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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
4
The article denounces Taft for eleventh hour appointments and argues Wilson should place Taft’s recommendations last. It attacks what it calls Taft’s impropriety and blames political appointees for public service fails. It calls for civil service reform and accountability for “lame ducks.”
The writer argues that unscrambling railroad merger eggs should be decided by the United States Supreme Court, not a Utah court, and awaits the court’s plan. If the plan dissolves mergers like Standard Oil and Tobacco, it will reveal the Sherman Act’s value against railroad criminality, including possible receivership and stock sales.
A reflective piece questions how juries set verdicts and how the supreme court adjusts awards. It cites Elizabeth Bell’s death in a Seattle accident and prior verdicts, arguing jurors judge facts while courts intervene in large sums, challenging lay understanding of judicial reasoning.
Editorial argues regents should resign amid disputes over a gift strip claimed by the Northern Pacific across the campus and millions in state land linked to the suit. It questions whether regents can represent public interests while favoring the railroad’s title in court.
Italian stock brokers have walked out prompting exchange closures. The strike disrupts trading activity and raises questions about market stability and potential impacts on prices and liquidity.
Local delivery and local rate rules apply to packages mailed in any city or rural route, including parcels on rural routes. All parcels must be securely wrapped with sharp points protected and labeled FRAGILE or PERISHABLE as appropriate. Eggs may be shipped locally when wrapped separately. salted and dried meats may be shipped anywhere. fresh meats only within the first 50 mile zone.
Washington reports the parcel post aims to connect city and rural sellers by cutting commission costs. Rural routes enable lower rates for goods moved 20 miles to the city with a local rate of 6 cents per pound for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound up to 11 pounds. Express firms charge more, creating new business for farm products packed for consumer pickup. Farmers should advertise in city papers to prompt city buyers to try parcel post.
Advertisers urge country papers and farm journals for farm goods sales by parcel post. Rates, routes, and local delivery schemes promise cheaper shipping of butter eggs apples and more. Notes on city delivery, vaudeville quips, and Northampton mileage charges close the column.
A batch of items notes petitions to Cotterill becoming a candidate, a jail marriage of Adeline Powell to A W Williams, and various local incidents. A Seattle labor leader witness was called to a Los Angeles grand jury. a fire at Mortimer killed two infants. a streetcar accident injured a motorman.
A collage of brief items notes vast cigar figures for quarter three 1960s era, sea captain seasickness on a liner voyage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia, a menu quip about foreign dish names, a forecast of rain, unemployed protests in St Louis on January 28, a pawn dispute advice, a press agent quip about Gen Sickles, a Bartleville Ohio couple welcoming a daughter, December weather in Cro n Turf burg town, Morgan speculation on banking dominance, a German distillery report on alcohol output nine months to June, Massachusetts bill to curb women smokers, and Missouri Clay County first woman jury convicting a male.
A fragmentary item questions if reading Longfellow reshapes a game different from the one we play. The note hints at a cultural contrast or literary riff within a sports or leisure column. No names, dates, or places are evident in the surviving text.
In a satirical aside Mrs De Jones and Mr Van Tyle discuss a Chinese chauffeur. She notes his yellow complexion and the unusual pinging signal of his pigtail used as a bell rope through a plate glass window to mark his stopping point.
A brief exchange reveals a woman's claim that he was not a good catch after all and a sly retort implying he must have dropped her. The dialogue hints at a failed relationship and social irony.
J. B. Greenwood has just opened a woodyard in Woodville New Hampshire. In golf, John D. Rockefeller is not a strong driver with best plays on approach and the long green. A small boy’s idea of reeleting temptation is not to throw stones at a car.
The International Institute of Music of New York offers a free complete home study course for piano organ violin mandolin guitar cornet banjo cello and sight singing. Readers are asked to recommend the institute after learning to play with weekly lessons, simple method, photographs, and a small postage cost averaging 14 cents a week.
A nine year old Union City girl writes to the Circle asking for a membership certificate for herself and two bears. She omits her name and address but includes her age, says she is in the fifth grade and enjoys going to school. One bear is with her, the other with her brother.
The Circle club invites entries for a 150 word max contest about Christmas vacation experiences. Manuscripts must be neatly written on one side, with a $1 cash prize. Submissions close next Friday at 3 PM.
A letter from 11 year old Jay McKean at 122 Broadway North requests a Star Circle membership card. He mentions attending Cascade school in seventh grade and notes past involvement with the Star at Boren and Howell and selling stars at 8 E Co, handling forty to fifty daily.
A young reader writes of wanting to join the Star Circle and asks for a membership card. The letter notes the writer is 12, in the sixth grade, and includes a drawing submission. Signed by Keeton in Edmonds.
Jim, a barber partner, is sent to an asylum after a dispute over shampoo wages. The victim, seated in the chair, explains Jim is his twin and has long brooded over hard times. He recalls their close work history, low prices, and a failed shampoo price dispute leading to violent intent. He offers shampoo anyway.
A witty exchange about proofs and a novelist's final work circulates as a playful quip. The banter contrasts formal proofs with trusting the author, ending in a light pun about concluding drafts.
Judge Howard sentences A. R. B. Turner to three years at McNeill Island for using the mails to promote a fraudulent shingles scheme. He was also jailed last summer for forging bills of lading and faces a heavier sentence the next day for inducements in the shingle trade.
Mrs. Orlance Koetsche, a young widow, is dead after a splinter of glass from a door window pierced her throat during a crowded gathering in Los Angeles. The window broke during a friendly scuffle between two young men and Koetsche fell, striking her neck as she moved between rooms.
Judge Everett Smith barred the Fraternal Brotherhood from raising January assessment rates. Officers may show cause January 3 why the order should become permanent. Policy holders F. B. Uhlman and Hugo Kelly filed suits, with outcomes likely guiding all members. Cuba 18 notes Havana’s new mayor had a duel challenger jailed.
Fifty boys and girls submitted drawings of a dog in this week’s Cherle peg prize competition. Rita Meyer of 217 23rd Ave. won the prize for her drawing. Other entrants included Herman Meyer of 234 Ave, Ruth Hauck, Leon Metcalf of Marysville, Keeton, Edmonds, Kate Heywood of 301 16th Ave, and Peter Robertson of Buckley.
Uncle Jack expresses sincere gratitude to numerous Circlettes for Christmas and New Year greetings and wishes the Circle boys and girls a happy New Year.
Elliott lists four rooms for rent at the lowest price point near Eighth Street and Westlake, with a contact reference at 803.
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