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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1918
Page
9
A wartime appeal stresses massive food conservation bond purchases and tax payments to shorten the conflict. It warns that longer war means higher cost and pledges victory if every citizen saves, pays, and contributes now.
New York officials push a measure to penalize landlords who bar families with children from apartments. The proposal, led by Alderman Clarence Palitz, would impose fines or jail time for displaying aversion to children in housing. The piece argues exclusive tenants drive the policy, noting landlords serve high rent seekers and advocate for broader tolerance of families.
Kerensky declares a liberated Russia will rise from Teutonic Bolshevik ruin and rely on the unshakable Russian will to be free. He argues the persecuted peasantry govern by instinct as Germany’s interference sharpens the path to freedom, while Americans are urged to fund Liberty Bonds with dollars.
Seattle school directors insist on sticking to their decision despite public opposition. Judge Winsor offered a path to retreat yet the board remained silent. The city condemns their undemocratic stance as morale destroying and out of touch with democratic service. The piece likens the directors to the suffrage resistant thirty in the Senate.
The piece commends Mayor Hanson and the city health department for closing public assemblies to curb the influenza epidemic. It praises their courage and steadfastness, arguing such decisive action saved lives as influenza deaths mount in other cities.
A speaker says Southern senators opposed the suffrage amendment to preserve white women’s separation from colored women at the polls. The piece labels democracy genuine but with restrictions based on wealth social standing and color.
A collage of odds and gags from popular humor columns. Sleepwalkers argue with a police officer over pajamas. A joke pair ponders engagement timing. A mahogany ship called Match leas endures from pirates near Key West. Light exchanges about chicken, airplane wings, and a mock plea for umbrella poles in rain.
A reader asks if a married woman may write to a soldier friend. The column advises sharing letters with the husband, then leaving the matter to him, and notes lack of confidence fuels suspicion. Other letters ask about post office package rules, a wife’s critique of a woman’s behavior, a workplace concern, presidential term limits, and Schumann-Heink’s citizenship status.
A comparative look at postwar finances contrasts the United States wealth and large gold reserves with Germany’s mounting war debts and depleted gold holdings. It notes U.S. resources near 260 billion, annual earnings around 50 billion, debt about 12 billion, and gold reserves near 2.5 billion. Germany faces 30 billion debt and 4 billion postwar expenditures with 1.5 billion annual interest.
General Bethel serves as judge advocate general of the American army in France overseeing legal affairs and military justice during active operations.
A six months supply of serum for the cure and prevention of gaseous gangrene has been ordered by the American Red Cross for shipment to Europe. France requests at least 20 000 doses monthly and a Swedish built ice breaking steamer advances through 30 feet ice as logistics progress.
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