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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1899
Page
3
The Star presents a compact version designed for busy people to quickly scan the moving panorama of the globe after the evening meal. Editors modeled the paper to fit the leisure half hour and streamline attention to key matters.
A breezy new paragraphing trend favors clear direct statements over the old ponderous editorial utterances. The Star notes rising preference for concise, immediate prose in contemporary newspaper writing.
The article asks readers to send news tips to the office at Pike 150 and to support subscriptions as the paper aims to improve its standing and circulation over time. It emphasizes ongoing effort rather than claiming to be the best on earth.
Pacific Coast Steamship Company announces sailings from Seattle to San Francisco and Alaska on multiple dates via Victoria and Port Townsend. Queen, Walla Walla, and Umatilla depart Seattle mornings. Cottage City, City of Topeka, and Al-Ki sail to Alaska. Schedules are subject to changes without notice. agents listed in Seattle and San Francisco.
Washington reports a historical view of US Britain trade showing rapid gains in US exports. Data compares 1868 1898 1899 and 1879 figures revealing US export growth outpacing Britain by large margins, with Britain’s exports largely stagnant despite population growth in colonies.
At a meeting of fifteen large manufacturers of men's, boys and youths shoes in Boston on March 4, it was unanimously agreed to cut cash discount terms. For orders delivered after June 1, 1899, cash terms will be thirty days instead of sixty and without additional dating. Prices may advance without notice.
A man boasts a plan to move across the city and mail envelopes to his new address. He explains that addressing mail to himself signals the district post office of a new tenant and helps ensure his letters arrive without delay or misdelivery. He believes the small scheme will save him trouble and money.
In Lawrenceburg Indiana a reported ghost in the attic of a center residence near City Park proved to be a swarm of bees. Investigators found the swarm had settled there last spring and stored about 40 pounds of honey. An open gable window allowed the bees to enter and exit freely.
English refugees arriving from northern Lamson express surprise that Manila exists and say insurgents north of Manila expect the city to be in ruins. The 20th Kansas reports Sergt. Cohen and Pvt. Mahe killed in a Calocan skirmish.
Mrs Iy B Stetson sues Penn Mutual Life in federal court to collect 2990 on Archie C Stetson policy taken last February. The husband died in the Jeesie steamer disaster at the mouth of the Kuskokwim in Alaska with fourteen others. Attorneys Mumphries Humphrey & Bostwick seek proofs of death before Judge Hanford next summer.
In a chaotic courtroom scene Judge Cann presided as Lawrents Greeger, labeled drunken and hostile, heckled officers and threatened violence. The prosecutor and reporter noted the prisoner had snakes, prompting a quick correction that led to a reduced sentence of thirty days.
Aches of aspiring magicians rise from a desire to entertain at social gatherings. The piece notes a New York City factory supplying magical apparatus and two brothers guiding trade with Europe. It stresses the shift from professional stage tricks to drawing room conjuring.
A writer describes the rise of compact pocket tricks and affordable apparatus for parlor entertainment. Emphasizes practical tips and the skill trio quick eye steady nerve ready tongue, noting costs from a few cents to over a hundred for newer tricks and the shift toward social vaudeville stages.
In Helena on March 4, F H Monjamin warned that when green grass returns white men on Tongue and Rosebud river lands must fight. An interior agent last summer treated with Indians and secured options for ranch reservations. McLaughlin urged settlers to refrain from improvements, promising compensation by June. A relief bill for these settlers died in congress, leaving them on reservations with no rights, amid fears of an uprising.
Wilmington Delaware March 34 Burglars laughed and feasted in the residence of C B Pierson on Market Street until awakened by a match strike. Pierson, manager of a burglar insurance company, confronted them with a revolver and fired several shots. The thieves escaped through a window.
A Washington correspondent for the New York Independent praises Mr Barrows as the president's pick for the new Librarian of Congress. The letter recalls dangers shared from childhood to manhood, including incidents at K Hee Co works, Hoe’s stables, and in Indian battles on the Yellowstone, noting Barrows survived a falling block and a stable door.
An immense crowd gathered in New Albany Indiana for a baptism of 25 converts at the Ohio River. Elder Manuel of the Colored Baptist Church officiated. After baptism the group rode in a wagon which overturned on the levee, injuring several passengers.
Local printing business at 104 West Washington Street offers low prices and catalogues. Peter Horton Monk Muaild ing and Dave lead the linotype work while the firm markets printing services and related materials.
A ragged tramp describes his two week stay in the city, detailing alleged abuses by locals. He claims to expose kitchen conditions, tainted bread, and seized scraps as he travels from Second Avenue to Third Avenue seeking revenge on publishers and editors.
Practical old fashioned advice outlines cleaning methods using rice, a whisk broom, corselette remnants repurposed as cleaning cloths, wood ashes in a bag to soften hard water, kerosene soot removal with soda water, ammonia on wringers, lime water for drains, and drying agents like lime in a pantry to absorb dampness.
Merritt & Boyle and the Loomis Allen company in Syracuse have been approached by outsiders to form a trust worth 20 million dollars. Curtice brothers of Rochester Stanwix company of Rome and the Erie Preserving company of Buffalo have options on plants. Amalgamation expected to occur June 1.
The author argues expansion aims to elevate the Philippines rather than seize land, teach a semi barbarous people to grow civiliation, and open trade for American manufactures. It defends fair dealing, warns critics act from selfishness, and says Filipinos will eventually accept this path as trade with China and beyond widens opportunities.
A book agent recounts visiting Mr. Smith’s house to sell a book to his wife. The husband accuses the agent of fooling his wife and demands the book return, while the wife allegedly refused to buy it as unfit. The agent maintains the wife refused and the couple argues over payment.
Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn explains that a government book on Alaskan explorations was prepared for publication but blocked by an oversight in Congress. The material will be held at the War Department and transmitted to the next session with added data collected in the interim.
A cat funeral was held in Elkton for Davis a cat owned by William Boulden of East High street. Davis lay in state in the house for two days wrapped in a black cashmere shroud before burial in a regulation coffin as white neighbors viewed the scene. Bearers included Frank Hurn Allen Wilbur Conaway and George Hitchens.
Deputy Superintendent Kisman witnessed 37 Italian laborers in White Plains undergo a mock naturalization exam before Justice Justin Dickey. The session revealed questions about allegiance to the United States and the Constitution, with only two candidates receiving naturalization papers.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church pulpit committee heard Rev. Dr. John Watson (Tan MacLaren) last week as possible successor to the late Dr. John Hall. Six members heard him preach, but Watson was eliminated from consideration today.
Twelve vagrants gathered on State street last night and demanded entry to the jail where former Sheriff Joseph McDaniel serves as a jail commissioner. After his refusal to aid them, the men became blasphemous and abused residents, threatening to set the town on fire and were driven off with revolvers by Sheriff McDaniel and his son.
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