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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
4
The Seattle paper urges a thorough investigation into the Independent company’s franchise taxes and profits with a plan to form a locally controlled firm to buy out both existing providers. It argues two-phone duplication harms residents and may push toward a single, better managed local system.
A fragmentary newspaper page mixes quips and dialogues with humorous vignettes. It includes a mock exchange about champeene and brewery ownership and scenes about Father’s birthday and a comic family moment. Mrs. Dr. Geo W Miracle is noted in a closing line.
Child recounts a chaotic movie scene where Jimmie dodges danger across a road and a windmill, survives an animal assault, and ends up eating a pie while bears and a crowd react, claiming the sequence happened in a moving picture show and hinting at a repeat viewing.
The Prohibition party formed in 1869 in Chicago with 500 delegates from 19 states and a broad platform. It seeks to abolish liquor traffic, close saloons on government property, enforce liquor laws, end interstate liquorm trade, and appoint sober officials. Eugene Wilder Chafin led the ticket in recent years with rising vote totals.
A snippet describes vivisection practice with curare that deprives a subject of speech and movement. The narrator notes a slight left-hand movement suggesting consciousness and mentions a preventive coating. The text hints at ethical concerns about torture-like experiments.
A narrative describes a sculptor Fayant enthralled by life likeness. He imprisons a baseball pitcher named King in plaster to model a statue. King endures agony as voices echo from holes in the cast until a dramatic rescue occurs.
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