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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
5
Jerry Ce discovers pieces of carrot and apple at his favorite eating place and suspects a deliberate trap. He investigates a sunken log and the bank area, finds no hidden danger, and resolves to claim the tasty treats.
In this tale Jerry the red squirrel appears to be deceived by a stranger who leaves food as bait. He cautiously investigates each offering and repeats the pattern until he eats all, growing bolder and doubting the trap origin as no harm occurs. The story ends with Jerry's fears fading.
Olive Roberts Barton narrates the twins observing a scarecrow over a cornfield. The scarecrow imagines himself a guardian against crows as corn grows tall and ears form, while birds become bolder aboutFeasting on the developing crop.
In a dialogue between Nancy and Nick through a cornfield a lost monkey is referenced while Bruce and Dick discuss a cold. Bill boasts Weeks Break-Up-A-Cold Tablets boost resistance, lack mercury, and cost twenty-five cents, with the doctor approving them.
Will J. Hays chairman of the Republican National Committee tour all Pacific coast states within three months to outline issues for the next presidential campaign. He is expected in Seattle next month. Republican organizations will unite to honor him with a banquet.
Chicago December 25. Wealthy poet Robert Bowman Peck says he will marry Florence Reid Peck again if she drops her suit for separate maintenance. He claims their first marriage was illegal. They have two children.
Mrs. Alice A. Doyle charges Peter Doyle in a divorce suit filed in San Francisco. She claims on their eighth anniversary he drank heavily, locked himself in the bathroom, turned on the gas and announced he would kill himself. She says she tried to break in as he chased her menacingly.
Advertisement touts Hood's Pills from C. I. Hood & Co in Lowell as a remedy for biliousness. Claim emphasizes improved mood, energy, and relief from headaches and constipation by cleansing the liver.
In Houston, Mrs. Jennie Denloe paid $100 to a voodooist who promised to drive away her rival stenographer. The affair involved her husband and a blond assistant. No result has yet appeared, and the plan left the wife out of funds.
The young king of Siam speaks English, French and German and has authored books in all these languages as well as in Siamese.
In Salt Brook New York on December 25 a dog vanished after the master closed his safe. The dog later jumped out when the couple opened the safe, leaving the owners surprised by the strange rescue. A newspaper quote follows about a scientist predicting a one handed future and a punchline about a coming girl.
Fifty five Christmas brides and as many grooms join Seattle festivity as Cupid Morris Kennedy jokes about the season. He shakes the 18th license at the county clerk's office, signaling bright holiday civic cheer.
An ad from Eugene M. Pullen, a carpenter in Manasquan New Jersey, claims a mold cures rupture without surgery. He offers details by mail address 278 Marcellus aven., urging readers with ruptures to contact him to avoid operation and its dangers.
A Korean man ignores his wife in public, a Brazilian harpy eagle hunts only monkeys, and Siberian rivers freeze over while fish beneath the ice stay alive until spring renewal resumes.
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