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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Aug 17, 1916

Page

5

Senatorial Rogues Gallery on Child Labor Vote

The senate faced a controversial vote on a child labor bill with 12 senators opposing and 52 supporting. The piece names Pa and Oliver as opposed alongside several other figures from Georgia Florida Mississippi and Alabama including Hoke Smith Duncan U Fletcher Nathan P. Bryan John Sharp Williams and J H Bankhead. It portrays the stance as defending business interests over children and cites the issue as an indictment of the era.

Senate Pennsylvania Powers Pen Oliver Dixie American Senate John Sharp Williams Hoke Smith

War taxes shift burden onto plain people, says editor

England France and Germany claim to tax the rich to fund the war yet the ordinary citizens bear the true cost through suffering and death. The speaker criticizes governments for masking costs while the public pays with their lives.

England France Germany

Buy Washington Made Goods Urged During Northwest Merchants Visit

Washington residents are urged to support Washington made goods to boost local manufacturing and keep money circulating at home. The text argues Washington state has natural resources water power and potential to become a major manufacturing and shipping center, with more products locally produced and competitive with goods from elsewhere.

Washington State Washington

Reunited Republicans Invite Presidential Candidates at Washington Hotel

The piece notes Republican precinct committeemen were invited to the Washington hotel to meet presidential candidates while former Progressive committeemen were left out. It comments that this was not tactful as progressives drift toward Wilson, contrasting old times with modern, less formal politics.

Washington Wilson

When Gran'ma Comes to Town

A humorous piece urges bringing Granma along for outings and warns against leaving her at home. It pokes fun at grandparents and laments politicians taking private joy rides in county machines, closing with a note of gratitude they avoided such excess.

Kultur's Best Gift and the Dutch Treat

The piece contrasts German culture with a concept of Dutch treat. It notes that going Dutch guarantees paying for what you choose and receiving exactly what you want to eat and drink, no more, no less.

The Serpent Strikes in the River Expedition

Blake leads an expedition from the cliff and mangroves to the river mouth. Miss Leslie helps with water and oysters as Winthrope rests. A puff adder attacks the girl. Blake pierces the snake, breaking its back as danger erupts in the coastal scene.

Blake Winthrope Miss Leslie Mins Lesile Win Mangrove Wood Mr. Winthrope Miss Leake Leslie Puff Adder Jenny

Amaryllis Bond and a Brutal Rescue on the Plain

Blake fights to save Miss Jenny Laslie after a deadly adder bite scare during a storm night. He retrieves poison from a cigaret case and tends the wound, then gifts a crimson amaryllis he later tries to give. A tense romance unfolds as Winthrope plots and Miss Laslie wrestles between Blake and the English suitor.

Blake Winthrope Adder Miss Laslie

Blake and Jenny tensions rise as trust frays on cliff

In a tense scene Blake scolds Miss Jenny Leslie for preferring solitude away from an English suitor. He asserts control over access to the cliff top and defends his friendship with Jenny, while Winthrop is accused of eavesdropping and silenced by Blake.

Gwen Hlake Winthrope Miss Laslie Miss Genevieve Genevieve Blake Leslie Miss Lesiie Mr. Blake Jenny Jimmy Winthrop Tony

How Thin People Can Put on Flesh

Claiming thin individuals fail to gain from meals, the ad promotes Sargol tablets to boost digestion and red blood cell production. It asserts weight gains from 10 to 26 pounds monthly, promises no side effects, and offers a money back guarantee through local druggists.

Bartell Drug Co Swift

Plating fillings and dental same day service

Impressions taken in the morning and teeth provided the same day. All work guaranteed for 15 years. Examination and advice offered free.

Fever Relapse Briefly Stages Recovery in Englishman Tale

The narrative notes the girl's doubt over Blake and her modesty delaying repeating the Englishman's insulting proposal. Winthrope suffers a second fever attack but recovers quickly, his relapse proving less serious than expected and he regains strength within days.

Blake Winthrope

French officer at Palace Hip theater shares war memories

Baron H. B. de Malaussene, adjutant in the Fire regiment of the French Legion, recounts 59 days in a trench near German lines and exchanges of food cigars and newspapers with enemy troops. Wounded in a 1915 hand to hand clash at Arres, he is on sick leave after three operations since crossing the Atlantic.

Baron H de Malaussene Palace Hip French Legion Arres Fuchs Atlantic United States

WORKING MAN Bourse brokers fund infantile paralysis appeal

Brokers on the New York stock exchange contributed 1200 dollars to an infantile paralysis fund in New York and 30000 dollars to the French ambulance fund. John M. Parker says the progressive party is not dead. Bury alive.

New York Stock Exchange New York Progressive Party John M. Parker

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