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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1909
Page
5
Wiseacres at Washington predict the tariff session will not end before mid July. The Senate lingers on razor duties and disclosures of members linked to schedules, while manufacturing stalls. Uncertainty damages national prosperity. rapid session completion is demanded to revive trade.
A reader questions police protection after a Hudson Bay store robbery on First Ave. He suggests guarding police headquarters to prevent safe blowouts and cites Lincoln Steffens as a potential investigative visitor to Seattle. William Griffin at 1258 John St signs.
A fragmented description portrays Madame Swyo from Hontoc now in Igorotte Village. It depicts Igorette women as living preachers of domestic ideals with matrilineal rights and high status in marriage, while husbands handle labor and property during union and childbearing.
Readable portions describe Amelia and John in a wartime setting with references to government, patriotism, and a tense exchange. The piece mixes dialogue and narrative about loyalty, love, and displacement within a scattered scene at familiar locations.
A rooster explains his delayed arrival to a christening party saying he had to drink a health to a chick in an incubator. The humorous exchange reveals the primitive humor in the scene and the caller’s surprised reaction.
The fragmentary passage describes a strange wartime moment with a narrator referencing an American figure and a kiss, all conveyed in garbled OCR. It mentions a woman proclaiming she saw and heard everything and a man identified as Mr Schwarts, with references to symbols and patriotic imagery.
Amateur sleuth Diana Dillpickles tracks a claimed kidnap of Chesterton Quince Dubarry. She misidentifies a redheaded boy Izzy Snoots dragged in a soap box wagon and nearly accuses herself of kidnapping while the chase continues.
Tickets go on sale June 2 for trips in July and August by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. Round trip rates to Omaha and Kansas City are 60 dollars, Chicago 72.60, New York 108.60. Return limit October. Information at Union Ticket Office 608 First Ave S BR Bilts, general agent.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from a bygone era. Bits on inventions, courtships, chefs, and everyday life mix with cartoonish one-liners. Notable lines touch on manipulation of medical bills, bachelor lore, and social foibles in quick exchanges.
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