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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1916
Page
3
Housewives from all regions are summoned to a National Bread Price session in New York to decide steps against rising costs. Bakers face a federal inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission and city officials consider pricing bread by weight instead of by loaf.
A Times correspondent at British headquarters predicted that tanks may trigger large scale land battles with fleets of dreadnaughts and monstrous vehicles. He noted tanks killed many German soldiers in one hour and suggested future wars could feature increasingly huge armored machines.
Mrs. Julian Heath, president of the Housewives' league, voices concerns about consumer matters and calls for greater attention to household budget and market prices.
Republican candidates for county offices held an energetic Jubilee meeting at the county city building at noon Tuesday and laid plans for the final campaign.
Sacramento wrestles with martial law as Fifth California infantry seek revenge for a beating of members by a Black gang. Police and provost guard halt a planned strike on three Negro saloons as 400 soldiers gather near the colored zone. Saloons close and machine guns stand by for riot control.
A. H. Reid & Company of this city bought 1 400 acres of logged-off Thurston County lands at Chambers Prairie. The tract named Thurston County Farms will be opened to settlement with five to thirty acre plots and a townsite at Chambers Prairie station. Exhibits of Chambers Prairie granges showing prize farm products are on display at Reid’s New York block offices.
The $10 000 alienation of affections suit by Robert Acton against George Keating of Olympia opened in Superior Court. Acton alleges Keating showered attention and drove Mrs Acton from home with his automobile, while Keating contends Acton invited him and that only after acts of cruelty did the couple separate and seek a divorce.
Dr Judson Deland professor of chemical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania rode the steamer Umatilla from Nome and toured the far north with the revenue cutter Bear. He noted tuberculosis reports among natives may be overstated. Also Ter geen Schepel of Holland Michigan is a year older than his grandmother. his grandfather Thomas Vandenbosch wed Miss Gertrude Nyboer at 72 and 19.
A long advertisement stresses a dentist office commitment to reputation and customer satisfaction. It proclaims a real written guarantee on all work signed by the operator and by L. R. Clark D. D. S. owner and manager, and highlights a staff of highly qualified graduate dentists with state board certificates on display.
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