Bootblacks Forced Out Are In Bad Fix
A Seattle board of public works crackdown forces bootblacks from their stands. Stories tell of Joe Brand and Will Mitchell facing loss of homes, unpaid mortgages, and ruined livelihoods as three stands are shut. Families, poverty, and legal questions come to light amid the dispute.
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Dan Dean
Board of Public Works
Star
Board of Pubiic Works
Joe Brand
Washington Street
Occidental
Second
Seattle
Germania Bootblack Stand
School and Church Protest Seattle Railway Track
A committee from the Jewish synagogue and Hebrew school on Thirteenth avenue and Washington street protested Monday night against Seattle and Renton Street railway construction in front of the school. Construction has begun to reach a gravel pit. The track in a deep cut endangers the school children and disrupts religious services.
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J. Keaster
M. Hurwite
B. Goldson
Hebrew School
Thirteenth Avenue
Washington Street
Council
Seattle & Renton Street Railway
land sale near Garden of Eden tracts 820 acres sold
Co. D. Hillman bought 820 acres adjacent to the Garden of Eden tracts for 61500 dollars on Monday. The former owner was Captain BE. C. Edwards of Vancouver.
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Co. D. Hillman
Garden of Eden
BE. C. Edwards
Vancouver
Dust Blankets Seattle as City Skips Street Sprinkling
Seattle faces another dusty summer with no funds for street sprinkling after rejecting a $5,000 appropriation last year. The corporations committee pushes a franchise plan to share costs but has not funded it, while Councilman Mullen hints property owners could force Seattle Electric to sprinkle by salt on grounded dust. Fourth avenue property owners approve widening, taking seven feet from the east side between Pike and Washington to cover condemnation costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Corporations
Mesara, Moore and
Gilman
Seattle Electric Company
Mullen
Western Avenue
Beatle Electric Company
Fourth Avenue
Jackson Street
Pike
Washington
Dirt battle over tide flats pits Jackson Street against Fourth Avenue
Property owners on Jackson Street and Fourth Avenue clash over who may dump 2,000,000 yards of removed dirt at the tide flats. Jackson Street protestors press council after a regrade proposal. Great Northern offers to take dirt at 15 cents a yard.
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Fourth Avenue
Jackson Street
Pocket Books
Council
Fourth
Street Committee
Wec
Great Northern Terminal
Jagkeon
Great Northern
Cyclone Blows Books From Snyder to Port Com
A cyclone swept Snyder area items to Port Com on May 16. Law books letters photographs and bank books littered the site after traveling over 66 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Comm
Oklo
Snyder
Panama Canal to Buy Materials and Ships
Washington May 16 The Isthmian Canal Commission executive committee decided to buy materials and ships from world markets for Panama canal construction. The move is expected to provoke opposition from major domestic material producers and ship owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
The
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama Canal
Norwegians Observe Independence Day Event
Norse-Americans mark Norway independence anniversary with a Wednesday celebration at Madison Park and Christensen's Hall. Judge R B Albertson to deliver the main address, Martin J Lund to preside, Lueben's Orchestra to provide music, and Norwegian Swedish and German Swedish societies will sing national songs. Emma Lee, Tacoma soprano, leads overflow meeting at Christensen's Hall.
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Norway
Madison Park
Christensen
Madison Pavilion
R. BB. Albertson
Martin J. Lund
Lueben
Mies Emma Lee
Christensen's Hall
Fatal Beattie Steel Works Accident Claims Laborer Lenzi
Peter Lenzi a laborer at Beattie Steel works was fatally injured Monday afternoon while cutting up old steel rails. A jagged piece of metal struck his neck and he died in an ambulance en route to the city hospital. Coroner Carroll will hold no inquest. Lenzi, a native of Seget, was taken to the morgue.
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Beattie Steel Works
Peter Lenzi
Carroll
Lenzi
Seget
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ANT
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Ragley’s
Max Ragley Drug Co
Ritel Building
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Shaw’s Drug Store
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