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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1912
Page
4
The Seattle Star notes private exchange lines Main 9400 and Independent 441 for reports and service. It details subscription rates and urges readers to report missed or substituted issues with prompt, courteous handling, asking callers to phone 9400 or 441 for circulation issues.
The piece critiques Col. Roosevelt for remaining timid on recall of the judiciary while acknowledging his progress. It argues recall targets federal judges and life tenure, and urges Roosevelt to support recall of the United States Supreme Court after its rulings in major cases. It questions the idea of a local “community experiment” on constitutional decisions and warns about the impact of such power on ordinary people.
Helen Ware, actress, argues that laws cannot fit every person as unique patterns insist. She challenges standard justice and asks what remedy would avoid moral compromise, whether to raise or lower standards, and who should decide how far to bend the scale in each case.
The city runs an experimental Pueblo land camp housing about 30 men aged 19 to 75. Workers clear land, clean stables, and farm outdoors while adhering to strict sanitation rules. For 50 cents daily they receive food and lodging and a chance at self sufficiency with ten day work periods and a fair suit of clothes upon departure.
Observations note a scrubbing machine for floors replacing a housemaid and hint at men to operate it. A ticketing machine for amusements returns coins and dispenses tickets. Global furnaces burn about 2,000,600,000 tons of coal yearly. A noncombustible motion picture device is claimed a success. A new trouble finding headlamp for motorists frees both hands. About 2,350,000 cubic feet of earth will be moved for a railroad trestle near Lamont Washington.
The fragment shows a chaotic stage dialogue with characters Marye, a bank president, and war correspondents. The text glimpses a comical, nonsensical scene about abstaining from meals, a missing bank figure, and plans for a revolutionary victory. It ends with a skating invitation and a joke about a ape party.
A dispute hints at marital roles with the wife preparing meals at home and the husband preferring restaurant dining. The exchange underscores differences in domestic routines and personal choices without further context.
In a cryptic dialogue an old inhabitant calls Diogenes the thief of a lantern. The new shade asks who is speaking and a quademperery narrator claims to prove Diogenes stole the lantern used to seek an honest man.
A jumble of clipped phrases and quotations appears from multiple sources including Laureville Courier Journal Youngstown Telegram and Harper's with bits about tires bread baking and a domestic line about building a family on installment plans. The text reads like garbled OCR of unrelated newspaper tidbits.
A collection of humorous snippets from various sources. It includes quips about war being hell, a pun on a son in law, a burglar tale, fashion jokes about suspenders, a church sermon anecdote, and a diplomat’s take on graft charges. The items are attributed to publications such as Washington Star Lippincott's Milwaukee News Tit-Bits and the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Belleville merchant posts a cheeky door sign "-in without knocking. Go out the same way." provoking quips about heaven and husbands. a Kansas City announcement mentions the exchange as a Tit-Bita item in Missouri.
In a humorous exchange a visitor comments on a collection of dolls. The Kid introduces Lady Jane as one doll, calls another the little boy doll and later reveals Lady Jane is her husband. A third doll, a golden-hatted figure, is unnamed and dubbed “Correspondment.” The dialogue hints at a playful domestic tableau.
A collage of short jokes and quips mentions oldes boy’s dream of being a section hand to live in a box car. It notes aging, interest waning, and contrasts with a mortgage example. A child’s sass leads to a parental wallop and a twist about goose and gander.
A humorous exchange features Prof Noah Lott and audience questions about biblical letters and trivial curiosities. Maria asks about Ananias and Sapphira, InQUIRicus questions ocean salt, and a scribe offers a practical beard lore answer. One reader asks about returning a borrowed umbrella by messenger, to which a witty reply is given.
The piece discusses animal feeding practices for different purposes, noting that diet varies by use whether fattening steers for market or sustaining animals over winter. It contrasts human dietary patterns with animal nutrition and hints at broader questions of purposeful feeding.
A dense cluster of ad lines lists goods and services from Beacon area in 1967. Items include hats and millinery at low prices, tailoring offers for suits, nursery plants and bushes, Hammond’s flour, farm property on Renton Ave, and real estate listings. Names like DUDLEY & SONS, M. OLSEN, Wilson & Ja Nardes, and DUNLAP & CO. appear with contact details.
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