Winter Pranks Parade By Judge On Frosty Whimsy
A Judge rails at Jack Frost as he plays pranks in winter. Ladies hide their shanks and trees expose their limbs in a playful, humorous verse.
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Jack Frost
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1913
Page
4
San Francisco Seeks Hetch Hetchy Water Bill Before Congress
A city fight for water with San Francisco pressing a Hetch Hetchy bill to secure an everlasting municipal supply from the Hetch Hetchy valley. Critics label opposition as the Trust power while nature lovers debate the valley as a water source and potential hydroelectric development would affect Bay Area cities.
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San Francisco
Congress
Hetch Hetchy Valley
High Sierras
Hetch Hetchy
House
Senate
Hetchy
Yosemite Valley
Sanancisco
Vote for the Vashon Ferry Prop One
An advisory vote on Saturday urges a yes for establishing a Vashon ferry to improve isolation from King County and connect with the Lake Burien line. The project would serve about 30 000 people, aid transport of berries vegetables and eggs, and influence regional costs.
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Vashon
Vashon Island
King Inty
Lake Burien
Highland Park
Vashong
Seattle
Port
Adulterated Prunes Attack Farm End of Dinner
A Philadelphia man is indicted for selling prunes not true to label. The biting editorial laments adulteration affecting the boarding house dependence on dried plums as a symbol of loosened farm integrity and misleading consumer prices.
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Philadelphia
Detecting Alum in Baking Powder
A housekeeper explains identifying alum baking powders by reading the ingredient list for alum or aluminum sulfate. She notes the law requires disclosure and suggests using Royal Baking Powder to ensure a cream of tartar, pure and healthful product.
The Outbursts of Everett True Satirical Notes
A Chicago citizen touts Everett True as a crime cure while noting busy residents. The piece ridicules social pretensions, and mocks wartime sentiment, fashion advice, and changing gender roles with humorous vignettes and questions about old fashioned values.
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Chicago
Amateur athletes and oddities in early 1900s chatter
The fragmentary text mixin g mentions an amateur champion forbidding money events, a store sign in First avenue, a wanted live wire job, a note of joy over Jessie Wilson’s marriage, and a claim about Seattle matches stretching to the Snohomish courthouse. It also includes a cheery temperature line and a stray weather quip from Cleveland.
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Seattle
Pioneer Square
Snohomish
Pay Wages Weekly Says Laborer Advocate
A Star reader urges the city to require weekly wage payments to laborers, arguing it frees workers from credit use and lowers living costs. The letter also asks for the name of the mayor who succeeded Hi Gill and the election date.
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the Star
George W. Dilling
Hi Gill
Star Reader
Fourth Tuberculosis Day Aids Red Cross Seals Drive
Sunday December 7 marks the fourth national tuberculosia day observed nationwide. Seattle Anti-Tuberculosis league urges local support with ministers speaking on the movement and Red Cross seals purchased to aid humanity. City finances show Beattie near bond indebtedness limit while water sewers and light funds remain tight. General fund has 2,777,707.56 available. 1914 tax levy at 43.87 mills vs 34.57 this year.
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Seattle
Anti-Tuberculosis League of
King County
Red Cross
Carroll
Beattie
Ely's Cream Balm Promises Quick Catarrh Relief
An advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as instant relief for blocked noses and head congestion from colds. It claims cleansing of nasal passages, reduced headaches, and quick disappearance of catarrh with use of a small bottle, urging purchase at drug stores.
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Ely
What Is the Constitution When It Stands in Governmental Efficiency
Herbert Quick argues for joint sessions of Congress to end pointless delays in currency legislation. He mocks separate houses and slow deliberation, proposing cross house debates, shared committees, and even push‑button voting to speed decisive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
O'Gorman
Hitchcock
Aldrich
Buncombe Windom
Caref
Thames Sentenced in Second Offense Egg Theft Case
Huntington Virginia Charles Thames will serve a year in prison after pleading guilty to stealing two eggs while employed at a meat market. This marks his second offense.
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Huntington
Charles Thames
Mor ton's White Orpington Hen Lays Unusual Egg
Oceanside report notes Ralph Morton’s White Orpington hen laid an egg measuring 7 by 5 inches with two shells, illustrating an oddity in local poultry.
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Oceanside
L. L
Ralph Morton
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Cleveland
O. Evelyn Thaw
Gaby Dr. Cook
Elbert Hubbard
Billy Sulzer
Everett True
Windoor
Mexico
Jessie Wilson
Princess Jenate
Herbert Quick
Newspaper Enterprise Association
House of Representatives
Starr-Macpherson Company
Vici
White
Laids
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