Seattle Star Teases Wire News Service
Fragmented OCR text shows a Seattle newspaper listing wire news service offerings, contact details, and subscription pricing including daily and six month rates, with garbled lines referencing the United Press associations and Beattie Washington post office.
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Seattle Star
Private
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Seattle
United Frese
Beattie
Wash
the Star Publishing Co
Rome’s plan to become a seaport boosts prospects
The essay urges Rome to transform into a seaport by building a canal and deep basins to attract food, building materials, industries, and tourists. It argues high costs and stagnation threaten its 530,000 residents and envisions a future tied to better transport links, comparing the effort to Rome’s ancient feats. It also notes campaign manager missteps in national races and delegates selections.
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Rome
Est
Rome Chamber of Commerce
Tiber
Coliseum
St. Peter's
The Seven States Gun: A Train Newspaper Arrival
The Sun newspaper on board the Northwest Congress special travels toward Seattle at 40 miles per hour. It carries commentary on future wealth from unborn millions and the rent and profit they will generate, urging Northwest real enterprise.
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Northwest
Real Enterprise
Seven States Gun
The
Sun, Plant and All
Seattle
Northwest Congress Special
Your Shoes Costs Rise and Labor Share
The passage notes a 3 percent rise in shoe costs over a decade with 20 percent of the increase going to labor and the rest elsewhere. It cites a shoemaker earning about 496.54 dollars yearly and describes him as skilled, needing his wife to work, and comments on societal divides including a line about apple orchard damage and the society “400.”
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Walla Walla
Lawson Announces Massachusetts Senate Candidacy
Thomas W. Lawson announces his bid for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts amid frenzied political debates. He argues his run will confront the era’s evils and hopes for a break from past failures, referencing a prior campaign misstep.
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Thomas W. Lawson
United States Senate
Massachusetts
Reece Stock
Iin
Observations and Evening Plans Inspire Sane Fourth
Odd scraps note a mix of political and local civic items. Senator Lorimer refuses resignation while the Ohio convention ignores a Taft majority. A Seattle garage bill prompts safety debate and a public peace quip. Rose time celebrates Northwest convention flowers.
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Ohio
Taft
Cotterill
Seattle
Council Faces City Garage Site Debate
Mrs. O. O. Dawson argues in the Star that two or three sites exist for a city garage and City Hall park should not host it. She urges preserving Dilling Park as a restful green space for pedestrians, families, and the tired business crowd, protesting plans to build a garage there.
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Star
Goddard
City Hall Park
Dilling Park
Dawson
Seattle
Fragmented witty exchange about weather and attendance
Odd dialogue features a heated remark about a fat lady and a sword swallower. References to a sparse audience and a recurring baseball season imply a satirical or humorous column fragment from a newspaper page. The text shows playful misprints and garbled lines typical of OCR pastiche.
First Lawyer Your Office Boy Face Familiar
A terse exchange hints at a link between the new office boy and the veteran attorney. The dialogue suggests recognition of each other by manner and appearance, implying a deeper connection or past acquaintance.
Preddy-What is the stock ex change stock and experience
A playful exchange about the stock exchange as a metaphor for exchanging money for experience. A quip notes women humorists and a character compares a typewriter to Artemus Ward in his prime.
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Preddy
The
Stock Exchange
Pat
Son
Artemus
Wealthy New Yorker Seeks Genealogical Proof Before Adam
A newly rich man visits a genealogist in New York to advertise his wealth and asks to trace his family to Adam. The genealogist dryly notes that with enough funds they could prove by evolution that his line existed before Adam.
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New York
Adam
Air
Lippincott’s
Cook Keeps Job Reading Story in Magazine
A brief item notes a cook has been with the establishment two months and is described as reading a continued story in the weekly magazine they subscribe to. The exchange prompts curiosity about the cook's behavior aboard a casual workday.
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Los Angeles Evening Herald
After the Game Fainting During Girls Basketball Play
In a brief exchange from the Los Angeles Evening Herald a girls basketball game ends with a teammate fainting. The captain urges the players to steady themselves and give Irene air while someone mentions passing fudge, reflecting a lighthearted moment amid exertion.
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Irene
War Notices Prompt Exchange On Train Berth
A dialogue excerpt shows a ticket agent refusing a lower berth and a passenger named Mr. Palleigh proposing a berth exchange once a man notes his size and weight. The scene suggests a transportation setting with tension over seating arrangements and potential confrontation.
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Palleigh
Boston Evening Transcript
Beeleysport House Gets Major Improvements
The Beeleysport house has been greatly improved and enlarged with a new potato on the desk for guests to use when sticking the pen in.
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Beeleysport House
A Real Friend and Other Odd Bits
A collage of light verse and quips from Lippincott's Magazine and various papers. Pieces include a motherly warning about Sunday fishing, a line about friendship not to be lost, alimony as the price of peace, and playful rhymes about a Magnolia resident and a beef on the hoof refrain.
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Emall
Lippincott's Magazine
Edison Promises Moving Pictures in All American Schools
In an exclusive interview from New York June 5, Thomas A. Edison envisions moving pictures replacing books in schools. He claims films can teach pottery and other subjects, reduce truancy, and draw parents to educate at night, calling moving pictures education’s greatest new force.
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Harry Burton
New York
Thomas A. Edison
Weat
Seattle Star
Tom Edison
The
Samose Flesh Forming Food Promises Health Gains
The ad warns that thinness may signal illness and urges readers to gain health by using Samose, a flesh forming food sold by Bartell Drug Co with a genuine money back guarantee if it fails to deliver claimed benefits.
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Bartell Drug Co
The Man From Home at Moore and Hodge
Moore and William Hodge present The Man From Home this week. The program lists Seattle Dark Metropolitan Dark Orpheum Vaudeville Empress Vaudeville Pantagee Vaudeville Grand Vaudeville and Melbourne Photoplays.
The Value of Prayer
A brief dialogue from the Pittsburg Sun about a girl and grandmother discussing belief in prayer. The child confesses to praying Auntie won’t be cross over a broken hand mirror, while Auntie suspects Uncle John, and the truth remains unspoken.
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Marjorie
John
Pittsburg
Pretend to favor rivals to sway a wife voters say
A brief exchange humorously notes that a husband would win his wife’s support by pretending to back candidates he himself opposes. The quip, attributed to a Cleveland Plain Dealer dialogue, highlights marital insights and electoral banter.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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