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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1916
Page
2
A Bon Marche assembly hall program featured a lecture on Food and Health by Mabel Seagrave and a talk on child welfare by Dr. W C Lippincott. An exhibition clinic followed with near perfect babies examined by the doctor, with explanations of measurements and weights of normal infants.
Germans briefly retook a Russian trench south west of Budnor after heavy artillery, but were driven back by a Russian counter attack, scattering heavily according to an official statement from Petrograd.
Washington dispatch reports strong anger among national Woman’s Party organizers at Republican campaign managers for ignoring women voters. They call it boneheaded indifference but note Democrats court the female vote with speeches written in the White House. Hughes’ Western swing shows scant attention to suffrage, risking loss of up to a million votes from women.
Sweethearts in Columbus find a quiet safe space in Rev Hindman s Presbyterian church Sunday school rooms Hindman welcomes lovers into his private parlors and guarantees them absolute privacy.
Rio de Janeiro society clubs brim with diamond jewelry who stud ears and wrists. The author notes vast blue stones from Brazil and lavish spending on rubies emeralds and sapphires, while describing fashion and wealth in the city. The piece ends with a brief mention of land reclamation in Egypt.
Marines report a Memphis disaster aftermath off Santo Domingo where oil dumped at sea formed blankets on the water and glued to the wings of sea birds, leaving hundreds stranded on shore unable to fly.
Franco British air squadrons last night bombarded the Mauser works at Obendorff dropping nearly five tons of projectiles. Artillery fighting on both sides of the Somme was intense, especially in Morval Bouchasens Ablaincourt and Chaulnes. A Russian inventor touts a swimming suit with food compartments a weighted keel and fins to aid swimming.
In Bayonne New Jersey on October 13 Isadore Nalitsky a 22 year old lawyer was killed as a fusillade erupted between several hundred striking Standard Oil employees and about 250 armed detectives policemen and guards. Twenty five more strikers were wounded. The town sees a second fatality in the riotous strike. The Ancient Order of United Workmen plans a benefit dance that night for the anti tuberculosis league.
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