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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
3
Katherine Leckie reports for The Star on Ella Reeves Bloor detailing grisly meat plant conditions in Packingtown. Witnesses describe unsanitary boning rooms, berating bosses, shared toilets, and junk disposal practices including rancid butterine and rot on pork.
Witnesses describe lax government oversight in a meat packing scandal. A butcher recalls an inspector who lounged in a slaughterhouse office and rang a bell to deter outsiders. Dr Milnes accuses officials of incompetence and cites a diary showing late yard inspections. Allegations include body disposal as lard and worker hardship amid trust power.
A reader recalls weekly earnings across classes that ranged from 69 cents to 7.70 dollars, highlighting how such wages defined a week of labor. The remark underscores the stark disparity in pay for work performed.
Tributes flowed at Wik's hall last evening for Thomas Delaney former Seattle police chief. Speakers included JA Ballinger James P. Lavin and James H. Kane with Muster by the Bike quartet and Rev Mimil Kauten reading for the deceased. Knights of Columbus members attended.
Donald Ames of San Francisco has been named inspector of hulls and G L Weldin of Astoria named assistant inspector of boilers in the steamboat inspection service at Beattie. Each receives a salary of 1400 dollars a year.
Freight engineer Frank Ow ham was killed and fireman T Callahan fatally injured in a head on collision between and a freight train on the Midland at Boyer seventy miles west of Colorado Springs. Thomas F Walsh the millionaire mining man aboard the special train suffered severe cuts and bruises.
Game warden weighs first moves against lailan fish peddlers operating with questionable licenses. Of 17 town businesses, 16 are under scrutiny and five comply with the licensing statute.
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