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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1918
Page
12
Seattle residents protest rent hikes as several tenants report dramatic increases from $15 to $30 per month within a year. Letters blame rental agencies for the sudden surge and warn of widespread hardship pushing tenants to seek distant outlying areas like Fauntleroy.
Letters from renters in Beattie describe rent hikes from 15 to 40 dollars monthly as exasperated families struggle to stay in Seattle amid Beattie’s high living costs. Tenants cite Beattie landlords like John Davis & Co and Strathmore Apts reporting steep increases and little improvements, with many families forced apart.
Halifax March 1 The court of tax appeals rules owners must pay taxes on property destroyed by December fire following a munitions ship explosion. Assessments were set before the blaze and no relief from liability exists.
A Star reporter describes Hog Island as a rising city of horizontal skyscrapers near Philadelphia where 35,000 workers are to assemble 120 steel ships 400 feet long. The plan, part of a two billion dollar U S shipbuilding program, seeks to reverse U boat losses and create the world’s largest shipyard.
A sprawling Hog Island site near Philadelphia grows into a major wartime shipyard with 6,000 workers, 20 acres under roof, 50 shipways, and nightly shifts under floodlights. Workers assemble standardized shell plating and ship components after decades of quiet.
Promotes Zemo as a fast acting skin cure available at drug stores for 35 cents or one dollar for extra large bottles. Claims instant relief from eczema blotches ringworm and rashes with a non greasy liquid that cleanses soothes and heals skin quickly. Cites E W Rose Co Cleveland Ohio as distributor and urges readers to buy today to avoid further distress.
Revelations of a conspiracy show that Department of Justice agents hunted the perpetrators after three thousand four hundred surgical dressings rolled by Toledo volunteers were found infected with a greenish poison while in transit from Toledo to Cleveland.
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