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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1913
Page
4
An editorial praises Judge Ronald for upholding police powers to break down doors while criticizing judges and cops for power, comparing it to Russian methods and noting another editor jailed for contempt toward a bench puppet.
The author laments wage disparity with teachers earning about $485 a year and compares their pay to that of laborers, ministers, and profiteers. He argues visionaries like teachers and preachers enrich society, while financial magnates profit at the expense of honest work.
Article recalls Rep. Houser of King County accusing the Seattle waterfront monopoly and facing opposition from a so called hush committee under Speaker Taylor. It notes calls to transfer action to the attorney general and to have the public service commissioners address alleged $100,000,000 in railroad theft and high package rates, urging a duty to act on rates and returns.
A long reflective piece contrasts the Titanic disaster with a proposed treaty requiring three minutes of worldwide wireless silence every quarter hour to listen for distress cries. It argues humanity should rise above greed and trade, urging universal brotherhood through shared emergency aid. It weaves in other regional notes and editorial asides.
A jumbled OCR mix portrays verse about spring and travel, stray anecdotes on dreams and a New York husband, and comic gossip about marriage licenses. It blends poems with clumsy social anecdotes and a long city tale of mistaken matrimony.
A comic snapshot notes a Beeley drug store where the mayor and postmaster play checkers behind the counter. The piece also contrasts Cipriano Castro and William Rockefeller’s immigration clashes with a remark on Roosevelt's stance, implying an event in 1907 without full clarity.
A narrator asks if one ever sinks into doom and seeks revival in a speckled elfin sip. The goblet of sunshine brings brief relief yet ends with dawn’s return to anguish and sorrow, as nepenthe is denied.
In a wedding room the bride and groom share a tense moment as guests observe. The bride seeks help spelling a word and later asks again, while an older man nearby sighs at the interruptions. The scene ends with the groom leaving and the bride’s spell request continuing.
In a fragmented exchange, a wife consoles John over a return from office as references to a Rag Picker income surface. The dialogue suggests a man earned $64,000 as a ragpicker. The dialogue shifts to a quip about Turks and allies, ending with confusion about musical pitch.
Dialogue captures Louise and Mother debating love at first sight and life's troubles. The exchange hints at misgivings about modern change from airships to cars and its impact on the common people and the rubber trust.
A collection of humorous and sentimental vignettes. Andrew Carnegie recounts a marriage proposal in a Scotch town as a beadle, bashful and resolved, invites a walk to a churchyard and reveals ancestral graves. Then a humor piece notes a stenographer applicant judged by appearance, not merit, in a Sage Record Herald anecdote.
A Fremont fireman urges universal suffrage and better female equality while praising mothers and warning against male domination. Readers discuss Seattle council elections, Mayor Cotterill, and political reforms against big business, followed by criticism of judicial leniency and calls for accountability in King County court decisions.
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