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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1911
Page
4
An essay extols home as the center of love peace and virtue, praising family bonds and moral duties. It laments greed that harms the poor and urges leaders to honor homes while quoting Lincoln’s phrase as a guiding ideal. The piece ends noting the dream of government by the people advances.
Montana's new senator, formerly a newspaper man, has thus far faced only one serious charge.
The piece mocks hush over Williams and Lorimer era figures while noting a rush to house visiting royals. It jabs at political names Bailey Dick Burrows Hate Bulkeley Depew and Lorimer as honest men face social unease. The wallow in pomp prompts a cheeky image of dining with a real king.
An editorial letter urges readers to vote for courageous men and expresses gratitude from Carriers' Branch No. 79 of the National Association of Letter Carriers Seattle chapter. R H Pearse signs the thank you note for publicity in the newspaper.
A compact collection of quick items and wry banter. A humorous exchange about job references with a dead former employer, a tip about polishing tiled floors using paraffin, a note on a new American phonograph factory near Yokohama, Japan, and a provocative line imagining a clash between 599 Irish strikers and 599 Irish policemen.
A fragment themed around social class and race uses dialect to describe wealth and worth. It juxtaposes a "cullud gent" with a Black person once money is gone, highlighting humorous irony in the world’s treatment of people.
A fragmented op ed style piece contrasts wealth concentration with hunger, notes waste and moral tone, and remarks on youth slipping toward misery and heroin. It also mentions over 40 percent of world tin use by the United States and a fact about insects in oak trees.
An inquisitive woman asks Mr and Mrs Smith which child they resemble. The twins reply they resemble each other and avoid choosing a single likeness.
A repair wagon under trolley wires sees Mike climb to a high platform. Horses tied to the wagon get restive as flies irritate them. A young mother debates cradle rocking with a physician who notes long practiced methods may harm infant brain development. The exchange hints at past practices and scientific caution.
Eleanor Addams reports on the pantaloon skirt fad arriving in Seattle. Clerks and floorwalkers say the garment sells but few wear it, with attitudes split over modesty and novelty. A German observer quips about men and women amid fashion frenzy.
Report from a society event notes a reply about an opera heard by Mrs James and Mrs Smith. They discuss enjoying the performance and the Latin songs, with a note about copying the name from a record in a bag. An optimistic aside mentions decorum at a society prize fight reflects well on conduct.
A jumble of quotes and remarks recalls a satirical tone with lines about trimming coins and buttoned shoes. References to Roosevelt’s lost boy, a claim of inventions 600 years old, and musings on gender fashion appear in a collage of quirky historical snippets.
A teacher collected quirky lines for class use. The Topeka items include a blizzard defined as the inside of a hen and a joke that oxygen has eight sides. Also notes that a cuckoo never lays its own eggs, attributed to the Indianapolis News.
Two performers T husk a rapid vaudeville bit with wordplay on light and publishing. Slap jokes about writing a light Reflections book while Thud plays foil. The exchange ends with a punch about being turned down by a publisher after a brief flare up.
A young man visits a girl and asks to come by again. She offers a test schedule, suggesting he call tomorrow night to decide a future meeting. Dad jokes about his son’s Boy Scout status as a light, humorous aside.
Fragmentary humor from Stray Stories and Life features. A rector jokes about collecting before the sermon to curb vanity. A quip about Henry and his wife follows.
A 500 pound cotton bale yields about 75 dollars to the grower while the wife spends 2,560 dollars to repurchase it as thread.
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