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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1903
Page
2
The Seattle Star lists offices in Seattle New York and Chicago with contact numbers and business staff. It notes subscription prices, carriers delivery, and a request to notify changes of address with old and new addresses for mail subscribers.
An essay argues success comes from inner character and not wealth, comparing life to a butterfly. It lists simple rules: be honest earnest confident alert truthful study causes, urging consistent effort and self discipline as paths to real achievement.
The tale recalls John Green Brady, born street life in New York, adopted by Judge Green, refined by Mrs. Green, and rising to Yale, missionary service in Sitka, Alaska, and governorship, celebrated as a noble transformation from hardship to leadership.
The Baker Theater Company stages The Girl I Left Behind Me at the Seattle theater all next week with a matinee tomorrow, a war drama set in the west featuring an army cast and a love thread. Also at the Seattle venue tonight the last performance of Charlie’s Aunt closes, while the Third Avenue Theater hosts Chas. Chan’s dramatic adaptation of a Russian manuscript with elaborate scenery. The Grand screens Are You a Mason Tomorrow through Tuesday, and McEwen the hypnotist appears there soon. The Prodigal Daughter, a major London and New York success, heads to the Third Avenue in a big scenic production.
Seattle reports that the De Forest Wireless Telegraph company will install wireless telegraphy at Puget Sound sites with Bremerton to be first. Towers and stations will rise at various points, including Dutch Harbor Nome and Valdes, and eventually every fortification on the Sound.
The Star announces Jo han Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard short stories to run weekly starting Monday, with 12 tales totaling 108000 dollars and 10 000 words each. The American rights were acquired by Newspaper Enterprise Association for 39 dollars per word. Readers are urged to follow the first installment How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Bloom.
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