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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1907
Page
5
A detailed report outlines how a typical low income household spends most money on food, shelter, and medical costs, with two thirds of income consumed by essentials. It details high bakery costs, minimal home cooking, and the burden of predatory lending from small loan firms operating despite prohibitive rates.
The report details the daily torment of low income households, outlining food scarcities, rent burdens, and substandard living. It notes 40 to 60 percent increases in costs, meager wages, and reliance on installments with little left for clothes or fuel. It highlights a typical family of six living in four rooms with no bath or running water, surviving on scarce staples and kerosene for cooking.
The Antwerp tribunal sentenced 13 prisoners to two months to four years for stealing two 4,000 pound guns from the Antwerp fortress. The guns were carted away in a wagon and offered to a junk dealer who planned to ship them to The Hague Peace Conference. Fate of the guns remains unknown as inquiries continue.
The text describes a temperate industrious family trapped in poverty with higher food costs, undernourishment from buying in small quantities, ragged and cold living in four cramped rooms, debt and shyness of moneylenders, no sanitation, and ongoing starvation amid an era of growth.
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