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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1913
Page
4
Fall River Massachusetts reports Lena Roy, once a waitress, wed to the son of a Danish count. The tale contrasts American labor dignity with aristocratic privilege, noting the couple will farm on the estate he will inherit in Denmark as they face social chatter.
A critique of political caucus secrecy and its impact on democracy urges openness in legislative process. It argues publicity disinfects politics, presses governors to reveal postmasters and funds, and warns against hidden deals and ring rule.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes features Virginia Brooks’s reformist fame in West Hammond Indiana, a Kansas crossing rule where trains must stop to pass, a plane endurance record, a school inspector exchange about a bear and buttons, a Cleveland family hiring a southern maid, and a child’s take on an angel as a governess.
A humorous exchange questions why a man would not seek his wife, a doctor, for his cold. He replies that treatment was expensive, noting a past trip to the Riviera arranged by her. The remark plays on cost and domestic roles in a light, satirical tone.
At the theatres this week Moore and Mme Clara Butt in concert Metropolitan Lea Ditri chart Seattle Hailey Mitchell in The Neer Do-Well at the Orpheum Vaudeville Empress Vaudeville Pantages Vaudeville Grang Vaudeville and motion pictures Clemmers Photoplays Melbourne Photoplays and Alhambra Photoplays headline a varied program of stage and screen attractions across multiple venues.
Rural corrispondents report a rainy night at Levi Fast's and visitors with C. H. Pry. A digressive quote about Mrs Pankhurst and work appears with social banter on voters and candidates. A phone line note offers Indian Nancer duck eggs via Mrs. Albert Hageman of Melbern Mutual.
Fragmentary lines show a dialogue about tearing a sample and revenue rules. Bizarre phrases hint at a literary or advertising snippet with tension over a tear-off coupon or sample. The readable text centers on a disputed practice and its monetary implications.
A collection of humorous vignettes from various sources. Tales include a farmer's son who tries law, an infant Rockefeller anecdote, a sandpile purchase for a baby, a party mishap with smoking, and a child confiding about love.
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