Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15
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Where the blacks are always above
the whites the piano.
"I am not a quitter and never
have been," says Secretary Ballinger.
Neither is Roosevelt.
Why not introduce the pretty Gus
tom of serenading the bellies and
beaus" these days as was the delight
ful custom in days of yore?
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Mrs, Jefferies made poultices and
applied them to her husbands face
after the fight. The $780, 900 les
sened the pain and the drawing of
the poultices. beyond a doubt.
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H. p. Williams, who has prospect
ed in Alaska since 1897, says that
the trouble with Iditarod is that
there are fully 1000 miners there
when there is only work for 1000
miners, and more are arriving every
day.
The biggest streak of yellow at the
Jeffries- johnson fight was James j..
Corbett. Corbett is as yellow as
Johnson is black. II ever man was
disgusting in actions and bombastic
talk, showing more yellow in his
makeup than the stadium at Ia
coma could accommodate, it was
James ]. Corbett. Vale Corbett!
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When helped to his corner Jeffries
is reported as saying: Ask John
son to give me his gloves. Gee!
Johnson offered them to jeff during
the fight, in fact was so anxious for
jeff to have them that he actually
hit him in the face with them.
What's the use of one asking for
something he has already been forced
to accept? Huh!
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What's the use of finding excuses
for the hope of the whites. John
son whipped jeff, according TO the
law of the prize-ring, and is entitled
to all the credit for doing it that
would have been accorded to Jeffries,
had he been the victor. Be a good
loser, and hope that some white
man will be discovered who will
wrest the championship from John
son. At present the laurel wreath
belongs to Jack Johnson. the negro.
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Chemists OF the department of health
and sanitation have found infection in
further shipments OF Sound oysters and
several shipments have been barred
from the market. Oysters from Shoal-
water bay and vicinity were found to
contain colon bacteria in several in
stances. ."-P.-I.. JuiyG.
So the chemists of the department
OF health in Seattle have found infec-
ton in oysters from Shoalwater bay.
Just to show what l consider the
findings of the chemist of the de-
partment of health in Seattle worth:
Waiter, bring me plate of. raw
Shoalwater bay oysters. am fond
of infection"
The Seattle Times of July 5, issued
Especial fight number" The Times
always boasts of giving it's readers
the genuine news. Maybe it does,
but its artists in the Especial fight
number" did not give the true col
ors worn by Jeffries and Johnson
during their fight at Reno. The
Times published a full, page picture
of JetfrieS, showing him as wearing
green trunks, while in reality he
wore purple ones. In the full-page
picture of Johnson, published in that
paper. Johnson is shown as wearing
salmOn-colored trunks, when in re-
ality he wore pair of robin s-egg
tights. Gee! What a chance for
the P.-L. to lance the Times art de-
partment. Time! Let the P.-L COM
mence the battle!
No nse talking. large hat-pins are
fashionable. They seem to grow in
length from year to year, and
through growing so much. they get
the ''swell head" And that's pure
vanity, for the girl who uses the Or
dinary eight-inch hat-pin is looked
down upon by her sister who f1aunts
(can you flaunt hat-pin Mr.. Muir
ply p them about a foot and half
long, to the deep disgust of pedestri-
ans, who perforce have to take to the
street in safety. Safety in the
street, mark you. in these days OF
electric cars, buzz wagons. taxicabs,
and street skating? Still. think,
I'd rather be run over than impaled
and carried along the street by the
ear. These hat-pins, too, generally
carry with them miniature art gal
leries, and the art is extremely bad.
Somewhere or other, some famous
poet q think it was Colin Vei.ch)
wrote Every picture tells story,
and the stories the pictures upon
hat-pins convey will be found in the
praise of Folly" by the ancient
Dutch scholar. Erasmus.