Raise Interurban Rates Why
Attorney Howe for Stone & Webster asks Washington state public service commission to allow the Seattle Tacoma interurban to raise rates, arguing the line loses money while the Stone & Webster group profits. The argument questions monopoly profits and watered stock and urges selling right of way and assets at a fair price to relieve consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames RE. Howe
Stone & Webster
of Washington
State Public Service Commission
Seattle-Tacoma
Sound
Northwest
Ancient Egyptians drank wine and cabbages at feasts
The article notes Egyptians used stimulants with wine at feasts and ate bitter cabbage leaves to curb appetite. It says both men and women enjoyed varied intoxicants and often had servants carried them home at night. It also recalls 13th century medicine treating illness as poisoning and describes Albert of Austria’s suspected poisoning in 1296.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert
Austria
Rich Heiress Marries Chauffeur in New Hampshire Note
A well connected New Hampshire heiress explains her marriage to her former father's chauffeur, noting public curiosity but affirming their bond. The piece extols the groom’s character and mocks social snobbery, while referencing a WSC-like figure and a contrived satire of sport and society. It ends with a digression on Eve precedents in science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucius Tuttle
New Hampshire
Winston Churchill
Hubby
Brown
Palacius
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Fast Digestive Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a quick gentle remedy for indigestion sour stomach and gas. It claims five minute relief from upset by aiding digestion and keeping the stomach regulated with a large case priced at fifty cents.
Improbable Bass Tale of William Fetter at Canadian Lake
Wealthy young outdoorsman William Fetter travels to a Canadian lake after buying 185.19 dollars of fishing gear and 23.66 dollars of clothing. He catches 11 black bass in an hour with a heavy line while a boy using a pin hook catches nothing.
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William Fetter
William
Oddities and Opinions in a Whimsical Legal Chat
A column riffs on who became of a long nailed man and a hairparted gent, notes two lawyers charging ten dollars each for opinions, and reports on anecdotal sermons about Doc Cook and an Emperor William advisory from Andrew Carnegie. The piece references the U S supreme court gown and a Seattle lady knitting.
The Last Hope and Other Tales from Pearson's
A montage of talky vignettes touches on The Rootlace King a Yankee millionaire clinging to a bunk at sea and a failed public figure who begs for a job at ten dollars weekly. Also included are Father Vaughan’s wry quips about rivers and a street encounter with Jenkins and Smithson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Room
Rootlace King
Smithson
Jenkins
Bernard Vaughan
America
St. Louis
Hudson
Mersey
Severn
Thames
Father Vaughan
Father Vaughn
Pearson
Decided Too Early In A Dance Dilemma
A fourteen year old girl, Mary, sobbed to her older sister about being asked to the dance by three boys that night. She told the first yes and the last was a daylong planters tarper’s magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Tarper’s Magazine
Patronizing grocer and injured worker at depot
A customer rejects a store with exposed foods for cleanliness while at Burlington’s S00 Line depot Albert Ganewindt injures two toes when a trunk is dropped. Slades Corner (Wie) Mugwemp reports the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Albert Ganewindt
Slades Corner
Wie
Mugwemp
Young Man Defies Big Telephone Co To Forge New Firm
Gardnerville Nevada September 10 Jean Phillips superintendent of the Nevada Consolidated Telephone and Telegraph Co fights a demand to resign after a board letter. He organizes United Farmers Telephone and Telegraph Co and wins long switches from Nevada Consolidated forcing sale of Gardnerville exchange at a bargain. The United Farmers is now thriving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardnerville, Nev
Jean Phillips
Gardnerville
Nevada Consolidated Telephone and Telegraph Co
Jas. G. Sweeney
Supreme Justice of
Nevada
Joan
Supreme Justice
Jean
Phillips
United Farmers Telephone and Telegraph Co
Judge Sweeney
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Seattle Star
Northwest League OF Newsbarens
Daly Seatile
Seattle Week
Nat Goodwin
Nat
de Wolfe Hopper
Natty
Earth
Adam
Pape
Hofbray
First Ave
Madison St
H. A. Miller Pianist
Hn Ross Ava Npi TS
A. H
Chicago
Doe Cook
North Pole
Jonah
United States Supreme Court
Andrew Carnegie
Hill
Seattle
New Haven
Doc Cook
Doc
A. A. Raby
Third Avenue
Orpheum Theatre
M. M. Diffenbacher
Peau-De-Peche
Faille-De-Laine
Duventyne Vertical Epingle Matelasse
French Paquin Serge Mendip Tweeds
Adrianople
Swat
Cy Burton Brealey
Gardenville
Carson City
Pacific States
Jean Phillipa
Judes Bweeney
Tacoma
Ruth G. Westho
Gambe
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