Pursuit in Clearwater Hints at Hidden Gold and Vows
Edison Marshall’s tale follows Bill Bronson guiding Virginia Tremont and guardian Kenly Lounsbury into Clearwater seeking Virginia’s missing fiancé Harold Lounsbury. Bronson weighs horses, faces harsh northern treks, while Virginia recalls the lover’s note and a vow to trace him to a lost mine. The journey promises danger, mystery, and sworn resolve.
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Bill Bronbon
Far North
Rutheford
Clearwater
Milo
Virginia Tremont
Bill
Kenly Lounsuary
Harold Lounsbury
Lounsbury
Virginia
Vosper
Kenly
Bill Bronson
Tremont
Chia
Mrss Tremont
Vesper
Jill
Mies Tremont
Mulvaney
Buster
Hille
Horace Colt
Beatty
Voeper
Lounabury
Woodaman
Benesta
Grizaly
Pill
Bradleyburg
Yuga
High Tariff on Movies Angered Critics and Advocates
A pressy commentary notes lawmakers push for a 60 percent tariff on foreign films while Hollywood producers plead for protection. It claims 96 percent of workers earn only a bare living wage as figures debate postwar duties and writer royalties. The piece lampoons tariff fervor and notes odd anecdotes from Washington.
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Dogbett-Fitzsimmons
Washington
Silver Screen
Mendelssohn
Capitol
Will
Senate
Washingtons Rainbow Promise and toil to find gold
A 1920s style column extols Washington as the land of golden opportunity based on honest labor and thrift. It urges readers to work hard, believe in fulfillment through effort, and remember practical steps for the coming year. The piece uses biblical imagery and playful lines about trains, expeditions, and a forestier’s transition.
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Washington
The Terrible Cost of Our Tobleness
A reflective opinion piece argues that wars and economic depressions erase years of progress. It questions the value of ongoing hardship, noting unemployment harms the able least, while production and education seem degraded. The essay asks what current education and government profit if confidence and industry decline.
Fisherman begs return of goldfish from flooded pond
Editor’s letter from GEO. H. WEBBER describes a gravel pit pond at 3115 Fairview Ave where 26 to 30 goldfish thrived. A recent flood from Lake Union washed the fish into the lake. he offers a reward for any returned fish and asks all lucky anglers to help.
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the Star
Fairview Ave
Lake Union
Geo. Hh Webber
Jap Menace Opinion Letter From Seattle Reader
A Seattle reader urges Americans to boycott Japanese merchants to pressure them out of the city. She argues in favor of polite conduct but claims Japanese market activity warrants action and asks mothers to stop buying from Japanese sellers until they leave.
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Seattle
Train Vision of Wealth and Inner Riches
The narrator on a train meets a porter who reflects on money and happiness. The porter says wealth never brings true poverty or relief from need, as the feeling of richness comes from within. The speaker, moved by wisdom, offers a gift and vows wealth within the soul should be treasured.
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Dore
Keeping Young With Olive Tablets
A vintage health ad claims keeping youthful comes from feeling young by regulating bowels and liver. It touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle yet effective substitute for calomel, aiding tone and impurity clearance with olive color and selling for 11c and 20c.
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Edwards
Ohio
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Edison Marshall, Liluetown & Ca
Rostoms
Allence
Mies
Vouper
Seattle Star
Cfty
Bee
Mertha
Mentha
Washington's
North Pole
Flood
Editor
The
Star
Celia Thaxter
al ¢Etter
Aivridge
DR. WM. E Barton
New York
Novelty Blouse Shop
Second Avenue
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