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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1907
Page
4
The notice explains subscription expiration dates shown on address labels and urges subscribers to renew in advance to avoid missing issues. It asks readers to call the main office between 6 and 8 p m if a copy does not arrive by 4 p m, and to report repeated misses so replacements can be sent.
A vintage urging to start Christmas shopping early. Stores offer fresh holiday stocks and wide bargains as clerks have time for shoppers. Advertisers urge careful, thoughtful gifts rather than rushed choices, noting early shoppers succeed in finding exactly wanted items.
Seattle ministers opposing YMCA billiard and pool tables argue the games are clean and healthy. They say ministerial prejudice stems from barroom use, and that offering these games at the YMCA fights saloon temptation and promotes practical Christianity.
A businessman asks if it is better to attack individuals than systems. He argues major evils arise from leadership, not structures, noting a $29 000 000 fine on Standard Oil as insufficient without a jail sentence for a top culprit. He contends one high-placed malefactor should be jailed.
A University of Leipzig professor releases a pamphlet linking hat position to personality. Perpendicular hats indicate upright character while leftward tilt suggests gambling and sportiness. backward wear signals recklessness and debt. forehead lowwear shows egoism. top wear hints at fickleness. sloped rear implies opportunism.
A vaudeville sketch unfolds with caricatured dialogue between Adolf and an artist. The comic banter lampoons painting, anatomy, and employment as the artist previews a portrait with a comic foul language and mock German accents.
A Star cooking feature details a $25 Thanksgiving dinner for five prepared at home. It lists menu items from oyster cocktail to plum pudding with cream, with prices from groceries of the season and a complete roast turkey meal including soup bread potatoes celery olives jelly and salad.
This fragment outlines a Christmas fig pudding with suet white flour currants lemon rind and brandy instructions for mixing steaming and molding. It also lists ingredients for a Christmas fig pudding and notes on molds and steaming times. A separate line mentions Horeeree Guns For Rent with an address.
Visitors are invited to tour the U S Navy Yard on the Sound to view battleships Oregon Wisconsin and Nebraska cruisers Buffalo and Philadelphia and ships Nipsic and Moate. The mammoth dry docks torpedo boats and a prison ship are on display. Tours depart Pier 2 foot of Yesterday Way six times daily in October 1890.
In New York on November 27 a tale of two long time partners Weber and Fields split their shows on Broadway after 26 years at Chatham Square and Herald Square. Weber faces money troubles and a trusted clerk stole ten thousand dollars while Fields has gained acting depth and new pieces.
In Brussels the International Pure Milk congress lauded Nathan Straus for 15 years of pasteurizing milk for New York’s poor and promoting pasteurized milk for babies. The congress accepted his plan to establish 25 stations in a European city and noted New York’s 4,917,386 bottles and 1,292,048 glasses dispensed in three months.
A disjointed page of wry lines and jokes from Josh Star Dust and others. It includes musings on aging women, a 106 year old Delaware man who smoked heavily, remarks about German inventors, playful exchanges, and pithy adages. The tone is breezy and satirical.
The Dairy Kitchen at 108 Madison Street resumes operations after a ten day remodeling. The same management invites patrons to return and enjoy updated facilities.
A grocer refunds customers who dislike Schilling's Rest coffee, with the seller covering the return. The note emphasizes airtight packaging prevents aroma escape and promises payment to the grocer if the customer rejects the product.
H. M. Herrin & Co at 610 First Ave offers 100 shares of Golden Gate stock at 0.46 dollars per share and 1,000 shares of American Canadian Oil at 0.13 dollars per share.
A real estate sales pitch offers quick deals through International Bond Realty Co located at 1009 American Bank Building. The ad targets owners wishing to sell any description of property and seeks swift service.
South Royalston Massachusetts widow Martha Patch aged 70 greeted neighbors who hung crape on her door in mourning after she was found dead. Dozens of women visited her home expressing concern and she explained she was simply lonesome, not recently dead.
Royal Diarymaid reports Lady Helen Grimeton eldest daughter of Lord Verulam is praised as the most capable pupil at the county council dairy school in Chelmsford. She quickly took charge of a churn after three days while three weeks of coaching is typical. The Earl of Verulam is noted as a practical farmer with large estates.
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