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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1916
Page
6
Advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a fast acting remedy for indigestion gas and dyspepsia. It claims five minute relief from stomach distress with a money back guarantee offering a hundred dollars value if unsatisfied and urges keeping it at home for day or night use.
Paris taxis will observe Marne battle anniversaries by flying the tricolor from their cabs. The yearly custom began this year for about a thousand drivers who aided General Gallieni’s reinforcements to General Mounoury for the victory. Many drivers were mobilized, died, or deported, so the observance preserves memory of the accomplishment.
The city council plans to formalize the annual tax levy by ordinance on Monday. The levy will be .28 mills lower than last year while state school port and county levies rise by 1.509 mills. Reduced valuations have increased the mill levy this year, though comparisons by mills are not meaningful.
The Kansan cargo ship carrying steel hay and grain bound for St Nazaire was spared after a German submarine surfaced showed papers and disappeared. Captain Smith reported two subs off the New England coast and a West Point warning followed by destroyer support near Nantucket lightship.
Bon Marche announces a three day Baby Week program in cooperation with Mothers Training School Health Department and Mothers Congress. Next Wednesday Thursday and Friday at 2 30 p m experts speak in the Bon Marche assembly hall on child welfare with free admission.
A Bethel Maine fishing party invited by Mr Bingham fished at Pennesasee wassee lake. They caught more fish than allowed by law and were halted by the commissioner who ordered them to return the surplus to the lake after a brief resunction.
Mene Keese Eskimo once with Dr. Peary offers to sell his proof that Peary and Cook did not reach the pole for one million dollars. He plans an expedition to the frozen north if a buyer is found and says Eskimos told him the pole was never reached. He hopes to educate schoolchildren and prove the scientists wrong while reflecting on life in America and his homeland with food and climate contrasts.
Dry squad investigators arrest Robert Thom and Joseph Cramer for obtaining liquor permits under false pretenses. Police continue a systematic effort to break up a bootlegging syndicate that hires men to secure permits for them.
Miss Jennie Apkatz waited in a wet bathing suit for three and a half hours in the Coney Island police station after forgetting the locker number. A boarding house runner offered a room for 15 cents to change, she used it, then could not locate her clothing when returning to the bath house. Police summoned her father in New York who arrived at 10:30. The police fed her supper during the delay.
The text notes that Paris began numbering houses in 1512, while Berlin originally numbered buildings without regard to street layout. These contrasts reflect how early urban numbering diverged from later systematic street-based schemes.
Gov Ernest Lister launched the final drive of his campaign with a noon rally at the Grand Centre and addressed King County Democrats. He urged straight ticket voting and support for Turner, with further meetings planned at Madrona Pacific Stevens and Minor schools Monday and Tuesday nights.
An old advertisement touts Quid F merine as a hair treatment promising natural looking curls or waves after three hours. It claims the product keeps hair fine for weeks and that it should be applied with a clean toothbrush, warning it lasts long and is easy to maintain.
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