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Stall Cory
St. Paul
Miller
Cris Gesek
Spokane
Eugene Trombley
Montreal
Milton Harnden
Hellingham
Wille Ritchie
Elopement Ends in New Orleans Marriage for Watterson
In New Orleans on Tuesday, Thomas W. Watterson, who says he is a grandson of Col Henry Watterson, married Miss Mary Henri Dillon. The event followed an elopement and sparked local curiosity about lineage.
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United Areas
New Orleans
Thomas W. Watterson
Col
Henry Watterson
Mary Henri Dillon
Nasty Medicines Advised Against Use For Children
An article warns against giving pills powders and nauseating compounds to children. It recommends mild laxatives like Dr Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin as a pleasant tasting safe option and notes it costs 50 cents a bottle with a free trial bottle available by mail from Monticello Illinois.
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