Highest paid man in town earns eighty dollars a day
The Star probes who pockets the town’s top salary. H B Earling of the Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound lines is named, with estimates placing his annual pay between twenty thousand and twenty five thousand dollars, roughly eighty dollars per day for a ten hour day. The piece notes his long hours and rise from telegraph operator to railroad executive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
H. B. Earling
Puget Sound
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad
Mr. Earling
Earling
Pacific Coast
Milwaukee
Princess Company
Col. Parker
Ralph
Puget Sound Day Trip Forecast to Port Angeles
Weather forecast promises fair conditions with cooling breezes around Puget Sound. The itinerary offers 2.5 hours in Port Angles before returning to Seattle by 8 30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Angeles
Seattle
Crowds Gather Outside Bank Closed by State Examiner
Crowds of depositors, mostly foreigners, waited all night outside four Chicago banks closed Friday by the state examiner. Police kept the lines moving as crowds, angry and anxious, faced loss of small savings. some carried babies and sobbed outside the Ashland Avenue institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lorimer
State Examiner
Ashland
Seattle Seaport Repute and Local Happenings Sweep Island Area
World praised Seattle as a premier seaport with Dudley J. Wilkie conveying the view. Local notices list marriages births and deaths, divorces, church events, alumni gatherings, political remarks, and social club activities across Seattle and nearby towns. Major items include a Baltimore & Ohio cattle car shower bath plan, steamship movements, real estate deals, and a raft of notable national and regional incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Bountiful Society
Ravenna Park
J. W. Roberts
Leschi Heights
Ballard High
Washington Annex
Thomas Fiske
Shelton
Mary Knapp
Broadway High
Interlake
Baltimore & Ohio Line
D. L. Melville
Alameda
North
Harry Krutz
Northwest
Fifth
Yesler
State University
Tacoma
South
Bo Sweeney
Sweeney
W. H. White
Orange Jacobs
Pacific Coast Steamship Co
Alaska
Lowman & Hanford
Harry Girard
Seattle
St. Mark's Church
Safecrackers Flee When Nightwatchman Alerts Two Veggmen
Nightwatchman H. Pettitt surprised two would be safecrackers in the office of Monks & Miller, fuel dealers at Eighth Avenue and Madison Joint, forcing an escape through a rear window. Their tools were left behind near the safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monks & Miller
Eighth Av
Madison Jt
H. Pettitt
Miss Sarah Springer to Speak at YWCA Vesper
Miss Sarah E. Springer, religious director of the YWCA, will give a talk titled Beauty for Ashes at the vesper service tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the YWCA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah E. Springer
Y. W. C. A. Vesper
Association
Beating Back and a Busy Seattle Film Schedule
Seattle audiences see Beating Back the Life of Al Jennings at Photoplay Theatres late June. The city’s program ranges from comedies and dramas at Clemmer and Class A venues to serials like Les Miserables with Nine Parts at Mission and Vittagraphs at Colonial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Jennings
Mutual Film Company
Jennings
Will Irwin
Southwest
Oklahoma
Victor Hugo
the Moore
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Colman Dock
Iroquois
Worden
Flagler
Dungeness Spit
Puget Sound Mill & Timber Eo
Elwha
Olympic Power Company
COLA
Orient
Dudley J. Wilkie
Chicago Commission
President Wilson
Princeton
Samuel Isham
East Hampton
L. L
Hazel Hoxie
Cheyenne
Wyo
Stockton
Cal
Jackson Gourand
Edwyn Bryant Crocker
Alexandre Miskinoff
London
Otto G. Ramsay
Yale
Roald Amundsen
Christiania
Norway
George Broadhurst
New York
Silas Jones
Manndeville
W. Va
Jimmy Smith
Oakland
McKitrick
Helene Young
Los Angeles
Lincoln Beachey
Hartford
Conn
Leon Daudet
Jacques Roujon
Paris
Virginus
Virginia
Weetlake Av
Elliott
F. Ballou & Wright
H. Vike St
Broadway
Ballou & Wright
New Indian MotOrcycles
Ait K. Pike St
Photoplay
Clemmer
Hearst-Selig
Roberts
Wallace
Sophie
San Pedro
Sir Thomas Lipton
Tampico
Vitagraph
Colonial
Sweden
Duke of Manchester
Terest
Florence la Badie
Olga
Marguerite Snow
Melbourne
Biograph
Bar U Ranch
Cremmer
Selig News
Mexico
Educational
Essanay
Pathe Weekly
Mission
Lloyd
Trieste
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