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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1913
Page
4
The report notes residents rely on limited water supplies that barely meet basic needs. It describes small stomachs described as 80 emall and mentions water intake insufficient for daily nutrition.
A Seattle councilman argues city contracts should be revoked to curb contractors who underpay workers by 2.75 dollars a day while charging board terms, claiming the practice cheats residents and evades the law via “board-house” arrangements. A Los Angeles judge reportedly builds a fence around a witness stand to avoid distracting jurors.
The piece contrasts punishment in a high official’s case with a jailed activist, notes militant tactics followed by window smashing, and argues the power of thought over force. It cites U S farm wealth and Germany’s agricultural policy, and mentions a New York man seeking $35,000 in damages for sending kisses to a teacher.
An advertisement extols beauty as rooted in health and bowel regulation. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is promoted as a gentle, permanent laxative tonic for women and families, claiming relief from indigestion, headache, and lassitude. A free sample offer is available by postcard to Dr W G Caldwell, Monticello, Illinois.
A patchwork of clips and quips from various papers includes remarks on Navwalo rites and Pullman porters unionizing, light verse lines, jokes about readers and fashion, political jab at Sulzer, dating banter, and scattered classified ads with odd typos and stray punctuation.
A stranger speaks to a chauffeur claiming his beacon has ceased and the luminator is shrouded. The driver struggles to grasp the ornate phrasing as a boy exclaims the lamp is out, revealing a simple, comic moment of illumination gone awry.
The tale follows FE M Hradford a farmer’s son who toiled on roadsides and farms then, urged by his sister, enters Y M C A night school learns stenography and typewriting, passes a civil service exam, works at the post office and Northern Pacific, and rises to oversee a department's correspondence proving that effort can transform a life. Gertrude Munagie, 26, kills herself over beauty insecurities in Kansas City, a separate note.
A dubious home remedy touts a stove-pipe cure for rheumatism and backache using Toris compound and syrup of Barbaparilla in whiskey. It promises rapid relief after several doses and urges avoiding patent medicines, claiming wide past success published by Globe Pharmaceutica laboratories of Chicago.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions various odd words and hints at a foot bath product. It references CALOCTIOR and Inetaet and Strewn terms like warm foot-bath and prime cures. No clear event or persons emerge from the readable text.
An attractive picture will double the effectiveness of your advertisement or printed matter. Try us with your next order for half tones or zine etchings.
John Schrank, the man who shot Col. Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee a year earlier, has forgotten the colonel and is confined in an Oshkosh hospital for the criminal insane.
Nov 4 report from the university of California department of physical culture notes that entering students show increasing leg strength and diminishing upper arm growth. Professor G W Magee says the trend could lead to future students with kangaroo proportions as class 1925 enters.
In Scott's Valley Cal there are only three married women and within one week two of them became mothers of twins adding to a rare local trend reported from Etna.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a remedy for constipation biliousness and headaches. It promises to cleanse the liver and bowels remove sour bile and foul gas and guarantee a clear head and regular bowels by morning for a dime a box.
Hawthorne U S A a lighthearted comedy set in the Balkans follows a American hero who wins love and battles obstacles in war and politics. Princess dazzles as he journeys through performance at the Seattle Theatre 3rd and Cherry Street with matinee prices 25c and evening 20c 30c and 50c.
Advertisement for modern outside rooms at Stewart House located at 86 West Stewart. Describes updated accommodations and available units in the building.
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