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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1911
Page
4
A New York specialist notes daily visits from fainting women have halted for months while historians mythologize the trope as romantic. The piece argues modern women are not more robust yet avoid fainting, and wonders if fashion ended the trend. A separate note reports a New York survey finding over half of 300 drug prescriptions were wrong or dangerous.
The piece argues Britain will crown its king and mount an All British Trade Crusade to channel funds into the empire. It warns such retrograde aims conflict with modern interdependence and notes the shift from family self sufficiency to global interdependence. A Terre Haute man reports an odd egg shaped like a crook necked gourd and a plan to keep a hen to see if it lays corkscrews.
A column critiques politeness as a barrier to plain talk and progress, arguing familiarity breeds contempt while politeness hides true intentions. It notes Morgan Rockefeller’s bank purchase of nine million dollars in other banks giving control of a billion in deposits, praising banking as a juicy, sugarcoated business.
A St. Louis tobacco magnate George Meyera left a four million plus estate to generate income for heirs. His heirs contested the will claiming unsound mind, but courts ordered immediate distribution of the estate. The column laments wills and class bias as the rich pursue wealth after death.
A collage of rumors and wry commentary spans Washington visits by Togo, Diaz’s fate, Panama Canal timing, and Morgan and Guggenheim influence. Silk-styled asides touch Philippine outfits, China’s distress, European powers, and Morgan’s wealth. Quips on Boston’s smoking club and a proposed New York statue mix with modern trends.
A compilation of humorous exchanges and quips from era papers including Star Dust jokes about an aching tooth and a club man exposed as a fraud, with lines on love, marriage, and social pretensions. It whimsically contrasts domestic remedies with public satire from Harper's Bazar and the Boston Transcript.
A collage of light comic captions from Harper's Bazar and Philadelphia Times, plus a tourist car service notice. Items include a joke about an engagement, a quip on a Dutch pole pun, and a child’s question about marriage, followed by a Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound rail itinerary with fares to Missoula Butte and St Paul.
In Brooklyna Life a new office boy announces a wife wants the caller on the telephone. The scene features two companies with phones installed, prompting questions about which line to use. The boy admits uncertainty about how many phones exist.
A Philadelphia Times item recounts Johnnie Johnale answering a math riddle about money. When asked how much he would have if he received 2 cents and his father 3 cents, he promptly says seven, explaining that he has two cents in his pocket. The teacher expresses surprise at the quick but incorrect reasoning.
A traveler’s vignette recalls a mountain home where a self styled stamp is used to conform to tolls and a claim reads guaranteed under the poor feud lawn. The narrator notes germs and the human appetite for risk amid aphorisms about faith and motive.
A collection of sharp exchanges and banter from a roadside diner and street scenes. Bits include a talking bear joke, a cashier and a sour customer debating a half dollar, and quick exchanges about land deals, engagements, and commutation rates reflecting life in the era.
De Tréw notes lecture habit resurging as spring mood returns to town. Henry Peck counters that it remains popular at home, reflecting congregations and cultural life revived in the season.
A dialogue between Edwin and a neighbor probes the meaning of insurrection in Mexico. They debate who fights whom and why the government may be satisfied yet still at odds, ending with Edwin retreating to play while clinging to his ideals.
A cheap domestic cough syrup recipe combines granulated sugar water and Pinex in pint bottles, taken by teaspoon every one to three hours. It claims faster relief within 24 hours for deep coughs and throat irritations, with claims of popular nationwide use and a money back guarantee.
In a New York East Side maternity ward Dr Stork delivers a boy and a girl to separate mothers Mrs Barnett and Mrs Marcus. The two declare their infants engaged and Dan Cupid engineers a mock betrothal as nurses stage a brief wedding while a third party death interrupts the scene keeping the tale bittersweet.
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