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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1919
Page
7
A Seattle school board meeting adopted a budget of 3 300 212 dollars with a 15 percent mills tax after a July 22 special school election. Substitutes and grade teachers receive raises with substitute rates rising to 7 50 and 9 dollars. grade teachers to 4 50 6 0 7 per day.
Lonnie Sanders pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Tuesday and faces sentencing Friday. He was charged with first degree murder in the fatal August 2 gambling quarrel that killed John Hair. The article notes the defendant's claim of not guilty to the murder charge and oddly references teachers and grading by experience.
Potter Louise Glaum stars in Sahara wearing a fur coat in a desert sequence. An authors' company has been formed, the Robert W. Chambers Co. Marshall Nelsan intends a film adaptation of Custer's Last Fight. Natalie Talmadge, sister to Norma and Constance, leads The Way of a Man. Violet Mesreau to appear again in Love Wins.
A 20 year sales pitch extols Hyomei for preventing catarrh coughs colds influenza and winter illnesses. It claims daily inhalation with a pocket inhaler and liquid oil updates from Bartell Drug Co or any druggist, promising relief or money back with minimal daily use.
Nazimova, playing an American girl for the first time, appears in The Brat at Clemmer with a notable rabbit dance scene. Wolves of the Night at Coliseum features Farnum in a mine explosion escape. Enid Markey heads The Curse of Eve at Rex, following a career in stage houses. Strand presents Told in the Hill and a western backdrop with Robert Warwick. Bessie Barriscale returns at Colonial in Tangled Threads. Beatriz Michelena opens Just Squaw at Class A, with identity twist revealed.
Bill Russell anchors a screening of Gregory Jackson’s novel Six Feet Your at Liberty theatre. The program also features a Sen nett comedy Come Out of the Kitchen with the famed Sennett troupe including the cat dog and the baby. Louise’s kitchen exploits spark romantic complications in the comedy segment.
Alice Joyce has been honored with a new motion picture theatre named for her in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. The Joyce Theatre stands as a tribute to her contributions to cinema.
An old advertisement touts dissolving dandruff with squid arvon applied at night. It claims dandruff vanishes by morning after four ounces, with continued use stopping itching and improving hair texture, noting argon is sold at drug stores and inexpensive.
The German U-boat UB S8 surrendered at armistice enters Elliott Bay at Lake Union after a 13 000 mile voyage from Harwich England. It will be docked with its mother ship Bittern at King County Dock for three days before being sent to San Pedro California to be broken up. The 166 foot vessel carries 26 crew and is commanded by Lieut Commander J L Nelson with Lieut G Evans as executive officer.
Mrs. H L Hall of 125% South G Street Tacoma says Tanlac is the only medicine that helped after about twelve years of indigestion stomach trouble and rheumatic pain. She reports improved appetite weight gain energy sleep and return of strength after using two bottles and credits the Tanlac representative for the trial. Sold in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores under a Tanlac representative.
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