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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1910
Page
4
Part of the secretary of the interior's report for the year ending June 30 1910. Critics and bystanders praise and lampoon Ballinger era actions on mining lands water rights and national parks. The text mixes quotes from various voices on conservation and policy.
A collage of brief items notes suffragette jail sentences in England and ballot rights in Washington. a Pike Street tombstone dealer sees no rush. a snowstorm injures New Yorkers, while San Diego strawberries drop to 15 cents. La Follette urges a railroads book, and a social question about service costs is raised. A Tacoma injunction and sugar price talks appear amid local mail and personal headlines.
The article cites vast ocean weights and volumes, noting the Pacific at 48 quintillion tons and other seas. It also mentions filling a mile tank daily for 44 years to store Pacific contents and refers to a bicycle purchase at A. L. Wall's on First Avenue for Christmas.
William John Colkett, assistant postmaster in Seattle for over three decades, gains civil service protection only recently. A University of Washington alumnus and a key local figure, his career spans 1880 to the present with 3,000 dollar annual pay and a prominent office. He also served on the Seattle School Board, overseeing construction of about 100 classrooms. He was born in Chairville, New Jersey.
J F Breslin argues editors should devote space to parents of working girls, claiming ignorant marriages lead to underfed, underpaid children and factory-bound youth. He urges articles to help future generations. The Pittsburg evangelist committee plans gospel work underground for miners, but Breslin doubts coal trust gains.
A Bremerton reader argues that mining evangelists should carry their gospel to lawmakers and demand honest laws and enforcement rather than favoring high-priced company stores. Until they address state and federal officials, miners gain little trust and strikes loom. The letter identity remains A FRIEND from Bremerton.
A satirical piece portrays gift closets and a loaded coal-bin of toys, urging kindness to children at Christmas. It shifts from lighthearted jests to a grim joke about ending it all with cyanide, critiquing bleak mood and urging actions to help others. The narrator signs as Skinney A. Nuff, the Village Cutaway.
Correspondent details the fate of two Southern sisters after the Civil War and a demotion case in the federal civil service. The piece also notes Louis Brandeis's testimony to the Interstate Commerce Commission and hints at railroad rate increases amid a railways mind at the commission.
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