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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
4
The Star urges calm and factual demand for a congressional investigation while condemning the guilty. It calls for dignified action to clean house, fix blame, and punish the lawless, noting municipal peace is restored and city safety affirmed. It suggests the city council can remove the mayor if desired.
A discussion argues for a fair, merit based challenge between private monopoly and public ownership. It calls for equal terms in mining railroads and shipping, living wages, and profit sharing, suggesting the best man wins under honest competition.
A playful tale follows Johnny Mouse through a perilous cityscape and clever escapes. The boyish hero outwits predators and discovers courage and friends along the way.
A 1920s sports column lauds Jim White and Scott Hastings of the Cleveland catchers praising their temper control coolness and reliability. The piece contrasts them with others noting their nerve and consistency under pressure and their high standing in the league. It also references broader cultural asides and a tongue in cheek style.
A women's club in Cambridge Massachusetts orders the mayor to marry or resign. The piece notes tensions over salary and gender roles and comments on public drinking and voting rights while referencing other local happenings and national quirks. The column includes varied jabs at officials and social trends from multiple regions.
A man finds a horse shoe and hangs it above his door hoping for food luck. That day a landlord arrives and the shoe falls, denting his head. The incident shifts from superstition to a cautionary moment about belief and bad luck.
A reader questions Pastor Russell's hellfire theory and argues against eternal punishment. Another letter protests a 37 cent per foot charge for a trunk water main under local improvement district No 2549, asking why city water works exist if taxpayers bear the main costs.
A letter to The Star argues for a mothers pension, noting a deserted wife with a large family and disability deserves aid after her husband deserted repeatedly and avoided court payments. She likens pension to a lighthouse on a vast sea, urging society to grant relief.
In Chicago on July 24 the first hearing before a council committee on Mayor Harrison’s ordinance to ban tights and require dancers to be fully dressed faced cabaret performers. Attorneys Roth and Wilson argued the issue, with Roth calling the display a “spider web to catch files” and Wilson defending cabaret dancing as less acceptable than other forms.
A Richmond dispatch says Miss Flossie Brown known as Blossom Browning will travel to New York to wear the diaphanous slit skirt that led to a $25 fine and banishment from Richmond. The move fuels protests in towns along the route to the Virginia capital.
Paris July 24 A great American committee of 100 legislators and business men traveled to Rome Berlin and London to study rural credits. It reports European farmers are efficient business people with farmer owned banks, long term loans at 3 6 percent and government supervised institutions. Railroads in Europe are servants not masters. Proprietary funds stay for farming use.
A pompous Chicago merchant seeks a rescue mission meeting and jokes about leaving his valuables. A penurious Western governor in San Francisco learns a hotel clerk’s irony when asked for a bath for the governor, prompting silent disappointment. Advertisement notes Stewart House rooms.
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