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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1908
Page
4
A critical essay questions John D. Rockefeller's Benevolent Trust plan. It predicts a future where trusts control wages and prices, a carbon copy of today’s power dynamics, and warns that charity boards chosen by wealth will breed oppression. The piece mocks reformers, railroads, and public schools while urging vigilance against corporate benevolence.
The article recounts Taft's 1904 resignation from the cabinet over the Philippine tariff issue, Roosevelt's reaction, Cortelyou's mediation, and the famous short reply “Dear Bill: Fiddledee dee.” The piece situates the event in the 1904 campaign and Taft’s continuing push for tariff reductions for Philippine sugar and tobacco.
Columnist Diana Dillpicklies recounts a mailed sketch from a reader, a cartoonish portrait showing a woman eating dill pickles from a barrel. The piece mixes humor and sarcasm about newspaper artists being romantic and not sentimental, noting the reaction in the packing room.
A garbled collage of captions and jokes features themes of aging, seafaring banter, social events, and a fateful fortune teller. Characters include Aunt Ramantha Uncle Absalom and a large blonde woman foretelling trouble in a family quarrel over a large French doll.
Two men aboard a ship in a raging sea are pulled from the water as a life line nears. They exchange lines of timepieces and vow that a fiancée awaits one or the other, deciding one must stay behind as a giant wave overwhelms the deck. Both clutch watches, claiming their loves as the sea claims them.
Dramatic account shows men in a boat fighting colossal waves as it breaks apart. The wreckage scatters as a mighty wave washes away pieces, one man recalls leaving, two bodies wash ashore the next day with tied expressions to a woman. The oldest poem referenced is "Song of Mitt am."
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