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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
15
Every thing for men this season promises value with shoes priced at 3.50 5.00 and 6.00 in lace or button styles. Available in tan dull patent leather and all sizes.
Margaret Fay Whittemore of Detroit and Anna McCue of Philadelphia, leaders in the Congressional Union of Women Voters, declare war on Democratic candidates for Congress to push woman suffrage. They acknowledge criticism but stay determined, aiming to persuade voters to withhold support for Democratic tickets until suffrage is achieved.
The article argues that if Germany wins the war England must pay a vast indemnity and lose colonies, with Alsace Lorraine and Antwerp, plus coastlines from Belgium to Cherbourg. It envisions German control of key ports, a shortened continental route, and dominance over sea trade, reshaping Britain, France, and Europe.
The Venus Martell Corset Co at 1627 Seconday operates a combined factory and store after moving to larger quarters. The firm, employing expert workers, turns out several hundred corsets daily and aims to offer corsets made to individual measurements at low cost. Miss Martell says Seattle women will soon value this service and invites inspection of the new plant by all local ladies.
A STAR WANT AD is set to appear in over 45,000 homes nightly, expanding reach for classified listings and services. The campaign emphasizes broad circulation and steady visibility across the region.
Augustus D. Crowley, a desolate man with no fixed home, appeared at the Cambridge district court seeking confinement. Justice Frost ordered a three month term in the house of correction to accommodate his request and relieve his hardship.
L C Ward of Council Bluffs appeals a Pottawattamie County district court ruling finding him guilty of killing a deer contrary to law. Ward admits the killing but says it was to protect property as deer herds threaten farms in Western Iowa.
An advertisement touts dissolving dandruff with four ounces of ordinary quid arven applied nightly. It claims repeated applications remove all dandruff, relieve itching, and leave hair fluffy and shiny. It promotes liquid arvon as the inexpensive, effective solution available at drug stores.
In Nelson Kentucky on October 16 a horse purchased for 35 dollars by Henry Grubbs from a traveling dealer walked from the yard into the front door and rested on Grubbs bed before dying. The horse’s nose touched the edge of the bed and its legs bent oddly. the exact cause remains unknown.
A surgical operation removed a tooth fragment from Dr. G L Richardson's eye after a patient’s tooth broke during a dental procedure in Santa Paula California. The incident occurred October 16. The doctor was treating the patient when the mishap happened.
In Lewiston Maine a house split in two with one half moved to the opposite curb without a permit. A permit was later obtained halting further removal of the remaining section.
A vintage advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a natural aid to digestion. It urges readers to carry the tablet after meals to ease the stomach, intestines, liver, and pancreas and promises a surprised improvement in appetite. Free samples are offered by mailing to F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
Paris dispatch reports the mayor and deputy mayor of La Ferte-sous-Jouarre freed by German captors amid unrest. Germans demanded 10 francs per hostage but officials paid reluctantly. Known hostages from the town have not been heard of since, feared to be prisoners of war.
In Zanesville Ohio Rev. C S Holden 60 of Market Square Baptist church cites pressure from women members to marry again within a year after his first wife died. He says unmarried pastors face embarrassment as women squeeze his hand whisper endearments and one woman proposed. A separate note reports a trichinosis outbreak in Saxony traced to a butcher making sausages from an infected pig causing 130 deaths and 300 illnesses at a public banquet.
The Seattle Star teams with a Large Pennant House to issue flag pennants of nations at war. Each week a wool felt flag pennant is offered to readers. The first pennant features Germany and costs one coupon plus 16 cents.
Mrs. Molly Stewart, life prisoner in the state penitentiary for complicity in a murder, has made embroidery that drew attention of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. Notables and buyers now support her two daughters at school with the proceeds.
MICKELVILLE Mo Oct 16 Bought for a penny carried in pocket for 82 years and sharpened only six times is a lead pencil owned by J T Adamson a farmer merchant of the city The pencil is now about two inches long and worn smooth and black
In Silver Grove Kentucky on October 16, river men recall Old Shep, a dog owned by Louis Gander, who nightly places government signal lamps at dike ends to warn approaching steamboats. Gander, the lamp placer, supervises from the riverbank as Shep runs the lanterns along the dikes.
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