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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1914
Page
7
The Tilikums with 2700 members are an essential order driving Seattle civic boosts. They funded and organized Potlatch events, shifting funds from celebration to city advancement, promising the 1914 Potlatch will be the biggest yet with under 10000 dollars spent. Critics are urged to praise the group.
A big fish washed ashore on a sloping rock near the water. Gulls mobbed the prize in a long, noisy scramble, each trying to lift or steal it. After an hour the fish fell back to the water and the flock gave up, illustrating greed over cooperation.
The piece touts a record wheat yield of 60,000,000 bushels fueling dividends for railroads and autos for the public, with Iowa Missouri Oklahoma Minnesota Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan and other states sharing gains. Speculators are warned off as soil vitality and favorable weather set the table for abundant harvests nationwide.
The piece describes PHE RD of Oklahoma promoting an annual Take It Back Day where citizens are urged to reconcile and greet neighbors. It frames the event as an Old Home Week style gathering encouraging debts to be paid if possible and praising neighborly good will. It notes standpatters rallying around George Turner amid Republican decline.
A collection of humorous anecdotes from the Seattle Star including a German shopper in McCormack Bros, a professor annoyed by street organ players, two actors trading quips over free lunches, a math professor recalling a pondside colt, and a London Bridge water joke.
In Wheeling West Virginia Silas Jones dressed for execution awaiting a hangman’s gallows when a 30 day respite was granted by the governor amid discovery of new evidence in his favor.
A humorous exchange where a boy asks if the maid can see in darkness and the mother replies she cannot because she heard her tell the father last night he hadn’t shaved. The joke hinges on a misheard remark and household banter.
In Hartford City Indiana justice C H Croninger fined William Gause fifteen dollars for kissing Florence Foreman a ticket seller with a carnival. Gause defended that the kiss was fleeting in darkness and Foreman could not identify the kisser without having sampled his wares.
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