Chinese Laundry
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Some time ago Carleton Pitts made a contract with Yew Sing, a Chinese laundryman, to do his washing for $4 a month. Yew busted the contract a short time afterwards and demanded $1 a week. Pitts agreed, and now skips every other week in sending out his washing. The blanked Chinaman plays even by charging TRUTH a dollar a week for washing its office towel.
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| Internal ID: | 0050.0913 |
|---|---|
| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 4th 1888 |
| Collection: | 0050 |
| City: | Donald, BC |
| People: | Pitts, Yew Sing |
| Publisher: | Donald Truth |
| Pages: | 3 |
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Chinese laundryman busts contract for doing laundry for $4 a month, asking for $1 a week.
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