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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1904
Page
5
Beattie promotes five acre tracts north of Yealer and near Ravenna Park priced at 276 dollars per acre with 20 dollars monthly payments. Less than half a dozen remain within 44 miles of Pioneer Place, reachable by a six cent car fare, on productive upland land with gentle slope and nearby improved properties.
Will M Brill reports in Tokyo that a dream vision to the Empress identified a spirit as Karen Inamoto, a late founder of the Japanese navy. The apparition praised naval strength and foretold victory, reinforcing ancestral worship beliefs fueling public confidence in Japan’s war effort.
A marginalized individual, labeled harshly as an outcast, seeks work in San Francisco's Chinatown slums. The piece highlights social ostracism, economic hardship, and clashes with racial stereotypes.
Misa Fiorence Clemmons once a prominent New York socialite chose Catholicism and service among San Francisco's Chinese community. For six years she teaches in a small Chinatown mission, translates Sunday school stories into Chinese, and wins devotion of local children, while her wealthy relatives estrange themselves and deny aid. The late Pope Leo XII reportedly blessed her sacrifice before his death.
James Lee stands charged with larceny of a calf in Hillboro Oregon. A cow’s testimony, admitted in court, supports the claim as her maternal instinct helps identify the stolen calf and its dam. Dennis of Patton reports the calf was taken from his herd and later traced to a pasture near the defendant.
Two skeletal remains were found eight miles west of Los Angeles in a ranch cellar. The bones lay eighteen inches underground with arms outstretched as if in a sword fight. Rusty blades and hilts were recovered, suggesting a historic dispute between two old Spanish residents who died in combat.
Advertising copy touts Paine's Celery Compound as delivering rapid recovery from nervous exhaustion and grippe related debility. Testimonials claim four days to marked improvement and a return to health, with grateful users praising restored strength and renewed appetite.
A California story recounts how the Yokut Indians in the San Joaquin valley answered the explorers with Yokut meaning don't know. The misinterpretation led to the tribe being labeled Yokuts, a name that persisted for centuries as the joke became a lasting misnomer.
Spokane report notes a striking legal decision recalled by a declaration in May. The item mentions a unique ruling and its financial impact, reflecting a notable courtroom outcome.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mining claims yielded a $40,000 dividend this year, part of $1,672,000 paid to date, from a mine famously discovered when a donkey pawed away turf. Prospectors N S Kelley and Phil O Rourke were with the animal, whose owner claimed a stake, leading to a Buck era court ruling that Cooper and Peck hold major interests in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan claims based on the donkey’s find.
Grace Davis age twenty and Arthur Bebrenz were found in an opium den at Fourth Avenue South and Main Street last night charged with smoking opium. Officer Flannigan followed them inside. Grace claimed she was faking for a white wife of a Chinaman living there. Other inmates were not molested. both Grace and Bebrenz are from Everett.
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