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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1906
Page
6
Rates for categories including advertisements wanted, help wanted, and other ads. Offers for private money loans, credit services, furniture, and real estate acreage details. Descriptive lines mention coal industry jobs, interview opportunities, and property listings with locations and features.
Parcel of ten acres offered at five hundred dollars with a buyer to assume a partial interest. The notice mentions land near the Northern railway at 699 and references a prospective purchaser.
Fragmentary ad text touts sale of shore lands with riparian and state rights on the west side. Mentions payments and water frontage, plus references to owners and properties.
Public economist Henry George Jr presents a second letter on Japan's rise in labor, wages, cost of living, and unions. He argues modern labor law and organized labor shape Japan's future and warn of American implications. The piece previews further articles analyzing Japan's development trend.
Workers rigged a derrick and ropes near a hotel in TORSO Japan Nev. M constructing a railroad enduct. Eighteen people, twelve women and six men, worked together lifting and dropping a weighted pile to drive it into the ground to advance the project.
An American instructor, Charles Albert Francis, notes Japanese students at the Higher Technological School in Tokyo master machine shop work unusually fast. He observed a piece threaded and nut fitted after two weeks, compared with two years for American students, and praised Japanese quickness with tools.
The passage notes slow work at construction sites in Japan with workers struggling to drive piles. It compares traditional hand labor to newer steam and corporate methods, suggesting ordinary works rely on old techniques and laborious processes, delaying output.
The article argues Japan will surpass imitation as its workers embrace better machinery and higher living standards. It notes wage increases in Tokyo and other sectors, the limited spread of unions, and a shift from old caste-like constraints toward a new commoner class, amid strikes and protests over fares.
Rear Admiral T. Burwell states Puget Sound Navy Yard aims to establish wireless telegraphy from Mare Island to Santa Barbara. The goal is to secure a reliable connection for naval communications.
Readable item lists wool art squares priced at 8006 dollars for ten dozen pieces. Notable lines mention Notting ham 30 inch wide textiles and watercolor shade products with various rough prices. The fragmentary notes indicate a catalog style listing from London shops with multiple vendor names and sizing details.
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