Arrival of the Party of Progressive Ideas in 1910
The article reports the emergence of the Party of Progressive Ideas on November 8 1910. It portrays a cross party liberal movement aiming for direct nominations direct legislation and tariff revision. It questions party loyalty and calls for cooperation beyond partisan lines to advance the republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Party of Progressive Ideas
House
Senate
Republic
Waak-Baker Piano Co
Wick
Schiller
Seattle
Pinchot Letter to the President Appeals for Cunningham Claims
The Pinchot brothers Gifford and Amos sign a letter to the president denouncing Cunningham claims. The piece stresses their dedication, youth, wealth, education and high social position, contrasting them with others who lack sincere interest in mankind. They claim to have seen the light that never was.
Observations on politics and society from a lively clipping
A collage of political commentary notes from a periodical: mentions Cochran holding aces in a card game analogy, Senator Jones voting with Aldrich 103 times, Dr. Cook congratulating Wellman, taft letters about Cunningham in Alaska, Ballinger and a railroad wreck, Champ Clark’s tariff stance, and light company complaints. Also quips about a theater career for Judge James and Meyers, and a health fact about heart effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Aldrich
DR. Cook
Wellman
Roosevelt
Senator Flint
Pinchot
Taft
Cunningham
Alaska
Ballinger
Richard
Ballard
United States Senate
Champ Clark
Champ
A Call for City Reform and Voter Unity in Seattle
A letter urging readers to organize before elections to confront powerful corrupt forces in Seattle. The author warns that money and organized mobs in city council and vice districts threaten decency and good government, urging strong citizen action to prevent another plunderous regime. The piece cites Lincoln Steffens on city corruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
Lincoln Steffens
Pacific Coast
Seattle
San Francisco
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Steffens
Rival Ask Me Man at Library Won't Give Advice
Cynthia Grey meets Charles H. Compton head of Seattle library reference who answers questions but refuses to offer personal advice. He acts as a walking index, guiding patrons to sources while sparing recommendations on gifts or relationships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cynthia Grey
Charles H. Compton
Public Library
Faust
Mr. Compton
Literary Digest
Compton
Albany
N. Y
University of North Dakota
New York
North Dakota
Pal One Froway
Madame Savaya
Seattle
Star
Cynthia
Sweet Sixteen
We would have all men live in peace and fairness
A reflective line laments universal peace and mutual respect, but admits a lone privilege: to annihilate any who resist the right. The passage contrasts ideal harmony with a grim exception.
Fragmented Fashion of Stressed Tenants and Jokes
The dialogue flashes a landlord pressuring a tenant with a Painiess Dental Parlor to relocate or quiet patients. A weary employee faces an unsympathetic boss. A joke envelope to correspondents asks why Niagara Falls never stops, with a horse reporter's quip. Maude favors marrying opposites as Stella bleaches hair for engagement to Dilly Black.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankem
Niagara Falls
Strollers Column Car Stories and a Bilger Tale
A Seattle scene in Strollers notes conductor banter about fares and hobble skirts as Sixteen charters a car with Dinah. a Bilger vignettes its Hunt's Point hardware men amid canal debates. The column blends street humor with local names and gossip from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Renton & Southern
Dinah
Sixteen
Diana Dillpickles Becomes a Bird Lady at Nubbin County Fair
Diana Dillpickles enters Nubbin County Corn Show aiming for a $5,000 prize with a mended aeroplane. The crowd awaits her debut as the first bird lady, but a weakened wing causes a dramatic crash, scattering spectators and ending the moment of triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nubbin County
Fair Grounds
Diana Dillpickles
Self made man and home made shirt aphorisms
A humorous exchange features a thinker comparing a self made man to a home made shirt and a grocer and customer banter about fresh meat while a child asks about the census bureau and its data collection. The dialogue touches on practicality over ornament and misunderstandings about truth and freshness.
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Gifford
Amos
Bourke Cochran
Wellman Pussy
Outlook
Wappy
Gill
James & Meyers
Cincinnati
Jim
John Johnson
People's Hank
Second and
Pike
the Rubber Store
Eleanor Addams
Cami
Stardust
Stellan
Maude
Mabel
Stella
Dilly Black
Billy
First Ave
W. L. Bilger
Hunt's Point
Lake Washington
Bilger
Lake Washington Canal
Diana
BY Fred Schaefer
U. K
Census Bureau
Ployer
Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc
Second Avenue
Union Str
Seattie
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