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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1904
Page
4
The excerpt features a traveler saying Americans are the greatest people he has seen and even comparing them to the Japanese of the west. He questions why pirate tales about a Cambridge figure should be set to music.
The Texan filibuster leader BYNOPSIA Moronce Kearney is shown captured during the Mier expedition in Mexico. The narrative traces his past romance with Don Tehado Valverde's daughter in New Orleans, his duel with Carlos Santander, and a dramatic escape with Cris Rock and a deformed companion after planed humiliations. They free their lovers with aid from a loyal groom, sever chains and harnesses, and slip into a thorny mountainside amid pursuing cavalry.
A Des Moines man Vernon Wilson faces indictment for embezzlement. He allegedly took 700 dollars from his employer to California with his bride on a wedding journey and later claimed to have lost 580 dollars in a Des Moines gambling den. The piece argues open gambling ruins youth, citing Wilson's fall and the need to shield young men from temptation.
A council member contends for better streetcar service, warning Seattle Electric's Frink line may lose its franchise if opposed. He questions Third ward riders, urging restoration of the Madrona Park line and reactivation of the Main Street and Fourteenth Avenue route to improve public transit.
In Detroit and Des Moines postmasters back job preferences for rowers, arguing those in need deserve priority. A Chicago judge rules that saying damn is not swearing, while a suburban resident laments a stubborn chicken and recalls planting ground to curb trouble.
A fragmented poem depicts Wille leaving for school with a worm bait tale and a fatal pun ending with his being swallowed by a fish. The piece shifts to a meeting scene where a speaker questions women’s role in recursion and a Massachusetts canvass notes pill sticks to Olney until election day.
A brief item quotes Josh Wise offering a sharp outlook on a fellow cook and a pud Gin prophecy, reflecting kitchen banter and local character.
May 14 report notes a Hungarian inventor touting a gas sleeping shell to General Kanayama of Japan who dismisses it, saying they fight the Russians. The piece adds chatter about Russian shells, dense population claims, and reporters misnaming names under censorship amid Petersburg shelling.
Multiple churches list sermons and times: First Presbyterian with Rev M A Matthews at Liam. Westminster Presbyterian with Rev J M Wilson. Lane Street Presbyterian with Rev F L Forbes. Trinity Parish with Rev H H Gowen. First Methodist Protestant featuring Y M C A speaker A S Allen. Free Methodist with Rev G McKinly. Unitarian with Rev W D Simonds. Weekday masses and services at Roman Catholic parishes J Marys, Our Lady of Good Help, Sacred Heart, and Church of the Trinitarian. Y M C A event led by Rev OC Mason. program begins around 4:16 p m.
The Crane Employment Agency at 117 West Main Street reports strong demand for laborers of all kinds. Mr. Crane, a veteran employment man, offers fair treatment and places good, profitable positions with reputable employers.
A violent scene unfolds as four men abduct a coachman and bind him to a carriage wheel. The dwarf Gyak taunts the victim from a cliffside path called the Pedregal, noting the rugged, rocky ledge and warning of impending danger as they press forward to safety or doom.
Workers hoeing maize witness a surreal sight as two abnormally large horses race along field paths in a remote area. One horse carries two men in bright blue and scarlet, the other a giant with a monkey-like creature on the rear, bridles clanking as they surge forward without pause. The riders and horses are unseen in the locality.
The group halts at a rocky ledge and agrees to part from the horses. Rivas orders dismounting to prevent pursuing trail and considering sending the animals away to mislead trackers. Cris and Kearney discuss the plan while others prepare to depart on foot.
A group moves through the lava field El Pedregal near Cerro de Aduszco. Kearney and companions unravel a link chain plot, debating restraint of a captured animal while evading approaching soldiers in a tense, lawless trek.
An advertisement claims deafness arises from blocked Eustachian tubes and offers one hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It urges sending for a circular and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
In a rugged scene a dwarf named Cha Kook is led forward by a Mexican as freemen secure their ankle chains. Kearney trails, and others follow, each binding his own fast to the wrist to continue the march.
Santa Anna presses Ban tander for results as he orders full pursuit of four fugitives who escaped along the San Angel road. The captain reports enfilading Pedregal and hunts through rocks and thickets toward the Merfas, with Ban tander pledging total authority and a possible promotion for recovering Rivas.
John Oliver recounts near death from illness with yellow skin and sunken eyes. After three doctors gave up, Electric Bitters brought rapid improvement within weeks, leading him to call the tonic a grave robber for another victim. 60 cents at G O Guy Inc drug store in Seattle location.
A Winchester man M. M. Austin acted in time when his wife suffered stomach and liver trouble beyond doctors. He used Dr King's New Pills and she found relief at once and was cured. Available for 5 cents at 6, Guy. Inc., drug store, second avenue and Yesler Way.
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