Elect Griffiths to Council
The Star urges Austin Griffiths to fill the Seattle council vacancy after John G Peirce resigns. Griffiths, reelected to a three year term last year, is praised as a hard working conscientious legislator with immediate knowledge of city affairs. The Star argues he stands head and shoulders above rivals and should be elected unanimously.
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Star
Austin FE
Griffiths
Suceeed
John G. Peirce
A. J. Goddard
Seattle
Austin Griffiths
A Moral Dilemma in Armenian Family Turmoil
A Watertown Armenian father orders his son to face the law after the boy killed a Turk who spat at the Cross. The mother pleads to shield him, but the father insists the son must die. The piece asks readers to judge whether the father acted rightly and to weigh loyalty to family versus duty to society.
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Watertown
Mass
Women’s Role in Law and Governance Through History
The piece argues for female influence in court and national affairs, citing Abigail Adams, Queen Hla, Maria Theresa, and Mrs. Thomas Edison. It notes women’s evolution from suffrage debates to shared home and political responsibilities, urging joint work by men and women on law and government matters.
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Abigail Adams
Force
Christopher Mbus
India
Hla
Ferdinand
Maria Theresa
Frederick
Thomas Edison
Sixty five years of marriage without a quarrel noted
All Sunshine WN reports Theodore and Mrs Theodore Tuttle of Speonk Long Island have not argued in 65 years a remarkable peace noted as newsworthy. The feature contrasts tame life with the social idea of disagreement and hints at the value of shared interests and differences. It also mentions Zion City Illinois and W J Bryan and a family addition.
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Theodore Tuttle
Speonk
Long Island
The School Teacher Laughs at Morning Duty
The Laugh Department item humorously portrays Mrs. Francis B Sayre and a playful look at teaching life. The piece mixes light verse with quick jokes about schooling and public figures, ending with a light jab at managerial prowess.
Outbursts of Everett True in a New York tale
A comic strip segment recounts Everett True hearing a story about Clarice the waiter girl in a chaotic soup studio. Clarice serves coffee in a cup with no saucer, prompting a breakfast request about missing tableware and a hint of social satire from a Upstate visitor’s remark.
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N. Y
Mundy
Clarree
Clarice
Brekfast
Yang
Humorous Irish and Domestic Quips From Old Gossip Columns
A collection of light jokes and short anecdotes featuring Irish wit, wedding jokes, classroom quips, and social observations. The items touch on invitations, water woes, bachelor life, illustrations, and a Philadelphia punishment joke, ending with a playful reference letter.
Prisoner Remains With Dying Sister in Chicago
Miss Helene Young, sought in Los Angeles for passing allegedly worthless checks, sits by her dying sister in a Chicago rooming house. Judge Gibbons grants temporary immunity from extradition until the sister dies, declining immediate transfer to California.
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Chicago
Helene Young
Los Angeles
Miss Young
California
Gibbons
Husband’s neglect loses wife and child in court
Eugene Hackett of Seattle faced divorce after his wife Ethel accused him of neglecting their baby son and delaying in visiting. Judge King Dykeman granted divorce, custody of the child, and one third of company stock valued at 15,600 dollars. Hackett, 23 years older, was ordered to pay 100 dollars monthly for five months and 30 dollars monthly thereafter as alimony.
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Eugene Hackett
Seattle
Okanogan
Ethel Hackett
King Dykeman
Judge Dykeman
Hackett
Okanogan County
Delayed Money Line Extension Backs Up Division A Rail
The municipal railway line on Division A will not operate for another month as the sub power station at Dexter avard Alpha cannot be completed and machinery remains stalled before April 1, officials said. Assistant Superintendent of Utilities O'Brien announced the delay.
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Dexter Avard Alpha
Division A
Lit la
O’brien
Out of Luck Friday the 13th Sees Fugitive Arrest
Raymond, Washington reports Fred Behning, a Renton coal miner visiting the city, is arrested after being identified by G. G. Barber as a suspect. Behning admits he is wanted for the 1912 murder of a deputy US marshal in Bartlesville Oklahoma.
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Raymond
Wash
Fred Behning
Behning
Renton
G. G. Barber
Oklahoma
Barber
Rehning
Bartlesville
Okla
TIZ Foot Relief Ad Claim for Pain and Odor
A vintage advertisement touts TIZ for tired or sweaty feet promising instant relief from burning feet corns callouses and bunions. It claims the product draws out poisonous exudations and relieves swelling, with a 25 cent box sold at drug or department stores.
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Ctis
Rosemary A French Actress Tours Country Says Men Are Liars
A French actress touring the country declares all men are prevaricators. Critics suggest she judges the male sex by her own press agent and note how hard it is to read human nature.
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Rosemary
Thornton
Good Rations for Laying Hens
A practical poultry feed regimen outlines a daily ration for hens. It recommends a morning mix of wheat barley oats buckwheat and kaffir corn, midday grain greens scraps, and a warm night mash of stale bread clover alfalfa beef scraps corn oats wheat bran with hot water.
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Tacoma
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Portland
Rhode Island
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Richmonds Highlands
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Richmond
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