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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1907
Page
4
A Kansas City lecturer calls The Star Spangled Banner a cheap common tune while noting its patriotic power. The piece contrasts humble happiness with a cottage turned home and argues the song’s fame rests on its meaning to Americans.
A writer argues that not all discontent harms progress. Only the fault finding, lazy, or defeated mindset hinders. productive discontent drives effort, loyalty, and improvement. Stay silent about own flaws, use discontent as a spur to push beyond limits and achieve success.
Now in the prize contest phase the judges decide the best definition of mollycoddle for the Star Dust prize of 1,000,000. A committee of prominent citizens was to select, failing Rockefeller and others. Several witty entries critique mollycoddles as men who let women influence them, or men who fail to improve themselves, with many humorous definitions submitted by readers.
A Chicago professor voices support for fairy tales while Andrew Carnegie asserts millionaires lack humor. The scene includes a carriage ride home by Joe Bailey drawn by four white horses, and a lecture on the perils of the pursuit of wealth is noted as lacking money.
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