Traverse City Council Grants 50 Cent Day Wages Debate
The council approved a 50 cent daily raise for city teamsters for 20 days amid debate over brick routing and road work. They approved continuing wages at 4.50 for 20 days after voting split on shorter terms. Motions on Union street, elephant donation, bicycle sidewalk rules, and dock repairs followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T. Brodhagen
A. McLachlan
Teamster’s Union
Abbott
Board of Public Works
Shane
Lardie
Traverse City
Manistee
Cadillac
Elk Rapids
Koenig Independents Rally In Twelfth For 7 2 Win
In a tightly pitched nine inning tie with the Hustlers, Koenig's Independents erupted in the twelfth inning with five runs to post a 7 to 2 victory at Bowers Harbor. McIntyre earned the win for the Independents while Gibson started for the Hustlers, despite a sprained thumb. Calby Kroupa Higgins Kimory and McIntyre delivered the decisive hits in the twelfth as both clubs fielded nearly perfect defense all game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hustlers
Koenig
Independents
Bowers’ Harbor
McIntyre
Gibson
Brief
Armstrong
Diamond
Snifkha
Crandall
Koenig Boys
Calby
Kroupa
Higgins
Kimory
Weighing Mails Shift to Origin Offices
Mail weighed on trains for three months will now be weighed at the offices where it originates. The change took effect Monday and will continue for six months to revise mail classification. The public can aid clerks by marking third and fourth class items such as books photographs and merchandise.
Blooming Coffee Plantations and Early Mill Labor
A line notes coffee plantations in bloom with a sweet odor but blossoms die quickly. It also recalls 1818 labor practices where children under seven toiled in cotton mills from early morning until late night, highlighting harsh working hours.
Big stock of veilings and rugs on sale now
Sells veilings in black white navy and blue at 75c yard with premium patterns from 25c to 75c. Full carpet size rugs in Wilton Velvet Body Brussels Smyrna and Tapestry Brussels range $10 to $60. New Togo Rugs for bedrooms and cottages plus hundreds of small rugs and a Ribbon Section with many styles and bargain prices from 1c to 24c.
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Straub Bros. & Amiotte
Union Street
Bay
Morgan Building
Rickerd
Moon
Palmer
Messrs. Goodrich
Winnie
Messrs
McCormick
H. D. Campbell
Reuben Goodrich
Morgan
Pere Marquette
Mr. Abbott
Elephant
Phonograph
Peoples Savings Bank
Moving Picture Show
T. A. Rice
Committee On Ordinances
Friedrich
Manistique
A. R. McManus
Boardman River
Park Street
Cass Street
Thomas Fitch
Vine Street
Randolph Street
Randolph
W. F. Hanks
West
Twelfth Street
Union
Streets and Walks Committee
W. E. Williams Company
Williams
Committee On Wharfs
Central Biulithic Paving Company
Suttons Bay
Recorder's Court
Ernest Bovay
Xioon
Grand Rapids
T. G. Shilson Ade
Central America
Frank Miller
A. W. Friedrich
Shoe Stoke
Miller
Wellington Street
Welington
Franklin
Frank
Forest Lodge
George H. High
Chicago
Colgate’s
Pear
Mennen’s
Gillett
the Johnson
Armour
Drug and Book Division
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