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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1914
Page
4
The piece urges fresh air in the sleeping room exercise daily plain food and no alcohol plus breaks from long tasks. It argues the five rules are inexpensive to follow and cites a merchant who credits will power. The speaker bets readers will admit they are not obeying the rules.
A reader’s letter praises a faultless life and kind words, imagining how a flood of goodwill would soften a nagging world. The piece muses on happiness as a simple habit and questions how to acquire it.
The article recounts ISS MAY RICHARDSON an English suffragist attempting to slash a reclining nude in a London gallery. She aimed to attack the $225,000 painting and claimed England would destroy Mrs Pankhurst, provoking questions about art censorship and political reactions.
A Voice From the Grave counsels charter commissioners to curb women’s voting rights in city elections and to abolish recall initiative and primaries. Richard A. Ballinger, ex-secretary of the interior, is described as standing out as reactionary. In New York fish, lizards and eels are reported from taps with an eel a foot long captured. Paris fashion reports promise plump shapes for Style next season. Minneapolis hen locked out of her house lays a double seiled egg in the snow while infringing on vacuum heater patents.
An appeal extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild harmless laxative suitable for infants to adults. It cites testimonials including James Rouse of Marinette and his son Howard, notes easy availability for fifty cents to one dollar, and offers free sample bottles by mail to Dr W B Caldwell, Monticello Illinois.
Seattle Star humor column notes playful quips about church punctuality printers and makeup, with light banter on nurses doctors and whiskey. Several quick puns reference tug of war misreads and marital roles, capturing a breezy, period voice.
Berlin reports Dr. Joseph Fischer, a Nauheim heart specialist, cured seasickness by injecting atropin to paralyze the nervus vagus. He tested the method in rough Atlantic conditions, noting no seasickness among passengers, while the approach was published on paper. The rest of the page includes a verse about orchestral life and miscellaneous anecdotes.
A collection of reader letters urging action on a blind gambling and drinking den near a railroad station, pleading for sheriff investigation. Others advocate mercy for Louis Bundy and comment on unemployment, immigration, and farm workers organizing in Washington.
A Globe Trotter letter lauds The Star for its popular features Cynthia Grey’s letters, Madge’s The Confessions of a Wife, and Everett True. The writer commends the paper for delivering news readers enjoy and cites Everett True for exposing daily life pests.
The piece explains how ancient Egypt traded without money, using goods like shoes mats oils and jewelry as barter equivalents. It notes larger exchanges required agreed payment terms and inventories listing items such as beds sticks honey oil and garments as equivalents for cattle and other valuables.
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