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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1907
Page
4
The Seattle Star announces telephone exchanges and office contacts for Sun Saturday and Ballard agencies. It details delivery options including mail and carrier service, subscription billing, address label changes, and a nighttime call-in service for missed copies to ensure subscribers receive the paper reliably.
A deserter from a battleship explains his dislike for holystoning decks describing the work and the navy’s realities. The piece contrasts glamorous navy myths with the demanding daily labor, urging grit and duty over escapist fantasies. It asserts there is no place for shirkers in any field.
The third Mills hotel for workers in New York debuts with 1875 rooms, reading rooms, library, laundry, and a low rent restaurant. Built of stone terra cotta and steel and rising 15 stories, rooms cost 30 to 40 cents nightly. It embodies charity that gives with sympathy and love and leaves no sting.
A letter by Ella K Dearborn argues that a henpecking wife destroys happiness at home and drains joy from family life. The piece likens such behavior to a constitutional disease and ends with a redacted epitaph for Mrs Henpeck Jones, Rest in peace.
A backyard show features That Boy Next Door and a hybrid dog with feathers. The crowd pays a cent, hoping for stings, as the animal escapes into an alley and the Humane Society pursues tarring and feathering charges.
A garbled passage presents a mysterious character sketch with jagged phrases. The text hints at a writer crafting poignant lines and a provocateur delivering bone cracking humor, but the exact meaning remains unclear due to the damaged OCR.
A recipe explains making jelly from one half bushel of grapes costing about 75 cents plus sugar totaling $1.36 for 30 glasses. Instructions cover washing, pressing through cheesecloth, boiling juice, heating sugar, and canning in a porcelain lined kettle with clear, bright jelly results.
In Switshhurst scene drawing room Lord Tummyake declares engagement to Muriel brewer’s daughter. Lady Absinthe threatens exposure to stop the match while accusing him of folly. They clash amid feigned warmth and confidences as the curtain nears.
A jumbled reader submission mix notes prize talk for a beat third term essay life in brief spans. It references a Fourth of July movement and a Dec 25 interval, then shifts to comic exchanges about a cat, kittens, and chickens.
A playful collage of quips and verse on germs and plague with literary riffs and social jabs. Bits reference John and a domestic scene, then pivot to microbes as metaphors for humor, danger, and culture, ending with an ad for rental tents on Second Avenue.
Mars correspondent Mr Skygack writes from Earth with wireless notes of local scenes and observations. He reports on human life and media activity, delivering a quirky outsider perspective in compact form.
Take a voyage to the U S navy yard to view battleships Oregon Wisconsin and Nebraska cruisers Charleston Heston Buffalo and training ship Philadelphia plus dry docks torpedo boats and prison ship Nipsic. Boats depart Mer 2 foot of Yester way six times daily round trip six cents.
A housewife’s purchase judgment on coffee quality is debated as a grocer offers refunds on Schilling's Best if customers are unhappy, promising store support and product satisfaction.
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