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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
4
The passage argues for government intervention in food markets. It cites Philippine actions two years earlier when rice price rises threatened famine. Government purchases and sales lowered prices and saved millions, urging similar US actions to protect consumers from price spikes.
The Star reports from Berlin via cable and Western Union on Dr Frederick Friedman’s asserted tuberculosis cure. The paper notes many medical experts doubt the claim while continuing daily updates from correspondent Shepherd on tests by European and American scientists.
A fragment from a 1910s local paper praises or mocks party factions in King County. It references the Republican central committee opposing non-partisan election law, delegates at Aberdeen, Roosevelt’s state lead, Puget Sound Traction Light and Power cars, a Wilson-related demand crime, and public service commissions amid Christmas season.
The note warns not to take Tumulty to Washington while referring to Governor Woodrow Wilson and his secretary. The fragment signals political maneuvering and travel concerns tied to the Wilson administration.
A Michigan man, age 26, was shot dead after being mistaken for a deer, with an 18 year old wounded in the broader incident. Authorities describe the event as a rapid, mistaken identity shooting resembling a chaotic cross border clash.
Readers attack official corruption claims and discuss the Seattle commission firm profits in a cherry transaction. A letter argues bells agitation was political. another defends minimum wage concepts and notes wage and price dynamics across regions.
Washington reports the Senate elected Senators Gallinger of New Hampshire and Bacon of Georgia as presidents pro tempore. They will serve in alternate two week periods until the end of the current congressional session.
Five year term given to T. F. Droeser who sent threatening letters to banker Andrews connected to the Lois theater fire. Municipal bonds valued at 3,280,000 were issued on the market. Two Seattle residents injured in an Odessa Minnesota train wreck.
A patchwork of quotes hints and quips covers politics humor and social notes. Bits reference mayoral candidacy W P Trimble and John Riplinger plus humorous lines about daily life and public opinion.
We publicly thank neighbors and friends for kindly giving aid during a long illness and death in our family. May we have the privilege to reciprocate someday. Barnesville Ohio Whetatone.
A 20 foot long miniature town imported from Germany is displayed in a Seattle department store priced at 2500 dollars. It features a hill town fortress with fortress guns, illuminated streets, electric transit, harbor, and a working steam engine, a toy meant for a single wealthy child.
Rev W D Parkhurst of the First Adventist church declares no Panama Pacific exposition will occur in 1913. He cites biblical quotations to support judgment day as the world s end. The report notes other brief items and local items with no clear connection to the main statement.
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