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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
4
An editorial piece reflects on home life and children staying close to home. It contrasts a lively, old fashioned two story house with the mothers who enforce propriety while children enjoy grass, a climbing tree, and a neighborhood cabin built in the branches.
The old father recalls a boyhood home where freedom and play built character. Children made and repaired their devices, learned caution from bumps, and cared for their own gardens. Friends visited and most aligned with the family standard of good behavior, despite occasional noise.
A fragmentary collage titled Word From Josh Wiss features witty verse and dialogue fragments. It includes a surreal exchange about poetry and social satire, with snippets about a fat child and a joke about a liar and a baby-faced girl.
A fragment notes baby carriage ties offered at Piper and Taft’s located at 220 Spring Street. The terse entry reads as a sales or display line from a local merchant in a historic commerce listing.
A lively vaudeville sketch features Chesters Oegar and Adolf in comic mispronunciations and German echoes. The dialogue slips into playful miscommunication about walking tracks, valves, and trains, ending with a chorus about their bustling, cheeky stage life.
Letitia contemplates a brown hat for her twenty sixth birthday. She experiments with a turban and chestnut hair, then switches to a beaver and a new hairstyle, playfully asking if she looks like the stepmother of three.
Letitia declares plans to date a widower while preferring the red turban boldness to milder fashion. She waxes lyrical on lovers, social climbs, and a future with Billy as a rising man. After days of indecision she vows to keep the red turban and a dramatic makeover with the man she loves.
Seacoma Beach welcomes a new restaurant added to the area by management seeking better service for campers and day visitors. The dining operation offers bread milk fruit and ice cream among other provisions for casual seaside guests.
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