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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1922
Page
8
Cynthia Grey presents readers on aging fear and the need for old age pensions. Letters describe employment bias against the elderly, the risk of bank failures eroding savings, and the burden on aging couples. A movement for pensions grows, noting many widows dependents and foreign nations enacting protections.
A letter prize contest running with the showing of Foolish Fool at the Coliseum invites readers to submit verses about Kaiser William. The entry offers cash prizes totaling 25 dollars with formats ranging from prose to verse and song, directed to the Foolish Fool contest editor at the Seattle Star.
A clipped literary passage speaks of doubt youth fear hope and despair. It mentions an inner screen and a central heart idea with an unfinished line about a name. The text conveys paradoxical self-identity and inner reflection.
Readers seeking details on a June church wedding are told to write to The Seattle Star Washington bureau at 1822 New York Ave Washington D C with two cents for postage. The bureau lists letters returned for insufficient or incorrect addresses from several Seattle residents and Hazelwood Washington residents.
The passage asserts that vitality hinges on the reception of beauty, hope, and courage from earth, people, and the Infinite. As long as one’s inner center remains open to these visions, one stays young. when cynicism and pessimism harden the heart, one is old even at twenty.
Helen, a four year old foster child of Mrs. Stella Kobalak near Roesford, Ohio, was beaten after being forced to pretend she was a bride to a six year old neighbor. She suffered severe injuries. Mrs. Kobalak is jailed on a $1,000 bond for the beating as deputies and physicians treat the child. The incident prompted local authorities to intervene. In Helena, Montana, former county auditor Charles M. Settles, 48, drops dead.
Gloria Swanson with Rudolph Valentino headline the Strand in Elinor Glyn’s Beyond the Rocks now in its second week. Also showing Coliseum first time in country Colant al Oak Libert y Columbia and Winter Garden offer further films with romances comedies and dramas featuring Clare Windsor Richard Dix Harold Lloyd Gladys Walton and others across several venues.
BERWICK Pa May 22 A 14 inch garter snake cut off the electric supply from Berwick Bloomsburg and Danville Electricians found the charred body of the reptile on top of a pole where it had caused a short circuit between the wire and crossarm There is debate over how the snake reached the pole with some claiming it climbed others suggesting it was thrown onto the line by a boy
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