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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
5
Peter Schmidt a German born farmer in Burlington fled to Mount Vernon to escape an angry crowd after refusing to buy a Liberty Bond. He was later permitted to buy a $1,000 bond to quell the disturbance.
Bulgarian deserters advancing on Sofia have been driven back by government troops, according to a dispatch from Sofia via Vienna. The city is reported out of danger.
Washington reports predict Belgium and northern France will be freed as German retreat from the La Bassée region begins. Allied forces push eastward while Germany relocates U boat bases, with Americans bolstering pressure as ministers hint at possible peace moves. Mose Courtney, colored, fined £100 and 20 days in jail for stealing pennies from news stands.
Thelma Laulee Boughton, 14, a student at W.CLA vocational school for girls, has articles poems and stories published in Good Housekeeping Ladies Home Journal Woman's Home Companion and other magazines. She invests her writing income in Liberty bonds stamps and shares a journalism tip: write what will please readers by creating successful characters rather than featuring failures.
Citizens renouncing their allegiance to avoid the draft cannot hold real estate after obtaining first papers, as ruled by attorney general and relayed to local draft boards. The decision directs delinquent draftees’ property to revert to the state, per draft appeal agent T. J. Kennedy.
Report from London dated October 3 states that French and British outlets led by the Daily Mail and other papers demand that Britain and France warn Germany that full reprisals on German towns will follow if French towns are burned during the German retreat. The Mirror advocates using fear and force to stop vandalism.
Havre dispatch reports Belgian war office stating local pushes improved positions. British troops captured Gheluwe Le Biset and La Francque farm with Gheluwe about two miles northwest of Menin and Le Biset La Planeque farm about a mile north of Armentieres. British airmen destroyed nine enemy aircraft and two balloons.
Neils Bernthsen, 31, Dane, held in city jail on federal investigation after allegedly paying the steamer skipper $200 for passage to South America to evade the draft. Arrested by Officer K L Webb at a local hotel. total $300 payment revealed later.
Paris dispatch reports German forces torched Roulers Belgium a key Belgian town near Ypres. Belgian and British troops have nearly surrounded the city as Allied drives in Flanders continue. A proposed triumphal route from Paris to the Forest of Saint Germain marks peace celebrations.
Washington announces government fixed maximum shoe price at 12 dollars with enforcement after October 15. Dealers jobbers and manufacturers must pledge compliance. Shoes classified into three tiers with set price ranges and pledge cards to be posted in stores.
William McMullen aged 37 a Duthie shipyard employee was taken ill at a restaurant at 606 Beventh Ave. and died en route to City Hospital in a police ambulance. Physicians could not determine the cause. He leaves a sister in Gig Harbor. The body rests at the county morgue. The city health authorities ordered new bedding and cot for women disease victims and improved conditions in the receiving cells after a mayoral and police conference.
A simple home remedy uses the juice of two lemons mixed with three ounces of Orchard White to create a quarter pint skin whitening lotion. The guide promises a fragrant, harmless mixture that lightens tan redness and windburn on the face neck arms and hands with daily use.
A folksy verse recalls anglers bragging about "dandy" fish near shore and how tales grow as they claim losses. The piece promotes fall sales at the Floretch upstairs store at Second and Union, urging readers to shop coats dresses and more.
A 1930s style ad urges readers to take four ounces of Jad Salts from any drug store to flush clogged kidneys. It claims the effervescent drink made from grape and lemon acids with lithia cleans and stimulates kidneys, neutralizes urine acids, and prevents bladder disorders with a harmless, inexpensive routine. A local druggist is cited noting many customers buy Jad Salts for kidney trouble prevention.
United Press war expert J W T Mason reports German forces retreat from the Hindenburg line between Cambrai and St Quentin. A dangerous salient between Lane and Armentieres subjects Germans to cross fire while they reformat a northern front. Belgians threaten Ostend and Bruges. Lille may face outflanking and rear attack as the war shifts with strategic retreat toward Belgium and possibly the Rhine.
The United States Homes Registration committee holds a meeting in the assembly room at the Chamber of Commerce at 2 p.m. Friday. The regular Friday noon luncheon of the members' council is postponed due to war work activities.
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