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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1909
Page
13
Baillargeon invites early trading for the Fourth of July weekend with prices listed for pillows and feather items. The notice mentions Emmerich Famous Pillows and Good Feather Pill items priced from $2 to $6.75, ending with a late sale note at 6 p.m.
The passage argues that phrasing in a tariff bill, notably the clause about No. 16 Dutch Standard in color, would empower a sugar trust and threaten domestic sugar growers, brokers, and canning industries. It warns that color standards could substitute purity for protection, urging honest wording to prevent import restrictions.
A wave of editorials from New York City journals expresses alarm and skepticism over an income tax on corporate dividends. The New York Sun rails at Taft and Aldrich, while the Commercial frets about small laundries paying taxes, and the Times and World weigh the merits of wealth taxation amid Senate insurgent votes and presidential maneuvering. The piece details media stances and the strategic push for or against a constitutional tax amendment.
In Kimberley a frame up targets Hal Nathanson as the broker of The Star of the South, the famed rose diamond. Byrnes confronts him with a grand plan to guard the stone on its coach to the railway, and a staged robbery exposes Nathanson’s guilt, revealing the guard was fake and the real diamond stolen by thieves.
A complex relay of a diamond through a trusted messenger unfolds at a station. A receipt signed by a revenue inspector confirms safe passage. Nathanson reveals a plan to ensure the gem reaches its destination, aided by swift riding and coded words amid a tense confrontation with Detective Byrnes.
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