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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
12
A lively market column notes Saturday meat and poultry deals for Sunday meals. Pork roasts fetch about ten cents a pound and chickens appear cheaper, dipping from earlier highs as supply grows. The writer jokes about postwork Saturday stock and questions if any chickens will remain by family supper time.
Across from Smith's English Bakery at the Pike Place Public Market the Klashke German Delicatessen thrives alongside. Ovatia and Bates, a Turk and a Greek, coexist peacefully with their diverse staff. Upstairs the Egyptian Hama runs his cone company while French and Italian market men mingle amiably despite distant wars.
A Seattle report details rising prices for sugar flour canned milk and beans amid war orders and supply shifts. It notes meat prices and strawberries remaining available while a photo of Woodrow Wilson prompts a playful likeness with resident William Barton who writes to the president sharing admiration and a self portrait.
In Lacrosse Wisconsin Arthur Stone eight and Carl Durhammer fourteen ran barefooted. Arthur injured a toe on a stone and later died from blood poisoning after Carl also bled from a toe injury. Parents called a physician and both entrances point to infection from minor wounds.
William W. Barton, Seattle Orpheum stage manager, is often mistaken for President Woodrow Wilson. He first noticed the resemblance four years ago when he began wearing mustaches after actors passing through Seattle teased him as Woody. Recent scene in La Pine’s studio sparked more jokes about the likeness.
Peggy Meadows was fined 10000 dollars and costs in United States court on charges of making opium. She received a Bloomington jail term until the fine is paid at fifty cents per day, with an implied 60 years to serve.
An advertisement touts Pape’s Diapepsin as a harmless candy tasting remedy that relieves sour stomach indigestion in five minutes. It promises quick digestion of food, a refreshed stomach, and avoidance of laxatives or liver pills, urging readers to ask a pharmacist about the formula in fifty-cent cases.
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