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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1904
Page
4
A Denver romance follows William Seip, a nine year streetcar conductor, and Enid Phelps, wealthy debutante. Seip buys a corner grocery. she accepts him despite family opposition, proving democracy over caste. The story extends to social commentary on class and society.
A 16 year old West Virginia girl marries into the Hatfield family and speculation swirls over her future stage career should her husband be assassinated. An Indiana bank wrecker’s home is destroyed by dynamite. A Philadelphia singer cites a jeweller thief charged against a man. Chicago doctors alleged to pay commissions for referrals.
Prof W G Johnson of New York emerges as a leading candidate for assistant secretary of agriculture in Washington. Editor of American Agriculturist he is a renowned figure in U S farming circles with a background at Ohio State Cornell Stanford Illinois and Maryland including state entomologist and Paría award recipient.
Fragmented public notes present skits and banter featuring Weber and Fields with jokes about barbers, elections, and regional dialect. The piece includes classroom humor from Springfield and a brief Josh Wiser excerpt about sudden fame.
A collage of brief items mentions Alesieff heading to Harbin after gunfire at Mukden, debates on expertise, weight concepts for Russian soldiers, vote buying by beer, Judge Parker’s walk, a fashion note on sik brafa and taffeta, a race mishap at ground level, Col Jo Giiden’s prank, and Charley Anderson’s Eldorado venture ending in a meteoric marriage, with a fragmentary question about a citizen in the eastern United States. The text reads like a gossip column of oblique vignettes.
Local brief notes a robbery of clothing from a line with a farmer’s warning not to leave garments out overnight. The tale ends with a moral about guarding laundry and a mention of Leavenworth Becho.
J. Robinson, 56, a laborer tiling a ditch in hop yards one mile below Oregon City, Ore, was buried under tons of dirt and killed yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile Jimmie Haley of Bellingham, aged about 6, mangled his left hand in a dynamite cap blast yesterday. The Ten Weeks school for farmers will be revived at the state agricultural college this year for practical farmers only. A Japanese worker named John from Mukilteo is en route to Japan to join the reserves after a $250 purse was given to him. he leaves a wife in Mukilteo. A teachers institute is under way in Pomeroy this week with many Garfield county teachers attending. The Bell ingham Bay Lumber Co has won a Panama Canal lumber contract requiring 1,078,000 feet of material. Arlington bicycle man Peter Jarama, missing since the previous Sunday near Mount Vernon, is being sought. The laying of the new international cable between Bellingham and Victoria has been completed. A superior court jury awarded J. Br. Agnew $7,500 for 10 feet taken in widening Pike street.
Arnold Zbinden councilman of the Sixth ward returns from Nebraska and the St. Louis world fair to witness the council grant him a saloon license. He criticizes the Seattle Washington exhibit and complains about city and county advertising funds. L M Gray & Co. report the steamship Norwood will depart San Francisco October 29 for Seattle.
A reader touts Pyramid Pile Cure as cure for hemorrhoids after suffering over thirty years. He reports quick relief for fifty cents and urges others to write to Pyramid Drug Co. for a free informational booklet.
Advertisement invites readers to inspect the Simplex Piano Player and a large stock of talking machines and small instruments, inviting a visit before buying. It emphasizes making new and staunch friends daily through offerings and demonstrations.
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