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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1914
Page
4
A Bon Marche Mothers Training session offers practical lectures on infant care by trained nurses. The program uses live models to illustrate points and aims to improve motherhood in the city. Eminent publicists discuss Huerta and Villa in a separate note on foreign policy.
Fire investigators pressed across hotels clubs and lodging houses in St Louis after a disastrous blaze at the Missouri Athletic Club that killed at least 30. Officials say rigid inspections follow such disasters even as a collapsing seven story wall and toppled debris trapped workers and hindered rescues while nearby workers and women employed in adjacent lodging areas faced unsafe conditions.
The JE Curator in Golden Gate Park San Francisco reports a striking mummy find. The woman's jaws were reportedly tightly closed to prevent speech while alive in an early Egyptian display. The remark connects ancient restraint to broader social commentary about power and gender.
The piece argues Wilson's interstate trade bill will gain broad local support by requiring government access to corporate information. It contends that public utilities treat their operations as private, but corporations are government creations and must be transparent to protect the public.
A humor page of gags and quips including Everett True misadventures and short jokes. Bits cover duels in France, etiquette slips, temper tests, and clever one liners about lawyers, doctors, and salesmen. The section blends cartoons with brief punchlines and reader quips.
The article describes the African chameleon with a tongue longer than its body used to catch insects, a very sticky tongue that drags prey back to its mouth, color change ability, tail climbing, and a peculiar foot structure. It cannot move its head but can move its eyes independently and can move one eye without the other. The name derives from a Greek word meaning ground lion.
San Francisco March 25 Rates during the exposition were to be the main issue before the Transcontinental Passenger association meeting at the Palace hotel. Leading railroad men from across the country attended. Attention centered on rates to and from the east and between San Francisco and Seattle. Delegates expect Eastern visitors to view the Pacific coast and anticipate heavy north south business.
Readers argue over Henry Ford's wage policies and car prices. A letter criticizes high pay raises while workers struggle to afford living, noting two-room homes and cramped conditions. The discussion expands to unemployment in California and perceived Christian nation duties.
The Star editorial argues against the canal toll law and warns that removing tolls could enable foreign-built ships to form a large shipping trust. It cites parallels with the protective tariff and insists ships branded American must be American in construction and crew.
The Star editorial argues that making divorce harder would deter immature marriages and reduce broken homes. It states that divorce is too easily obtained and links easy divorce to child neglect and orphan care concerns.
A list of local items includes A A Paysee named port warden with plans for a new launch station. Other notes mention social events at Redding's, dances at Renton Hill club, and a variety of court actions including divorces, suits, and criminal filings in the area.
Col. D. C. Jackling, mine owner from Butte, sails from Seattle tonight on the Admiral Evans to Juneau to review the largest metallurgical works and a 6,000 ton dump plant under construction. He predicts improving business conditions across the Northwest and Alaska.
Militia in Buffalo area dispersed a crowd of strike sympathizers in the Depew railroad yards on arrival of a trainload of strike breakers. Last night saw occasional shooting but no injuries reported.
RANGOR Me March 25 Maine progressives nominate H P Gardner for governor and declare for continued prohibition.
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