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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1913
Page
5
The note urges readers to eat lightly and simply at regular hours. It recommends sufficient sleep, moderate exercise, staying calm, drinking plenty of water, and working part of each day to stay well and happy.
Ohio proposes to replace the Columbus penitentiary with a state run farm system. Prisoners would work on productive tasks, with most kept on honor and rehabilitation emphasized. The plan aims to end cruelty and reduce recidivism through training, self respect, and public nonprivate operation.
After the Payne Aldrich tariff era, railroads hiked lemon hauling to 1.15 per hundred pounds. The Interstate Commerce Commission set a 1.00 rate, then the Commerce Court backed the higher fee, and the Supreme Court lately affirmed the ICC. Critics call for reform and faster justice, noting delayed decisions favor the rich.
A historical note reflects on a Supreme Court decision limiting review of rate reasonableness to the Interstate Commerce Commission, contrasting with earlier railroading courts. The piece cites quotes from Ray Stan and Robert Louis Stevenson, and mentions Parisian tax ideas on American families.
Sour and upset stomachs are fixed in five minutes by Pape's Diapepsin. A fifty cent bottle relieves heartburn, belching, nausea, headaches, and heaviness, with relief claimed for the entire family at home.
Shorty Simms reports from Indianapolis noting street car strike jokes seen on signs adorning vehicles. The piece mocks the energetic rhetoric of Sylvia Pankhurst while weaving in gossip about a boisterous young reformer and reactions from local figures.
The Missouri University Missourian reports Emile Gehring will sing a scene from Massenet's Cinderella as part of a program featuring well known arias and songs. A light concert from Gehring and a wide selection of numbers are planned for a rainy day audience.
Herbert Quick argues nations must honor treaty terms on the Panama Canal open to all, warning that tolls favoring coastwise ships would break equal access commitments. He recalls Britain's stance and cites Goethals Gorgas Gallia and the risk to US Canadian relations if Ottawa's freedom to toll is constrained. The piece questions whether aggressive tolling is prudent.
The piece recalls the rise of honor system proposals in prisons across the United States and Montenegro in the early 20th century. It tells of guards missing during wartime, prisoners trusted with rifles, and messages carried long distances, including a tale of a guard sent to Cattaro and back.
In Boston on November 19 the Catholic Federation of the archdiocese condemned proposals to introduce sex hygiene studies into public schools as mischievous and immoral during its semi annual convention.
Estelle Stead, daughter of William T. Stead, claims personal messages from her father, drowned on the Titanic, proving immortality. She says he speaks to her in a “fuller life” and recounts his last hours, asserting telepathic links and new facts only he could know.
A Seattle resident at 1702 West 56th Street testifies after using Dean's Kidney Pills for twenty years of back pain. He describes relief from backache head ached and dizziness and says the pills improved overall energy and health.
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