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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1922
Page
2
Miss Alma Woedtach national booking agent praises women’s clubs for backing concerts despite cost. She says America owes to women appreciation of good music and art, noting clubs enable world-famous artists to reach broader audiences beyond major cities. Christopher Columbus is noted as the continent’s first sugar planter.
Next week at the Moore theater a diversified eight night Orpheum bill honors thirty three and one third years of operation. Each night adds local acts including Civic Rotary Chamber of Commerce and Children's Day features with professional seven act program nightly.
Washington to October 20. Flo Zieefield's Follies and George White's Scandals headline a Democratic campaign booklet titled Scandals of the G.O.P. listing 11 alleged misdeeds from Newberry to Denby Junket with figures and charges aimed at the Republican administration.
Dr L L Stanley at San Quentin completed the first 1 000 implantations of animal glandular substance in humans. Most subjects were convicts, with 226 diagnosed as underweight or energy‑deficient. Results show weight gain and improved energy in many, but deaths occurred and benefit varied across conditions.
Among Seattle professionals including bankers lawyers and realtors progress at up to date business circles recognizes title insurance as the accepted method to evidencing and protecting land titles in this era of progressive practice.
In Boulogne on October 20 M. Auguste Frehentoz and his wife received a silver cup from the British government for rescuing 26 wounded soldiers after the hospital ship Lanfranc was torpedoed in 1917.
English masons halted work on a new church in Nottingham after refusing to work with stone dressed in a different district. The strike, reported October 20, disrupted construction in the city.
An issue of Everybody's Magazine from November presents a humorous scene aboard a ship. A landlubber lured into acting as crew loudly refuses to touch the jib sheet, provoking witty banter about seafaring skill. The piece captures nautical humor and character dynamics in a brief tale.
The article traces Mah Jongg’s rise from ancient China to the United States where four players use 156 tiles in four suits bamboo data characters and honor winds dragons to form winning hands. The banker is east wind and draws a 14th tile. the game sells mind training and concentration as a royal pastime once reserved for elites.
Grandmother's recipe revived as Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur compound promises to restore color and luster to gray hair. The ad claims gradual darkening with each application and a natural, even result. It urges readers to prepare at home or buy the ready-made bottle from drug stores.
A young attorney asked a prominent Dallas practitioner about prospects for an honest man who is also a Republican. The reply: honesty secures no competition here, and party backing will protect you under game laws amidst November fervor.
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