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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
4
A historian tone warns that 125 heart disease deaths in New York in one week reflect extreme urban stress and self destructive pace. The piece questions ambitions and indulgences worth dulling health or snapping the heart under modern haste.
A critical profile portrays Nathan Allen as a criminal millionaire at the head of a Kenosha tannery empire. It contrasts his wealth with dire worker conditions, detailing 2,000 laborers paid under nine dollars weekly and crowded, plain living. The piece notes Allen’s lavish European trip with a mistress and a Sheridan Road mansion funded by jewels and lavish spending.
Observers condemn Hay for spending $13 000 to secure an uncontested nomination on the standout ticket. The piece notes his perceived weakness with voters and calls it a vain effort to fool the electorate. It also praises Senator Jones for facing the likely fate of standpatism.
An advertorial touts Pape's Diapepsin as a safe quick remedy for dyspepsia and sour stomach. It claims digestion is aided in five minutes and that the stomach is strengthened to allow eating without fear, with lasting health benefits.
A lazy boy protests fatigue while an old man taunts him. The man bets the boy ten cents he can saw more of the woodpile before supper, provoking the boy to grab the saw and prove him wrong. The exchange ends with the boy confident of winning.
A fragmented clipping mixes snatches of dialogue and mock headlines. It features a comical взыскательная exchange over a miracle salve for pitchers, a mock manager’s reply, and stray remarks about jealousy and quarrels, all presented in a chaotic newspaper-verse tone.
In a breezy chatter of locals, two stories unfold. A dealer recalls Mose Madison as the hardest scrooge yet and recounts paying seventeen dollars for a horse later sold for fourteen dollars and seventy five cents. A separate scene hints at Madge returning from the shore with nine marriage proposals recorded in her dictaphone, amid workplace banter about a stencil and a dressmaker stroll.
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows a brash huckster challenging a curbstone laborer while a quick talking sophomore touts a carrot sale. The exchange highlights street commerce and comic braggadocio around a college town scene.
A collage of witty exchanges on preservation politics and campaign life features a farmer and a brokered parlor scene. Notable lines reference preserving woods, marching in parades, taxes, and a candidate for congress with a jokey, self aware tone.
The October issue of Woman's Home Companion offers a look at the latest Paris fashions adapted for American women, promising captivating yet practical style ideas.
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