Pay Gap Between Teachers and Street Sweepers Sparks Outcry
A historic New Haven debate highlights pay inequality as teachers earn about 300 a year while the lowest street sweeper wage tops 530. The piece argues education justice requires elevating teachers to match the value of their work and reform salaries nationwide.
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New Haven
Conn
F Learning
Chicago
Washington
Columbus
Miss
United States
The Glasgow Method of Municipal Training in Ownership
Glasgow shows how city ownership succeeds through citizen training and steady civic effort. The article argues Glasgow built gas works water supply tramways markets and services by long policy and responsible public spirit, suggesting American cities can learn the same school of experience and governance.
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Glasgow
Clyde
Deas
Water Department
Asaid
Astoria Regatta Planned Despite Oceanic Allusions
The fragment mentions Astoria planning a regatta this year with a humorous note about water in the heavens and on earth. It also touches on Seattle building permits, bank clearings, and a comment about Kipling’s new poem The Pro Consul. The piece references Portland’s assessor's tally and a jail break report in the Evening Times.
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Tacolma
Seattle
Astoria
Evening Times
Nan Byxbee
Editorial on labor, class and the bell atop society
Mrs Marguerite T Bell of Bellingham argues that women who work to support themselves face social contempt. The piece denounces class prejudice in society and the pressure on women to avoid labor while insisting honest work should be respected. She compares laboring women to the era’s southern oppression and urges equal treatment.
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Celf
Mia
Mr. So
Neighbor
Marguerite T. Bell
Bellingham
Wash
Odd Bits from the City Desk and Road
Variety items describe a Rockefeller prayer note a dirge playing for cars and seasick humor. Demosthenes Lycurgua sails to Greece to return to Hilo Volcano House, and a Niagara rapids swim tale hints at dangerous stunts. Auto tourists taunt Leicester after fines for searches.
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Demosthenes
Demosthenes Lycurgua
Volcano House
Victoria
B. C
Athens
Greece
Islands
Hilo
Volcano
Honolulu
Elevator Escape Gone Wrong in Tense Chapter Moment
In a suspenseful scene a police officer attempts to flee upward in a moving lift. He slips and falls inside the car, causing a jarring halt and a scream as the elevator advances to the next floor, leaving his fate uncertain.
Decapitation Ends Life of Lorde in Naval Case
In a grim naval trial scene a headless trunk lay on the floor as officials processed the medical aftermath. The coroner's jury returned a verdict as Lorde faced future penalties once feared, including hanging or electrocution, though guillotine had haunted him.
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Ated
Lorde
Mrs Depew Confronts Tension at the Farm
At the Depew farm tensions rise as Mrs. Depew, her daughter, and George Depew clash over Gerald’s departure. The farmer reflects that his anger was foolish and suspects Gerald’s story about bank notes hidden in a folded newspaper. The midday meal proceeds amid strained conversation.
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Gerald
Brown's Painiess Dentists Address and Hours
Brown's Painiess Dentists lists locations at 733 First Avenue and Union Block with offices 1 2 3 4 6 and near MacDeou gall and Bouthwick's. Hours run 8 30 a m to 6 20 p m and Sunday 8 90 a m to 12 30 p m.
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Partors
Union Block
One Deer
MacDeougall & Bouthwick
Second Avenue
First Ave
Seattle
Noor Howard
Penn Mutual Life
Atlantic City Frontage Lots Ad With Gracious Terms
Terms to good party twenty five dollars down and nineteen dollars per month. Lake front lots at Atlantic City Addition priced from five dollars up with terms one dollar per week. New six foot walks, fine boating and bathing. See Griffin at Atlantic City Store on Washington street car line or D. Hillman in Times block.
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Becerr Sv
Bartrees Department
Sunset
Main
Ballard Star Agency
Hollard Ave
Sunset Red
Ea Man
Subserviers
Brattle
Washington
Numbis
Atlantic City
Griffin
Washington Street
D. Hillman
Times Block
Farmer’s Return and Townsfolk Reproach in Lively Letter Scene
In a tense rural scene Mrs Depew and her husband argue over a found fortune and a presumed thief. The farmer plans to plead forgiveness with Gerald Danvers in New York while Tessie frets over the money’s origin and the family’s reaction. A special delivery letter reveals a sum of nineteen thousand pounds as the tale continues.
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Mra. Depew
N’york
Oakville
Ne York
Gerald Danvers
Tees
Tessie
County Lunatic Asylum
Hoe
Sam
George Depew
N'York
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James
Becon4
Beth
Sheriff Smith
Kipling
Avastin
Portland
Star Readers
John D. Rockefeller
Josh Wise
Matt
Niagara Rapids
Leicester
Maas
Alaska
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Brown's Painters
First Avenue
Brown’s
State of
State Society Dental Board
Brown's Painiess Dentists
Hk Tel
Northwest
Melien
Quaker Price
Lister
Pure Food Co
Ohio
Pike Street
Third Avenue
Mer
Cline
Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc
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FIFTH
Seattle Te Co. P.1
Building
Fourth and Union
Ind
Ava
Shaw’s Drug Store
Houghton & Hunter Jewelers
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Boston Dental
Chicago Loan Office
Harry Silver
Yesler Way
First
Suneet
RED Front Furniture CO
Pike St
London
Guy's Drug Store
Isaac Lurie
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