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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1918
Page
4
Local Elk golfers prepare for a crucial Rhodes cup match against Seattle on Sunday in Tacoma. Seattle needs a win to clinch the cup for the year, while Tacoma must win to stay in the race. If Tacoma wins, a second set would be required. Seattle won the cup last year by taking two of three matches from Tacoma.
The Northwest featherweight champion once known as Gorman Harrahan has lost his crown to Joe Gorman. After a year out, Cor is training under Caruso Dan R and hopes to return to the ring. He aims to box Gor Man who still holds the title, anticipated in Seattle next season as the ban is lifted.
Oct 26 report from Camp Lewis notes Multnomah Athletic Club arrives Saturday afternoon to face a strong soldier aggregate in a highly anticipated melee. Rose City leaders seek revenge after last season’s 10 3 loss. lineup listed with names Selph Rogers Cadman Dunlop Schultze Heerline Mutch Butz Daigh Stark Davart Spooner Noggle Huyck Bryant Boughman Boyd Cherle Skadan Blackwell.
The Market Report lists wholesale prices for vegetables and fruits in Leete local and surrounding areas. Readouts cover beans cabbage celery corn onions peppers tomatoes grapes apples and citrus, with notes on crate and box pricing and several regional fruit varieties.
Paris dispatch describes an independent inter allied air force expanding the British unit under Gen Trenchard. It would operate under separate command to strike at Germany from Potsdam and Berlin with hundreds of American, British, French, and Italian aircraft carrying 35 tons of high explosive per raid. The goal is to dislocate German industry and morale while supporting land campaigns under Generalissimo Foch.
Road bulletin lists many routes in King and Pierce counties with varying conditions and closures. Noted are gravel and paved segments through Renton Kent Enumclaw and Auburn, plus caution for logging activity on McClellan Wass Highway and washout risks near Green River Kanaskat. Flood reports from Spartanburg and Western North Carolina also mentioned.
The War Department reports 109 casualties Friday night and 105 Saturday morning with breakdowns by killed in action died of disease wounded and missing. First Lieut Phil A Henderson received the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism. Northwest and Pacific state lists name many next of kin and addresses among the wounded missing and dead with locations in Montana Idaho Oregon Washington and California.
Greenville District suffers heavy property damage from 24 hour rainfall. No loss of life reported as waters rise across the area.
The war department has purchased 6,000,000,000 matches for U S troops in France. The 100,000,000 boxes equal 50 boxes per man for 2,000,000 soldiers and could light 3,000 cigarettes per person.
London report of an aviation officer dying as he ascended for the return journey to the front Within sight of his home he had just visited his parents in Sussex at the time of the crash The incident occurred near his residence and involved a frontline service member in wartime duties.
The piece contrasts earning and spending habits and promotes an Equitable Bond Company plan for wage earners to save safely. It claims six percent annual compound interest and profit sharing as benefits.
Paris reports thirteen more American air squadron members awarded the Croix de Guerre. Recipients include Lieut. Harold Wilson Andrews who survived shell fragments and fought off 18 enemy planes, Lieut. Edward King MacDonald with ten bombardments, Lieut. William Hoeveler with nine bombardments and a downed foe, and Lieut. Halley who returned with a German plane and comrade’s body after his observer’s death.
Bavarian fruit crop is reported a complete failure, and almost no fruit has been harvested in other parts of Germany. Special to The Star by N. E. A. London, Oct. 26.
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