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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1915
Page
11
A fragmented grocery ad lists prices for peaches pears cantaloupes and other produce. It promotes granite ware sale and Dresden ware with all Nations at cut prices. The Georgetown Bakery offers doughnuts bread butter cheese and peanut butter at special Saturday pricing alongside fresh fruit and vegetables.
Disjointed text shows scattered price indicators and symbols and fragmentary phrases. No clear event, people, or organizations identified to form a proper news item.
The Spanish freighter Pena Castillo was torpedoed and sunk off London on August 20. Three crew members were rescued. Dispatches report the Glasgow ship Baron Erskine, 3 500 tons, also sunk by an undersea boat with the crew saved.
Western divorcees increasingly distinguish themselves by wearing a ring on the little finger of the right hand. The trend signals personal identity and social status amid evolving marital norms.
Mrs M B McDonald with three children, ages 14 12 and 3, arrives asking for aid after wandering streets for days. She is a cook at the Regina hotel 204 Second Ave 8 and hopes farm work to support her family.
W. J. Grambs writes to Councilman Erickson in The Star noting a typographical error in a letter he criticised. He says the claim that 3% mills would be saved was incorrect and that it should read 0.3 mill.
Former Northern Pacific conductor J A Chabot tells how he and two colleagues were discharged and labeled on a railroad blacklist. He describes arrests, jail, Elks court acquittal, and repeated denials of work by major lines including Great Northern and Southern Pacific. He now sells insurance while seeking any railroad chance.
Washington Aug. 20 The Rock Island railway ruin story will be released in a report by the Interstate Commerce Commission. It details Wall Street speculation, a receiver ship, collusion without directors or officials consent, lands given to favored individuals, and large alleged stock watering through a double holding structure. The document promises further salacious specifics.
Paul B. Phillips submitted the first draft of a proposed civil service reclassification to the Seattle Civil Service Classification Commission. The plan groups most city employees into five grades, detailing training, experience, and responsibilities for each level, while police and fire departments are excluded.
New Mexico produced 3 887 689 short tons of coal last year marking the state’s highest ever total. The record underscores strong mining activity and energy sector performance for the period.
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