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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1917
Page
11
A Chicago argument on food prices shows the rich may not cut consumption while the poor must reduce intake and work harder under high costs. It asserts government food control should favor workers and ensure a fair, just approach at home and abroad.
County commissioners face demand for maintenance guaranties on any road or concrete contracts. Citizens insist bids include guaranty bonds to ensure performance. The plan aims to end endless debates and enforce accountable spending in the road program.
A Seattle millionaire’s rapid marriage history is mocked alongside notes on wealth conscription and a call to support a just war tax and food control bill. The piece hints at royal gossip, targets public figures, and jokes about conscription, Red Cross aid, Roosevelt, and Bohemia with a satirical edge.
In a dawn church scene Mr Rochester bids Jane marry him but a visiting solicitor and Mason expose a prior marriage to Bertha Mason. Rochester confesses and interrupts the ceremony, declaring the wedding invalid and inviting all to Lambton House to meet his mad wife.
A note from Seattle reports a neighbor plagued by beetles on vegetables and successful yet comical curses about the pests. Another item mentions a Seattle woman sending 20 custard pies to her three marine sons, with playful speculation on their use. A closing quip contrasts a dropped dime with a spilt bottle of hair oil in a riddle.
The column mixes quips about vacation tools farming lectures and rulers wives with a tax note on autos under the senate finance committee schedule noting Ford tax seven dollars fifty and a six thousand five hundred dollar car twenty five. It ends with a quip about Nick Romanoff in jail.
The notice touts Indianola Beach as the top summer homesite within reach of Seattle and urges buyers to compare options. Introductory March 1916 prices rise July 1 by ten to fifty percent, with wharf, water, bridges and a pavilion already provided. It promotes buying now to own a summer home and save money, inviting inquiries at the office. A photo shows the wide sandy shore and beach activities.
Readers debate US laws for the poor, electing officials, and supporting President Wilson. A respondent praises yesterday's editorial "History Repeats Itself" and urges more such pieces to inform and influence public opinion. Mrs H M B signs the letter.
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