Strike Breakers End: Landor's San Francisco Graft Tale
The third chapter of John Dathan Landor’s account follows his stint posing as a streetcar strike breaker in San Francisco. He details graft, motorman deals, and the volatile culture around union drivers, as a new motorman joins and a string of collisions marks a perilous day.
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John Dathan Landor
San Francisco
Black Bill
Pill
Anetanter
Nus
Mte
New York
Big Salmon Caught by Chance by Woman in Canada
Special to The Sun tells of a 43 pound salmon caught on a light 10 ounce cane rod by a woman on the Grand river in Gaspe Basin Canada. A guide helped wrestle the fish from the pool as the man’s heart raced and the fish surged through rapids before landing.
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Gaspe Basin
Canada
Grand River
Saumon
Anenska
Norway
Nottingham
Jack
Tay
Scotland
Rhine
Rasle
Fear and hatred in a strikebreaker portrait
A narrator recalls fear of a driver who resembles a dangerous figure, Harry Orchard. He considers recording the strikebreaker's life story but finds him repulsive and declines conversation. A conductor quarrels with a cashier over alleged company money, hinting at violence and tension on the line.
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Harry Orchard
Chicago
Queer Doukhobors On March Across Canada Recounted
Manitoba dispatch describes a large Doukhobor march toward warmer climates. They travel on foot from Canada toward Montreal aiming for passage to southern Europe, seeking better conditions with little food money or clothing. The group, claiming kinship as brothers and sisters, historically faced Russian exile and later emigration aided by a substantial fund.
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Canada
Montreal
Europe
Paul Jezar
Russia
Siberia
England
America
War to the Hatpin Flares in Girls Strike Skirmish
In upper New York, girl strikers clash with strike breakers from Rattner Bros white goods factory over a two month walkout at the corset covers plant. A confrontation aboard an elevated train ends with three arrests after police intervene. The strike remains ongoing and the plant is described as in a state of siege.
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Hatpin
Marcel Wave
New York
Rattner Bros
The Gem Laundry Ad Offers Family Washings and Drying
Local laundry ad announces family washings with rough dry at 6 cents per pound and ironing on all flat pieces. Contact by phone at 1671 for service.
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GEM
Park View Sanitorium Treatments and Doctors
Park View Sanitorium offers cancer skin uterine and rectal disease treatment. Dr L T Leach operates in New York and California.
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Park View
L. T. Leach
New York and
California-sts
Puro Distilled Water and Local Advertisements
A compact notice lists Puro Distilled Water Company products including half gallon bottles priced at five cents and five gallon demijohns at forty cents. It also advertises a new phone number 2177 and a main line 778, plus regional promos for The Bull and Bear and Compeer Cigar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puro Distilled Water Company
Unwritten Law Seen as Boon to Society by LA Prosecution
Los Angeles Aug. By declaring the unwritten law a boon to society and stating he would not prosecute those invoking it, Prosecuting Attorney E. J. Fleming sparked a citywide uproar. After a coroner's inquest into a slain woman's case he proclaimed the unwritten law boon to society, saying no red blooded officer would prosecute avengers of ruined homes. The debate followed as five LA murder trials where unwritten law was the defense yielded four acquittals.
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the Sun
Los Angeles
E. J. Fleming
Fleming
One Bromos Quinine Laxative Remains The Original Jet Cold Tab
A historical note explains that only a single remedy called Bromo Quinine, a laxative branded as the first and original Cold Tab Jet, comes in a white package with black and red lettering and carries the signature E. W. Grove 2c, warning that similarly named products can be deceptive.
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E. W. Grove
Applications for License in Marion County 1907 Notice
Notice to citizens of Sixth ward Center township Indianapolis that Jay G Wilbraham will apply to the Marion county Board of Commissioners at the September term 1907 for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking at English hotel saloon 152 Monument place ward 1. CHAS A Howes also gives notice for pool table.
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Center Township
Board of Commissioners
Marion County
Indiana
Monument Place
Indianapolis
Jay G. Wilbraham
Capitol Avenue
Ohio Street
Chas. A. Howes
City Advertisements Notice to Contractors Indiana Public Works Openings
Notices from the Board of Public Works Indianapolis announce sealed bids for Hazel Street Massachusetts Avenue and Valley Avenue paving with vitrified brick roadway and cement sidewalks. Bid bond of 100 accompanies proposals due August 12. Also notices approving vacation of alleys and openings to widen Washington Boulevard Michigan Street and Thirty-second Street improvements. Remonstrance hearings set for September 4 and August 7 with assessment rolls on file.
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Department OF Public Parics
Board
Majestic
Indianapolis
Ind
Nonice
Board of Public Works
Indiana
Nuur
Hazel Streer
Massachusetts Avenue
Valley Avenue
Maiuke
Remuable
Joseph T. Elliott
Preston C. Trusler
Fred J. Mack
Department OF Public Works
Office of the Boar
Apoll
Sixteenth Street
City of
Ashland Avenue
Bellefontaine Street
Ashlqand Avenue
Joseph JT. Elliott
Majestic Bidg
Washington Boulevard
Thirty-Fourth Street
Fortieth Street
Allison
William D
Wash_ington Park
Furnas
Ella K
Washington Park
Johnston
George W
Ington Park
Sortwell
William F
Boul
Wash
Park
Wysong
George A
E. S. Wash
W. W
W. Pk
Ton Park Add
Washingington Park
George V
W. S
N. W
E. T
Tme
Majestic Rldr
Sear of Public Works
Indianapolis Avenue
Thirty-First Street
Schuebner, S
Lot
Schuebner’s
Waren
Fred J
Michigan Street
Kealing Avenue
Lasalle Street
Northwestern Avenue
Canal
Rader Street
Street Railway Company
Sheldon Street
Nineteenth Street
Twenty-Fifth Street
Central Avenue
College Avenue
Park Avenue
Broadway
Preston €. Trusler
Bea
Purge Works
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Mr. Lander
Queer Doukhobors
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Forass Southern
Yorkton
Sherman Avenue
Gray Street
Bates
Joan
Vawter
William J. Tot
Robson & Voorhees
Kelly
Margaret
Folland’s
Stout
Hubbard
Kansas
Holland
Winberg
Gunilla M
Trolland
Gunilla
John
Vawter's
Holland's
Hole
William J
Lot Voorhees
Lot Sb
Pghteagegrigtendees
Margaret M
Holland’s
Rene D
Wan
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