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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1904
Page
2
A playful riddle leading to a banking theme. It suggests getting into the habit of depositing savings with the Union Law and Trust Co. as the road to wealth. The item reads like a light, period tone promotional blurb.
Seattle tops Tacoma 7 1 in Tacoma inks first place in pennant race as five pitchers appear for Beattie and Tacoma. Hagan hits a homer for Seattle, Mohler adds two and Delahanty scores. Barbers and Williams contribute key relief while Sheehan and Mohler star in defense. Fitz Gerald, Thomas, and Hall fail to stop Seattle’s offense. Los Angeles beats Oakland 6 to 3 later in the day.
A Washington DC notice urges public trial and testimonial on Munyon's Paw Paw for dyspepsia and stomach troubles. It touts thousands of bottles in Seattle, claims cures, and invites readers to report experiences through newspapers. The letter cites Munyon and Becky claims, plus product pricing and availability.
The ad promotes a store with a large stock of pianos and organs including Chickering Kimball Mobart M. Cable Pease and New D. Johnston Co. pianos. It notes quality, easy terms, in-store improvements, lightly used pianos, rent-to-buy options, and services like tuning repair polishing moving and storage. Also offers Simplex piano players Columbia talking machines and small instruments.
Portland gains a new manager with D. E. B. Dugdale arriving by train and immediately inspiring the team. The Portland club defeats San Francisco 3 to 1 as Francia at short proves his skill and Dugdale proclaims the town can win. Dugdale remains modest saying his goal is a winning team.
The report notes Francisco tagging Butler with lively contact while his team’s support faltered as Portland’s Jones collected seven hits. The game featured late momentum shifts and remained undecided until the final out in the ninth inning.
Fragmented standings show Cincinnati and Philadelphia leading with mixed results. Brooklyn and St Louis trail as Boston and Chicago also appear in partial scores. The precise win loss pairings are unclear due to OCR errors.
An advertisement touts a five room cottage offered at no rent for 45 months with a monthly rent of 12.06 dollars. It also presents an option to buy a similar planned home with payments of 12 dollars per month, implying free rent during the payoff period.
Rain forced the postponement of the New York versus Chicago game yesterday.
The Department of the Columbia hosts a military athletic meet opening with entries from Fort Canby, the Ninth Cavalry from Walla Walla, and others. A testimonial from Mrs. Chas Applegate of Alexandria, Ind., praises Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and lung troubles, claiming a cure after three bottles. Trial bottles are available at a local drugstore.
Bellingham beat Columbia University 2 to 0 as Galaski hurled a clean shutout with no hits for the visitors and Mackey muffed a third strike allowing a baserunner. Galacki fanned eighteen. Moore pitched well for Columbia, winning nine of ten with ten strikeouts. Bellingham had no errors, Columbia two.
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