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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1917
Page
2
An advertising feature argues that aging slows digestion and bowel movement, urging seniors to use Cascarets as a gentle daily tonic. It claims Cascarets keep bowels active, work while you sleep, and cost 10 cents per box at any drug store.
An advertisement promotes Gold Medal Hearted Oil as a centuries old remedy for kidney bladder and urinary troubles. It warns of back pain colored urine indigestion and potential fatal disease and promises immediate relief with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
The Washington Manufacturers Promotion League invites volunteers to pick blackberries at Conley’s Ranch Cathcart Washington to supply jam for soldiers and sailors. Workers earn about 3 cents a pound with extra perks including crates free after four crates picked and country dinners. Auto and train pickups from Seattle depart Sunday morning with return late afternoon.
At Camp Lewis seven hundred fifty soldiers are under quarantine after the discovery of a single case of spinal meningitis. The measure affects Companies B and K of the 362nd Infantry and the 40th Company of the 166th Depot Brigade. The two week quarantine keeps men apart and under guard to prevent spread and to avoid carrying the disease home. Some may be discharged, while smallpox rumors are denied by the camp authorities.
Seven accidents have cost eight lives in training for America's new army, with the fatalities rate said to be very small. In Dillon Montana, Mrs Frankie Andrus leaped from a speeding car to the locomotive when the crash occurred, saving her life.
Beattie began a patriotic fast and Seattle urges residents to eat less and substitute foods weekly. Posters promote sugar flour and fats savings while four minute men plan a Metro politan theatre talk by Mary Rausch of Washington State University on substitution recipes. I C Teck said Seattle retailers funded a $1000 campaign and requested 2500 more posters from the government.
The statement from Fullerton says the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company has offered increases totaling over 2.1 million to operators and staff but will not agree to a closed shop union. The firm cites risk to service quality and war-related conditions, noting 65 percent resistance to union formation and promising to keep service as near normal as possible if a strike occurs.
City council in special session adopts a plan to extend the Ballard line with a $40,000 utility bonds city railway fund of 1917 and directs the board of public works to continue the extension. Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club obtain a restraining order halting work on the grounds of illegality in prior methods.
Officials argue the former procedure was legal while the new plan aims to be lawful and address dangerous torn-up streets. An emergency exists, likely prompting quick passage Monday. The special meeting also approved a $10,000 expenditure to counter the gas rate increase.
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