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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
4
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Seattle clergymen weigh making the Bible a public school text amid fears of sectarian conflict. Opponents argue religious liberty and church state separation require keeping Bible study out of schools, urging home and Sunday school instruction instead. The issue centers on which version to use and the potential for strife.
Stone & Webster report for August shows Seattle Electric Company gross receipts at 382 741 dollars, up 17 210 from last year as crowding and efficiency boost profits. The satire questions expansion of cars and praises strap hangers while lampooning politics and libel damages amid national figures.
Diana Tilipickies recounts a chaotic street fair where a Decapitated lady provokes a clash with her father and onlookers. The crowd disperses after cries of Po Hee and a scuffle leaves the grocer unharmed. They flee to the depot as the Royal Zingari Troupe and Queen Victoria vanish from memory.
A garbled fragment describes a submarine and a shop in a harbor with odd, surreal phrasing. The text mentions a monkey and a bath in a nonsensical, dreamlike sequence, offering little clear event or attribution.
A garbled prose piece mentions a woman eager for facial improvement and describes a dubious method using a cream made from tannin, witch hazel, and sweet almonds. The instructions suggest heating the mixture and applying a cream to the face, with references to an Atlanta engine and Columbia.
A collage of comic snippets and social anecdotes from Georgetown and surrounding notices. Includes theatre invite, cross cultural quips at a baseball game, a Pullman tale with a baby in a market pig verse, a court scene of a Maryland trial, a blunt Virginia child abuse accusation, and local mischief over weather pride by a Georgetown observer.
A selection of white lace collars with folds of light-colored silks priced at 75 cents. Directoire ties and ruffs are also offered in the same refined style for elegant attire.
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