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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1910
Page
13
An editorial rails at revisiting the Maine incident and the Spanish war after decades. It questions motives for demolition and possible apologies while noting Cuba’s independence and the Philippines’ fates as justifications, then muses on national leadership and public rhetoric.
A dialogue contrasts secrecy in seeking a house with a current landlord potential pursuit. The exchange highlights tension between concealment and exposure in housing search dynamics.
An imagined dialogue with a comet offers reflections on life, aging, and progress on Earth. The speaker envisions future improvement through kindness, mercy, and social change as humanity faces mortality and change.
A quick vaudeville skit features a performer describing a Chinaman with an ivory head and a billiard cue joke. The dialogue plays on pool table imagery with a green cloth and six pockets and ends with a humorous cushion reference.
A brief authorial note presents The SI by Edmund Vance Cooke with copyright claimed in 1910 by the author. The teaser signals a poetry or prose piece attributed to Cooke and emphasizes its authorial ownership.
Merrymouth, a cheerful boy with a strong puckered mouth, travels from home to California to learn whistling. He struggles to form the right lips and tongue, tasting sour olives and sweets along the way, and ends by keeping his puckered mouth as he begins to whistle. His cousin Ginglygoose and friends guide the journey.
A ragged note complains of a cancerous sore on the Jour valiatte herizen and the Reeleysaport Fairdealer, with talk of a burg knocked by the issue. It bitterly blames elites for subscription price hikes and lack of reception.
A collage of street scenes and jokes features a stout woman and a crowd on Capitol Hill transit, a German American Prof. Ludwig Lewisohn marrying in every state, a naval pun about waterproofing and weather, a smoking room poker moment, a comic offer to enter partnership, and a note on Fijian Mataveloo worship with eight stomachs. The text also playfully muses on wealth, violence, and origins with dated humor.
Downtown traffic stalled as two men debated hoisting a two ton cafe to the third floor. The dispute appeared close to a resolution when something gave way, ending the story abruptly.
Nehemiah D Sperry is described as a long serving public office holder in New Haven Conn since 1853. He is called the oldest man in congress and among the most active in either house despite a few years of Democratic control.
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