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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
2
The Seattle Star listing provides the business and material department telephones for inquiries and notices. It indicates weekday afternoon publication with Sunday exception and includes department contact numbers.
The article critiques claims for prepared breakfast foods that promise health, fatness, and even brains from a simple pasteboard box. It mocks advertisements and scientific hype, noting the ease of serving and digestibility while questioning whether such claims justify the risks of sickness and death, and warns that fools are drawn to these breakfast foote.
A palm reader proclaims J Pierpont Morgan possesses psychic power but not business capacity and staunchly defends her verdict despite strong counterarguments. The piece argues Morgan’s gifts lie more in instinct and inspiration than in methodical, cautious commerce.
A flawed nose seed in Gladys Deacon’s quest for a Grecian profile ends in necrosis after a paraffine treatment. A physician warns the damage may be lifelong or fatal, while a column muses on inner beauty over outward looks and notes King Leopold’s rumored remarriage.
Jacob Furth of Beattie Electric outlines consolidation of the Seattle Tacoma Interurban and Tacoma Railway and Power to reduce expenses. He says baggage and express cars with motors will run two trips each way from Kent with potential passenger coaches later. Midnight and early morning trains and mail contracts are planned to improve service.
The European liner Kage Maru reached Beattie Harbor with a record cargo including 1000 bales valued near 1 million dollars and 6000 tons of freight. It carried 66 000 rods of matting 1800 cases of Japanese silk and rare Oriental plants destined for a New York botanical garden, plus passengers including Yanagiwara and J Take eshita on official business. Captain Eketland denied Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ideumi Maru wreck reports near Mihara.
Smith a colored man was convicted by a jury in Judge Griffin's court yesterday of highway robbery. John Bennett who was robbed of a watch and ring last spring accused an inmate from Young's house of the same crime, with the theft valued at $1,000. The case also notes a nurse association meeting in Seattle General Hospital, the funeral of Capt Parker, Turnverein election results, Foster loses a personal injury suit, Bear navy yard matter, and dancing classes led by Professor Wileen with Wendell.
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