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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1919
Page
12
The Seattle Star announces serial publication of General Ludendorff’s historic German war review. Lord Northcliffe calls it the most important German document. Publication rights for the Pacific Northwest are secured. first installment appears Monday September 8.
Washington September 1 Friends of the oil leasing bill in the senate plan to use cloture to end debate if needed. The fight led by Senator LaFollette has prompted circulating a 15 signature petition. Thomas warned he will present the petition if the bill isn t passed today, with a vote two days later on shutting off debate. Smoot signaled a night session to push passage if needed.
Fall fashion sale at Florence Upstairs Store promotes savings on suits coats dresses and hats. Shoppers encouraged to take advantage of the power of will to save more. Limited time discounts apply to fall merchandise.
Dear Boys and Girls of Seattle, this piece recalls a simple childhood shadow game. A lamp or candle suffices to cast hand shadows on a wall, with tips on positioning hands to create animals and figures, plus a tease of two new shadow friends for tomorrow.
A flock of waxwings swoops into a cherry tree and passes fruit along a branch in a display Peter and Jenny Wren call polite. They note the birds’ fondness for wild fruit and cedar berries and recall a prior cedar worm feast before departing.
An old advertisement promotes mercorized wax to remove freckles tan pimples and blotches. It claims hair growth prevention and gradual whitening absorbing the skin’s surface. Apply nightly like cold cream and wash off in the morning with soap and water. Transformation takes about a week.
The boys dig weeds at Palmer park a plot owned by Papa Palmer. Ol Wart, a spooky figure with a cane, returns causing a panic as the boys flee to the house. Papa Palmer laughs and reveals Wart sold the property to fund a recent illness.
A fragment from a diary or letter chain reveals Dolly's melodramatic confession to Joan about Tom Benedict and Anita Corley. She describes a moonlit walk by Silversand Lake, the allure of sincerity, and a tense moment when a mysterious woman enters, leaving Dolly fearing what it means for her affair with Eric and the others.
The Palace Hip opens Thursday with The Stratford Comedy Four singing harmony and delivering school room vaudeville humor in The New Teacher. Ross and Bennie perform Whipped a comic skit about a wife’s extravagance and active social life. Fogarty Foster present Brazilian Nutology. Dan Ahern performs a varied act of song monologue and imitations. The Puppets offer songs and dances. Ed Hastings performs juggling and quick wit.
Mexican federal troops killed the leader of the bandits who robbed and murdered Adam Schaefer, as press reports forwarded to the state department indicate. Schaefer was identified by the American consul at Salinas Cruz as a naturalized American citizen.
Melbourne reports Acting Prime Minister Watt announced the abolition of caning for boys undergoing naval training. The move ends a longstanding discipline practice as part of military training reforms.
A Georgia woman writes that after ten months on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she avoided surgery and regained health from female ailments. She praises the medicine and endorses it for headaches nervousness backache and other functional disorders. She invites others to write for advice from the Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
Three portieres painted by a Belgian artist will be sold at 4 p m Thursday in the office of T Fournier 213 Boston block Receipts will be turned over to a needy Belgian family of nine Mme E B Chomat teacher of French and Spanish will dispose of the portieres.
Alien immigrants for the year ending June 1919 totaled 141000. Just before the war immigration rose to 1218000.
In Death Valley Arizona the landscape sits 276 feet below sea level as temperatures soar to 130 degrees in the shade. The extreme heat underscores the region as one of the hottest places on earth during peak sun.
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