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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Dec 30, 1913

Page

4

Joyful Beans Promise Nutriment Beyond Eggs for Five Cents

Chicago experts announce a new bean product priced at five cents that allegedly contains as much nourishment as a dozen eggs. The claim highlights significant nutrition while keeping price low, signaling a potential food innovation.

Chicago

Governor Lister Criticized for Board Strain Over Kane Row

The piece denounces Governor Lister for pressuring resignations of four regents over the Kane university dispute while sparing his own appointees. It argues the issue masks a clash of Standpatterism vs progressivism and cites Walker, Rea, Wooten, and Shields as examples of partisan choices.

Goernor George H. Walker Fourts Dr. Kane Lister George Walker Walker John Rea Tacoma Rea Dudley Wooten Conservation Congress Charles Shields Taxation Congress

Changing Standards and Obscenity Laws Debate

The piece argues old obscenity laws were well intentioned but too rigid for honest discussion of sexual abuses. It cites a New York judge who favored motive over shock value, asserting frank social critique can be legitimate without being obscene.

New York

Witty Social Bits and Oddities From a Dated Column

A humorous collection of quips about fashion in China, freed marriages, a hired plumber, radium legends, family dynamics, bacon costs, and Hetty Green praising onions as health food, all delivered in a light, satirical tone with dated references and jokes.

Fragmented Verse and Oddities Spark Local Curiosities

A quirky montage notes varied items from divorce verse by a Los Angeles lawyer to missing Burns manuscripts in the United States and wristwatch wearers in Tacoma. It references football charts, Juarez battles, upside down flight dangers, and a Christmas cigar joke about Mrs Wise-Mary Ann and her husband.

Los Angeles Mary Ann

Editor's Mail Begs Question on Street Charity and Church Collections

In reply to Saturday's article about jobless and destitute shoppers, the writer argues that public begging by the hungry contrasts with church collections. They question why affluent church groups may beg weekly yet shoppers feel embarrassed by street appeals.

the Star

New York Shipbuilding Through the Years

A condensed view traces New York shipyards from 1852 praised clippers and swift steamers to 1881 ferries and new clipper ships, then to 1913 when the era shifts to the era of small boats like a scow or rowboat, signaling changed fortunes.

New York Great Britain

Banking reform essay by Laughlin on new federal reserve idea

Prof Jas Lawrence Laughlin explains a proposed banking and currency measure aimed at elastic credit and reserves. He argues regional banks, not a single central authority, will lend to member banks via rediscounts to prevent crises and avoid bank bankruptcies.

L. E. Pinkham Massachusetts Hawaii Islands Board of Health McKenna U. S. Supreme Court Washington Pinkham Jas Lawrence Laughlin Chicago University Newspaper Enterprise Association Boston New York Chicago St. Louis San Francisco New Orleans Federal Reserve Bank

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