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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
2
A miscellany of poems jokes and editorials including a critique of millionaires a poem from Horse Heaven a satire on Christmas shopping and a Christmas moral. Features remarks from John Tice Andrew Carnegie and a City Comptroller note with light social commentary on university students and streetcar rides.
A garbled Nome column reports rapid travel ideas from Nome to Seattle by various odd routes. It notes water 33 degrees in winter and oranges blooming in California while few current events touch public life. A death on a beach is reported as a lingering fact.
In New Haven on December 27 heavy guards were planned for a special express train of the New York New Haven Hartford line after a letter threatened to wreck and rob the train unless a ransom was paid to a specified address. The note named a concrete payment location and date, prompting security measures and police inquiries.
Fragmentary note describes a Missouri man presenting a method to make cigars from tar or treacle at a Rockefeller banquet. The text references scoffers, the Dochelles, and Water, with unclear claims of invention and feasibility.
The National Association of Naval Veterans began its annual convention in Philadelphia with strong attendance. Delegates from many states discuss the wide scope of the organization which now includes about 600 local groups and an aggregate membership over 6,000.
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