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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1911
Page
4
A brief dialog captures a couple’s playful dispute about marriage, running after each other, and a separated man puzzled about locating his spring clothes. The exchange hints at relationship strain and humor without explicit action.
The lumber and paper trusts push against reciprocity while courting farmers through tariff narratives. Canada buys and sells large amounts of goods, with trade balances favoring the United States in meat dairy breadstuffs and pulp products. Reciprocity would curb tariffs, importing cheaper Canadian lumber and paper and challenging domestic providers.
A jumble of humorous lines mocks police tactics, Carnegie and Morgan holdings, Senate talks, and Will Hearst’s aviation prize. The fragmentary remarks touch on Grand Canyon naming, trailing skirts bans, Lorimer era reflections, and large flight ambitions.
The article describes Australia and Victoria adopting a living wage law with minimum pay levels set by wages boards. It details how boards, composed of trade-appropriate members, fix minimum wages and regulate prices for goods and services, with the system reducing strikes. Wages have risen with living costs, and industrial peace has increased as both capital and labor avoid strikes and lockouts.
A Seattle reader endorses the Seattle Star editorial on the Los Angeles Times explosion case. The writer urges fair trial for J. J. McNamara, denounces labor hater influence, notes McNamara’s character, and predicts labor victory across the coast and a end to open shop fights by 1914. A second letter commends the Star's stance on J H Boyle, praising the editor’s actions and criticizing Boyle’s tenure as chief.
A fragment from a humor column featuring quips about appearances and witticisms. It mentions a wife of a hardware merchant with coppery hair and steel blue eyes, and a playful exchange about hair color and old sayings. The tone mimics light, observational humor.
A girl recalls a hand made gift for a young man asking its purpose. He guesses a cushion while his sister calls it part of a tobacco pouch. The pair exchange a light joke over its use as a penwiper, then drift into zoology and theology banter.
In a sharp exchange the line alerts Henry to seek his father’s consent in the library, while another voice balks at approaching a certain yellow whiskered man, calling the idea unacceptable and vowing no direct contact with the paternally involved party in Cleveland.
A collage of clipped quips and cartoons notes from 1920s headlines including a line about a double life and a child caught gambling with a neighbor’s burglar, plus wordplay on fishing and airships with wry captions and cartoon captions.
A fragment shows a child asking to bring a pound of sugar home from school, while a mother responds that their union forbids carrying anything beyond school satchels. The exchange references a union rule and school life amid labor tension.
A quaint exchange at a station references trains stopping only once before they depart. The stranger asks how often trains stop there, and the porter replies they stop only once before starting again.
Marie Dressler rails at 1911 fashion obsessions and male vanity, calling girls “clothes mad.” She critiques wealth and poverty chasing costly raiment, urges girls to learn cooking and sewing, and warns against neglecting dignity and sense. She cites examples from New York’s West Side and showbiz life.
The report highlights an April 17 speech by Senator Chamberlain of Oregon on the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill. It mentions tax amendment votes, Townsend's political role, and that New Jersey now uses a statewide primary for national convention delegations amid Wilson and La Follette pressures.
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