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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
4
Public notice outlines mail delivery details for The Star with private exchanges and subscription reminders. Includes Beattle Washington post office handling, main office contact at Main 108, and instructions to call for undelivered copies to ensure subscriber service.
The Rev Dr Goodley laments a friend's thin condition and questions his drinking. Smith replies he bears an awful load to bear, highlighting personal strain and responsibility amid the street exchange.
A humorous snippet from Everybody’s Magazine titled Machine-Made Mirth pokes fun at politics and social mores. It features a sleepy congressman, quips about the senate, and a collage of jokes from readers, with characters like Gertie Mollie and Hortense weighing in on love, work, and gender roles.
A Monday stock surge in United Copper from 35 to 60 collapses after a corner scheme fails. Brokers deliver as promised, causing a dramatic crash that ruins the astute firm and triggers bank and company failures worldwide, illustrating the dangers of “honest business” on Wall Street.
The column questions Mrs Chadwick’s charitable bequests to Western Reserve University Women’s college hospitals Home for Aged Women Incurables’ home Home for Crippled Children Humane Society Day Nursery and a trust fund. It ponders whether the deeds reveal genuine humanity beneath fraud and deceit and asks readers to believe in the good underlying evil in people.
A humorous stage dialogue features exaggerated racing talk with mock German accents. Characters riff on horses and betting while quips about riding, doping, and saucy costumes provoke laughter in an old time vaudeville skit.
A father's lecture to his son about a toucan outlines the scientific name Beakodingu Alitonceus and explains the bird's notable three figure bill and unique egg. The exchange blends humor with a pseudo scientific tone in a rural setting.
In a curious scene, Luther Nurbank aims to cross a creature with the Shanghai rooster to yield future progeny capable of grasping corn with a beak. The bird uses a large, hooked bill to roost and swing between branches, a Madagascar sight that ends in mishap and natives collecting the birds.
Seattle Star exclusive on Laura A. Smith who visited 150 churches and wrote unflattering reports about how strangers were treated. She faced denouncements as a fake and a spy while ministers split over the critique. Smith defended her reporting and noted mixed clergy and lay reactions.
Take a trip to the U S navy yard to see battleships Oregon Wisconsin and Nebraska. Also on view are the cruisers Charleston Boston Buffaro and the training ship Philadelphia with mammoth dry docks torpedo boats and the prison ship Nipsic. Boats depart Mer 2 foot of Yester way every day for six cents round trip six cents.
A Washington assistant secretary learns his lost umbrella is found in a third store after visiting three shops. He praises the third seller’s honesty, remarking the honesty is greater there than at the other stores. A congressman’s secretary also wakes the congressman, reporting possible burglars.
A collection of humorous maxims and witticisms including remarks on life habits money and love. The piece also notes Columbia Lodge No 2 A O U W planning the 39th anniversary with an event at Columbia Lodge Hall on Friday evening October 25 featuring an initiation address by Hon J H Schively and refreshments with members invited.
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