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Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Nov 21, 1906

Page

4

Public taste favors classical music over ragtime says editor

The article argues that the public rewards true melody and high art, citing Leoncavallo and operatic and symphonic performances. It notes two St Louis singers who favored opera over ragtime and asserts widespread enjoyment of Wagner and English opera when priced accessibly. It contends cultivated tastes and broad appeal are not mutually exclusive.

St. Louie

The Ute Band and the Flour Heist

A Ute group stopped a wagon driver and took a small flour haul to survive, prompting soldiers to pursue Todlan. The narrator mockingly notes the Utes lacked incorporation and legal structure to amass wealth, contrasting crude theft with imagined monopoly schemes, and ends by lampooning trust magnates and laws.

Ehieu Todlan

Cedar Chest Auction Unmasks a Family Secret

A young narrator in a muddled romance schemes to court Louise with help from her father the auctioneer Mr Yelverton. At a sale a cedar chest, supposedly empty, reveals Louise stepping out to claim love and a future, transforming the bargain into a new family treasure.

Yelverton Louise Mr. Yelverton Gray Laulee Costa Louwise

Burlesque Yarn Exchange Sparks Stage Proposals

Fragmented humorous dialogue and verse items circulate in a Butcher Shop hearse style page. The prose sketches mix mock actors, locals and stage talk with jokes about women on stage and a braided operatic piece about a roosting g inger.

Alaska Sends Up A Gay Alaska Send Up A Gay

The Daily Alaskan of Skagway prints a forceful December 14 editorial denouncing Roosevelt opposition to self government for Alaska. It accuses corporations and several officials of secret influence aimed at undoing the people and calls for a clear duty by Alaskans to resist.

Adolf Mabella Rosetta DeVere Uncle Thompson Hon Alaskan Skagway Alaska Just Received Roosevelt White House Washington Seattle King George

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