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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
4
The text lists Seattle Star mailing details and regional agencies in Ballard and Everett, with subscription pricing and renewal procedures. It notes address labels show renewal dates and that unpaid subscriptions are removed from the list.
The piece notes that in a dominant party primary the focus is on nominating contests, with Democrats in Washington anticipating later influence. It highlights Cotterill versus Godman for Senate endorsement and a governor race, urging Democrats to study candidates and vote, to counter corruption and turn out voters.
The Seattle bar endorses six candidates for six Seattle Superior Court vacancies in a June bar primary. The editorial argues nonpartisan judiciary aids justice and notes several worthy lawyers, including John F. Main, John S. Jurey, Robert B. Albertson, A. W. Frater, Mitchell Gilliam, and George E. Morris, were chosen while others like Boyd J. Tallman were left out.
A collage of odd lines and historical notes mentions tainted money, a 1909 Seattle exposition, fruit yields, a parachute joke about Frederick IV, a Salome reference, and various antiquated quotes. It lacks a coherent story, presenting fragmentary items, names, dates, and stray phrases.
A collage of brief humorous vignettes features a reverend queried about his daughter and a rustic misunderstanding about an alleged bike accident. Other pieces include a booster remark on prosperity, a motorist’s safety exchange, a bookstore encounter, and a light poem about a dancer and Terpsichorean notes.
In a fragmented humor piece from a Mission Sunday School page a teacher and children exchange quips about worry and animals on the ark. The snippets include names Amarty Williams Bandy Toole and a jest about fleas and scratching. The text hints at a coastal note about the ocean and a country parson.
General Manager James Tyson of the Charles Nelson Company arrives in Seattle to supervise trials of the freighter Riverside, to be run off the Vashon Island course tomorrow. In Portland, Yaoo Tarono Numano arrives to assume duties as consul, newly created position.
A list notes presidential candidates whose surnames end in N and ran with vice presidential partners whose surnames also end in N. It claims all such pairs won except Bryan and Stevenson, citing Jefferson and Clinton, Madison and Clinton, Jackson and Calhoun, Jackson and Van Buren, Van Buren and Johnson, Lincoln and Hamblin, Lincoln and Johnson, and Harrison and Morton.
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