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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment shows postal delivery details for Ballard and Everett Bear agencies with rates per copy and month. It references Rockefellar Ave Sunset and Merrett Bros, mentions Seattle Washington and a class matter.
The diarist returns to work at Hastings thread's ready made shop as a skirt model. She notes rest is needed and mentions a Paris $349 gown shown in town. The costume draws attention and even Mr Bastingthread chuckles at the display as a store drawing card.
A comic vignette shows editor and loafers discussing a subscriber Jonas Perkinbine, with a crowd lifting a rail and Irish workers joking about the Pope. A Chinaman mugging a police station scene shifts to a woman in a Merry Widow hat as detectives hunt.
A editorial urges the American Bar association to realign its aims at the upcoming meeting. It laments rising laws and complex jurisprudence, calls for simpler court procedures and uniform statutes, and condemns bribery tied to railroad influence while stressing public trust in justice. It argues for practical reforms beyond science and cordiality.
County Auditor James P. Agnew questions Rob ert T. Hodge about a pledge to serve as sheriff for salary only. Agnew, trained in graft politics, cannot accept that Hodge would renounce feeding-prisoner graft tied to the county board. The piece contrasts two Republicans vying for sheriff and asks voters whom they trust.
An editorial alleges 1903 campaign bribery and vote buying to gain Ankeny a senate seat. It argues the statute of limitations protects Ankeny’s agents while criticizing The Sunday Times for aiding his bid and suggesting silence would have yielded better results.
Miss Charlotte Lund of Oswego New York, grand niece of Ole Bull and cousin of Edvard Grieg, is a rising soprano. Trained in Paris by Jean de Restke, she debuted in Paris last month before notable guests including Ambassador White and Vanderbilt. A London concert followed with praise from Paris Figaro as enormously successful.
An Irish contractor near Chi employs eight Italians and three Irish workers to relocate a large rail from a pile to a new location about 100 feet away. After several failed attempts, he loses patience and directs three Irish workers, McCarty Maloney and Muldoon, to lift the rail and move it to the other pile.
On a Victoria bound excursion boat a young man claimed rain would fall from the water. The woman, misled by his comment, grew angry and refused to marry him when the boat reached shore.
A witty commentator compares prize fighting to a porous plaster, noting that each bout ends in injury when a fighter is pulled off. The dialogue plays on the idea that danger comes with every exchange and disarray follows after action.
A girl named Sylvia teaches a dog named Randy to join in nightly prayers. Sylvia prays for herself and her family, believing faith in God aids right living, and the dog appears to bow his head as if praying beside her each night.
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