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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
4
The piece argues Claude L. Young’s blood poisoning from salt handling at an Anacortes fish cannery shows occupational disease harms workers like sudden injuries. It contends the state industrial insurance act should cover such cases, urging legislative action to widen the program and share industry’s responsibility for long term damage.
Coroner Folsom of Arizona argues the Naco fighting could be viewed as a warless act. He claims Arizona residents suffer most from Mexican shellfire while urging Arizona to provoke a retaliatory battle to force Mexico to stand down. The piece frames the idea as a provocative, controversial proposal amid two months of border conflict.
A mother waits daily for a letter from her son who left home for a new job. He writes early on but as time passes new friends and interests take him away, and letters become fewer. She holds to his love and remembers the bond, while the ache of no response lingers in her heart.
Ex U S Senator Thomas M Pai n argues mine operators claim divine right legal rights before the federal commission on industrial relations in Denver. The assertion questions associating authorship of human law with divinity and notes profits favoring corporate interests like the Rockefellers.
Review notes Edward S. Curtis work on In the Land of the Head Hunters at the core theatre. Seattle is cited as Curtis home town and a center of his art. The piece lauds Curtis as a great photographic artist and highlights the film as a powerful, artistic documentary. Census figures on gender balance in professions are briefly mentioned.
Paris reports Eugenie a working girl from Bagnolet who followed a zouave regiment to the Marne front. Wearing baggy red trousers and a red chechia she marched 30 miles daily with troops. Wounded under fire she will return to the front notwithstanding being sent home.
An inspection revealed in the leg hollow concealed papers and rifle bullets stolen from the barracks. He claimed the items were taken for a French secret service bureau in Geneva.
Wallace Smith wandered near Gulf & Ship Island shops in Gulfport Mississippi and drank from a hydrant mistaken as water. The compressed air blasted his teeth from his mouth and fractured his arm, with the incident occurring on December 14.
German police uncover stolen fortress plans hidden in a wooden leg. A lame man was arrested at Friedrichfelds barracks near Dusseldorf on spying charges.
A new apartment house in Carolina Court has been leased by Eugene Schmitz. The same report notes the county’s new ferryboat Lincoln was launched Saturday.
A collage of jokes letters and snippets touching on clocks dogs mice diets and everyday curiosities. The q&a style riffs from readers include humorous responses from experts and light banter about life.
Washington notes recount how a misread signal and old naval tradition led President Wilson to back a naval admiral in Vera Cruz. The piece argues the United States landed 6,000 troops to appease the flag insult while pursuing a limited aim of democracy, avoiding broader war.
Letters from London say Geo Cornwallis West former husband of Lady Randolph Churchill and military secretary to Lord Kitchener was shot on a charge of betraying military secrets.
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