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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1903
Page
2
A fragmentary narrative describes a bustling Honolulu post office scene with clerks and departments, a visit to the Hawaiian Chinese News, and a narrow palm-bordered lane leading to a high wall and a Chinese society meeting. The text references British officers and Asian sailors aboard a ship and hints at local ethnic networks.
Special to The Star reports Senator Poster weighing the appointment of a new postmaster for Tacoma to fill the term expiring next January. The selection process centers on choosing a suitable nucerasor, with names not yet disclosed.
In Honolulu, travelers recount a night journey to the wharf in search of the Coptic, passing stalls, banks, and shipyards. Tol Kee guides through crowded streets while business prospects in Honolulu face slow gains as sugar shipments shift to San Francisco.
The New York Water Color Club unveils its 11th annual show at the American Fine Arts Society in New York. The walls display hundreds of water color works by leading American artists and draw strong public interest as the three week exhibition begins.
Northern Pacific general manager Thomas Cooper announced a new hospital to serve Pacific coast employees. The $100000 facility will be built near McKinney Park between East HM Street and another unnamed street, with 60 beds and modern design. Construction may start next spring, funded by the Northern Pacific Beneficial Association.
Kk Dunnaull and Bons charter the Portland tug Barmeson with intent to purchase. It will reach Victoria in weeks and join northern towing between Vancouver Island mines and Juneau. The fleet will haul coal and concentrates, with tugs Lorne and Pilot already in service.
An advertisement extols Dr Shoop Restorative claiming it strengthens vital nerves and cures many chronic illnesses. The piece offers a month long trial via book access, with a money back option and contact through Dr Shoop, Racine Wisconsin, noting some mild cases solved by a single bottle.
A month buys a piano from Sherman, Clay & Co located at 751 Second Ave. The brief notice records a purchase transaction involving the instrument and the retailer.
Washington D C The latent addition to the circle of cabinet ladies and who will make her social debut as such this winter is Mrs Lea Bruce Cortelyou the wife of
The passage honors Cortelyou the secretary of commerce and labor, Roosevelt's youngest cabinet member, noting how his career benefited from his steadfast ally who has helped from humble beginnings. It hints at Cortelyou’s successor in the narrative.
Tom Wilson, a morphine addict, was found yesterday afternoon in a freight train caboose at the foot of Second Avenue South. He was in a pitiful condition and taken by ambulance to Wayside Mission Hospital where authorities report he has long been a source of annoyance to the police department.
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