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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
4
Readable notes show listing style items for The Seattle Star and Ballard Star agencies. Several address fragments and editorial hints whisper the paper’s ad page layout and telephones. The text hints at a temporary quarters change and Sunday exceptions.
Dr Harvey Wiley urges graduates to form a 100 year club and live long through diet hygiene and sane living. He notes the average life around 33 and calls dying from old age a disgrace while urging readers to read keep well articles and exercise wisely.
A San Francisco infant, spared by earthquake loss, saves a grieving mother by nursing her back to life. A rich woman adopts the child, and a tale of gentleness shows how a babe can renew hearts and soften stubborn souls. The author cites Silas Marner to illustrate how admiration shapes character and how innocence can uplift a tormented world.
A call to continued aid for China amid famines and uprisings. The speaker argues Americans must provide relief and forgive China’s faults, maintaining humanity and hope for eventual reforms and mutual awakening.
A jumble of remarks from urban readers includes gossip about Annie Russell and a stage show, opinions on circuses and wine on trains, a Delaware law on drinking, and a Chicago columnist joke about public figures. Notable mentions include President Roosevelt in Indianapolis and May Irwin’s marriage after a song hit.
A young professor Courtright, famed for bravery and wit, plans marriage to Bertha Ransom amid a dramatic night at Foster Hall. After confessing love he suddenly collapses, claims illness, then leaves the university to catch a train. Bertha reacts with shock and longs for the future. He wanders Paris and visits a cottage with an odd, intertwined family scene.
Workmen finish the Henry W Lawton monument in Indianapolis as President Theodore Roosevelt delivers the principal address at the Decoration Day dedication. Lawton, a hero of the Philippine War, led the main column against insurgents and was killed on December 19 1899 at San Mateo Luzon when shot through the heart.
Plymouth Third and University Rev Francis J Van Horn 11 am A Little Coat Children day 4 30 pm Mapping the City accounts and ours Pilgrim Broadway and Repub Rev Edward Lincoln Smith D D pastor Rev Sydney Strons D D acting pastor 11 am Dr Strong preach 4 30 pm Children s day exercises University Brooklyn Rev HH Mason 11 am Children s day p m Dr Mason preach Edgewater Whitmanay and Kilbourne Rev Wm Kantner DD 11 am What to Christianity 4 pm Some Things Money Cannot Buy Prospect East Prospect and Twentieth av an 7 30 pm Children s day exercises Trinity Pighth and James Rev H F Gowen 11 am The Way Through the Waste 7 30 pm Guarding the Sacrifice St Mark s Madison and Broad way Rev J P D Llwyd 11 am The Church as a Power for Righteousness 4 sermon for teachers
Viret Grand Opera House hosts Rev W H W Rees at 11 am with The Day of Small Things. Haven Howard and John EF Drake present 11 am The Promised Land and 8 pm service by the youth. Trinity Mercer and Third features De Witt C Franklin morning The Joy of God and evening The Why of Life. Temple Third and Cedar with Geo Robert Cairns at 11 am Satan's Palace and 7 30 pm. Chil Tabernacle Fifteenth a a and Harrison with John Marvin Dean at 11 am Christ Converses at the Table of Simon and 6 60 and six the Number of a Man at 2 pm.
A fragmentary vaudeville style dialogue depicts a photo session with playful mispronunciations and staged banter. The performers joke about posing, camera mishaps, and the idea that portraiture could shape fate, ending with a line about a baritone and a fortune tied to a face.
Rev M A Matthews leads morning sermon Working Out One's Salvation and evening sermon Working Other People's Vineyards at Interbay Sixteenth avenue west. Rev F M McCreary conducts 11 am sermon The Fifth Commandment and afternoon Children’s Day service at Cherry and Twenty-second Avenue. Rev W A Stevenson preaches 11 am Where the Rainbow Touches Earth and a Children’s Day service in the afternoon at Cherry Hallard-Rimer Thompson pastor Morning Ready Made Clothing and evening Children’s Day service.
A snippet lists the Reverend W. D. Bimon ds at Boylston Avenue with Liam. The fragment hints at a religious service or meeting, but details and context are unclear from the OCR.
A Washington Herald note describes Mabel’s mixed emotions on arrival of Commencement days. She appears torn between joy and sorrow, with a distant gaze and sleepy, wandering air. The piece captures a dreamy, unsettled mood as graduation nears.
A collage of curiosities covers global notes from a lionized Japanese gift to a Liverpool naturalist, to shocking reports of a gun’s impact, to a London earthquake spectator’s coolness. It mentions Puccini planning an Marie Antoinette opera libretto by Hicka Schumann, a Mousang coin, and vast dog counts in SCRAPS France.
New York reports 1906 embezzlements by money handlers total 15,883,709 dollars. This marks an increase of over six million dollars from 1905. The figures exclude many losses by large institutions that hide them as profits or losses.
In Kansas City the pastor A L Chepswan discusses church extension with G Muckiey in a feature that highlights roadways and community faith. The item references a work titled The Judgment and a section labeled Boon.
A Berlin landlord advertises a large bath and offices with cold water, a cane electric lift, vacuum coat depository sale vaults, and carpet cleaning machines. A clock regulated by electricity from the Berlin Observatory is mentioned amid other machinery. The text lists religious lectures from First Spiritual Society and various sects, with speakers and special seances noted.
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