Opportunity to Serve Inspires Community Spirit
The Star highlights acts of compassion from Seattle and beyond, citing the Angelina Napolano case and the Clarie Whitter grafting story. It notes how public sympathy and voluntary donations united people to help a suffering child, and it asks readers to seize opportunities to serve others.
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Angelina Napolano
Star
Seattle
Clarice Whitter
Clarice
The
Scores
Arma
Little Clarice
Idea and Homes for Working People Spark Political Debate
A Massachusetts debate recalls homestead proposals as the state senate considers a plan to study a bill enabling factory workers to obtain homes and plots near towns. Public sentiment supports home ownership, with a broader hope for a future where every man has a home. The Big Day in Seattle features a prominent deaf mutes game at Woodland Park.
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Massachusetts
State Senate
Seattle
Woodland Park
The Goat to the Rescue Uncle Sam Promotes American Goat
In a patriotic bid, Uncle Sam presses for widespread goat keeping naming the American goat as a backyard dairy solution. He touts goats as tuberculin free and suitable for households on tin-can diets, promising milk and cheese from a small garden and a few goats. An ice cream famine is noted amid a Star festival at Woodland Park for children.
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Sam
Nannie
Woodland Park
WUDGING AND NOTES FROM A WIDE-RANGING DAY IN NEWSDOM
A collage of stories and snatches from various topics. Firemen fight a 25th floor blaze in New York. Rumors of Maine wrecks, patent milestones, and social intrigue mix with political barbs and oddities.
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Maine
Murphy
New York
Pal
Funny Eyes and Fevers Parade in Verse and Gossip
A light verse about girls with funny eyes and varied looks, praising Mary Ann with those eyes. The piece weaves playful anecdotes about Miss Swift vacation chatter and a joking hospitalidad of love, malaria, and press agents adding a comic interlude.
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Sadie
Jeanette
Marie
Annabelle
Mary Ann
Vacation Dilemma Amid Broad Summer Ads
Adam Fay Kerr notes indecision in July about summer resort ads that seem too good to be true. He contemplates visiting his uncle Jedediah Stebbing on a farm with no window screens and unfamiliar watthefly campaigns, weighing the cost of travel and a possible city invitation next winter. A playful line hints at a lion born to an English son left in the care of an Irish temperament.
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Adam Fay Kerr
Jedediah Stebbing
The Sacrifice Sweet Girl Novel Snippet
A dialogue framed scene features a daughter pleading with her father to stay and promising marriage to Mr Poorchap, who agrees to be present. The exchange plays on familial affection and social expectations in a serialized New York Weekly excerpt.
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Papa
Mr. Poorchap
New York Weekly
Speakable Giraffe Myth Confounds Oldham Holiday Visitor
A young man from Oldham visiting town paused before a giraffe in a local display. He stood in silence then spat and declared there is no such animal. The remark appears in London Opinion as a humorous observation on disbelief.
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Oldham
London
McBreen Rises From Newsboy to County Treasurer Cashier
At age 15 he supported his mother and three siblings selling newspapers. Now he handles large sums as cashier in the county treasurer office with a record of about $200,000 in a single day when back taxes were paid. He started a Tacoma to Puyallup paper route and once earned roughly $2,000 in today’s value, amid winter lanterns and early trains.
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Arthur BE
Meffreen
McBreen
8. BE. Co
Metreen
Hanna
MeKreen
Tacoma
Puyallup
South Tacoma
Seattle
Melreen
Northern Pacific
Portland
Wallingford
8. E. Co
McGreen
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Pensacola
Nat Goodwin
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George
Patricia Dogues
Paul Skecky
Ed Skecky
Pan
Pacific Slope
Todew
Bradbury System
Reliable Credit House
John Copley
Miss Swift
Europe
John Fox
Peru
Ind. Chronicle
Lake Koshkonong
Wisconsin
Holloway
Jess
Cheasty
Cheasty's
Cheasty’s Haberdashery
Second Avenue
Spring Street
Claes
Madison
Electro Dental Parlors
Eg VP Pacific
Canadian Pacific Steamshipa Prinloteria
Princess Charlotte
Vancouver
Victoria
Princess Victoria
Troquota
Pier A
Alaska
Jine Hss Royal
Navy ‘L
B. B. Penn
J. W. Edwards
OUP
Big Family
Arthur E. McBreen
E. J. Brown
First Avenue Union Block
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First
Martentreet
Union Btork
Piret Avenue
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Ieee
Yours For Bargains, Spinning’s Bargain Store
Pourth Avenue
Lyceum
Washington Relics
George Washington
ODEON
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