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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1918
Page
7
The text extols obstacles as drivers of progress and character. It argues that resistance sharpens will, spurs invention, and refines value, recounting how poverty oppression and isolation spurred steam, flight, and liberty. It urges viewing challenges as assets and mirrors Americans and allies moving eastward.
A Kansas woman Lucy McGinty is praised for taking over farm chores after her father’s death. She plows and cultivates 50 acres of corn and 120 acres of wheat, farms at night to avoid flies, and plans to feed soldiers in France while building a bank account. Aiming to inspire more rural girls, she notes city stores could farm as well.
The article argues that German plotters abroad failed to deter American involvement in the war. It describes how German threats and attacks, including torpedoing ships and harming wounded soldiers, instead harden resolve and boost U S morale and production. It asserts pacifists and pro German activists are silenced by wartime violence.
The Boy Scouts begin a concise three year fundraising campaign to support war work. Presidents Wilson and Pershing back the drive as a vital effort. Fathers will contribute for their sons and all others should as well to sustain the movement shaping trustworthy, loyal, helpful and brave youth. Dr Henry Suzzallo praises the movement as a major complement to education.
A narrator relates a gossip filled reminiscence about Hamilton Certeis, his aristocratic hints, multilingual background, and wartime medical study. The piece threads odd speculation, a Ouija board joke, and hints of romantic tension with Chrys while questioning motives and future motherhood.
A reader styles themselves a drug addict and accuses city police and officials of tolerating drug sales in hop joints. The letter claims arrestees face harsh jail conditions and asks why peddlers are not targeted, urging reform in Seattle.
A collage of humorous exchanges and trivia covers a Sunday arrest of John Anthracite for fighting, quips from Uncle Samita on wartime spending, and light answers from Mr. C Grey. Riddles, kitchen hacks, and odd advice fill the page with playful miscellany and thrift-store humor.
The author laments the war's corrupting effect on youth as newspapers educate children with brutal rhetoric from the conflict. They warn that exposure to sensational war reports and aggressive rhetoric erodes morals, foreshadowing a troubled Germanic future.
A reader columns section features Dear Miss Grey correspondence on marriage trials in wartime, missing in action explanations, draft questions for Irish nationals, hair styling advice, Ireland color symbolism, and identity of the author of The Confessions of a War Bride. Dear Miss Grey responds with plain, practical guidance and historical notes.
On September 17, 1917 German forces attacked the Champagne front as World War I developments unfold with raids and artillery actions reported along the line.
Joseph Fi Feek son of Mr and Mrs Thos Feek of 111 Euclid is said to be 100 percent perfect by the Seattle clinic. Baby weighing and measuring clinics will be held at Central school on Saturdays from 9 am to 1 30 pm during winter.
The war department lists 132 American prisoners of war. Charles A Heise of Seattle has been captured and is held at Rastadt Germany. Private B Eaton of Ellensburg Wash and J Steele of Woodland Cal are also listed as prisoners at Camp Cassel.
A bill introduced in the Senate proposes an executive department named the department of aeronautics under a secretary of aeronautics salaried at 12000 dollars. The department would control design, manufacture, and procurement of aircraft and related services.
Paris reports the American Expeditionary Force has completed the largest ice plant in the world. It will supply frozen meat for an army of two and a half million men.
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