The Cannery Question Explored by Mary O Reilly
The Star presents a hard hitting series by Mary Boyle O Reilly on the canned food industry. It questions factory conditions, worker welfare, and safety from meat to fruit in canneries, highlighting inhuman treatment of women and children and promising data backed reporting.
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Star Today
Upton Sinclair
Mary Boyle O'Reilly
The
Star
Mise O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reilly
Seattle Lighting Co raises minimum gas charge to 50 cents
The Seattle Lighting Co increases the minimum gas charge from 25 to 50 cents per month after the public service commission consent. About 4,000 low-usage customers, including 2,000 downtown and 2,000 working people, will bear roughly $4,000 extra yearly, with $500 monthly during winter.
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T Lighting Com. Fich Corporation
Tle Lighting
Commis
Commission
Public Service Commission
Seattle
Beattle Lighting Co
Governor Extends Stay to Keep Carroll in Prison
Gov Hays issues order to delay transferring Harry Carroll to the penitentiary amid a political controversy over the pardon attempt. Carroll has been at the county jail since September and was to be sent to Walla Walla. the latest directive keeps him detained locally.
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Charces
Harry Carroll
Barr
Carroll
Ronald
Superior Court
Walla Walla
Hays
Carrol
Shrank Sent to Insane Asylum After Roosevelt Attempt
On November 22 John Schrank was examined and declared insane after the assassination attempt on President Roosevelt. He was committed to a hospital for criminal insane asylums and taken to Oshkosh for confinement.
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Shrank
John Schrank
Roosevelt
August Backus
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Schrank
Oshkosh
Fragmented Field Notes on Courtship and Advice
A fragmentary dialogue questions how to express love and whether to ask the object of affection about her feelings. It mentions odor, gray whiskers, two years of attentions, and undecided steps, with a line about a divorce court far away and a motto. The text reads like informal guidance mixed with personal reflections.
Husband Abused by Wife With Rubber Tube in Medford
Al Lemasters, badly bruised and cut by a rubber tube wielded by his wife, lies jailed after a punishment she designed to deter his interest in other women. Mrs. Lemasters, after reading an admirer’s letter, tied him to a chair and beat him, then kicked him from the house. police later arrested him.
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Medford
al Lemasters
Beds Full College Girl Sleeps in Tub
In Albion Michigan on a November night a freshman coed and two friends, locked out after a party, could not find space. With all rooms taken they moved to the third girl’s home and the bath tub became a makeshift bed after quilts were piled for a night’s sleep.
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Albion
Mich
Weather Forecast For Tonight And Saturday
Rain is expected tonight and Saturday with brick southern winds. The noon temperature is forecast at 63 degrees.
Argue for Heat in Street Cars in Seattle
Physicians and laymen urged the council franchise committee to require heating on street cars. About 75 people attended in the council lobby as Dre Walter Christensen, who backed a winter heating bill, warned that cold fosters bronchitis and pneumonia, not germs in heat.
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Crichton
Kemble
Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co
Dre
Walter Christensen
Ballard
Seattle
Oldest Philadelphia Teacher Begins 71st Year
Dr Zephaniah Hopper 88 longtime professor of political economy and Central High School veteran, starts his 71st year as a Philadelphia educator. Hopper has taught at Central for 55 years and is regarded as possibly the oldest school instructor in the United States.
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Philadelphia
Zephaniah Hopper
United States
Central High School
Hopper
Sampson Sues For Credentials In Short-Term Court Battle
Judge George W. Sampson seeks an election certificate via mandamus to force the County Auditor to issue credentials for a two month term. Judge Albertson orders the auditor to show cause next Friday why the request should not be granted.
Hello Girls Hit Record 14 Billion Calls Worldwide
The 1911 telegraph and telephone report shows twenty two billion calls globally with the United States accounting for over 14 billion or about 60 percent. In Boston a car collision injured driver C A McPherson of Geo W Albee Draying Co after striking a wagon at Tenth and Pine. A charity entertainment in San Antonio for the orphanage fire relief drew more than 300 attendees.
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Boston
Saures
Americanelegraph and Telephone Co
United States
Capitol Hill
Tenth and Pine
Geo. W. Albee Draying Co
C A. McPherson
Thomas St
Sisters of Charity
San Antonio
Tex
Frisco Elopement Ends in Prison Here
A 17-year-old Japanese girl from San Francisco and her partner, Rigo Custidio, a Puerto Rican, eloped from Sunday. They sought marriage licenses in Tacoma Seattle but were refused. Custidio was arrested in a First Avenue saloon. the girl found in a Firetav rooming house and released after a San Francisco police telegram. Custidio held by Seattle police awaiting extradition. a warrant for abduction exists.
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Taki Muraoka
San Francisco
Rigo Custidio
Moving Picture Theatre
Custidio
F. Muraoka
Castidio
Seattle
Elopers
Tacoma
Gage
Muraoka
Takaguichi
Maraoka
British Columbia
Court Suspends 16 Minutes Over Cricket Disturbance
In Los Angeles, Judge McCormick and court staff paused for 16 minutes while bailiffs and stenographers searched for a chirping cricket that interrupted the proceedings. The search failed and the matter will resume today.
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Los Angeles
Ruper
McCormick
Newspaperman Sues Over Nickel Change Dispute
C C V Stahl files complaint with Alton Street Railway officials against conductor Marion Bailey to determine if a conductor can return 99 nickels as change for a five dollar bill. The case unfolds in Alton Missouri on November 22.
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Alton
Stahl
Alton Street Railway
Marion Bailey
Dry cider sale ban chills Milford Georgetown villages
CAN'T SELL CIDER "DRY" VILLAGES MINGTON, Del., Nov. 22. Milford and Georgetown, two dry villages near here, have passed ordinances forbidding sale of sweet cider to end drunkenness concerns. Farmers who sell cider have joined to test the law.
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Mington
Del
Milford
Georgetown
Here
Society unveils new garter style at Madison Square Garden
New York society page notes Mrs. Herman Oelrichs climbing the broad staircase at Madison Square Garden last night. She lifted her skirt to show a diamond garter cluster below the knee, sparkling vividly against black silk stockings. The scene highlights a fashionable display drawing attention from onlookers.
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New York
Women and Child Wage Slaves Found by Social Reformer
Special Commissioner Mary Boyle O'Reilly reports from New York canneries on the brutal conditions faced by women and children workers. She details 120 hour weeks, 16 year olds toilers, infant labor, filthy housing, and contaminated food preparations, urging public action and legislative protection.
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Mary Boyle O’reilly
the Star
Mamie Riley
Tennessee
Mohawk
New York
United States
Middle West
Pacific Coast
America
Can
Water memory haunts Garvin daughter’s death note
A note reading I can't get the water off my mind was found among the effects of Norma Garvin, daughter of former Rhode Island governor, whose body was recovered from the Blackstone River. The discovery was made in Lonsdale on November 22.
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Drg United Prees
Lonsdale
R. L
Norma Garvin
Garvin
Rhode Island
Blackstone River
Specials in News Highlight Odd Local Tales
San Francisco reports a colored prisoner stealing a police station store on a wheelbarrow for 55 cents. Santa Rosa notes a full blood Indian woman seeking a divorce for cruelty. Los Angeles cites a divorce over house leadership and city sex ratios. San Diego records a giant cat named Tom stuck on a pole for three days, rescued by Detective Lopes.
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San Francisco
John Jones
John
Santa Rosa
Cal
Joe Mantage
San Diego
Tom
Joe Lopes
Gibson Not To Take the Stand in Murder Trial
In Goshen New York on November 22 Buron W Gibson the New York attorney accused of killing former client Rosa Szabo appears unlikely to testify on his own behalf.
Ex Presidents to Receive Pensions of 25000 Annually
The Carnegie Corporation of New York will provide annual pensions of 25000 to former presidents of the United States and their unmarried widows for as long as they remain unprovided for by the nation.
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Andy
Carnegie Corporation of New York
United States
Mexico Earthquake Reaches Toll of 1200 Dead
United Press dispatches from Mexico City report about 1200 people dead with hundreds more missing after Tuesday's quake. Acambay and Timilpa show the greatest damage. A church collapse in Acambay killed many as tremors leveled walls. A hill in the center region erupted into an active volcano.
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Dy United Press
Mexico City
Acambay
Timilpa
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