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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
9
No. 7124, freed from Walla Walla, writes for The Star about prison life. He argues reform must come from within and critiques environment, discipline, and policy that hinder rehabilitation, urging humane conditions and supportive schooling to accelerate change.
A parent guideline promotes California Syrup of Figs to relieve bilious, constipated stools in children. It advises checking the tongue for illness, claims quick relief from feverish, peevish or sick behavior, and urges buying only the genuine product made by California Fig Syrup Company with a 50 cent bottle.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised as a reliable medicine that purifies and enriches the blood and revitalizes the system. The ad claims it treats scrofula catarrh rheumatism dyspepsia loss of appetite tired feeling and general debility and stresses its purity safety and tested merit.
Walter Christensen of King County introduced a home rule bill to elect public service commission members on the same nonpartisan ticket as supreme court judges and let cities choose whether to fall under the commission. The bill follows California law and was drafted by ex-Chairman Reynolds.
Gertrude Cox a store clerk confessed to sending poisoned candy by mail to coworker Miss Leonora Carr. Police say Cox intended to eat some herself after a warning plan but Carr received the box at their workplace. Cox cited despair over a love affair as motive.
In Terre Haute Indiana on January 12 Joseph Ferguson, a Black man, stole a turkey from a cold storage house. Judge Newton fined him $500 and sentenced him to six months in prison.
A discussion argues against the steel cell and punitive methods of prisons. The speaker proposes replacing prisons with workshops for trades, farms for physical work, and schools to dissipate ignorance, aiming to build character, self respect, and reward achievement over mediocrity.
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