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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
4
The message lists the Seattle Star Publishing Co offices at 180 and 1909 Seventh Avenue with delivery daily except Sunday and various rates. It notes subscription practices, free copies, mailing options, and that subscriptions paid in advance are removed from the address label when reaching the receipt stage.
The Insurance Press compiles letters from surety company presidents who cite three main causes for clerks defalcating in Cleveland and other cities: stock market and commodity markets and the cotton market. Gambling and extravagant spending lead to ruin, with intemperance common across cities.
A chaotic page of clipped phrases mentions meat shortages in Georgia, a telescope lost between Randall and Solon, and a 1960 author obituary. Notes on Atlantic City spooning bans, a speech of 6006 words by John Sharpe Williams, and a mock dialogue about butchery populate the fragment.
The clipped text mixes weather talk and burgers with stray names and a lottery claim. It references West Lafay tte Ohio Chicago police two million lottery tickets and a Poscom Trot Prt. It includes dialect poetry about an old man dreaming of golden streets and hearing angel whispers as he smiles.
The Seattle Woodmen of the World chapter will be entertained at a Ballard Woodmen reception this evening in Ballard.
An ad touts Dr King s New Discovery for consumption as a universal cure with a testimonial from Mrs C B Van Metre of Shepherdstown WV and advertises trial bottles and pricing. A notice announces a Wanconda Gold Mining Co stockholders meeting in Seattle WA on September 5 1904 at 7 pm to elect trustees and ratify a lease.
Several men were yesterday added to the instructional force at the University of Washington. They were recommended to the board of regents by Dr. Thomas Kane during his travels in the East and Midwest. New professors include Lyman Morehouse from Michigan as lecturer in electrical engineering and Robert Morita as mathematics professor. Lee Dagey from Wisconsin is assistant professor of rhetoric and oratory. C. C. Moore heads a civil engineering department. Henson of Johns Hopkins becomes chemistry assistant professor and Benjamin J. Holler succeeds Van der Veer as physical director. The Mercer excursion around Mercer Island runs daily from Seattle with departures at 11:00 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.
John Poster a shingle weaver attempted to beat the Celestials for the price of a meal using chop sticks. City Detective Dyrnesa arrived late to the scene to find Poster dead among wriggling Mongoliana and he was booked at the station on disorderly conduct charges.
A big consignment of Kimball planes and organs has arrived, with latest styles from Chickering H M Cable Kimball and others. The store offers used and second hand instruments from standard makes, all guaranteed and sold on easy terms. A large import order of fine violins and other small instruments from European manufacturers has also been received, with updated stock in instrument and graphophone departments.
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