Let Us Put Our School Houses to Work for Our Country
An editorial urges Seattle school officials to counter German propaganda by using classrooms for wartime education. It cites New York lectures on why the United States entered the war, battlefront pictures, and discussions of democracy, urging the Seattle board to oppose pro German lies and demonstrate Americanism.
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Seattle Board
Seattle
School Board of
New York
Metropolis
United States
City's Honor Men Given Big Send Off
A contingent of 738 select service men marched from Seattle to Union Depot at 1 PM amid holiday cheers. Brass bands and over 100 red auto units led the parade down serpentine streets as crowds packed the sidewalks with flowers, gifts, and speeches. Two trains waited to carry the honored troops, while mothers, sisters, and sweethearts filled the depot platform in a celebratory send off.
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Seattle
Moore Theatre
Hippodrome
Elks’ Band
Wash Infantry
McClinton
Third Infantry
Wash State Guard
A. E. Campbell
Good Bye
Broadway
Colored Citizens’ Band
Good Cheer
Red Cross
Union Depot
Italians Win Naval Battle In Adriatic
Italian destroyer Aquila and accompanying flotilla engaged Austrian warships in the Adriatic. One Austrian officer was killed, the ship commander wounded, and the Austrian flag shot away. The damaged cruiser withdrew to Cattaro with two sister ships as Italian torpedo boats pursued.
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United Preas
Washington
Adriatic
Aquila
Cattaro
Houser Speaks on Hooverizing Grain at Merchants Exchange
N. H. Houser of Portland ore grain administrator for the Northwest recently appointed by Food Administrator Hoover spoke Thursday noon to business men at the Merchants Exchange. Houser, a millionaire grain man on the Pacific Coast, plans to give up personal interests to devote his effort to governmental work. He spoke on grain conservation.
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N. H. Houser
Portland
Ore
Northwest
Hoover
Merchants’ Exchange
Houser
Pacific Coast
Banner to Carry Wilson Message in Liberty Parade
Boy Scouts will carry a banner six feet high and two blocks long in the Liberty loan parade Saturday night bearing part of President Wilsons message Time has come to conquer or submit. The plan was suggested by R E B Morgan of Frederick Nelsons.
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Liberty Loan
Wilson
R. E B. Morgan
Frederick & Nelson's
Kaiser’s Gold Floods U.S. Intrigues Revealed
The United Press reports a Berlin foreign office source funded German propaganda in peacetime with an unlimited gold flow. Hugo Schmidt testified before New York Attorney General Lewis, revealing code names for Bernstorff and the Guaranty Trust in wireless messages from Berlin.
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United Press
New York
Bernstorff
United States
America
Germany
Berlin
Bolo Pasha
France
Hugo Schmidt
Deutsches Bank of Berlin
Lewis
Charles Glerbill
Guaranty Trust Co
Fred Hohen
Six Girls Aid Nat Carnival at Water Fest
Six girls will join the big water carnival at Crystal Pool next Tuesday night under the direction of Lonnie Austin and Guy Sherwood to benefit The Star amoke fund. The event is part of preparations for a larger water festival as crowds gather for the charity drive.
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Crystal Pool
Lonnie Austin
Austin & Salt
Guy Sherwood
Star Amoke Fund
Douglas Fairbanks backs Seattle Star tobacco drive
A letter from Douglas Fairbanks praises the Star smoke fund, calls the Royal in France tobacco campaign bully, and urges continued effort to cheer soldiers after drills, expressing confidence in its tremendous success.
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Doug
Douglas Fairbanks
Seattle Star
Seattle
Roya
France
British Capture All Objectives in Major Haig Drive
London reports Gen Maurice stating British forces seized all objectives along a 16 000 yard front and pushed to a maximum depth of 2 500 yards in what is described as Haig's greatest offensive drive.
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Zonnebeke
London
Maurice
Field Marshal
Haig
Correction clarifies Rev Sydney Strong arrest status
A typographical correction notes that Rev. Sydney Strong of the Queen Anne Congregational church was not arrested during a raid on Christian pacifists in Los Angeles. The Star corrects the earlier report to reflect he was not taken into custody.
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The
Star
Sydney Strong
Queen Anne Congregational Church
Los Angeles
Woman-slugger attacks Seattle mother joes on
Mrs. Edward R. Kinsey, 22, found bound and unconscious under her bed after an attack at 911 N 86th St. She fainted during a struggle with a slender man who fled within 10 minutes. A $1,000 reward was offered for the slugger, and Mayor Gill deputized firemen as volunteer officers to aid patrols citywide.
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Edward R. Kinsey
N. 86Th St
Seattle
86Th St
P. Carey
M. J. Maginnis
Aurora St
Kinsey
Dick Shively
Bergstrom
Cochran
Simpson
City Hospital
Densmore
Sheriff Stringer
Skinner & Eddy
H. E. McConaughy
Kinsey House
Gill
Firemen's Union
A. J. McManus
30Th Ave
George Shaudrow
Ave. S
Shaudrow
McManus
Mra. J. C. Howell
W. S8th St
F. Noldoski
Sixth Ave
W. F. Barnell
Berquest
Axel Hansen
Hansen
Faunroy Park
Vancouver
B.C
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Boards of Education
Dan Landon
Grand Marcehal
Bert Swezen
Amer
Kaiser
U.S
Wm. Foxley
Chas
Gledhill
Fred Hoomen
Schmidt
Ypres
William Philip Simms
Prees
Home Guard
University
M. KK. McGee
Seventh Ave
Star Office
Ernest Weissbach
Snoqualmie Ave
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