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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1920
Page
13
Seattle residents blame speeding and braking failures after a street car crash. Officials stress car repairs and safety, while critics call for council and utility leadership to cooperate. The debate highlights funding, equipment, and accountability for public transit safety.
A 79 year old prisoner named Old Annie has spent 51 years in jail across 22 convictions. The piece argues punishment rarely reforms and questions societal blame, suggesting many so called criminals are lifelong misfits and that reform through proper upbringing or treatment remains limited. The essay reflects on policing, magistrates, and prison guards as part of a flawed system.
A tale recounts Donkey Sense a donkey who wandered off with consent. The owner offered a reward and the town paused. the Village Fool leads the donkey then admits no find. The moral ties to horse sense defined as clear thinking helping avoid waste and folly amid food hoarding penalties.
A playful meditation imagines body parts gaining minds and conflicting impulses while Secretary Lane urges education as the era's greatest need. The piece notes a massive classified tally reaching 3,762 items.
A bizarre Christmas package arrives for NE from dubious friends. The items appear unsuitable for young readers and raise concerns about appropriate content under school care. The note asks for guidance from the superintendent.
A jumble of notes and gossip pieces from the city desk includes a married lady enumerator delaying a soldier’s call, Miss Aileen Claire’s career shift, jokes about leap year and skirts, smoking on street cars, a reader’s poker quip, a proposed Christmas idyl headline, and a committee’s complaint about dances as George Thompson’s crowd snatches girls.
A sermon outlines four biblical definitions of sin and argues that covetousness, selfish disregard for others, and ultimately a life without love for God constitute the heart of sin. The piece emphasizes self-awareness before God, the primacy of love, and identifies the greatest sin as lacking devotion to God.
An American Legion investigator reports that nine of ten veterans let government war insurance lapse. The writer recalls easy premium deduction during service and lack of reminders after discharge, urging ongoing government follow up and monthly reminders to keep policies active.
The piece discusses Addison's disease tuberculosia of the adrenals from Addison's life and work. It covers symptoms such as extreme prostration anemia skin bronzing and possible death, and notes the broad reach of tuberculosis across tissues and organs. It also blends medical history with Q A on throat issues nervousness and general hygiene guidance.
A sixteenth to nineteenth century collage notes Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves marriage collapse in six months, John Dennis death in 1724, Epiphany observances, Alfred Vail telegraph tests in 1838, plus a quip urging old time market shopping to curb living costs from E A Cudahy.
A diaristic fragment recalls an elderly Pirlands resident awaiting a watch to while away time and a noisy milkman who speaks to his horse. The piece shifts through stray notices, theatre references, and brief local items including a marriage license, a divorce suit, and a speech on Ireland's freedom delivered by Ada Gannon in Davenport.
Hood River Oregon reports pheasants adapting to scarce food as apples freeze in the cold snap. A. W. weet aide orchardist notes the birds thaw apples with their body heat and gather over the fruit like a hen over a nest.
John Pritchard a railroad employer found five thousand five hundred dollars in currency in mud along a street in Frankfort Charleston NL January 5. He returned the money after a brief inquiry and did not keep any of it. A five hundred dollar reward was offered for the finder.
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