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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
5
A collection of reader questions and Cynthia Grey style replies. Topics include interpreting signals from a partner, balancing love with family duties, and finding genuine suitors. The columnist urges frank talks with parents and partners, practical education, and keeping a cheerful, humane outlook.
Donald Gay, a popular university student last year, died Wednesday in San Francisco from injuries suffered in a jitney accident there a month earlier.
An advertisement argues that dissolving dandruff with four ounces of ordinary Arvon applied at night will remove all signs and traces of dandruff after three to four more applications. It claims the scalp stops digging, hair becomes fluffy and glossy, and Arvon liquid is inexpensive and available at drug stores.
In a reflective tale, Rush Hronson and Gabriel Mohoaise spark a movement within Seattle Moose Lodge No. 1 to transplant boys from a swampy past to thriving upland lives. The chapter expands with Tacoma and Bremerton camps and plans for garden work, charity, and health education led by doctors and teachers.
Petrograd dispatch reports continued Slav victories from Dvinsk to Galicia as German counterattacks are repulsed. In Dvinsk the area remains a focal point of fighting while Germans reportedly lose villages and guns north of Rafalovka on the Styr left bank.
From Copenhagen on October 14 24 German ore steamers were due at Stockholm but only 10 had arrived by daybreak. Reports blamed freshly active British submarines for sinking the remainder and hindering transport in the Baltic region.
From Vienna October 14 official news says Austro German forces continued to advance in Serbia despite fierce Serbian resistance. Several trenches south of Belgrade were captured by the invaders and Serbian counterattacks were heavily repulsed.
Bulgarian cavalry and Austro German troops massed at Vidin on the Bulgarian Danube bank opposite Romania. The move signals readiness for either offensive or defensive action against Romania amid regional tensions.
An advertisement promotes making a cough syrup from 2% ounces of Pinex mixed with sugar syrup to treat persistent coughs, chest infections, and bronchial issues. It claims quick relief, easy preparation in six minutes, pleasant taste, and a money-back guarantee from The Pinex Co of Fort Wayne Indiana.
Dr. Carl A. Ewald was appointed by Commissioners Bridges and Remseberg to fill the port board term of Gen. H. M. Chittenden. An 1888 Harvard graduate and Harvard Medical School alum, Ewald has varied ventures from medicine to shoe manufacturing and South American exploration. He is unwed and backed by the Public Ownership league. The port election, with the school race, is set for Saturday December 4.
Rev H G Edgar succeeds Rev John Downle as pastor of the Queen Anne United Presbyterian church and is warmly received by the congregation Wednesday night. Rev Downle will move to Freeport Pennsylvania.
The ad warns Americans to guard against kidney trouble from rich foods. It urges daily four ounce doses of Jad Salts to flush kidneys, claim relief from back pain, cloudy urine, and nocturnal urination, and promote a harmless lemon grape lithia beverage.
Charles Raffler and family live at the Rose hotel in Washington and Chicago. five children aged 19 to 15 months. The family, aided by a Japanese hotel owner, faces hunger with meals scarce. Welfare committee members seek work for the family as they struggle to find shelter and income.
Raffier, once a sober able bodied cook in a lumber camp, is currently unemployed along with his two sons aged 17 and 19 who roam the streets seeking any work. A real service is possible if a suitable job is found for any of the three. Call Main 4722 at the hotel.
Councilman Erickson argues the plan to silt the Cedar River dam area is necessary and would prevent overflow. Mayor Gill vetoed a $25,000 silting appropriation, claiming winter floods would flood the area, and Erickson pushes to override the veto.
The port commission on Thursday decided to construct a spur track costing $1000 on Smith Cove land. The line will be leased to Washington Paving Company of Tacoma for terminal storage purposes.
Health Commissioner McBride began a month long vacation Thursday. He will visit his old home in London Ontario and inspect health departments throughout the East.
In Japan a bride who dislikes taking her husband’s surname may adopt him into her own family, an arrangement that allows her to preserve her name while still forming a legal family link. The practice reflects traditional gender roles and evolving social norms in modern Japanese society.
Dr. J. L. Harvey, the smiling physician at the city hospital, resigns from his post to become a Presbyterian missionary doctor in Canton China, pursuing medical work abroad.
A beauty ad promotes a lotion to whiten complexion by dissolving four ounces of spurmax in half a pint of hot water with two teaspoonfuls of giveerin to remove pimples and tan. It also prescribes a cheap canthrax based shampoo for warmer weather, claiming a fresh scalp and bright hair with quick drying and soft fluffiness.
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