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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1921
Page
9
A collage of costs and curiosities with advertising lines from Klostermier Bros Ad in Atchison and a dining car note. Readers are invited to answer whimsical questions posed by Lillian Sampson, including playful riddles about the body and a projected speed of a nebula.
The chapter from American Police Systems argues Americans rely too much on coercive law to regulate private behavior. It contrasts US reliance on punitive statutes with European restraint and stresses that social control comes from home, school, church, and public opinion, not police power.
In Mill Point Sullivan county Tennessee fifteen year old Annabel Hart president of the Four Canning club persuades county residents to participate. The group stages a standout community fair praised by the U S department of agriculture, capping a remarkable turnabout for the town.
A winter tale recounted by William Barton about a man delaying travel to New Orleans aboard the Panama Limited. The man reads a magazine and misses the moving train, learning a moral on seizing opportunity as the megaphone warns, You have plenty of time. The piece ends with a reflection on wasting time and the Gate of Heaven.
The Toledo Newnan Bee argues the city manager form of government is growing nationwide. It cites 190 cities adopting the plan in ten years and notes several managers advancing to larger posts. The piece favors professional management over partisan politics for future urban leadership.
In discussion on social duty and punishment the writer argues against killing criminals and urges treating morally crippled individuals with care. A second letter questions journalism targeting married women and calls for fair labor and wage considerations for veterans and families.
Letters to the editor show varied views on women education and employment. Citizens including Miss Brink Miss Ajax and Mr Jarrett discuss if women are as educated as men and whether married women should work. A club woman argues for citizen rights and job fairness amid wage cuts and Japanese labor concerns.
Geo H Dowling local representative of the National Cash Register Co reports from the Hundred Per Cent club convention in Dayton Ohio that men in business across the country foresee better times ahead.
A poem of four thousand miles across the sea appeals to readers in a prosperous land to aid famine struck nations. Mothers cry for food as children suffer and plead for mercy. The verse urges generous aid and recalls the teaching that such is the kingdom of heaven for those who help the needy.
A man with amnesia, in a general hospital, is sought for identity as relatives of more than 200 missing men try to confirm his identity. The crowd of claimants gathers in Pittsburg prompting questions about the man’s true name and background.
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