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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
13
A court filing seeks to stop the Welcome Arch at Second Ave and Marion St for fear of delaying work and wasting 7000 dollars. The letter criticizes city council members and questions the arch’s necessity as Seattle moves beyond such decorations.
Frank Sherman reviews a sylvan concert featuring A Sylvan Sembrich. The imagery moves from magic violins to celestial voices as the performance blends fairy tunes, blossom bells, and leafy sounds into transcendent melody.
A fragment from a story recounts a father offering bread and butter to Anne who questions if it is finished. She notices “4 long hair” on it and asks if it is done, with the father saying it is not tekiet.
The narrator drifts into a foggy, sleepy scene while parents talk and a book’s pictures seem alive. The lamp grows bright, the reader shields eyes, and a heavy head sinks as a voice shouts that the bid is in.
A nostalgic poem recalls childhood days chasing verse and escape from a strict father. The speaker longs to return to times of playful rebellion and shared woodland quests before the inevitable distance grew between parent and child.
Mrs Cotterill, Seattle labor activist, rebukes James W. Van Cleave’s claim that unions use criminal methods. She points to a string of victories for workers and cites wages and hours gains for waitresses as proof unions uplift labor and will continue to grow.
A conductor questions twin children traveling with their mother about their ages. The mother confirms there are two children and explains that two is under five. The adults remark on the length of time left to their journey as the clock nears eleven.
An oddball tale centers on the Ticonderoga apartment house misnamed by tenants as a Mozart mood piece. Herr Winklerboff sits at his grand piano, enjoying moonlit reveries while the Moorish minaret echoes from the tenth floor to the basement where the janitor rests.
A jumble of quoted lines, classic gag details, and stray phrases from various papers. The mash features stray dialogue about money owed, an elementary classroom joke, chauffeur notes, a rail worker, and literary quips, all presented as a pastiche of headlines and snippets.
An eccentric scene unfolds with Herr Winklerhoff and Mme Etta as he feigns devotion to music while a radiant soprano in the adjacent room delivers a powerful aria. The professor improvises on the piano, loses composure, and finally courts the gifted artist as she sings a heart ballad that captivates him and the floor's onlookers.
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