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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1906
Page
4
The Seattle Star announces its subscription system with a monthly rate of twenty five copies per month. It indicates update procedures for expiration dates and requests readers to keep their names current and notify changes, noting mail processing at Ballard Washington postal facilities.
About 2,900 students form a miniature city government with a mayor district attorney three judges and a police and health department to enforce discipline. A Russian boy as mayor and a child born abroad as district attorney lead a system that detains offenders and punishes truancy and gambling, teaching early the value of just laws.
Cottbus in Prussia opens a police school with 26 courses to train officers in German and Prussian constitutions, interior ministry structure, rights and duties, policing the poor, health law, food inspection and sanitation. First aid and identification methods are taught along with crowd control and crime prevention. The model could benefit American cities.
Sightings at Bremerton include the Wisconsin and Oregon with training ships and torpedo boats. Boats depart Pier at 10 and 21:30 a m and 1:15 1% p m with an extra craft at 3:30 pm Sunday. Round trip five hundred dollars.
Readers are invited to tour the Bremerton navy yard featuring battleships Wie cometh and Oregon, the training ship Philadelphia, torpedo boats and destroyers. Boats depart Pier 2 at 12 30 a m 1 36 p m 4 30 p m weekdays with an extra trip at 2 30 p m Sunday. Round trip 606.
A poem-like reflection notes European tensions over standards and policies. It mentions William II, Clemenceau, Abdul Hamid, Alfonso, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Russia, King Edward, Wilhelmina, and Nicholas issuing orders as nations clash over norms and rules. The tone is satirical about disputes and national stances.
Fragmentary text mentions rocks and charts from a naval context, references to a bystander and alien ships, plus a zoo scene in New York with a spotted leopard and a misheard line about a measle. It also includes garbled lines about a ballast dodge and a balloonist incident ending with a death, and a bidding exchange ending with a misdrawn bid.
Star Dust announces first prize for best contribution at $2 and second prize $1 with entries encouraged to mail yarns to "Jo8m Wise" at The Star. Prize winners last week include Mary Wright and Edna Best. Observational quips and barroom banter follow, ending with a promo for the best whiskey at Mike Doyle's in Seattle.
Property owners invite visitors to Laurelhurst to view an elegant prospectus featuring a colored photograph of Laurelhurst and surroundings. Prospective buyers are urged to visit in the coming days to procure one of the handsome fold notebooks.
An advertisement notes limited real bar gains remain as sales departments close to make room for pianos and talking machines. It urges customers to acquire a fine violin guitar banjo or other small goods before the items are gone.
Santa Claus will give a doll or horn to every child who comes with a parent next Thursday during Children’s Day at the Reliable Credit Store. The event runs between 4 PM and afternoon, with a parent benefit promised as well. This is the store’s regular annual children’s treat with no strings attached.
Local notice references a person named Quincy Adams Sawyer linked to an address Sunset Main 1304 in Indiana with a numeric code 4934. Details are fragmentary and provide only identifiers without context or action.
In an Arizona saloon a Northerner Blodgett flirts with a Mexican bartender's lover Ines Marta while a tense standoff erupts. A shot fells a man as Jim, the dying man, confesses his identity and urges Jim to return home to care for his mother and sister.
Wise up on The Owl Vancouver leaves the daily edition for Dellinghenean and Ven couver. Don’t throw your old away. Have them cleaned to like new at the Pastorium 1048.
Local retailer touts final opportunity on Axminster Rugs 9x12 with a regular price of $24.50 as Christmas PCW Inecchese discounts lure shoppers to buy now for presents.
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