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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1917
Page
6
Treasury officials are shaping a plan to aid Privates who did not know half their salary would be withheld for dependents. The issue arose notably at Camp Upton New York where many soldiers bought $150 bonds to be paid in ten monthly installments of $15.
A 1000 pound female grizzly bear was roped in the Santa Fe National Forest by J F McMulles a trapper with the U S Biological Survey.
Cold or wet workers are urged to apply Sloan's Liniment for relief from rheumatic pains stiff neck lumbago and muscle strains. The ad promises immediate results without rubbing and notes availability in 25c 50c and 1.00 bottles at druggists nationwide.
Berkeley, October 30. Prof. Holmes warns that modern warfare and living costs shrink the "best stocks" while the mentally subnormal and improvident proliferate. He argues reverse fecundity among achievers and rising offspring among the weak leads to racial decay unless conditions change.
A political aide questions Henry Hoover's expense record claiming a September payroll of 56 000 dollars covered personal costs. The piece clarifies Hoover has not drawn personal pay but funded food administration staff out of his own funds.
A dense listing of fruits vegetables and dairy items with assorted regional origins and unit prices. Includes melons lettuce apples bananas oranges cucumbers potatoes and citrus with notes on butter cheese and related dairy products and several local market references.
Washington reports the American Expeditionary Forces will enter German trenches without Old Glory leading them. Troops go as fighters with bayonets or bombs, avoiding flags and trumpets. The approach emphasizes camouflage and inconspicuous advance to keep the enemy uncertain ahead of dawn.
A proposed embargo on Texas turkeys by the Food Administration aims to raise the price of Thanksgiving meals. Officials said the move would affect costs for households planning feasts, with trade implications and potential supply adjustments noted.
The war in Europe shows women taking over male roles in England and France with conductors drivers and heavy labor. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is presented as a forty year remedy helping women regain strength.
A nostril application promises fast relief from blocked airways and nasal irritation. The ad claims the fragrant cream soothes inflamed mucous membranes, clears passages, and ends head fog, nighttime breathing struggles, and constant discharge.
People in three districts served by Chicago jobbers would pay about five cents a pound more for their Thanksgiving birds this year than last, say local dealers.
A batch of reader questions and anecdotes addressed to Miss Grey covers joint property after marriage, dairy milk permit requirements, a smoking anecdote about spousal influence, a curiosity on horse tail hair movement in water, Lake Washington depths, and a critique of city ministers and soldier crowds near Chinatown.
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