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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1910
Page
8
Eighty thousand cloak makers in the East Side return to work after a nationwide strike ends in victory. Employers grant a nine hour day and average weekly wages of about 10.25, plus sanitary board and arbitration committee. Strikers suffered about 1.5 million dollars in losses.
A scattered 1666 London fire tale notes the great blaze in a baker shop that burned for three days, consuming thousands of houses and churches. Later items show Beltline and Idaho politics, wages, divorces, and court actions across Boise Pueblo Denver Rochester San Francisco and Los Angeles with mentions of figures like Secretary Ballinger and Governor Hay.
Ten year old Jimmy Johnson fell forty feet from the Howard street viaduct in Georgetown to the tracks below. He suffered only slight bruises and ran home. Dr. J T Dawson says the escape from serious injury or death is miraculous.
At 5 o clock Thursday 41 teams were on the Col man dock with 12 more awaiting their turn to drive in and unload. Most were large transfer wagons. The item notes a busy loading scene with many vehicles.
Alturas Cal Sept 3 The ardent democratic spirit of the old school is embodied in Judge John E Baker Bourbon candidate for congress from the first district He has no opponent for the nomination The judge recalls the 1890s lynching case and a sensational trial That year Jas W Brown was acquitted after Baker defended him and the case left the county with bitterness The judge splits time between irrigation projects and the mountain district He is 46 native to Hitness serving his second term as superior judge plus years in Democratic leadership Large ribbons for midsummer dates.
Frank Porter, sought in Salt Lake City on murder charges, will be moved there in Deputy Sheriff Andrew Smith's custody. Porter, who claims his real name is William J. Jeffries, waived extradition and asserts he will win freedom once the facts are known. He is charged with fatally shooting William Coslett during a quarrel in a Salt Lake saloon on August 5.
A clock hawker at a wayside cottage offers small wooden works clocks to a housewife who jokes that summer heat makes them dangerous due to wood ticks, prompting a light exchange about the clocks’ dangers.
John A. Newell former secretary to Portland Mayor Lane died of pneumonia in Portland last Wednesday. His widow is a Seattle woman formerly married to T. J. Carle seventh ward alderman. Mrs. Newell will move to Seattle to live with son N. A. Carle consulting engineer of the city. Newell resided in Portland 40 years and held many political offices. He was a Civil War veteran.
Little Madge, poorer than her well dressed sisters, wears her mother's hand me downs to the river pier. She steps out in a skirt so long the crowd mocks her with taunts about the umbrella cover it resembles. Madge retorts that readers should check Paris styles and recognizes a new hobble skirt.
A hungry nine year old boy, Frank Posshart, is accused of stealing a watch from A L O Conner, engineer of the tug Folsom. Conner had given him a meal after inviting him from Colman dock in West Seattle. The watch was recovered when the boy was stopped near the West Seattle ferry and he was booked as a delinquent to Washington Children's Home.
The San Francisco Sun launched today as a new morning newspaper in Frisco. It declares a democratic political stance and aims to provide daily news coverage to readers.
The greater part of Seattle's Woodmen will gather at Wildwood Park Monday for a major Labor Day celebration. The event aims to become an annual affair with athletics dancing and competitive drills among 24 camps. Everything will be free to the picnickers.
The Browne trial in Chicago was postponed until Tuesday after the judge’s wife died. The delay shifts proceedings as the court adjusts to the bereavement. Browne remains the defendant in the high profile case.
Uncle Hiram sits at a table while a waiter heckles him with sinkers and asks for fishing lines. Hiram mishears and asks for fishing hoes as they debate the macaroni shapes resembling lines in a humorous exchange.
Col Theodore Roosevelt on his western tour endorses President Taft and his tariff commission concept. He backs Taft's broad powers for the commission and approves the president’s plan amid remarks about the tariff policy.
Coroner reports Bert Lampkine found dead in a Tacoma hotel by his own hand. Despondency is believed to have inspired the act following his wife’s departure yesterday.
Five thousand tons of Chinese coal, the first of a consignment for invasion of the local market, has been received on the Norwegian steamer Sark in San Francisco and will be unloaded today. For rent a modern furnished room at low prices call at The Virginus, 94 Virginia Street near Westlake Avenue.
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