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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1913
Page
5
A composite column offers guidance to women facing love, finances, work, and independence. Letters discuss marriage choices, staying true to oneself, pursuing honest work, and the role of motherhood. A columnist counsels against marrying for security, urges honesty with suitors, and recommends self reliance and moral clarity. The page also includes a theater receipt note announcing Grand Opera House bookings and vaudeville acts.
A young woman known as the social shopper influences buys in a Cleveland department store. Miss Gertrude M. Kennedy is described as the first social shopper in the city, a new role where the store employs her to mingle with customers and offer prudent fashion advice all day.
Burglars looted the San Francisco mansion of millionaire George Greenbaum today. They forced the caretaker Hermann Miller at gunpoint to reveal the storage of valuables while the Greenbaum family was away. No estimate of value could be made.
Six hundred carriers and branch boys of The Seattle Star visited the Pantages theatre in Seattle as guests of manager Milne. They marched in a double file, filling an entire section, applauded the performance, and caused seven curtain calls for Blanche Gordon and Walter S. Howe’s company.
Nixola Greeley Smith reports on Miss Maria Thompson Davies, author of The Tinder-Hox, championing woman's right to propose marriage and express romantic preference with honesty. Davies condemns traditional crawfish courtship and urges women to self support and abandon mendicant roles, challenging societal norms and male passivity.
East side residents meet at the Arctic club to organize a grand launching celebration for the port district ferry Leschi to be launched at Taylor's mill on December 6. John G. Price of Medina chairs the planning with RE. P. Moran of Bellevue as secretary and committees formed for program finance transportation invitations and publicity.
President Wilson sent the Senate the nominations of David J. Williams of Washington to be internal revenue collector for the state and John F. Pugh of Alaska to be customs collector of the territory. Williams is secretary of the Tacoma lodge of Elks and a Pierce County Democratic leader active in progressives. he is about 35. Chairman Hugh Todd endorsed Williams.
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