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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
9
An appeal notes a contribution to the Salvation Army for a Seattle project including a working girls home a working men hotel and the organization’s headquarters building with an enclosed payment.
A Seattle ex-service man recounts wartime Salvation Army aid including doughnut girls at the front and urges contributions. He notes 22 months in France across four fronts and recalls July 4 1918 in the Marne sector and other dates as proof of aid’s value.
Salvation Lassies sell twenty dollar doughnuts to raise funds for the Salvation Army. Elks leader Klepper threatens enforcement while policemen would arrest businessmen who don’t contribute, with proceeds aiding a girls home and men’s hotel as the ukulele band from Bremerton aids the campaign.
After Boatawain’s Mate Seth BE, Bickford of Newmarket New Hampshire died at sea last September while aiding a torpedoed boat, he left trophies from Turkey Northern Russia and Siberia for his mother. The trophies were left with a girl photographed with Bickford during a Coney Island visit. The mother does not know the girl and asks help locating her to recover her son’s mementos.
Carlsbad reports robbers forced Otto Gerstenberg to sign a 375000 check then fled by airplane. The 72 year old chairman of the Berlin Victoria Insurance company was decoyed to a house and locked in a room under threat of death.
Adjutant Fred Anderson, famed flapjack cook of the war, assists Salvation Army drive in Seattle. He carried a battle scarred chaplain’s flag from St Mihiel and spoke to Skinner & Eddy shipyard workers as an amused worker recognized him.
The United States Civil Service Commission invites applications for about 25 positions including Panama Canal zone winter duty and weather observer roles. Salaries range from 600 to 4000 dollars annually. Examinations are scheduled for late October and early November at the 303 Post Office Building.
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