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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1916
Page
4
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips from a late edition, including a playful tale of a couple at a florist, a class question about cows and two stomachs, and light exchanges on politeness and money making. Several items reference jokes from Ladies' Home Journal and a Sacramento laundry ad.
The piece argues Merica is ill prepared for war and peace, urging a nationwide mobilization of industry and a fullscale census requested by the president. It warns current bureaucratic waste and calls for organized efficiency to end poverty and injustice.
Advice urges workers within three miles to walk to their jobs to gain health and fresh air. It condemns short car rides, especially in cities, as lethargy inducing and stressing the value of daily walking over convenience.
The Fort Sam Houston court finds Lieut. John E. Mort guilty for leading men across the border near Brownsville to rescue comrades held by Mexicans while swimming. He is sentenced to a reprimand, a punishment seen by many Americans as a hollow mark of honor amid praise for Col. Slocum.
In a sanitized house a young man reads as a fire set by himself, under care that uses a staged blaze to curb his destructive imagination. A doctor and home secretary discuss the case as the plot edges toward an unseen outcome.
Lieutenant General Neville Dysone seeks help for his wife in a pine country house. The crime doctor Dollar confronts a case tangled with disguises pickpockets and a dangerous delusion. A tense night yields clues and a new unlikely partnership with Topham Vinson.
Dollar observes Gen. Dysone and learns of a winter death by own action at the estate. The general laments a strong wife’s grip on the household and on the garden while hints about the widow’s fate and a planned continuation appear for the next issue.
An aged-friendly laxative touts Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a gentle fast-acting remedy free from griping. Claiming decades of use and endorsements from seniors, the ad notes a 50 cent bottle price and a free trial offer by mail from Monticello Illinois.
Readers ask if a fiancée must return gifts after an engagement ends and what to do when someone signs for a parcel. Advice notes theft risk and urges reporting to express company and police. The column also answers about loving a married woman and the impossibility of forcing marriage. It cites Germany’s 1916 population as 64,900,000.
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