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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1903
Page
2
In a period of growing inequality the text argues prosperity must lift common workers with higher wages and employment. It cites census figures showing stagnant or falling real wages, rising per‑wage output, and billionaire dividends as evidence of skewed gains, plus tax and corporate issues highlighting wealthy resistance to fair taxation.
The clipping lists wholesale prices for hay, grain, and crops in Washington, with per ton and per bushel figures. It also notes dairy prices for butter and eggs, fresh pork and beef cuts, and assorted vegetables, with regional variation and hints of market trends such as butter prices slipping and apples remaining scarce.
April 11 report states the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pair were decapitated and their skulls would be used in a New York court to challenge evidence from French men Mas and Morane though Mrs. Pair died naturally. The bodies, brought but not buried, stirred family friends as attorneys suspected Mrs. Nelson the mother of Mrs. Fair of trying to claim the estate. An attorney said eminent surgeons who examined the skulls would testify it was impossible for Charles Fair to have died before his wife.
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