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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1919
Page
9
An owner’s guide touts the Empress Malleable Range with hand riveting using 25 percent more rivets, air tight oven joints, outside grates, heavy flange reinforced parts, three-ply ash bottom, seventeen inch clearance, sturdy nickeled panels, direct cold air protection, reinforced back wall, copper bearing reservoir, asbestos bottom, and exclusive copper flue insulation for high heat retention and efficient fuel use.
Washington reports Senator Borah opposes granting blanket approval to any action by President Wilson to prevent the coal strike. He demands to know the government program before supporting the resolution. Thomas withdraws the measure and will seek adoption again tomorrow. Mondell supports Wilson’s call against a miner strike as morally and legally wrong.
The Los Angeles tailors strike since September 16 led to the adjournment of a mediation conference in San Francisco. Mediators have gone to Los Angeles to learn why strikers there were not represented at the meeting.
Enid J. Prassett describes severe rheumatism stomach trouble and weight loss. After taking Tanlac at Bartell Drug Stores he regains appetite strength and sleep and weighs 167 pounds. He credits the medicine with a complete recovery and offers to share his experience.
Fred A. Canfield, president of the Iowa Federation of Labor, told the Social Welfare association in Muscatine that workers must get public backing to counter radical forces threatening industrial peace. He warned that extremists could seize control and bring chaos to the nation.
Maj Waldorf Astor, newly made Viscount after his father’s death, could not avoid the peerage and will have his wife run from Plymouth to fill his vacated Commons seat. Astor, American born, preferred remaining in the Commons but is moved to the Lords, where he showed little enthusiasm for the shift. Intimates say he tried to shed the title but was told it wasn’t possible.
King Albert of Belgium piloted a seaplane over New York City starting from the Columbia Yacht Club at 8 50 and returning about 9 56. Earlier he and the Belgian royal party left New York for Washington by Pennsylvania Railway with a Philadelphia layover. The king’s secretive visit to John D. Rockefeller Jr. at Tarrytown was noted, and a Southward visit possibility was mentioned along with an interest in tobacco production.
Milwaukee mothers urge daughters to wear silk hosiery at school for a neater look and longer wear, noting comparable cost to cotton. In Minneapolis, B W Gilmore stops his own funeral plans by phone, leading police to identify a man killed by a truck as Charles Johnson. In Portland, a river houseboat fire is described as burned to the ground by Patrolman Sterns.
Ottawa report states elections in six ridings opened with voters weighing three issues national railways civil re establishment for veterans and prohibition. Inter provincial liquor trade likely to be sanctioned in many provinces as prohibitionists seek to curb imports and sales.
A wry saying notes that when a man tries to improve he often ends up making a bigger mess than the original. The quip reflects caution about changing habits and unintended consequences.
A healthful dentist ad urges immediate dental care citing abscessed teeth as a source of rheumatism eye ear stomach and other ailments. It advertises a complete up to date clinic with graduate dentists strict sanitation low prices and free examinations with no obligation.
United States and Mexican authorities vow a thorough search for their murderers after Lieutenants Cecil Connolly and Frederick Waterhouse were found starved and killed in the Lower California wilderness. The aviators died after being stranded for days, leaving letters to their mothers and a diary on the crash fuselage. Connolly to be buried in San Diego with full honors, Waterhouse to be sent to Idaho.
A club breakfast at the Butler offers a meal for 40 cents with assurance of satisfaction. Members and guests can expect a simple, economical start to the day.
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