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1 story matching roomless
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- The Roomless City: Why Seattle Is Losing Half a Million Dollars to Its Own Landlords
A manufacturing jeweler from outside capital has scoured every business street in town and found no space for his enterprise. He is not alone; the paper warns that this 'business house room' shortage is driving away population and money to rival cities.
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- The Silent Girl in the Lodging House
A young, unresponsive woman is abandoned at a Third and Mill Street lodging house by two unknown men.
- The Silent Killer in the Boarding House
An 1878 editorial warns Seattle residents that the city's obsession with airtight rooms and coal stoves is fueling a tuberculosis epidemic.