Fallen Idol Attacks Seattle City Engineer Thomson
The editorial questions City Engineer Thomson’s honesty and methods, accusing him of secrecy and hidden aims in public works. It recalls past suspicions about contracts, materials, and favoritism, and urges the public to demand accountability while noting political figures like Taft and Lawler be considered for 1912.
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Thomson
Seattle
Board of Public Works
Washington
John P. Hartman
MR. Thomson
Dick of Ohio seeks primary endorsement for U.S. Senate
Dick of Ohio pushes a state wide primary to win endorsement for another term in the United States Senate. He warns Ohio politicos who run conventions and legislatures may block him, hoping the people will pick the senator directly. The piece notes tension with Aldrich and cites his votes against Aldrich from Rhode Island.
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Ohio
United States Senate
Aldrich
Ricde Island
Reflections of a Bachelor Opinion Fragment
The passage reflects on trust and deceit in relationships with aphorisms about mens pledges and women's perception. It includes quotations about judging men by actions and the impact of a woman's pretense on affection, attributed to the New York Press.
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New York Press
Serum-Comic Tragedy by Edmund Vance Cooke
A poem satirizes antivivisectionist views and medical experiments to cure disease. An upper class narrator envisions vaccines and serums from animals to save a child, but the concoctions leave her half animal. The speaker lamentably considers real blood and humanity the cure.
Various Odds and Ends From a 19th Century Page
A miscellany notes mourning for the Merry Widow hat extended, bort used in panels, verse memorization for digestion, and a poem by Sarah Flower Adams. It lists Massachusetts public debt as the largest in the Union and Iowa’s as the smallest, with a school inspector anecdote and jokes about Hamlet authorship. It also mentions Washington’s salary, Taft’s pay, a singer Mme H Tauscher, and cigar economy quips from New York Prensa.
Tuberculosis Often Develops From Pneumonia
A historical medical notice promotes Eckman’s Alterative as a remedy for lung diseases including tuberculosis. It claims pneumonia patients with weak lungs are prone to consumption and offers mass-marketed testimonials and a Seattle distribution path via Owls Drug Co and Bartell Drug Co.
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Eckman
Broadway
Gale
Seattle
Ow! Drug Co
Bartell Drug Co
Eckman Laboratory
Phila
Wit of Our Tots Tales From a Family Meal and Classroom
A humorous slice shows Harry ordering odd food at a restaurant mispronouncing oyesters and a teacher explaining the government while children ask about presidential succession. Other scenes feature a comical misreading of macarons as tires, and a remark about neighbor girls who may be twins with a months apart difference.
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Adelaide
Eix
Shipwreck tale of Hamburg to Hoboken voyage
A survivor recalls sailing from Hamburg with many locals toward Hoboken to ease homesickness. Mid ocean an iceberg struck the ship. ten people on a raft faced hunger but survived after scavenging food, including a small Hamburger.
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Hamburg
Hoboken
Beginning to Bubble North End real estate drive
Investors move into North End as Interurban expansion and natural growth push development toward the lake. The map study suggests prices in Lake Ballinger Garden Tracts are 25 percent cheaper than surrounding areas, with promises of owner names to buyers.
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Lake Ballinger
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Lawler
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Ayer
Ares 2
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Cooke
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Patna
Ned Merton
Fred Son
Mr. Ballinger
George Washin
Postige
Merry Widow
Sarah Flower Adams
Earth
Heaven
Massachusetts
Union
Iowa
London
Eugene
Taft
Johanna Gadaxi
Mme. H. Tauscher
New York
Drummers
Room
Denny Bldg
Harry
Allence
Jack
William
Willan
Fred Bchaeff
India
Ceylon
of Tetley’s
the Wonder Millinery Co
Second Avenue
Northern Pacific
Chicago
Ill
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Boston
Mass
Buffalo
N. Y
Detroit
Mich
Duluth
Yellowstone Park
J. O. McMullen
City Pass
A. Tinling
First Ag
Yesler
Wash
A. D. Charlton
Portland, Obe
Ofortune
North End
Cocos
New York Building
Raymond & Hoyt
Union and Pike
12Th and
Magis
Bekins Moving & Storage Co
East
Cedar
Sherman, Clay & Company
Pacific Coast
Victor
Sherman
Union St
Stein Wa
Lay
Tinetoon Stores
Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc
Union Street
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