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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1917
Page
4
Roadway High School will skip a junior prom this year and apply the $100 pledge to the War M. A. fund. An informal class dance is planned for November 24.
A fragmented OCR item notes unclear references to feed, grain, oats, wheat, and a torn core. The readable words hint at supplies or stock terms but lack coherent context or identifiable people or organizations.
H. M. Rogers promotes a Wednesday 8 a.m. sale marking down a $20,000 stock of samples. Mens suits and overcoats in various fabrics from Kaufman to Strauss cut to $11.85, with Walkover and other shoes slashed to rock bottom prices. The sale promises never to repeat and urges early attendance for best picks.
An old medical advertisement extols organic phosphorus, from Pelouz and Robin, as a nerve builder. It claims Serain tablets of pure bitro phosphate restore energy, improve sleep, increase flesh, and revitalize the nervous system when taken with meals, at low cost.
A reader critiques a volunteer card drive during the Hoover campaign accusing it of waste and privilege. The writer notes politicians' wives earn high incomes and urges funding blankets and food for the poor instead. A separate inquiry asks about a book title and another date question confirms November 30 fell on a Sunday in 1879.
The Six Moorish Whirlwinds tumblers headline the Palace Hip show opening Sunday. They perform whirling and cartwheeling feats while Van and Yorke provide comedy from exaggerated physical forms. Morton and Kerr are listed as road acts joining the lineup.
Police hold Nick Lakusta an Austrian after the fatal shooting of Charlies Matin at Eighth avenue and Union street on Friday morning. Detectives investigate the motive and review eyewitness accounts.
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