Seattle Voices Call for Bigger Auditorium Amid Opera Hope
Letters and public protest urge Seattle to build a larger theatre after expenses and audience limits deny many eternal Grand Opera performances. Californians, local clubs, and citizens plead for an auditorium that welcomes visitors and supports the arts without turning away paying fans. The piece cites the Ladies' Musical club as promoter and laments current venues as inadequate.
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Seattle
Metropolitan Theatre
Ladies’ Musical Club
Kings
California
San Francisco
Life and prices mix in a muddled sermon on work and learning
An odd tract laments high auto prices and food costs while railing at wages for college coaches and vaudeville acts. It contrasts private wealth with historic figures and notes public suspicion about schooling and patriotism. The piece blends social critique with scattered aphorisms and satire.
Fitting Revenge in Telegram Exchange
A brief Telegram exchange closes with a vented grudge over a stolen car. The thief is wished to endure long loss, echoing a reputation for maverick retaliation in a terse, noir-esque tone.
Advantage and the price of privilege in a working-class view
A conversation contrasts wealth and its claimed advantages with the hard-won lessons of working women. One speaker mourns private education and travel for her daughter, while another argues self-reliance and daily labor teach dignity, perspective, and neighborly understanding, redefining what truly counts as advantage.
Who’ll Turn the Grindstone Speech Origins
Charles Miner, a 19th century writer who died in 1865, is credited with popularizing the ax to grind phrase. In 1811 he published an essay in a Pennsylvania newspaper that linked a boy’s blistering grindstone experience to the saying, a notion that has persisted for over a century.
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Ben Franklin
Charles Miner
Ebscure
Pennsylvania
Miner
Athens of old and the gods we would call them today
The passage contrasts ancient Athens famed for poets, philosophers, and statesmen with modern measures of progress through invention. It muses that if today’s breakthroughs like the phonograph and cinema were imagined as ancient feats, we would revere those Athenians as gods for their imagined powers.
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Athens
United States
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Pericles
Phodian
Polygnotus
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Pindar
Aristophanes
Thucydides
Demosthenes
Rent profiteers and price hikes dominate a curious column
The article compares rent profiteers to other price gougers noting rent costs rose 68 percent while fuel light and heat up 66 percent and food up 119 percent. It lists various profiteering sectors and quips about politicians and international affairs with satirical asides.
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National Industrial Conference Board
The Blue Bird as Symbol of Happiness Inspires All
Doctor Frank Crane’s Daily Article argues the Blue Bird, symbolizing happiness, is pursued by everyone from beggars to bishops, Prohibitionists to partygoers, all chasing a common ideal. He contrasts daily striving and belief, noting people mistake cages for reality and asks where the Bird truly resides.
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Maceterlinck
Cox
Harding
Heaven
Hell
Baltimore Scout Helps Lady with Papers
A Baltimore Scout records daily good deeds. Tuesday he bought a paper for a lady, Wednesday he did the same, and Thursday he arranged for a boy to deliver papers to her regularly.
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Baltimore
An Unreasoning Faith and Its Dangers
A critique of unprovable beliefs and emotional doctrine. The essay argues reasoning, not feeling, should test truth and warns that public policy based on superstition destroys society. It condemns zealots, autocrats, and propagandists who weaponize belief and fear.
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Africa
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