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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1919
Page
6
A simple plan for hair uses plain liquid silmerine to prevent dryness brittleness from heat curling. It smooths waves preserves texture adds gloss and softness, with inexpensive small amounts from the druggist and no staining on scalp. Apply a little into a jar then brush evenly from root to tip for fluffy morning hair.
London Sept 26 The mysterious horse illness in South Lincolnshire is diagnosed as solanine poisoning caused by alkaloids in eyes of potatoes eaten by horses. The finding by veterinarians confirms the suspected poison outbreak and explains multiple deaths among plow animals.
Peptiron tonifies the body by combining tron with nux and other tonics and digestives. It is praised for aiding anemia, pallor, nerves, and dyspepsia, restoring appetite, nutrition, and sleep. testimonial from E. P. Winkley of Gosville, New Hampshire. Made by I Hood Co, Lowell, Massachusetts.
Paris reports officials moving to curb profiteers who exhume bodies from French battlefields at night for fees. Disinterments occur without identification, deceiving families and disturbing graves, with prices from six to eight hundred dollars per burial.
London reports Miew Janice Beeching of Lewes favors night shifts. She goes to the cemetery after dinner and digs graves by candlelight, avoiding daylight duties.
In a wartime diary fragment, a senior officer laments disintegration in the army and nation, pressed for greater reserves and harsher measures. He criticizes the war ministry and outlines negotiations at Spa, attempts to push propaganda for peace, and contrasts German aims with those of Britain and France while arguing for continued conflict if peace is not attainable.
London reports a sharp fall in British currency against the dollar. English film distributors in New York lose about $20,000 weekly as they must meet contract prices in American dollars, while American producers profit from the exchange.
German gold will strengthen British exchange by paying British indemnity debts in America. The first 15 million dollars of indemnity paid in gold by Germany to Belgium moved through the Bank of England to Ottawa and then to New York.
London Sept 26 The Guinness brewery business paid to the government in excise license duties and other taxation the sum of 25 million dollars in the past year. The company's net profits were over 11 million dollars, 4 million higher than the prewar year.
Jacob Brown, a winding engineman, fell eighty feet when the engine room floor collapsed at the relief pit in New Delaval Northumberland. He sustained a broken toe and has been seeing double since the accident, but physicians expect a return to normal vision.
London Sept 26 The Bolshevik government bans Hebrew as reactionary and proclaims the official Jewish language to be a mixed German Hebrew spoken by Jews in Lithuania Poland and southeastern Russia.
G M Landerking of the Fairbanks bureau of mines station has perfected a loud toned talking machine he says will synchronize with motion pictures. Edison has long been working on talking movies. The device increases sound by air pressure through reed plates in the reproducer.
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