Talk:Poulsbo, Washington

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I have removed the mention of Walmart in the history section as this is viewed as more of an advertisement rather than as legitimate history

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The immigrants name might possible be spelled "Jørgen Eliason" or "Jörgen Eliason".--ZorroIII 20:49, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

       -I've looked it up, and it appears to be correct. I'll look in to it more perhaps later.

[edit] "Food" section

It seems that the food section is biased. Perhaps this could be changed by replacing words such as "wonderful" with words like "popular" or other words that do not give personal "ratings" to the restaurants.

• • There are absolutely nooone called Jorgen who live in Norway. It is "Jørgen", though it might have changed when he moved to USA.

[edit] "Food" : Subway

Subway's restaurant locator [1] does indeed show four Subways in Poulsbo. However, four hardly qualifies Poulsbo for 'the most Subways in any city on the west coast'; the same locator shows more than 30 restaurants in Seattle, and 10 in Bellevue, for example. Perhaps the proper claim is to the most Subways per capita, but until someone comes along to make a more defensible claim I'm removing that line from the section. Inkslinger 05:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC) (1) In 1890 Jacob Riis publishes his book “how the other half lives”, this collection of pictures was an exposé on the condition that poor people and new immigrants endured while living in the city. He took pictures of child laborers, broken houses, filthy dark and dank alleys and a group of people living in various degrees of constant degradation and unsanitary conditions. One of the first muckrakers Riis’ work is a clear cry against the corruption and horrible living environment endured in the slums of the city. He took his pictures as a police reporter and his book convinced Theodore Roosevelt, at this time a police commissioner to end practices concerning poor houses (which Riis once lived in), in that Jacob Riis and his work is important he helped shaped Theodore Roosevelt and became one of the first muckrakers, and unfortunately like the progressive era showed bias, his was often shown in his work and how he viewed the poor of various ethnicity and sex. (2) In 1904 Ida Tarbell published her book “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, the book was originally released through McClure’s magazine in 19 pieces. The work was a masterpiece of investigative journalism in the field of illegal business. Ida found out about the monopolistic practices of Standard Oil in vivid detail by various insiders, what was discovered was corruption and a veritable menagerie of anti-trust law violations. In essence Ida Tarbell helped break up standard oil (1911) and was a beacon of the muckrakers and her use of magazines foreshadowed the power of this medium in the coming years. (3) The McClure’s magazine was a pulpit that spawned the muckraker genre of journalism. In addition it was a major literary focus of the progressive era and hosted the works of many great authors, mark twain for example. While the particular magazine broke up due to editorial issues, the sprit of it was a clear messenger for progressive era thought. (4) The Cattle yards as depicted in Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle”. Probably the most famous muckraking piece of work. The book focused on the extremely unsanitary situation found in meatpacking plants, from rotting meat to tossed in rats “The Jungle” describes the effects of how the pervious laissez-faire system of running things was not working, in fact it was making wage slaves of workers and turning out only filth. President Roosevelt read the book and sent two men to investigate, their report showed that all but one claim in the jungle to be true, unlike what Sinclair wanted his book prompted the creation of the FDA through various acts instead of his ideals, the book helped spark one of the major legislative changes in the progressive era and stated the ball rolling to increase governmental awareness of the effects of hands off regulation. (5) Woodrow Wilson was elected to president in the year 1912, he did a great many things and was an extremely bright man and an intellectual of the progressive era. Unlike Taft and Roosevelt he fought corruption through his newly enacted Federal Trade Commission, rather with lawsuits, his method was subtle and lead to greater competition, therefore reducing the power of trusts. Wilson also pasts various acts and laws that were focused on economics but had social functions as well, the best examples being the Adamson’s act which created the 8 work day and the Keating-Owens act which limited child labor. And sharp and quick man Woodrow became seriously ill in his second term and die in 1924. (6) and (7)