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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1910
Page
4
The piece argues that Washington state should have judges named by the people rather than political bosses or interests. It calls for elected judges, including federal ones, and insists courts must serve the public will with honesty, free of partisan influence, viewing judges as umpires upholding justice. A nonpartisan judiciary is the solution.
A youth at 4 amelter in Colorado stole $1 daily for three years to fund marriage. The girl helped guard the thefts and both were caught with the gold. The piece laments wasted energy and urges honest living, imagining a future of a home rather than a prison cell.
A collage of one liners and gossip snippets mentions Lorimer Ballinger Hale Gill and Wardall. It riffs on politics health crossing the Alps fashion and Hearst while noting a Taft Roosevelt conference and a Seattle court case with playful humor and satirical headlines.
The poem addresses an aviator in the sky. The speaker warns of a potential fatal fall if a plane’s gear fails and a crash could spread remnants like a tub full of wreckage. The tone is anxious and apocalyptic.
The fragment mentions Dune Horeblock described as a birdman and notes he has contracted chickenpox. Other items reference meat prices, inflation, football and baseball topics, denatured alcohol production rising to 6 078 988 gallons for the year ending June 90, and an indictment note about Packers possibly going to jail. Additional lines touch Texas politics, New York births, Mayor Gaynor, Mme Curie radium, Ballinger, and Bucharest transit.
Famous American soprano Bernice de Pasquali, born Bernice James in Dorchester, prepares to sing with Antonio Scott for the Ladies' Musical Club in Seattle. A small act of kindness from Mrs. J H Roberts helped launch her ascent from a homesick student to a Metropolitan Opera star admired by fans and press.
Regal Dental Offices advertise a tooth replacement method avoiding partial plates, promising a full set to restore chewing and health. They claim quick improvements and cure pyorrhoea with a written guarantee from their third avenue location near Union Street.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a notice or clipping addressed to Mrs. Roberts. Mentions a singer and a location with a future Seattle meeting and a guest. Content is unclear and partially garbled, but references to Mrs. Roberts and a visitor event remain discernible.
A damaged column fragment from Washington dated November 4 1908 mentions Theodore Roosevelt Taft and general public figures. The text contains garbled lines about a grocer butcher barber and milk delivery with incomplete phrases.
A Minnesota Swede farmer, Olsen, faced a claim agent who called the cow death a trespass by the animal on railroad tracks. The agent offered sympathy but insisted the tracks were private property. Olsen finally offered two dollars as a settlement for the killed cow.
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