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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
11
The Seattle Star reports on the West League of Newspapers highlighting regional media activity and community updates within the press network. The piece sketches collaborations among member papers and forthcoming sector events.
A reader at a lunch counter contrasts Japanese diet of brown rice and dried fish with American polished white rice. The piece argues polishing strips minerals and nutrients from rice and bread, linking beri beri in soldiers fed polished rice to better health with brown rice. It urges readers to seek brown rice and compare taste.
The account notes Japan seizing a German island between the Philippines and Hawaii and mentions Austrias bombardment of Belgrade. It also hints at domestic tensions as a wife plans to keep an anxious husband occupied with a newborn and a bottle.
A vintage ad claims Pape's Diapepsin ends stomach distress in five minutes. It touts relief from indigestion, gas, and heartburn for Dyspeptic readers, promising a sweet stomach, no belching, and instant well being after ingestion.
The piece notes Ole Hanson drawing the largest Aberdeen meeting in years as standpat leaders beg for three senators to counter his lead over Wesley Lori Mer Jones. It portrays Aberdeen as cleansed of past crooked bosses and proud of Hanson’s progressive surge.
The letters discuss political maneuvering to win votes including a reference to a 1912 primary and a river appropriation. Another note questions the eight hour workday debate and the servant vote. A third letter supports Mother Ruth and the Cooperative Sunshine Guild aiding shut ins in the community.
Petersburg Ind Oct 16. After arresting so many drunken men that the jail overflowed marshal Thomas Wilder of Winslow tied them to trees in front of the jail until they sobered enough for trial. None escaped.
A crowd in Fuquay North Carolina watched a king snake and a moccasin clash by a spring. The moccasin held the root, the king snake bit its head, and after freeing the grip the king snake strangled and swallowed the moccasin, then returned to the water.
Curiosity drew hundreds along Broadway and 46th street to glimpse an airship that proved to be a kite flown by a mail boy. In Los Angeles the fire commission ordered the destruction of opium valued at 35008 dollars seized in Chinatown.
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