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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
5
Irving Bacheller criticizes American elite spendthrift culture in Keeping Up With Sleaze. He traces lavish habits from boarding school to households, autos, and servants, concluding many educated yet misdirected minds should move toward scientific farming as a productive future.
A Mississippi obituary style meditation on Mrs. Jane Cummings who hanged herself in Muncie at age eighty due to loneliness as lifelong friends faded. The piece argues loneliness stems from aging, isolation, and societal neglect, urging younger readers to value friendship over wealth.
Ansel and Susanna Conner wed in Kansas in October 1910 under a cooling contract offering Susanna 750 dollars per year and a share of future estate if marriage proved unendurable. They lasted five months before Ansel sought divorce, Susanna fearing loss of funds as spendthrift. The commentary labels the couple as mixing altar with pawnshop.
A Paris shoemaker creates extravagant footwear from hummingbird breast feathers. Each pair requires many birds and costs 2500 dollars. The delicate feathers yield shimmering reds and golds and spark ethical outrage as women wear the products.
A mosaic of notes spans theatre receipts at $575000 weekly in New York, speculative ideas on plant intelligence, desert cisterns, a tragedy involving a Chinese student and a Maine girl, currency reforms in China, garment industry insights in Cleveland, and assorted curiosities from fruit trees to climate schemes.
A collage of jokes and quips from Ram's Horn including humorous asides about health and fortune. Dispatches reference Rosa Hladhek and Josefa in a jail contract case, plus a tongue in cheek barbed quip about a British fund for Queen Mary and oddities from England and Berlin.
A short cartoon caption questions why hot weather makes sport popular and hints at cultural views. Baba Bharati, a high caste Hindu, criticizes American women for wearing too many clothes, claiming it envelops their bodies and clouds their minds.
A disjointed Washington Herald snippet includes a suggested name The Suffragette and fragmented lines about a vessel weight found near Monterey Texas, a note on how sweet oranges reached Europe in 1547, and a merchant selling high chairs with a wary customer.
A witty exchange from the Houston Post recalls a carmaker’s son who left college early. He did not succeed because of a “cane of the trouble,” a playful misquote reflecting the era’s lighthearted banter about ambition and misfortune.
Daniel Frohman wandered into the Hotel Sherman and recalled a clerk named Mike O'Brien from thirty years earlier. He asked for his old rate of a room and four meals a day for $2, but the clerk warned extra charges for rent would apply.
Scottish actress Jeanie Fletcher at the Lois theatre describes a grueling schedule with rehearsals Monday to Wednesday and long performance stretches. She credits love of the work as her main reason for staying in theatre and notes a family background of musicians and singers.
A scrambled ad fragment touts a beat buylee opportunity with cheap prices and rapid action needed. Items include an upright gas lamp, a Whitman wrench, a boys tool box, galvanized screen, and brass fin poles with adjustable lengths.
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