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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1918
Page
5
A wartime era beauty pitch touts Stuart’s Calcium Wafers as a skin remedy. It claims calcium sulfur compounds enrich blood and support clear smooth skin, promising relief from eczema and boils and urging readers to stop creams and take the wafers, with a coupon offer.
A simple advertisement promotes liquid arvon as a dandruff cure. Apply four ounces at night to the scalp to dissolve flakes and stop itching, leaving hair shiny and soft by morning. The ad claims universal effectiveness and low cost from any drug store.
Harold Edwin Bechtol explains that Britain’s food price stabilization stems from combined government price controls and rationing. Prices peaked in 1917 but fell after controls, with bread dropping and dairy rising. by Aug 1918 the average price was 108 percent of July 1914, though per person costs rose about 50 percent after dietary changes.
An advertisement urges readers to use Parmint double strength mixed in hot water with sugar, taken four times daily to relieve catarrh and head noises. It claims to clear clogged nostrils, improve breathing, and reduce Eustachian tube inflammation, restoring hearing and health through constitutional treatment.
Paris reports the French minister of agriculture orders prefects to halt profiteering against American and British troops. He cites allied unity and vows justice under the April 20 1916 law, while explaining price hikes may stem from retailer difficulties and producer costs. General Pershing requires soldiers to report any excess charges.
Letters from Belgium describe dire food shortages and punitive prices in occupied districts. Officials estimate minimum family incomes, with flour at $1.80–2.00 per pound, butter $7, meat $6, potatoes 80 cents, eggs 30 cents, milk 25 cents, and clothing costs soaring. Despite hardship, residents refuse to yield.
An Army officer petitioned a superior court to change his Teutonic name Wilhelm to William, citing the unpopularity of anything German in modern times. The case reflects social stigma attached to German names.
Democratic sheriff candidate P. J. McCormick pledges to cut sheriff’s office expenses to the bone while maintaining efficiency. He urges prisoners to work on the county farm and supports jail reform as part of a broader economy program in a letter to county board chairman Claude C. Rameau.
Seattle will become the new headquarters of the 13th naval district moving from Bremerton. A suite in the White Building will be renovated for transferred office clerks and yeomen to relieve congestion at the yard’s current office building.
Republican State Chairman Samuel A Walker has appointed A B Stewart of Seattle as head of the state finance committee for the coming campaign. Other Seattle men named to the committee include H C Henry Judge Thomas Burke KB Ames J B Chilberg Walter Fulton J A Swalwell John P Hartman Clark Nettleton J F Douglas Fred H Baxter R R Fox and J P Todd. Rice is the easiest of all foods to digest roast veal the hardest.
An advertisement touts bitro phosphate as a cure for extreme thinness and nervous weakness. It claims doctors endorse it for increasing strength, improving sleep, and enhancing weight and skin tone, with a caution against use by those not seeking flesh gain.
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