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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1899
Page
2
A collage of editorials and anecdotes from the Seattle Star and Washington Star discuss Aguinaldo and Filipino resistance, court procedure in Milwaukee, and Cuban hospital tales. The piece blends wartime observations with local Seattle life, noting building boom and a nurse’s dramatic patient encounter.
Reports indicate a new ore sampling works to rise at Nelson B C by Slocan Ov Purchasing company. Ymir mines produced 406 tons in Q1 with two carloads of concentrates and one carload of crude ore shipped since March. Union miners push for 3 60 daily wage while owners offer 3 00 eight hours. Large mines at Bandon and Three Works threaten shutdown without agreement. Admiral Dewey ore quality improves with depth. new shaft down 20 feet. Idaho mine in Boardway check country to be renamed. high hopes for future riches.
A返回 Cuban nurse encounters a distressed woman excitedly pantomiming an attack on the hospital. The scene depicts tension as language barriers hinder understanding and safety concerns rise.
Charlies Hausenbeck of Newark had a blue stone fragment removed from his right leg by Dr. Joseph Sutpen. The shard, about a quarter inch thick and one and a half inches long, pierced tissue for years after an eight year old copper mortar explosion during St. Rocco celebrations on Boyden Street, which killed seven and wounded many.
A man seeks an injunction to stop trouble with his chickens. A lawyer explains that the "double barreled injunction loaded with birdshot" is a joke, noting people misused such orders. The old man departs, learning the notion as a blunt weapon.
Secretary Horace Wilson reports 1683 nominations for the 1962 Kentucky Futurity, the largest in association history aside from 1992’s 142 mare entry. The $29,000 race tops the nation, with 444 mares featuring standard or progeny records, 251 stallions represented, and Kentucky leading states with 266 nominations.
A passerby seeks nut names to prompt memory of Butternut Street in Detroit. Clerk lists varieties including hickory pecans beech walnuts almonds and peanuts. Stranger lists not fiberts or mutternuts and decides the scheme may help recall the street name. A closing line notes a humor about flying north and cold weather.
Reports from Honolulu describe oracular native prophecies of a dramatic Kilauea eruption tied to a prophecy of death. Seismic signs and rising steam accompany mysterious musical noises heard across the island, unsettling Hawaiians and Japanese residents alike, with scientists considering systematic studies.
The British Medical Journal reports Dr Memahem Hodora a Turkish physician successfully transplanted hair to denuded scalps. He describes scarifying the scalp implanting trimmed hairs from other head parts. Four weeks after implantation hair takes root growing a fine crop, even in disease-induced baldness.
A rough ventriloquist tale from a Milesian jacky aboard a fleet transport recounts the capture of Nello. The narrator describes soldiers in an Esentta saloon listening as the crowd imagines outcomes and notes the tense march toward surrender or escape amid the ship’s wake and grianin’ laike atmosphere.
A middle aged woman on an Eleventh street trolley in Philadelphia recalls paying with a five dollar gold piece two pennies and a nickel for an exchange ticket. The conductor finds the gold piece in his pocket and returns it to the grateful woman who exclaims its luck and praises the Lord.
Washington April 7. The upcoming census of 1900 is expected to show a U S population near 75 million up from 62 million in 1890. The nation’s wealth is projected around 110 billions in 1900, with rapid industrial growth and expanding railroads and towns.
The piece notes how misplaced commas alter statutory intent in the diamond case and a Foraker amendment. Printing errors could transform prohibitions on property and franchises into a ban on elective Cuban voting rights, risking legal complications.
A Hull Times note recalls a little girl invited to a friend's party where ten games were played. As guests left the hostess offered a bun and the girl declined saying she could not eat more. She kept to her pocket the bun and promised to bring a basket next time.
Superintendent Little told a Star reporter the street leveling is advancing rapidly with extra workers beside the regular crew. Work covers Broadway to Howell Street with gullies formed by the rains as the project proceeds.
The Itoston Herald notes a new boom as the rich seek genuine gems. It cites high prices for real diamonds and warns that artificial stones cannot replace family jewels. War with Spain boosts South African diamond trade.
High pressure dominates the Rocky mountains and plateau and the Pacific northwest while California remains comparatively low. Temperatures fall in the northwest as a low dissipates over Alberta, rise in Oregon and California with a new low offshore. Light frost observed in Seattle and nearby stations with no rain except 0.02 at Peah.
A ninth grade romance ends in heartbreak as a boy writes a heartfelt letter to a girl in his city school. He leaves the note on the doorstep after stalking to her home, hoping for a response, but faces an abrupt turn in the budding relationship. The tale unfolds as a cautionary tale of youthful affection gone awry.
A Detroit reader recalls a man in Piety Hill who had his telephone cut out after a tester called to simulate commands at the transmitter. The tester directed the victim to talk from various positions and even on his head, ending with a threat to remove the line with an ax if not reinstated.
A boy keeps ringing a lady's doorbell to woo her, but her irate father repeatedly drags him away. After the third attempt the boy endures blows and humiliation, then retreats home ashamed and heartbroken as his family laughs at his misadventure. The incident haunts him, a bitter memory of a night he never forgets.
A mother and aunt plan to take Willie south by claiming he has no birthday this year to keep him younger. Willie learns through a conductor that, without a birthday, he would be six but isn’t quite yet, revealing the ruse.
An older hostess counsels a young married woman to avoid pointing out faults. She suggests complimenting the surroundings, such as the blue sky or bracing air, and discreetly guiding guests away from imperfections to preserve harmony. The lesson emphasizes tact over direct critique.
L. H. W. Lombard of Butte Montana collapsed and died of heart disease in the Bank saloon at Skagway on the evening of March 31 while en route to Dawson. Letters in his pockets identify a sister, Mrs. E1. Chapin, living at White Sulphur Springs, Montana.
A brief retailer note touts a 35 cent tea as splendid value and guarantees customer satisfaction with the product.
A group of reporters recalls a sharp prank by Jones a big daily reporter who feigned a visit to a governor in disguise. Jackson of a rival paper arrived with a card, the governor’s anger boiled but Jones secured the interview and a major scoop. The tale ends with the papers boasting of frisky times.
Morphy known as Mexican Morphy, who embezzled seventy thousand dollars from a Mexican bank, was captured in Kansas City last night. He is a familiar figure in horse racing circles. earlier, he was arrested in New Orleans and handed to Mexican police, but friends rescued him in broad daylight.
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