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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1905
Page
4
The Seattle Star lists subscription terms with daily delivery and a Sunday exclusion, notes mail delivery and verification, and provides downtown and uptown office addresses in Seattle for payments and news submissions. It also shows nationwide newspaper representatives and contact avenues for readers seeking service or advertisements.
The World’s Work argues Russia keeps strong credit despite reverses, borrowing heavily in Paris and Berlin, using railroads and customs as guarantees, while Japan lacks wealth and credit, relying on unsecured bonds and pledging tax revenues to finance war. Russia earns big lender support. Japan depends on small investors.
An inquest revealed a mother offered her baby for a quart of beer, highlighting booze as a corrupting poison. The piece extols maternal love as humanity’s divinest passion while warning drink's power to ruin moral, mental, and physical life across all who fall under its sway.
In a measured rebuke, Sir Henry Irving rejects a $1 750 weekly vaudeville bid and argues music halls have shaped audience tastes. He notes cycles in drama with lean years for Shakespeare, then rises in popularity for solid drama and increasingly musical productions, warning against art solo for art's sake. He emphasizes the business side of theater and audience demand over grim, tragic stereotypes.
County poor commissioners report a sharp rise in poverty unmatched since 1893 as charity applications flood in daily. The overcrowded county hospital has led to beds in corridors and plans to convert the old poor house into hospital wards. In January alone 62 people were admitted, and relief costs soar as unemployment leaves families dependent on county aid.
A jumble of quotes and phrases from literary and social notes. The text mixes poems, fashion mentions, folk verses, racial caricatures, and brief anecdotes about boys, pancakes, and “shinny” play. It resembles a miscellany column with varied, sometimes dated feel.
A Norfolk reader reports knee burn healed without a scar after using Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The letter claims swift relief and scar prevention, noting the product also heals wounds and sores and is sold at G O Guy druggist.
An advertisement promotes The Family Friend Drug Store as a reliable service for prescriptions and family recipes. It highlights low prices, high quality medicines, delivery service, and an emphasis on being the family’s best friend in health care.
A Caribou, Maine resident recalls a grandfatherly promise of a house and lot made two years ago and repeated monthly. The speaker questions the sincerity, recalling an old motto about deeds over words. The tale blends humor with a cautionary view of family assurances.
The fourth annual Chicago Automobile show opens tonight at the Coliseum with nearly 200 firms represented. Different makes of cars are displayed and commercial vehicles are notably featured. Hotels are full as visitors arrive from across the region, and dealers expect a rush of orders.
The Sunset Telephone Co installs a new plant fed by storage batteries for police use. A patrol box beacon system will summon a patrolman when the box is rung during reporting hours. The system goes into operation tonight, a improvement praised by the police.
The article notes work by tardy reports and delayed information received through an old system. It emphasizes how outdated channels hinder timely coverage and raises concerns about efficiency and reliability of the news workflow.
The York Improvement Club held a year end entertainment at the MBH church in York. The program featured phonographic music duets and readings with performances by Mr and Mrs Taggert and Misses Taylor Corlesa and Quigley. Refreshments were served after the show.
Will Parry promotes a plan to move the state capital from Olympia to Tacoma claiming a $100,000 land site on Twentieth avenue and Jackson street will be donated to the state. He foresees value gains for nearby properties and seeks subscriptions from local landowners. The Queen Anne improvement club endorsed moving the capital to Tacoma after the proposal was presented in Seattle.
The Burlington and the Northern Pacific prepare two fast trains for the Portland fair season. New coaches will shorten Seattle to Portland travel by about four hours. The Northern Pacific special will meet the Burlington train at Auburn and arrive in Portland in the evening for tourists heading to the fair.
Maj Phillip G Eastwake who died of yellow fever in Panama is remembered by local engineers as the first city engineer of Seattle. He laid out and graded the first streets and grades now followed closely. His work laid out Pioneer vicinity while most of the city was still woods between First and Ninth avenues south of James Street.
On February 6 the Sunday Club For Men will hear Joan Marvin Dean speak in this city. The accompanying orchestra concert runs 2 to 3 25 pm with special music by Alfred KE Boardman. Doors to Christensen hall open at 2 45 pm. mm Miss Thomas at the state normal Ellensburg will read Browning’s A Biott the cutcheon in Denny hall on Monday. February 6.
G M Butterworth of Butterworth and Bonn is named in a motion in superior court by J L Blackburn seeking $10,000 for alleged alienation of Mrs Anna Blackburn s affections. Blackburn says Butterworth married Mrs Blackburn after her divorce in 1904 and cruelty grounds led to further divorce actions within six weeks.
At Oberlin Ohio on February 4 President Beckwith of the Citizens' bank lies critically ill and has not eaten for two days. His death is now a matter of hours as he failed to recognize his wife this morning. In California Sacramento Gov Pardee signed a bill approving 70006 for the California exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition.
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