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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
7
A column blends health guidance with fashion notes. It outlines meals for a diligent dieter, plus tips on mustard plaster care and home remedies. It also surveys embroidery, room screens, and the season's skirt with a ten-pleat, trailing silhouette.
Special Correspondence from Washington reports the National Museum received a full collection of knives, dirks, and swords used by Philippine natives. Donated by Mr. Harkins, a Georgian veteran, the items vary in purpose from slashing to decapitation. The sandang knife and terms like krees cambeong pira torclada are noted, with weapon forms indicating rank per curator Dr. Beckwith.
In New Haven on the Air Line early this morning Engineer Johnson and fireman King rode a burning locomotive at 30 mph after a pipe burst in the fire box. King leaped to the tender and then extinguished the flames to allow Johnson to reach the throttle and stop the engine.
The report notes Puerto Rico copying Connecticut by using cheesecloth tents to protect tobacco from pests and weather. It also mentions elite families fleeing Venezuela amid political unrest and rising mortality, with typhoid fever looming in Caracas.
The text references sanitation issues spreading germs via fleas and dust, a coconut tree yielding a $1 annual profit, partial Simpson tunnel work, and a note on 60 US naval vessels under construction. It also mentions Japan’s foreign trade rising per capita and a new pro-Toer pope in Paris with communications from Hoers sympathizing with a senator and deputy group.
Peter Quinn once toured Ireland to crack a bottle on Daniel O Connell s tomb then faded into poverty. He and brother Thomas inherited 50 000 from their father Thomas after years of lavish living. Quinn ended his life two years ago in an almshouse in Westchester county by cutting his throat with a razor. He traveled through Europe with a valet before returning home in destitution to a beggar s life.
Complaints to police over months accuse Frederick Walton 22 of running a telegram and hatel scheme in upper West Side apartments. He sent unsealed messages posing as Emma to wives, promising a meeting and charging "messenger" fees, causing domestic trouble before the ruse was uncovered.
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