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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1911
Page
4
Samuel G. Blythe notes a quiet revolution in business and politics as old party lines fade. He predicts a split into radical and conservative camps, calls for cleaning the slate, and argues the people must seize control from big business and politics, urging justice over benevolence.
The Pirates and the People report a North Yakima meeting last Monday where four groups representing labor, the Grange, the Farmers Union, and the Direct Legislation League vowed united action to improve the state economy. The piece argues unity empowers the people and denounces efforts to split voters along trades.
A jumble of notes and quotes covers global and domestic issues. It mentions France beer records, Portugal monarchy, German food disorders, labor thoughts on reciprocity, and a Kansas TAFT joke amid miscellaneous social comments and cartoons.
A playful dialogue contrasts a Paris fashion frenzy with domestic banter about dresses and fringe trends. The exchange highlights cultural mania for fringe and a lighthearted clash over wardrobe choices.
The narrator recalls a decades long aviation journey from soaring dreams to failed landings in Hackensack Newark Paterson and Denver. After forty years of perseverance he seeks a new propeller stay by train and fast parts to finish his airborne course and land at twenty hundred ten.
A Dr Robert Edginton report in the British Industrial Diseases study links lead poisoning to occupations in Birmingham. The highest cases arise from painting motorcar bodies safes and stoves with lead-containing enamel, followed by house painters and girls smoothing bedsteads and bird cages. Lead dust from sanding surfaces is a key exposure.
A humor item jokes that De Swift delays divorce as his wife takes to monoplaning. The comic line suggests aeroplanes will not save money for cars and wells, and that women will spend on silk stockings and high heeled shoes as aviation rises in popularity.
A tourist travels rough country with a boastful driver who knows every road. After a stretch of bumpy miles a deep hole launches the buckboard and the driver quips about the ride. The tourist proclaims he wouldn't miss it for the world.
A former Marshall resident inquires about the town and a rumored curfew. An informant explains they once had a 9 pm bell curfew but residents complained it woke many. the law has since been abandoned.
A collage of quirky lines features banks closing after family departures and a mock exchange about roosters crowing at 2 a m. A joke about a wife learning to swim surfaces with a judge's remark and a dealer humor shot about selling jokes to an editor.
A fragment notes Mrs B described as having a model husband and Mrs W mentioned with a date range around 1911 through 1912. The text is fragmentary and links two women to unspecified events or observations without clear context or outcomes.
A collage of verse comments and quips spans lullaby imagery of a sleeping child and a mother’s prayer, blended with satirical musings from public figures and jokes. The fragmentary text weaves nursery imagery with social satire and aphorisms.
A call invites boys and girls to submit essays on Why I Am Glad That I Live in the United States with a $20 prize pool. Submissions must be inked on one side and include name age school and address at the top. Entries close Saturday October 28.
In a dialogue, the ready made philosopher quips riches have wings while Palmer Sorntossel retorts that wealth will be trapped yet by people who hoard it for themselves, framing a debate on wealth and restraint.
An UW discussion critiques sorority rush activities and Sunday invitations. About 230 of 860 students are members with 60 new recruits yearly. The author urges preserving Sunday as a day of rest and proposes finishing recruitment on Saturday to avoid spreading social pressures.
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