Echo Zahl that “Wild Young Female” – reporter to the Seattle Star
From the desk of Shawn Schollmeyer May 18, 1917 Echo Zahl starts work for the Star “Wild Young Female Person is going to tell Star readers how Seattle looks to Co-Ed fresh from University campus…” As the World War I began in Europe and the US began preparing for the eventual entry to the war in 1917, the Seattle Star was bringing a little levity to the front page news. In May they introduced, Echo June Zahl, a recent graduate…