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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1904
Page
4
The article contrasts Russia's broken Siberian railway and misrouted logistics with Japan's prepared forces. It cites starving troops, corrupt commissaries, and weak leadership in Russia versus disciplined, daring Japanese officers and flawless operational machinery.
A discussion on protecting weak workers from excessive burdens. The author argues society should not overburden inherently weak individuals, stresses the dangers of overloading, and calls for legal justice to shield the overburdened rather than relying on pensions or charity. The piece advocates mass legislation to aid the less able and cites scriptural duty for the strong to bear the weak's load.
News items report a range of local happenings from Vancouver and Victoria to Spokane and Walla Walla. Purchases include The Windsor Hotel for 25000 dollars, and church and jail actions. prison breaks, a notable pension fraud verdict against T A Wood and Hosea Wood, drownings, crop frost, and a fatal baseball accident in Tacoma.
A jumble of quips and gossip from a St Petersburg editor and others. A Cleveland woman sues a store proprietor for 10 000 over a trip and expense jokes about shopping. The piece lampoons editors and reporters and drops in satirical lines about news hustling and odd notes from Forecaster Salisbury.
May 17 dispatches report rumors that communications with Port Arthur may be restored. Government circles express uncertainty as no reply has arrived in 48 hours. A Chinese junk near 614 Tom-Jin challenges Japanese harbor blockage claims. Vladivostok squadron disruption rumors denied. Prince Khil koff heads Siberian railway project as President Roosevelt's campaign continues.
A Seattle elevator mishap features a passenger asking to transfer to South Seattle, believing the building to be a street car. The conductor corrects her, causing a rosy embarrassed reaction as readers recall a boastful remark about liberties in a free country.
City leaders including Mayor Ballinger and Dr. Loughary announce a forthcoming joint meeting of the board of health and board of public works with Chief Delaney to enforce ordinances against smoke emissions. They cite Diamond Ice and Storage as proof that effective smoke consumers exist and urge all mills and hotels to install proper devices or face enforcement.
Florence Kearney, Irish captain of Texas filibusters, is captured during the Mier expedition into Mexico. In a prison escape plot aided by Don Ignacio and Countess Teachel Almonte, Kearney learns a monk’s disguise leads to a mountain refuge. The escape plan unfolds with allies including Cris Rock and a deformed dwarf named Rock.
A tense eve unfolds as Don Ignacio and family fear a hidden rendezvous. Weapons and cloaks suggest danger while Jose, Pepita, and the coachman recount a tangled tale of a slow carriage ride along the San Francisco garden wall, hinting at a promised reward valued above treasured jewelry.
Florence Kearney awakes in a tiny square room with a palm mat bench and a cloak for cover. He reflects on the cramped space, likening it to a ship or prison and guessing the place might be an old monastery perched in a remote Mexican setting.
An advertisement boasts Dr King s New Discovery as a universal cure for lung and throat troubles citing a Sheperdtown West Virginia woman with pneumonia and other illnesses. It claims infallibility for croup whooping cough grip pneumonia and consumption with trial bottles and a guaranteed price set by G O Guy Inc Second Avenue and Yesler.
An advertisement from Dempserytown Pa features D H Turner praising a vegetable liver stomach and bowel tonic claiming two weeks nightly use restores youth. The copy asserts the pills are the best in the world and priced at 2 cents at G O Guy Inc drug store Second Avenue and Yester.
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