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9 stories matching wrap

  1. Tacoma's Women Take On the Bakers Over Wrapped Bread

    A committee of pure-food reformers and a dozen bakers squared off before the city council's health committee over an ordinance requiring bread be wrapped — with more than 1,000 women enlisted behind the fight.

    Feb 8, 1909The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyCity Hall

  2. The Bread Wrapping War: Tacoma Women Take On City Hall

    With 1,500 club members, city doctors and a health inspector behind them, Tacoma women demand that bakery bread be wrapped—and that dogs be barred from groceries.

    Feb 15, 1909The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyCity Hall

  3. The Crusade for Wrapped Bread

    Tacoma women take on the bakers' association to mandate sanitary packaging.

    Mar 3, 1909The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyCity Hall

  4. The Fight for Clean Bread in Tacoma

    Tacoma women mobilize to push a city sanitation ordinance through the council, battling bakers who claim wrapping bread is too expensive and technically impossible.

    Feb 27, 1909The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyCity Hall

  5. The Consul’s Advice: How to Sell to China

    Consul General John Goodnow advises Tacoma merchants that success in the Orient depends on cultural sensitivity and precise adherence to local conventions.

    Jan 28, 1904The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce County

  6. The Fight for Sanitary Food

    Tacoma’s club women are spearheading a radical new ordinance to force bakeries and food merchants to meet strict hygiene standards.

    Feb 4, 1909The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyCity Hall

  7. The Persistent Mystery of the Criswell House

    Neighbors are in an uproar after two women broke into a Tacoma home to reclaim an infant, the latest in a string of strange baby-related incidents involving Mrs. Charles Criswell.

    Jul 16, 1904The Tacoma Times705 South C Street, Tacoma, Pierce CountyTrue Crime

  8. Tragedy at the Old County Hospital

    An elderly woman is trapped and killed when a kerosene lamp sparks a blaze in the abandoned county hospital building.

    Mar 23, 1909The Tacoma TimesPacific Ave, Tacoma, Pierce CountyHousing & Rent · Disasters

  9. The Great Match Company Fraud

    The Washington Supreme Court rules against a local match manufacturer for selling fraudulent stock based on fake inventions.

    Jul 6, 1904The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyFollow the Money · Snake Oil

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