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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1919
Page
16
A list of discounted apparel items includes envelopes, gowns, corset covers, and Voile curtains. Prices range from 75 cents to 15.00 per pair, with items described as white lingerie cloth, lace trimming, Valen ciennes lace, and Filet embroidery accents alongside decorative marquisette and curtain styles.
San Francisco October report details Col. Joseph Gerrard announcing the end of the Alcatraz blacklist of solitary confinement. Prisoners including conscientious objectors faced 14 day dark cell punishment, with the dungeon now repurposed for officers.
The Salvation Army outlines its Seattle relief work including rescue homes maternity hospitals industrial and working men homes slum centers and prison and legal aid. It asks Seattle to provide the remaining $125000 this week to fund a working girls home and a laborer's hotel.
An advertisement touts Cherry's Credit Store as a place to buy high quality apparel with favorable cash or credit options. It invites customers to visit about the 17th in rooms 2067 Rialto Building, 1015 Second Ave, and take the elevator.
Berea Ohio village cooperation aims to solve the housing problem by forming a cooperative building association with 75 stockholders and 50 000 dollars stock, 45 percent paid in. Construction has begun on 50 houses priced at about 4 000 dollars each and to be sold on payments same as rent to ensure no one is turned away from the village.
President Wilson's cabinet debated the threatened coal miners strike the sugar shortage and the wider labor situation. It was agreed Secretary Wilson would oversee any federal action to prevent the strike with a policy announcement expected. The sugar shortage was referred to Secretary Houston.
Men claimed to own jags from a local soft drink bar but federal investigators found the booze lacked strength to intoxicate. The Oct 14 report notes the boastful claims are unfounded and the analysis debunks the supposed effect.
Halloween accessories from the Stationery Section feature mini favors with pumpkins witches black cats and owls priced from 5 to 10 cents. Orange crepe paper party caps novelty pumpkin pies velvet cats and cut out cats owls and pumpkins are offered plus candle shades table covers and crepe paper napkins on first floor.
Dainty Incidentals to Gift-making offers ribbon covered elastic in soft colors and Dresden effects from 40c to 1.00 yard. China doll heads for pincushions and vanity boxes priced 50c to 1.00. Gilt safety pins with dainty ribbons, bodkin needles, ribbon runner sets, emery balls, wax bits, polished thimbles, bone rings and sewing sets boxed with ribbon. Nation Section First Floor.
The Reeve Cleaning Co of Cleveland Ohio posts a notice to burglars after repeated office robberies. The notice warns that the cash drawer is open the safe is empty there is a burglar alarm inside and a loaded shotgun is pointed at the door.
London report from the select committee on dormant bank balances shows Child & Co. stating Nell Gwynn, famed with Charles I, was overdrawn in her account when she died in 169.
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