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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1911
Page
3
A collage of humorous musings and light notices. Jokes about weddings, professions, and everyday life mix with quirky maxims and scattered trivia. References include a physician writer, social scenes, and playful observations on manners and luck.
The article surveys Louis D. Brandeis urging courts to shift from deductive precedents to inductive reasoning based on current living conditions. He advocates judges remember life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and to be informed by modern enactments rather than 19th century rules. An LA case about admitting a mule as Exhibit A shows lack of precedent.
England erupts over whole-wheat bread shortages as Sir Donald Mosley and Sir Oswald react to the demand for a sample loaf. Francis Harrison of the Isle of Wight recalls his ground wheat mill and wife baking, sparking national wit and Bread Reform League action. R Sheepshanks and C Cotton, Indian officials, visit California to study mutton and cotton.
A Chicago discussion questions the proposed $1 000 annual salary for clerks while noting the actual average pay is about $600. Clerks publish an open letter urging clarity, calling the gospel of efficiency a potential miracle if it lifts both wages and profits.
The Telegraph attacks the National Child Labor Committee for restricting night messenger work for young workers. It argues the policy harms earnings and keeps youths away from vice while pushing fathers to take messenger jobs at higher wages. Sir Francis Galton dies in England at 89, famed explorer of the Upper Nile and author on heredity.
Fragmentary notes allege Wisconsin avoids deadlock while praising Bob La Follette as he gallops into action. Mentions Prague University granting Kaiser Wilhelm M. D. and a Honduran rebel death. Questions about $100,000 missing if votes for Sade were not cast. Satirical take on legislative deadlocks and Tammanys in New York.
In a stark note on political decay the text warns that when the fight to live drives vote buying and selling the end is near as discussed in a Progress and Poverty context.
A newly built French stone arch bridge used molten zinc instead of cement to bind the stones. Statements claim zinc acts as a binding agent and may repel worms when lime is used on earth in plant pots. The proverb notes fast men are slow to pay and charity should extend beyond home.
A dialogue between Edwin and Edwiet centers on affording an automobile and the cost of upkeep. They discuss taxicabs as a cheaper option, the repairman’s fees, and the impracticality of owning a car. Edwin, with only 12 dollars, ends the afternoon longing for a ride from the union station to a hotel on a taxicab.
A humorous exchange between Osgar and Adolf as they discuss health and doctors in a lighthearted, satirical tone. The dialogue touches on hypochondria and mistaken diagnoses while mixing slang and caricature in a playful scene.
Victor Morley, celebrated in the Moore Theatre production Three Twins, boasts of 31 coy and clinging kisses during the show. The star, unwed and carefree, says real stage romance beats imitation, while praising fellow players and noting amiable dispositions among the cast.
In the Wash Herald a man asks whether he is his mother or father’s favorite while noting the judge has not yet issued a decision in the custody litigation.
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