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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
13
The piece laments Mark Twain's death and celebrates his impact on childhood and literature. It recalls his books and humane character, noting his private sorrows and financial struggles, and ends with a benediction for his rest. Separate brief notes mention Roosevelt in Paris and a late afternoon health update.
A debate on preventing scandals in Pittsburg features two views. The Inquirer urges broad reform while the Deep Thinker suggests a law banning marked money to curb corruption.
Upton Sinclair describes a diet of raw foods in Collier’s, eating nuts, ripe fruits, vegetables, and raw grains, with little to no cooked fare. He credits his family with perfect health, claims heavy weight gain in muscle, and notes low weekly costs around four dollars in winter New York prices.
A courtroom scene shows a beggar replying he has nothing but a crutch to rely on, highlighting struggle for assistance and the judge's questioning of possible means of support.
In a diary style piece Mia Dilipickles pursues the elusive Mr Hoofitt while detailing census quirks. A Mrs Weddem recounts seven marriages and a ten month current union, revealing the oddities of recording marital length and completeness. The narrator vows to use a photograph to track Hoofitt and finish the census list.
In New York Col Jim Gray, after 28 years and 25th Street moves from the Hoffman house to the Hotel Albemarle then to the Fifth Avenue era, notes he will likely mix his last drinks. He is famed for old fashioned whisky cocktails and Medford rum punches and wears a frock coat and elegant attire while supervising customers.
A garbled historical note blends a playful daisy petal test with a mathematician fiance, a controversial Divorce March quip, and a burst of railways and immigrant data. A ship in distress, a stern captain, and a European rail portrait unfold amid stray lines about elections and a joke vote.
An April 21 incident in Latin TH reports Charles Heideman delivering a hearse miscommunication. Heideman drove off with an open grave order and left the coffin on the hearse. He hid after discovering the mistake while mourners later returned the corpse to the cemetery.
Washington April 22 The Agriculture Department reports a Supreme Court proceeding in the District of Columbia over desiccated eggs shipped by Columbia Exe Co Chicago. The government claims eggs seized in Washington were filthy and unfit for human consumption. Holmes & Son ordered to have the eggs confiscated destroyed and to pay costs.
The former queen, now 72, declares her last Washington visit completed and wills her estate to an Honolulu orphan asylum with a trustee from the anti-throne movement. She warns Congress may be the sole remaining source for her claims, reflecting on past hopes and current politics.
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