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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
5
Transcriptions of letters to The Star discuss spiritualist experiences and afterlife beliefs. Readers recount communications from deceased relatives via dreams, telepathy, or astral travel, with editors presenting varying theories on life after death and the nature of the soul.
Capt. Collings describes his long sea career followed by a double rupture and years bedridden. After failed doctors and trusses he claims a self cure without surgery, offering a free book and medicine by mail to rupture sufferers. The notice urges immediate request.
Joicey Williams star of Imperial theatre in St. Louis shares a home formula to color gray hair. Mix half a pint of water with bay rum one ounce Barbo Compound and one fourth ounce glycerine apply twice weekly until the shade reaches the desired level. The solution purportedly darkens without staining the scalp and does not rub off.
A Seattle woman with painful red eyes could not sew or read. After trying Lavoptik eye wash with Hazel camphor hydrastia and similar ingredients she experienced a striking improvement. The ad guarantees Lavoptik will help weak strained or inflamed eyes with a free aluminum eye cup offered by Swift's Drug Co and leading druggists.
A reminiscence recounts repeated visions of the Savior seen by a grandmother and others. The writer notes doubts from skeptics, faith in the Holy Spirit, and a deathbed vision of a child awaiting Jesus. The author, Mrs T C Evitts, emphasizes near communion with Christ as harbor and hope.
Mr. A. KB. Rest of 2010 Center Street Baker Oregon says Jo-to for Stomach Trouble has done more good than anything he has found. He has recommended it to many friends and will continue to do so. Jo-to is sold in Seattle by the Five Bartell Drug Stores and at Swifts Pharmacies. Sample at most any soda fountain.
R H Allen of Melbourne, representative of Walker Co Australian manufacturers, says the country will ultimately depend on Australia for wheat. He is staying at Frye hotel. Also an advertisement notes Boldt's French pastry locations Uptown and Downtown.
Mayor Fitzgerald asks city officials and professionals to join a committee to draft an ordinance creating a commission to supervise city planning and zoning. The named members include William Hickman Moore R H Thomson Thomas F Murphine A H Dimock J A Younger Keith L Burlitt Carl F Gould W H Meffrath Q G Peniston David Whitcomb Frank W Cotterill Walter Meier Dr W T Christensen port commissioner and B J Lambuth. A testimonial promotes Foley Kidney Pills for back pain and kidney relief.
Government figures indicate living costs in Australia have climbed by 46 percent since 1911. The note about Mother Goose references her as a real person, Isaac Goose's wife, with rhymes first told to her grandchildren in 1695.
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