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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1907
Page
4
A local notice outlines mail delivery options including weekend variations and Sunday afternoons. It lists delivery methods to Mallard Ave Washington Ave and Leonard area with rates per week or per month and mentions subscription changes and delivery dates.
The Star issues a sweeping condemnation of wildcat mining schemes in Washington, urging draconian legislation and a state inspectors board. It credits the expose for uncovering vast losses to thousands over twenty years and calls for mandatory development work and reallocation of stock proceeds to mines.
The article criticizes Senator Graves for a bill to ban reporting of crimes and police court proceedings, and urges a separate law to stop vile medicinal advertisements. It cites Seattle Star example, which stopped patent medicine ads and now media is clean in ads and news.
An article condemns efforts in the legislature to place the University of Washington and other state schools under the Board of Control. It argues such moves reveal political manipulation aimed at building a powerful machine, rather than improving education.
Congress raises its own pay from 5000 to 7500 a year amid broad acceptance. The piece notes the cost of living, argues for higher wages for other government workers, and points to department clerks and postal workers as overlooked beneficiaries. It reflects on consistency for withholding pay raises across public service.
A fragment reflecting on rural life and a critique of farm labor shifts. The speaker recalls millions of farm boys moving to cities to work in stores for low pay and imagines harsh, symbolic actions against what he calls the flawed system.
A miscellaneous tidbit page notes STAR DUST columnist details about Mr WT Green visiting Hope then returning to his mountain home. It mentions Andrew Carnegie’s $40,000 Yale climbing pool gift and Thaw trial gossip. Anecdotes include a West Lafayette note on George Denniron, club dues debate, schoolboy humor, and seaside musings with playful wordplay and local chatter.
A quirky exchange between Rollo and his father centers on whether a peanut is a patty or a legume. The father explains the nut’s botanical category while the child questions and riffs on meaning and taste.
Superior Judge Morris signed a divorce decree between Jennie F Curtis and William Curtis. The wife accuses the husband of desertion within months of their 1808 Beattle marriage. The court granted the wife the decree.
In the Sprucemont estate tale a young hermit named Miss Sophia Rupert is chased by Bud Blankenhaven. Chaynrod intervenes, mounting with the heiress to escape a lynching threat and later marries her amid a remote ward story.
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