Salvager sucker and cable croppie spark reader letters
The Star prints reader letters debating a supposed Puget Sound salvager sucker and a cable cleaning croppie. Prof Henry Humpback denounces the salvager as invented while Oscar Donnerwetter touts the croppie’s barnacle-clearing role and notes cables in Salmon Bay and Vashon Island.
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The
Star
J. Zack W. Alton
Puget Sound
Helew
Humpback
Vic
the Star
Alton
Discovery Bay
Tropics
Arctic
Europe
South Seas
Seattle
Vashon Island
Salmon Bay
Oscar Donnerwetter
West
Market Listings Render Sparse, Shifting Prices Across Staples
Fragmented OCR shows a markets page with random commodity prices for beef pork mutton and vegetables, plus wheat and barley. Mixed entries include liver bacon eggs carrots lettuce and potatoes with fluctuating figures and place markers like Puget Sound and western Washington.
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Tiinds
Bam
Tarkaye
Westarn
Washington
Puget Sound
Between Women's Health or Suffering
The text notes many women suffer from a run-down condition described as debility and poor circulation. It links headaches, languor, nervousness, and worry to this state.
Wireless operators organize Seattle local union chapter
Fourteen wireless workers in Seattle have formed a local of the wireless union. H R Renner presides, with H Brown recording secretary, George Hayes vice president, and M L Kennedy leading the executive committee. The group continues negotiations with steamship companies for higher pay while criticizing company claims that layoffs were necessary to trim staff. Renner and Kennedy accuse federal law violations on the steamer Shickman en route to San Francisco, alleging no second class operators are aboard.
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Seattle
Wireless Union
H.R. Renner
S&s
Renner
Navy
Kennedy
San Francisco
City probes low pay contractors amid wage dispute
City officials Cate Ober and Valentine will investigate contractors who dodge a $2.75 minimum wage with tricks. A Board of Public Works resolution to bar proven price gougers from city bids for two years will be voted next Friday.
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Cate
Street Department
State Labor Federation
Ober
Buildings Department
Valentine
Utilities Department
Board of Public Works
Seattle council weighs utility rate relief and public franchise cuts
After delays, Councilman Griffiths introduces resolutions urging a study to justify petitioning the state public service commission for gas rate reductions, lower streetcar fares, and extensions. Plans for a municipal telephone election are noted, and Seattle Lighting Co. faces questions about an agreement limiting rate hikes amid no competition. Community figure Mary Jeffs to speak April 13 at the Labor Temple.
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State Public Service Commission
Seattle
Griffiths
Griffins
Ceurucimac Warsall
Seattle Lighting Co
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