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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
4
The notice explains subscription management with address labels showing expiration dates and steps to avoid removal. It advises calling the main office at Main 1060 between 9 and 1 to report missed copies and ensure continued delivery. It emphasizes prompt advance payment and subscriber cooperation for reliable service.
An editorial argues a national department of public works could curb wasteful river and harbor spending and force fair freight pricing. It supports strong action to regulate waterways, forests and public lands while questioning the specifics of how such a department would operate.
A writer for an English tailor’s magazine analyzes customers into three classes: minimum risks, slow payers, and bad payers. He says farmers, small business proprietors, and the general weekly wage earner are good credits, while clergymen, retired officers, lawyers, and less prosperous professionals tend to pay slowly. Soldiers, sailors, itinerant traders, brokers, actors, and literary men appear on the bad pay list. Abroad and at home the average weekly wage earner is generally trusted.
A collage of quips, literary snippets, and notices references jokes about Crookedness, theater gowns, motor health, tooth pulling, and social foibles. Includes an ad for Oriental Millard pool hall in Seattle with eight tables and a 5x10 table, plus playful lines about fashion, diplomats, and travel details at the U S Navy Yard with ships listed and round trips priced.
The text quips about Geo. B. Cortelyou's secretiveness, tracing his life from shorthand to private secretary roles and finally to cabinet and Republican committee chair, joking that his greatest trait is forgetfulness and concealment of a presidential boom.
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