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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1917
Page
3
Wartime pleas call for a methodical fight on rats aiding Kaiser and U boats. Instructions stress sanitation, grain protection, removal of debris, rat dogs, and rat proof storage, plus humane wildlife allies and public opinion to end rat threats for good.
Deputy Prosecutor Lane Summers obtained a ruling after Gill Hoyt and Frye refused to defend red abatement proceedings. August Daverso was fined 300 dollars and his two houses at 673 and 665 Lane Street were ordered closed for six months. Peanuts Linton, previously agent for the 673 Lane Street establishment, is noted as a frequent bondman for tenderloin figures.
Food Administrator Hoover plans four lines of prosecution within ten days for violations of wartime food rules. Dealers who force combined purchases, overcharge during shortages, hoard, or waste food face action via wholesalers or jobbers, with violations reportable to state administrators and protected by witness support.
The Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra will continue free rehearsals for eighth grade and high school pupils, with teachers present, when the theatre space can be secured in the future.
Chris Halverson recounted to police that he met an old friend from North Dakota on Monday, then went to his friend’s nephew’s room where they opened a few drinks. The pair then assaulted him and took fifty dollars.
A reader argues for equal suffrage while condemning militant suffragettes as morally extreme. The letterizer defends traditional domestic roles, cites marital harmony, and warns against profanity and harsh treatment, stressing that guidance and affection, not punishment, temper both sexes.
A letter seeks a donated baby carriage for a worn mother of two, offering delivery by Elliott 4576. The second note requests information on a Seattle auto ordinance requiring motorists to stop or slow near streetcars and reports near-misses and driver violations. A PRISCILLA column reply states a chaplain’s salary is $200 monthly with furnished quarters.
The Brownatone hair tint promises a safe easy application with a comb or brush and offers shades from light golden brown to black. Sold by leading drug stores or direct from Kenton Pharmaceutical Co. Samples offered with 1% post. If unavailable via druggist, order from Covington Kentucky. Do not accept substitutes or samples at dealers.
Louis Barthou, the new foreign minister, is described as an intellectual with a taste for literature and physical culture. His biography on Mirabeau is praised as a classic, marking a blend of scholarly and athletic interests in Paris. A separate item reports Daniel Rogers, a Skinner & Eddy shipyard watchman, injured by a streetcar at First and Atlantic, needing hospital care for a dislocated ankle.
A Washington dispatch surveys German war propaganda in the United States. It catalogues canards from false reports of Secretary Tumulty’s arrest to claims of naval disasters and seizures of bank deposits, noting the spread via word of mouth and ticker wires and the toll on military families.
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