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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

May 19, 1909

Page

5

Slaughter of Christians and global indifference

A critique recalls past crusades against Christian victims in China and contrasts with current Muslim killings of Armenians in Turkey. The piece argues nations act for Christian causes only when trade or power interests align, asserting hypocrisy across imperial powers and media silence amid atrocity.

China John Hay England Germany France Confucius Mohammed Turkey Christ

Memorial Day Proclamation Declares May 31 Holiday

Olympia May 19 Gov Art Hay issued a proclamation naming Monday May 31 a holiday and urging statewide observance of Memorial day exercises. The proclamation marks the day for official ceremonies and public remembrance across the state.

Olympia Rt Hay

Diamond clash over Nathanson store and mine trouble

Nathanson the storekeeper, famed as a bold diamond buyer from native miners, lies wounded before his wrecked Kimberley shop. The Plymouth Brethren temperance campaigners, led by Rev. Abel Jones, have smashed stock and struck ventures, leaving Nathanson plotting revenge as Dutch trader Van Meyer reports ruin from the excise crackdown.

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Ostrich intrigue and a diamond plan in a frontier chapel

In a wild caper a Dutch trader schemes to borrow money to raise live ostriches after TM seizes their feathers and a chain of plots unfolds. Van Meyer rediscovers faith, hushes a pastor, and a walking diamond mine ostrich becomes the street’s auction centerpiece, drawing a mob and a cash windfall.

Fragmented quotes from a humorous column word salad

A garbled collage of jokes and quips from a humorous column or magazine sketch. The readable fragments mention a coed, a bear, a traveler in a frozen land, breakfast timing, and a club member with a swelled head, all rendered in stray phrases and captions without coherent narrative.

Why Nots Slating Health Food Reform Text

An editorial by W M C Latson condemns candy and pastry practices that alter natural foods with additives like salt sugar and spices turning apples wheat and cotton seed into an artificial pastry. He decries “apple pie” as a modern food travesty and warns of vandalisms against nature.

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Garden Tales of Trials and Quips from a Green Thumb

A voice shares comic and quirky garden misadventures from a home plot. The narrator details failed crops, odd experiments, and oddball ideas like grafting cauliflower on corn stalks, climbing nasturtiums, and training plants to retreat at night while boasting past successes and future plans.

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