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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Dec 01, 1908

Page

4

Root or Gordon Guilty in Washington Supreme Court Scandal

An opinion piece calls for a full, unsparing investigation by the State Bar Association and the supreme court into alleged malfeasance involving Justice Root, Judge Gordon, and the Great Northern. It argues for production of letters, sworn witnesses, and a bar-wide cleansing to restore honor to the judiciary.

Root-Gordon Washington Justice Root Judge Gordon Supreme Bench Root Gordon Great Northern State of Washington Supreme Court State Bar Association Supreme Courts Bar Association

New Catchword Camaraderie Joins Opera Gossip and Scandals

Oscar Hammerstein introduces camaraderie as a broader term for romance and scandal in letters to Miss Lee suing for breach of contract. The piece mocks pretense, cites kisses and public embraces, and riffs on other contemporary scandals and political missteps across cities.

Oscar Hammerstein Miss Lee Oscar Lee

Wandering Dialogues and City Tales From the Northwest

A quirky column features a touristchallenged by a wary Chief Muenone as they discuss life in a distant northwest settlement. A station encounter with conductors and fares reveals comic misreadings and social foibles among travelers and locals. The sketches end note with a punch about London suffragists and domestic labor.

Fragmented domestic scene in a tense aftermath

The passage depicts a mother discovering a ruined white shirt with baby fingerprints on the shoulders. The scene implies a violent or tragic event as an unshaven man grasps the moment while others have already collapsed, leaving a stark, damaged domestic tableau.

Mother

A Practical Education In Finance

A wry dialogue contrasts schooling with real world math as a father notes the value of learning to calculate interest in the sense of determining what one can extract, and his son riffs on practical arithmetic.

Poets of Indiana Called Sensitive by Eastern Paper

The Eastern paper Banging the Bards declares Indiana poets are sensitive and should be treated with kid gloves. Guyer responds jestingly that some poets deserve boxing gloves.

Eastern Indiana Guyer

GeEW green spots spotted on Van Albert area

In a fragmentary report a dialogue mentions green spots on Van Albert with playful bets about a green hat craze and a nod to an adm exercise. Details are unclear and names are partially garbled.

van Albert

Silent Interview Sparks Jokes in Breezy London Parley

In a brisk chat a head official of a large firm replies I do indeed and jokes about initials P B R A and R V P. A suffragette in London, umbrella raised, warns of danger when a woman grows angry while a bachelor MP jokes to stay safe.

V. P. Benneath London the Commons

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