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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
3
Market notes urging shoppers to visit Saturday markets for Sunday meals. Pork roasts offered at about 10 cents a pound, with veal at similar prices. Chicken prices drop from 20 25 cents to around a cent per pound range. Consumers warned about potential stock as markets close Saturday afternoon.
At Pike Place Market the English Bakery and German Delicatessen share a row without rivalry, as Turkish, Greek, Egyptian and other market folk mingle peacefully. Across aisles, French and Italian vendors chat while selling celery, nuts, onions, and pork chops amid wartime strains.
An ad-like fragment promises cures for rheumatic kidney liver stomach bladder nervous or catarrhal ailments venereal disease and skin issues through The Great Constitutional remedy. The text asserts broad health benefits but provides no clinical details or endorsements.
A Seattle market column reports sugar and flour rising and canned milk climbing due to war orders and supply shifts. It notes 10 cent a pound sausage on Saturday, price lifts for beans and butter, and lamb cuts near 15 cents a pound as households brace for a tighter winter market.
In Lacrosse Wisconsin two barefooted boys Arthur Stone eight and Carl Durhammer fourteen stepped on stones and suffered toe injuries that led to blood poisoning. Arthur died at a hospital and Carl soon followed. The report notes growing concern about safety in wartime and references a separate farm loss in South Dakota.
Peggy Meadows was fined 10 000 dollars and costs in Springfield Illinois for manufacturing opium. She was sentenced to Bloomington jail until the fine is paid at 50 cents per day, with an implied 60 years to serve.
An bulging promotional ad touts Pape’s Diapepsin as a five minute cure for indigestion sour stomach gas and heartburn. It claims the tablets digest food quickly restore appetite and leave the stomach feeling clean and fresh with no need for laxatives or liver pills.
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