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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1914
Page
3
W R Anderson praises The Star for independence and its fight for right. He enjoys features like Josh Wise and Star Beama and prefers imaginative reading over long columns. He also mentions Fred L Boalt's stories and calls The Star the best paper in Seattle.
A boastful piece on digestion claims that a Stuart's Dyspepsia tablet will digest any meal at any time. The text extols digestion as the key to health, noting the body's juices separate useful ingredients from waste.
Letters from readers praise new policy and offer views on The Star coverage. Urban lauds digestible news and civil liberties while Dixie Sheckler commends concise reporting and independence. Levi Wright urges tax transparency and church property scrutiny in public notices.
The Star editor asks readers how to like the paper and improve coverage. A brief, light note inviting reader feedback on perceived value and future topics.
Two large lithographed parcel post maps, 2x4 feet, show Washington state zones with parcel post rules, railroads, cities, towns, and population in four colors. Includes world and state maps. Offer: six months of The Seattle Star plus a free map postage paid for new and existing subscribers.
Mrs. M. C. Hibner praises The Star for clarity and news coverage in Seattle. She notes the paper’s condensed form and support for the downtrodden, saying she has read it since it began.
The Star gains praise for its content and features. Reader Mary Watson of Bellingham commends its popular Confessions of a Wife and Cynthia Grey advice, calling Margie a brick and affirming the paper as the best seller carried.
The Star is described as the best and most interesting paper in the city with reliable foreign home and theatre coverage. Cynthia Grey’s Confessions of a Wife are praised while Oscar and Adolph Everett True and Diana are noted as funny. The Star’s political influence is mentioned as powerful.
A reader praises The Star for ten years of advocacy and humane editorials. The writer commends Cynthia Grey and columns like The Confessions of a Wife, notes missing features, and wishes the paper were published six days a week.
A reader writes to The Star reflecting on frank critique and his twelve years as a reader and ten years as a subscriber. He notes readers seek both approval and disapproval and promises candid feedback.
Readers praise The Star for broad coverage and fair war reporting while urging focus on useful content. They call for trimming sensational pieces and argue for stronger national defense after observing European conflict, with specific comments on Boalt and editorials.
A reader criticizes The Star for abridging local matters and calls for more comic pictures and a dictionary of place names and military terms to aid understanding of war news. The writer notes comics act as a tonic for married men and urges pronunciation guides.
A Star reader criticizes the ongoing Oscar and Adolph features as outdated humor and asks for fewer such strips. The letter lauds A Squeak From Johony Mouse for real, solid humor and mentions sending in a rebuttal.
Letters from readers across Seattle commend The Star for concrete reporting on graft and politics. They praise Everett True and features like The Confessions of a Wife while criticizing fake ads and urging more practical tips. Endorsements emphasize a working man’s paper with a square deal.
A vintage ad touts a dandruff cure using four ounces of plain liquid arvon applied at night to the scalp. It promises immediate relief and complete dissolution after a few applications, claiming itching stops instantly and hair becomes fluffy and glossy.
H Seymour Morrison, former seaman now chief electrician on the battleship Oregon at Bremerton Navy Yard, has published verse in naval magazines. Shipmates plan to publish a collection for him as a Christmas gift, including a Puget Sound poem praising Rainier and surrounding scenery.
Ruth Donnelly, raised in Baltimore, once spent time in a convent school penance corner for slang. She later used George Ade style talk as a frolicsome society girl in the secret service play Under Cover, earning a salary while speaking slang.
Sam Lloyd of Atchison raised his umbrella to ward off a storm while driving to town. A gust snatched the umbrella and carried him aloft for about 20 feet as frightened horses pulled the wagon. He clung to the lines until he landed, dragged through mud until the team stopped.
Cultivation of the sunflower as a crop is extensive in the south of Russia. The plant furnishes oil in its seed, fodder for cattle in its leaves, and a large quantity of pot ash.
Reuben Crum of Davella Kentucky captured two synchronized squirrels joined by a thin skin from head to hip. The pair, first seen in summer, were trapped in a lard can baited with chestnuts and are now on exhibit. A Wild West show offered $50 for the creatures.
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