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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
4
The piece notes that working bent over forces the body to adapt with bones and muscles in unnatural positions. It advises taking recreation hours to offset the bent over tendency and encourages regular exercise.
Editorial argues Seattle Electric Co must sell four cent tickets on public demand and the commission should ensure convenient sale points across multiple tracks. It condemns rate making as a distraction and urges keeping old rates with fewer obstacles, while criticizing Vassar education costs as excessive.
A Rockefeller professor at a Chicago university argues in a new book that big business must stop its brutal war on labor unions and admit labor representatives on boards. He frames it as an evolution from tyranny to democracy in industry, warning the Tory mindset is doomed as times change.
An advertising brief claims Cascarets cure upset stomach biliousness and constipation by sweetening the stomach removing sour fermenting food and foul gases and carrying off waste. It promises relief by morning after a Cascaret tonight.
Argentine beef price edged down by four cents a pound in New York market. Five hunters have been killed in Wisconsin over the past eight days as the deer season nears an end.
Albert Townsend and Emil Swarm hunted in Kaat Aspetuck brook when Swarm's dog flushed a polecat. The skunk darted into a house. the housewife trapped it by the tail and threw it out as Swarm waited to dispatch. The animal fled but its memory lingers in town chatter.
A fragmented dialogue touches on safety razors, a youthful United States tennis champion, and random queries about pies, monkey wrenches, the hall tree, and liquor in prisons. It ends with a request for a pattern for a Savannah wrapper and an apology for lack of space.
A gaunt man checks into a Willamette hotel offering top floor lodging. The proprietor notices a coil of rope and the man explains it is his personal fire escape. The landlord, dryly, notes guests with fire escapes pay in advance.
A quirky set of reader queries arrives asking for dental paste for a rubber comb and how to tan bananas, plus inquiries about learning the saddle horn in Seattle and regrowing ingrown teeth in the opposite direction. The items mix humor with sought advice and local talent.
A foreign boy named Thomas Combine residing at Shenango Row was struck by an automobile yesterday at noon near the lower end of Main Street in Sharon causing injuries. The incident occurred in broad daylight with no further details available on the vehicle or condition.
The piece mimics a scattershot column noting rains adding 10 pounds per head to 10 million cattle and a $10 million hoof gain. It lampoons Bryan, Monte Carlo riches, and a Chicago hell debate while poking at press chatter and Missouri editor vanity in a clipped, humorous urban pamphlet style.
An advertisement extols Knowlton's Dandeline as stopping hair loss and erasing dandruff after use. It claims immediate scalp improvement and new hair growth within weeks, urging readers to buy a 25 cent bottle from any drug store or toilet counter.
London correspondent William G. Shepherd surveys views from Europe on America as a land of opportunity and hope despite wage and class tensions. He contrasts American egalitarian schooling and labor prospects with European class divisions and upper‑class dominance. Continued tomorrow.
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