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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1904
Page
8
Hallie Erminie Rives reflects on memory and companionship as she notes during work that the future Mr Rives will merely be memory. The excerpt frames memory as a companion to joys and sorrows beyond the present day.
The famed author Hallie Erminie Rives discusses marriage with a Star reporter during a hotel stay. She says she forgets faces while writing and that her husband would be a memory if near her while at work, then asserts he is lucky and idealized in her fiction and life.
The International Car riage and Wagon Workers' union met in New York to plan a campaign against the open shop. The union aims to strengthen its organization without a general strike and will dispatch organizers to major cities to oppose President D. M. Parry of the National Manufacturers' association. It cites Parry as pushing for the open shop nationwide in carriage and wagon manufacturing, with 65 006 workers involved.
New York stockholders of Standard Oil receive checks for a 7 percent quarterly dividend the last for 1904, totaling 34 dollars a share for the year. John D. Rockefeller, owning about 400000 shares, nets 14400000 this year, down from 17600000 last year.
The text notes a $3,200,000 decrease in income last year and states Mr. Rockefeller will partly or wholly compensate this decline through increased dividends from Consolidated Gas and other largely owned companies.
Chicago December reports the Burling ton fast mail wrecked at Bristol, HL, early today when the train jumped the track. Fireman Oscar Johnson was killed, Conductor Cowdry and Brakeman Farrell were seriously injured, and six passengers sustained minor injuries.
Hallie Erminie Rives, author, caused a small scene at the Hotel Washington by dropping 750 dollars in small bills into a mailbox this morning rather than sending a letter. Police were notified but no theft occurred.
Mise Hallie Erminie Rives, renowned authoress, accidentally slipped a $750 envelope into the hotel mailbox instead of a letter. She discovered the error as a mail carrier emptied the box, and hotel staff confirmed the incident. The missing money, likely a royalty, was recovered from the dead letter area.
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