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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1904
Page
4
The Seattle Star notes publication details and mailing information. It lists offices at Seventh Avenue, Chicago, and Hartford building, with subscription rates and carrier delivery terms. It mentions foreign advertising and Tribune connections, and outlines post office processing as second class matter.
John Tiechner saved his best girl Ida Woucky during the General Slocum steamer fire. He kicked shins to wake her and pulled her from danger then swam for life preservers as the tugboats arrived. He may marry Ida and rise above New York East Side tenements once the crisis passed.
The piece notes that W. A. Clark continues to keep his marriage private after three years in the United States Senate. It hints at public scrutiny and references Josh Wise as a source, suggesting speculation about moral judgments regarding the senator's private life.
A collage of humorous poems and brief notes. Items include a political joke about nominating a “mean man SUMMER,” a verse about a bathing scene and stolen belongings, a grandfathers relics vignette with a saber, a playful ode to a buttermilk man, and stray quips about Indiana murders, Hearst advertising motives, and a false marriage alarm.
An advertising snippet urges readers to avoid hair neglect and use Ayer's Hair Vigor to keep hair and restore color, emphasizing the product as the solution to hair loss caused by carelessness.
Narrative follows John Rayner a prosperous New York lawyer who is ruined by war era theft. Ingraham suspects theft, Rex seeks promtion and love with Alice Langdon while battles unfold. Letters reveal Chalmers and Raynor connections as cavalry action, court martial, pursuit, escape and reunion efforts unfold around Brookside and Washington.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy and offers a $100 reward for any failure to cure. It states the remedy is taken internally and claims to affect the blood and mucous surfaces, building up constitution and aiding nature. Proprietors claim high cure rate and invite readers to send for a list of testimonials.
In a storm of war and worry Rex Ingraham rushes to the battlefield as Lee’s forces threaten the Potomac. The narrative follows his urgent rides and the family’s anxious longing for his safety amid Beeck’s front line movements and a wedding-aged Agatha’s distress.
Carelesenean is blamed for railway wrecks and throat and lung sufferers are healed by Dr King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. Mrs Lola Cragg of Dorchester Mass is cited among saved lives. Guaranteed for all throat and lung diseases by G O Guy Drug, price 50 cents, $1.00, trial bottles free.
Describes two days of mob violence in New York with ruined homes, bloodied streets, and terrified residents. Reports attacks on Black people and veterans, the collapse of police authority, and the arrival of troops whose volleys ended the riot.
An ad notes a claim of a nasty leg cut from a runaway bicycle and a four year ulcer that supposedly healed after Hucklen's Ars nica Salve. The product is advertised for urns scalds skin eruptions and piles for 25 cents at G O Guy Inc and Yesler Avenue.
Crowds flocked to a free excursion for water front ranches as over 1400 acres were sold in the last month. Properties feature 300 to 400 chickens, with acre tracts at 50 dollars per acre and 10 cents a day on payments. Ten salesmen operate daily from the Washington street car to Taylor's sawmill, with two boats running free for inquiries.
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