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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1910
Page
5
A humorous exchange between the Mere Reader and the Constant Writer on language quirks. The reader questions why a Disabled Ship is said to limp into port, and the writer muses that maritime phrases arise from the ship's crippled last leg before arrival.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports a Maryland district court case against Adam C Huthwelker of Baltimore for misbranding Huthwelker’s Headache Tablets. The label claimed a cure for all headaches and neuralgia and that the tablets were harmless, which authorities say is false. The product was found to contain acetanimid and the defendant pled guilty, receiving a $10 fine.
Helen Miller Gould, a noted philanthropist and civic figure, shuns society pageantry and formal receptions. She divides time between a Fifth Avenue winter home and an Irvington Hadson house, values her mother’s friends, treats staff as family, and keeps art to inherited pieces as Mina Gould notes she is forty two.
A Virginia to New York piece contrasts urban apathy with a burst of pity. A North Carolina Vassar student injures her ankle after a subway fall while passersby ignore her plight. A Parisian visitor is left in the street after a car strike until a telegraph boy helps.
A stream of quirky quotes shifts between musical critique and street banter. Characters discuss Ethel and Mine’s voices, a Parisian doctor’s claim on voice production, a cab encounter, and casual remarks about weather and politics with fragmented, era-specific phrasing.
A humorous recollection from Kansas frontier days recounts a stagecoach incident where a young man, later a state representative Victor Murdoch, scratched Judge Brewer’s face in infancy. Decades later at a White House reception the judge recognizes the man and jokes about a past contempt.
Baillargeon's announces the season's silk sale starts tomorrow featuring Foulards, Shanty Pongees, Messalines, Taffetas and more. It highlights top colors and designs in satin stripes, di twilled surahs, polka dots, invisible effects, Pekin stripes, hand-loom Shantungs, and Jacquard patterns.
ILERS BARRE Pa April 20. Foster township schools plan a new graduation day exercise to show Supt Hoffman that the old method can improve. Prof Houwman criticizes the standard practice of rehearsed essays and parrotlike recitations. Hoffman will trial a test program to present graduates more like owls than parrots.
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