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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1913
Page
4
The city’s lighting plant reports a near 300000 dollar profit for the past year, up from 153000, as rates have been cut twice. Officials hail Seattle as progressive, growing, and offering benefits not found in other cities.
A Chicago real estate dealer serving a jail sentence in Sacramento injured his wife during a winter trip in a hotel after a drunken quarrel. The piece argues against focusing on punishment and urges kindness to wives, noting broader moral failings among men. It references political figures and a national mood, reflecting editorial tone on gender, governance, and reform.
An advertisement extols Cascarets as a cure for torpid liver and constipated bowels causing indigestion and foul breath. It claims a licent box will brighten the head and stomach by morning and keeps children cleansed too.
A collage of quips and light vignettes from a past era includes jokes about Joseph and His Brethren, a waiter avoiding butter, an express driver obeying traffic, and a mock exchange about ambulance chasers. Witty captions poke fun at daily life and manners.
A long list of films and features appears for multiple venues including Olympian Tonight Moore Crown Society College Clemmer Dream Melbourne Grand Circuit Black Cat Close A Union City Alhambra Ye York Home Dreamland. Entries include Billys Burglar The Light That Failed A Sunday Afternoon in Rural England No Place for a Ministers Son The Mirage The Tempest A Will and a Way A Study of Kittens The Gum Man The Unknown Great Steeple Chase Pathe Weekly No. 4 Saved in Mid Air The Midnight Express Notre Dame Baylock Auns Affinity The Influences of Hronebo Billss Birthday Present Drink Lure A Corner in Crooks She Lost Note The Greater Love Morocco The Biter Bitten A Strong Revenge and a Dance at Dreamland tonight.
Readers critique policy fights, demand guidance on the Mothers Pension Law, and contest mayoral authority. Framing debate on prohibition, civil liberty, and public service reform, with notices seeking procedural details and acknowledgments.
A reader urges the nation to make the minimum wage issue for working girls a supreme church concern. The letter links low wages to degradation of womanhood and calls on American churches to act as the moral guide on this social question.
The text reports Simeon Ford denying involvement in Peter C. Rust’s death at the Grand Union hotel and recounts Ford’s published reply. It also includes a subway encounter description contrasting a young woman and a faded older woman, noting public attention to their appearance and a stare from onlookers.
A woman compares herself with a rival as both observe each other from the corner of their eyes. The scene shifts to a train station where the rival subtly studies the other’s feet and posture, the encounters ending with the rival retreating onboard.
Uncle Jack introduces Helen Mueller a gifted young actress from Seattle. The Summit school student impressed audiences at a Women’s Relief corps event at the Press Club, performing character songs and dances with Spanish flair. Nine months earlier her mother noticed her talent and started her training, leading to many local appearances. She lives at 1512 Bellevue Way.
Ruby McDonald writes about an eight room house with many doors and glass lights and a large orchard full of apples pears peaches plums cherries and berries. She describes twelve chickens in her family and 200 chickens with Papa and Hans plus 100 acres of cultivated land a milk dairy with 66 cows and calves and four horses. She notes school days riding in a stage and her age eleven in the fifth grade. The letter is from Issaquah Washington.
A letter from Strene Lb. Klander of Ferndale Washington requests membership in The Star Circle and asks for a membership card. She notes sending a poem about the Easter lily and mentions she is 14 in the seventh grade.
A young Edmonds seventh grader Ruby Sample writes to The Star pleads for a Star Circle membership card. She notes long readership and asks for a membership card in a friendly, eager tone.
A child writer from Rothell Washington requests a Star membership card. She notes she is ten, just finished eighth grade, plans to stay home this year, and mentions preparing a poem about the Easter Lily. Signed Rebecca Nordstrom, Rothell, Wash. R. F. B. D. No 1.
Uncle Jack invites nieces and nephews to write on How I Spent Easter Week with a prize of a pound box of candy. Submissions close Friday at 3 PM and top letters may be published next Saturday.
Easter lily is praised as a pure white fragrant flower and a symbol of Easter. Myrtle Clausen signs the poem wishing the lily’s beauty reaches a weary heart with a message of divine love.
A Mukilteo eighth grader, 14, writes that he joined due to convincing Clarence Brennan and praises his school's drawing team. He notes daily recess drawing, winning prizes, and requests a Star membership card by mail at Box No. 3.
A reader from Everett Washington aged 13 in sixth grade writes to The Star requesting a membership card. She signs as Anna Hayner and provides her address at 3311 Pine St.
Myrtle Clausen, student at RK F Day School and resident of Woodland Park Avenue, won Uncle Jack's prize with a pound box of candy. Four top poems were judged from many entries. Circle youngsters spent vacation time composing verses. Judges noted neatness of submissions and the four finalists included Marjorie Wilson, Hessie Day, Verna M Thompson.
Florence R is listed at 418 North Sixth Street in Mt. Ver nil.
An eight year old writer from Georgetown asks Uncle Jack to mail a Star Circle membership form and mentions address at Gordon F. 6130 Sixth Ave and a desire for 5 000 socialists to Coming Nation Red Fourth and Pike.
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