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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
5
A retrospective view of Henry Cabot Lodge in Massachusetts. Despite wealth and skill, he failed to advance liberty in current issues, focusing on big interests. The piece argues he would not pay the political price to push liberty and reform.
A Powell County Kentucky local option election featured a Bible ballot emblem vs a whisky bottle emblem. The appellate court voided the election ruling the Bible cannot be used as a ballot emblem. The piece notes the clash between law and freedom of conscience and mocks rely on ballot incentives.
The piece discusses Booker T. Washington’s renewed prominence following autobiographical chapters and attacks from dissatisfied black leaders. It notes migration to Africa as well as calls for a tougher stance, but Washington advocates practical progress by educating both mind and hand, earning and saving money, and becoming good citizens, aiming for notable economic advancement for blacks.
About 1000 Canadian farmers, praised as the soundest element, traveled to Ottawa Ontario and presented their government with a set of demands.
The column surveys King George and Queen Mary’s India trip, a St. Louis inventor of a noiseless soup spoon, and a quip about a senator Dick repudiation. It also notes public school reforms in Chicago, Copenhagen Institute doubts Peary’s proofs, and the death of John W. Hunt the Dallas millionaire.
A police assignment misfire leads a reporter to Florence Roberts at her Seattle hotel at 7:31 AM. Roberts chats like a tea visit, discussing Christmas plans, friends, and her play The Nigger at the Moore next week.
A department store manager advocates shopping in the morning to reduce returns and complaints. The piece notes better Christmas results from morning purchases and hopes for similar success this year. Mise Roberts comments on a murder trial drama and a hotel night clerk eyes the narrator as he departs.
Readable parts mention friendships and a birth event with unclear names and details. The brief lacks concrete dates places or organizations to specify further.
A rapid-fire volley of trivia questions and comments on politics science and everyday life. Jokes and misstatements mix with references to Cordial stock markets and cultural memes as the piece lampoons knowledge and memory.
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