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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1913
Page
4
The fragment features playful rhymes and dialect about aging, farm life, and renamed places. It captures a rustic snapshot with lines on grandpa, a barn now a garage, a chicken house turned bungalow, and odd quotes from locals about weather, bills, and daily quirks.
A humorous verse describes a gay fellow who fell in a cellar. His wife laments the noise while he jokes that he is merely laying in next winter's coal, a playful quip about mortality and preparation.
Fragmented clippings recount a potpourri of gossip and quips. Notes mock a Beeleysport engagement misread as a animal show. Princeton graduates admit tobacco use and kissing, while other items joke about Billy Sunday and public morals.
A Chicago banking panic is described as banks call loans and restrict credit to mercantile firms and farmers. The piece argues the money trust pressures Congress over tariff and currency reform, urging readers to support Wilson and push Congress to free the credit system.
A Rochester civic clubs led effort honors naturalized newcomers with a welcoming dinner. The event, born in Rochester, aims to ease immigrant integration and foster goodwill among Italians Greeks and Russians joining the New World. The piece urges readers to try a similar celebration for a safe Fourth.
A jumble of commentary on kissing norms, editorials, and varied odds and ends. The item references a Cleveland editor, Chicago wages, Bulgaria and Servia, and a mix of oblique humor and speculation about events and people like Mr. Melville Stone and Dr Crichton.
A local competition by The Star invites married women to share rules for happiness. Two rules are proposed by Mrs Eugene M Leckif focus on meals and avoiding arguments, while Mrs WM Harrison adds five rules emphasizing trust, budgeting, home presence, and learning to cook.
Daily lotion made from glycerine and witch hazel with apurmax tones skin to natural color and reduces blemishes and shine. A home shampoo dissolves canthrax in hot water to produce a lather that removes dirt and oil, leaving a soft scalp and healthy hair.
A collage of reader queries about inexpensive birthday gifts for mothers a 14 year old suggests sewing boxes or books as good options. Other letters address housework balance gender equality and social rules for teens and adults with mixed viewpoints and practical responses.
A reader asks if promising to marry and receiving an engagement ring grants ownership over the woman and whether the ring should be given at the promise or later, seeking guidance on customary practice.
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