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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
5
A Seattle editorial condemns a single crime by a Black soldier as the city’s reaction targets all Negro troops at Fort Lawton. It argues removal of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, praising their wartime conduct yet pressing for departure to spare the unit from collective punishment.
A fragment notes watchers dislike doubts about wrestling outcomes. It mentions June brides storing fur coats with trousseau. It also states railroads plan to explore methods beyond raising freight charges to aid the general public.
A rising novelist recalls reading a story to a renowned writer whose criticism sharpened the tale. He cites the ending where Mabel’s eyes droop and a kiss under fruit trees, then the author comments wryly on the impropriety of nibbling a girl’s back hair.
Comic Cuts sketches a brief quarrel over a broken friendship. The speaker recalls introducing Tom Jones to the woman he married, and now both he and the wife avoid contact with the introducer.
Weather forecaster cautions that absence of a sudden shift could delay Panama hat ripening this year, risking harvest timing for producers and retailers reliant on the crop.
The piece argues vegetarians threaten society by reducing meat demand and driving up hide costs. It links abstention from meat to higher shoe prices, implying a broad economic impact on the public and even climate of footwear costs.
The Washington Herald notes a social trend where some women gamble on bridge games, with one documented case where a woman even pledged her cook as a stake. The report highlights the escalating wagers among participants in the card game culture.
A fragmentary profile of Polaire, the French vaudeville sensation, detailing her self-styled homely look and bold stage persona. She explains embracing perceived ugliness to gain verve and fortune, noting Paris raved about her for a year and even W K Vanderbilt Jr. admires her.
A collage of quick jokes and curious facts from Lippincott's prompts includes questions about the Tower of Babel strawberries hair color and global cable networks. It highlights humorous exchanges, a 1752 play note, and a funeral anecdote told by a churchman about a boy’s reply.
Two young men from St. Louis, partners in a firm, had long read to each other excerpts from letters signed Claire by a Chicago woman. At a wedding reception for the partners, the senior partner saluted the bride, claiming to know Claire’s words, only to meet the bride who reveals her name is Violet.
A Western mother visits her son away at college and, asked if he is homesick, replies she kept him in one of the best maternity houses to ensure he is well cared for. The remark appears in Lippincott's Magazine.
A quirky excerpt from Everybody’s Magazine features a bird using a box and sticks to reach a bun with a playful moral about folding pants. A gentleman in Arizona allegedly hanged himself by suspenders, with the coroner’s verdict noting fatal misfiking for his pants. Dreamtana hosts a dance tonight.
Harper's Weekly notes Persia's poor road network and scarce wagon roads, calling the shah’s highway maintenance a state priority. It highlights the vast area of 628 000 square miles with nine million people and only six miles of railway, underscoring underdeveloped infrastructure.
Old George Kettle bursts into the Trotwood telegraph office with a package wrapped in a paper and insists the clerk telegraph it to his wife in Dayton. The clerk refuses, and George protests that it is his wife’s request and storms off.
A Browning's Magazine quip notes strict vegetarians will not eat animal crackers. Two speakers joke about dietary limits in a short dialogue. No events or people beyond the cartoonish line are referenced.
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