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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
4
Reads like a guide for children on sewing for dolls. Encourages crafting doll clothes at home with mamma or auntie help and notes patterns available in stores. Describes simple projects from doll furs to capes with basic materials and easy stitches.
The Star urges united action across seven Pacific states to secure federal aid. It proposes central state committees linked to chambers of commerce to craft a mutual-aid policy, aims to educate the public on shared regional gains, and asks Congress for bipartisan support.
Report notes 29000 votes for mayor and 9000 for a two and a half million dollar proposition, suggesting high regard for mayors. Mentions Abe Ruef’s satisfaction over legal technicalities, Gomez’s Venezuela policy releasing Castro opponents, and a chain gang strike argued as contempt of court.
A writer notes flood of replies to her Tintorette Paper Co bristol board persona. Artists respond with sketches and playful adventures close to risqué humor, drawing attention in the packing room and provoking teasing comments from coworkers.
The fragmentary item records courtroom chatter about a drunken husband and a wife pressuring an insurance settlement. Witnesses describe the husband as better natured drunk than sober, and Mrs Smythe insists on full insurance payout rather than any settlement.
An exchange fills a social gathering with playful quips about friendship jealousy and proposals. Celestine laments being watched by foes while Hilda and Mrs Brown joke about church crowds and clubs for women. A waiter jokes about timing and a customer contemplates changing his order to an entreaty.
A western diocese minister exposed a gossip originator by delivering a targeted sermon at a schoolhouse gathering. The congregant, a regular attendee, remained after to help and remarked the sermon likely struck others hard, leaving the room quietly reflective.
Two newsboys eyed a shop window as a passerby overheard their plan to buy a flower for Jimmy's paralyzed mother. The older boy explains the motive and the woman buys the plant, prompting Jimmy to praise her beauty before leaving.
A doctor recounts a past life travel where his spirit inhabited an elderly scholar’s body then witnessed the scholar’s murder and execution. The tale ends with the narrator living as a normal man while a hod carrier patient recalls being the scholar in a prior existence.
YeastHops Fables by Fred Schaefer recounts a dog returning tired and peevish to a locked kennel. He sleeps in the barn hay and wakes to the cattle at breakfast. The herd scolds his intrusion and debates mercy versus punishment, ending with a crude suggestion to horn the dog.
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