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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
6
A vintage sales note promotes talking machines and music boxes as cultural gifts. It highlights Victrola style furnitures, horn and record components, and a new combined talking machine design with concealed storage. Monthly payment options promise home delivery.
Mrs Wade Ellis wife of the assistant attorney general comments that feed and social gatherings from women help govern and keep men at ease. She supports women’s suffrage in principle but says she would not use the ballot if she had it due to being too occupied, referencing Ohio origins and her Washington winter.
The Star reports concerns that Seattle property owners may push lodging rates during the exposition despite pledges by hotels and restaurants not to raise prices. Rent increases threaten smaller lodging houses as visitors arrive from around the world, locals say.
The excerpt notes a demand to reveal graft details with the public condemning the lodging house keeper while the main offender avoids scrutiny. The fragment highlights public anger and calls for accountability amid alleged corruption.
Henry Heeney said he will return to San Francisco to finish Patrick Calhoun case and stay with the prosecution, despite a bullet wound. He spoke from Washington about dangers yet remained enthusiastic, noting his wife’s nerves and his plan to meet with President Roosevelt to discuss secret service methods.
New York reports a Gouraud dinner featuring guests from stage and screen. Mrs Gouraud formerly Miss Amy Crocker of Sacramento performed a hula-hula dance while Anna Held, Valenka Suratt, Edna Wallace Hopper, and Hattie Forsythe contributed musical numbers and dances.
Deposed Venezuelan president Cipriano Castro reacts to Gomez's proclamation of acting presidency. He is warned confiscation of property and arrest if he lands in Venezuela on charges of eroberating public funds. His outburst alarms patients at Dr. Jermel's sanitariae.
Halifax Dec 28 The judges and stenographers of the Nova Scotia supreme court are on strike. Court reporters protest against unfair pay and today Judge Ruswell declared he would not act as both judge and stenographer.
James Cash, 60, a discharged employee at Abton Glass Works in St. Louis, killed himself by cutting his throat after being told he was too old for the carrying in boy job. He had repeatedly asked for reinstatement since his discharge, hoping to return to carrying hot glass to the cooling room.
Senator Bourne of Oregon pushes a bill to raise the president's pay from 50 000 to 100 000 and the vice president's from 12 000 to 26 000 a year. He aims for passage and signature before March 4 1909 so Taft and Sherman receive the increases.
Berlin dispatch states a Gottingen gunsmith has invented and patented an expanding bullet designed to destroy dirigible balloons. The new bullet can be fired from a standard infantry rifle, enhancing aerial warfare capabilities.
A Catholic congregation clash in Homestead last night left four people seriously injured and several hundred Slava lightly hurt. Twenty five participants were arrested as authorities struggled to contain the disturbance reported by U P dispatches from Pittsburg.
An Illinois woman has reportedly gone four decades without drinking water prompting questions about endurance. A Kentucky man is challenged to match or beat this extreme testament to thirst and resilience.
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