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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1922
Page
11
The Chamber has aided Seattle’s tourism and arid land reclamation efforts through aggressive advertising and events. The Star urges doubling membership, praising programs and urging constructive change from within. The message ends with a quip about wine men and a cop.
The Star notes a strong undercurrent of sex antagonism as women gain rights and workers rise. Men resent the woman vote and shifts in behavior, while women seek polite treatment and loyalty from husbands. Editor Gant’s aside mocks drunken alibis and editorial fuss.
In a speech to Western men the vice president criticizes a war era boom for the working class and spars with wage figures. A federal wage set at 1.86 a day is noted while a Richmond board of trade caucus argues a family must earn 5 000 a year to break even. The piece mocks elites and ponders a link between underpaid workers and high earners amid calls for reform.
Letter-writer praises Malcolm Douglass for prosecuting effort in King County, noting his tough stance on crooks and evildoers and his rehabilitation work with first offenders. Encourages strong primary support to ensure a large majority and unanimous backing.
A farmer balks at a two block, five mile fare rule when a conductor charges ten cents for a ride to G-at. He insists the fare should reflect distance and vows to ride to the end and walk back, challenging the uniform rate.
A bootlegger’s agent visits a downtown office building offering gin cognac whisky and rye with high prices and case quantities. He claims the sale is legal and promises delivery after taking orders while staff react with disbelief and concern.
A review of J Arthur Thomson’s four volume Outline of Science highlights a chapter on plant insect pollination. It argues flowers and insects form a mutual system for pollen transfer guided by flower traits and insect behavior, challenging chance as sole driver of life’s intricate relations.
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