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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1917
Page
9
A Portland retailer, Mr H M Rogers, promotes a one day event offering 785 sample garments at deep cuts. Every suit or overcoat sold Saturday includes a free $2.50 hat from over 500 hats. Union store hours run 8 A M to 7 P M. sale ends Saturday.
Butler Bros Seattle stock and Larsen Mueller Portland stock push Walk-Over and Florsheim shoes to dramatic discounts. Women and mens lines including felt slippers and school shoes priced from 1.89 to 3.48 with many items, ready tomorrow in a grand clearance.
The Bradford Clothes Shop on Pike announces a closing sale of 4500 Arrow Collars and surplus stock from Rogers. Men’s high grade shirts, suspenders, socks, union suits, flannel shirts, overalls, pants and more are offered at deep discounts. Sale starts Saturday 8 AM, store hours through 7 PM, Union store.
Panic spread as miners armed after a night watchman reported two strangers at the main shaft. John H. Hornbrook led six miners to investigate and found eight intruders blurred by reflections from a motor reflector. It was soon learned the figures were miners’ reflections. The mine reopened with workers called back.
The district police department is entrusted with enforcing the game logpy within the District of Columbia.
The second draft will exclude some singles but include many married men. Col Gullion notes that selections are fixed and cannot be litigated. Classifications split by dependency on a man's labor determine who is called, with many husbands of earning wives likely placed in class two.
The article explains a nationwide drive for war savings stamps, showing how a $4.12 stamp can yield $5 by January 1 1922. It compares the English and American plans, noting 16 thrift stamps plus 12 cents can exchange for one stamp, and cites Great Britain’s success with 110 million certificates by mid 1916 and 35 000 savings associations.
A meeting of Northwest division managers and Red Cross officials is set for Saturday in room 610 of the White building to organize a Christmas to Christmas drive for 10,000,000 new members. Attendees include Hervey Lindley, M. A. Arnold, Hazen J. Titus, A. Tt. Stewart, R. R. Fox, C. C. Chapman, Henry Reed, BE. H. Dewey, Jarmen Gipson, Charles Peabody, F. A. Stuart and Wm. Howarth.
In FAST POINT Georgia on November 30 Rev O L Smith a Baptist minister faced danger as a bedbug bit a sleeping fireman William Fleeler across the street from the parsonage The bite woke Fleeler who saw the blaze consuming the pastor's house and credited the insect with saving his life and thus indirectly protecting the pastor's life
Store advertises heavy weight yarn vests and pants with fleeced back and tailor cut in sizes 36 through 46. Promotes tomorrow sale price of 5 cents, contrasting with a dollar elsewhere.
In Philadelphia a gown called The Temptation Rag sparks a civil suit. Miss Hannah Randolph, a wealthy society girl, allegedly received the gown from Lady Duff Gordon and the Lucille Company but has not paid. The Temptation Rag is valued at 115 dollars.
A telegram received in Seattle from John Hays Hammond, president of the club, informs Judge Thomas Burke that the club will be supported. Burke replies that the entire state backs the boys on their journey to Berlin.
Thirteen villages in a devastated German front district are now cared for by 18 Smith College students serving as the first American women social settlement unit in the war zone. They live amid artillery fire and German aerial activity, sheltering about 1,200 people who otherwise lack roofs, using portable houses and barracks provided by French authorities. They manage cooking, wood cutting and farm tasks while prisoners chop wood behind the lines.
The United States Biological Survey reports the destruction of 35,000 coyotes this year in the Great Basin region of Colorado.
A 19th century drug pitch touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla, Peptiron, and Hood’s Pills as a combined treatment for blood, nerves, and liver. It urges readers to use all three or pick the needed one, promising purification, restoration, and comfort.
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