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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1910
Page
16
Seattle fire department members answer claims of overwork by detailing daily duties from 7 a.m. to afternoon shifts. They describe station cleaning, equipment prep, private gym gear, and training drills, disputing assertions that firefighters work only a few hours weekly.
A. V. Bouillon, Republican mayoral candidate, addressed the Lincoln Literary society at the University of Washington vents on city affairs. He criticized franchise drawings as taxpayer harmful and urged reforms to improve city utilities and efficiency under current commissions. This talk opens a series of candidate debates before the university society.
Federal inspectors probe after George F. P. Russell, poet and weather prophet from Heattle, demonstrates expert safe cracking at the federal postoffice vault. Clerks struggled for over an hour to open the vault before Russell arrived and opened it in moments. He declined to explain how, but the incident is noted as a startling display. The report promotes Star Want Ads as business boosters.
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