This was printed 110 years ago today, in the Tacoma Times: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_fir_ver01/data/sn88085187/00211108381/1914090701/0687.pdf
It was a Monday, Labor Day for that year. Elsewhere on that page is a cartoon referencing the war in Europe that had just started:
That war would eventually be called World War I. People killed or wounded: around 40 million.
The text:
That’s really interesting. And optimistic.