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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1919
Page
11
The text posits that self as part of nature yields good fortune while greed and denial of others disrupt balance. Nature’s law of compensation governs social and personal affairs, rewarding participation and punishing selfish resistance. It links disorder to disobedience and suggests universal tests and cycles of life, death, and renewal.
In discussion ahead of the Versailles conference, calls rise for the public to have a say on when the peace treaty becomes binding. Proposals seek an advisory vote to let the people determine ratification, challenging Senate led by party politics and procedural tradition.
A fragmentary poem by Edmund Vance Cooke ponders yesterday and a lovers kiss with celestial imagery. The verse questions memory and youth, ending with a wry aside about remembered lies and aging. A stray note about a bomb in a mayor’s office closes the piece.
Fragmented notes mix ads and anecdotes from a Chicago Tribune page. It mentions Jeff Davis as a boxer manager and a long wanderer, social quips about Victory Loan appeals, a serenade at Wayne County Journal, Lent related meat prices, Goethals wooden ships loss, and Swindelle in Portland.
The Old Gardener advises small plots to plant quick growing radish with lettuce and other crops to mark rows and fill vacant spaces. Radishes sprout early and are pulled before longer crops need room, while mixing lettuce with turnips aids quick maturity and provides shade.
Tomorrow May 1 marks the anniversary of the Manila Bay battle in 1898 when the Spanish fleet was defeated by Admiral Dewey. The report recalls the dawn engagement, casualties, and the swift American victory, plus other May 1 openings in 1878 1901 and 1904 and May Day postcard issuance.
The writer argues against mob rule and supports reformist democracy in the United States. He cites the French Revolution and Russia as warnings, praising education and modern advances like railroads and print to empower the masses. He foresees a future where enlightened citizens govern lawfully without tyranny.
Australia weighs a Marry Early campaign and a possible bonus for young mothers to counter a declining birthrate. In 1918 only 496 of 1000 married women were under 25, compared with an average of 642 in the previous decade. Spare the rod and you miss half the pleasure of fishing.
Dr Frank Crane summarizes Ed Howe of Atchison Kansas views on prohibition praising common sense over professional agitators. Howe contends whisky is an evil and prohibition works in Kansas by teaching behavior and removing liquor from daily life.
Under the Beattle Society for Broader Education Eewin Swain, noted baritone, will perform in Odd Fellows ball at Tenth and ER Pine on Friday and Saturday May 10. Ruth Holbrook arranged the concert, with Swain agitated by a number of other artists.
An advertisement urges pale and weak readers to take Peptiron for prompt, lasting improvement from debility and weakness related to war stress or epidemics. It claims rapid benefits and directs purchase from C. L. Mood Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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