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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1904
Page
4
The Seattle Star lists its office at 188 Seventh Avenue and provides subscription details with carriage and delivery notes. A quoted Jonathan Swift line appears at the end as a dated quotation on race and politics.
A Boodler Charles F Kelley confesses to years of theft. his wife forgives and supports reform. The piece extols women as moral force, notes Joseph Folk’s anti crime efforts, and highlights the social power of loving restitution.
A New York volunteer group, The Committee on Flowers Vines and Area Planting, aims to beautify tenement life by planting flowers and vines on windows, extending parks into unsuitable areas. The plan includes municipal gardening, schools in some cities, and transplanting trees to improve squalid streets, with Seattle noted for similar ideas. A Tennessee grand jury is to probe the tobacco trust amid grim humor about its continuance.
Crabbed talk and sensational lines narrate a banker’s embezzlement case in Indiana. The piece references violent bicycle deaths, the green goods scam foiled in Mattie Creek, and a San Francisco girl with a gun, all wrapped in disdainful commentary on civility and contemporary hype.
A short, satirical note recalls dispute coverage by The Times about Lou Smith and Jack Williams. The column pokes fun at attention spent on battles of words while urging readers to settle subscriptions and hints at further gossip.
A fragment from a 19th century issue riffs on Reform era topics and war talk. The narrator recalls Carrie Nation in Kansas and Gen Miles while sharing a long humorous anecdote about a dinner sting operation at a top restaurant involving a clever coin trick and a watchful policeman. It blends social satire with vivid character names and period slang.
A six men group in a New York hotel barroom share hard luck tales on a damp cold evening. Chesburn recalls near-poverty and a lone cent as they bond over stories and plan to scrape together food and shelter.
Four of the right four and five room cottages on Union and 27th Avenue have been sold before completion. The ad urges buyers to visit, then proceed to payment at the office, claiming no other homes match them.
The piece warns appendicitis follows overeating and poor digestion. It cites Dr Curtis and endorses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets to keep digestion in order and prevent dangerous digestive illnesses.
In a tense scene a narrator wins a coin toss but loses track of a key friend. The loser smiles, pockets the coin, and the waiter interrupts with a plan to locate their missing companion before it is too late. The moment carries a sense of suspense and uncertain outcome.
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