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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1908
Page
4
Subscriptions and notices detail renewal reminders and reader services at Ballard Star Agency. readers are urged to renew before expiration. missed issues risk lapse and delivery issues. Mail address listed as 2708 Rockefeller Ave Seattle WA with Merrett Brothers featured in the agency line.
A collage of wry lines and sketches from a late 19th or early 20th century page features travel jokes about Italy, garbled verse, classroom banter, odd questions about speed limits, and humorous vignettes from newspapers like the Chicago Tribune and Washington Mug. It captures playful city observations and stray captions.
A Bat loses his air ring gear and lands on solid ground. A Weasel arrives asking if the Bat should be eaten with Tartare or plain. The Bat claims to be mouse today and the Weasel vows to eat the mouse part, and the wing portion is spared by a bird myth. The moral and timing shift with the wind save the Bat a second time.
A reflective meditation on moral contrasts in human nature. The piece argues that virtue and vice coexist within everyone, with wealth, pleasure, and learning bringing tradeoffs that shape character and fulfillment. It notes happiness and sorrow arise from inner conflicts.
England enacts a patent rule: four years after issue, if the product is not manufactured in Britain the patent may be revoked. American trusts holding key rights must shift some manufacturing to England, impacting makers of American machinery and tool devices. The British statute also bans exclusive supply agreements that restrain dealers from buying from others.
Column extols Chicago for taking on unsanitary tenements and vows prosecution of disease breeding houses. It urges publishing landlords’ names, cites Shaw and Shaw's Widowers Houses, and lauds the Visiting Nurses' association partnering with the health department in the campaign.
In nobby fancy effects and fine blue serge, these suits retain their shape through many months of satisfactory wear. The natural result of honest fabrics and tailoring is emphasized, with a plan that allows little by little payments if cash is not convenient, no extra charge for the accommodation.
A man and a woman contend over a blue diamond found among a tobacco sack as rain sodden clothes cling to him. The man drinks from a pitcher, hides the gem, and a fatal struggle follows with the lantern light revealing a deadly fall and the diamond passing from sight.
At Everett a officer is to meet a steamer at the Everett wharf with patrols leaving at 7 am 12 m and 5 pm. The committee will observe the arrival and coordinate the transfer of detainees at the wharf.
A lean, hideous woman sits by a cold fire, muttering impatiently as she consumes a scrap of bread and meat from a brown paper package given by a small, dark skinned man with reddish hair. The scene unfolds in a cramped room with a biting wind.
A navy yard briefing notes the Mattieship fleet at the yard while Hoate departs Pier 2 at foot of Yester Way with a reported 106 daily trips.
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