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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1905
Page
6
Dense page of 1920s classified notices shows job offers in tailoring and barber trades, cabinetmaking, and manufacturing. Real estate pitches tout Mead meadow subdivisions, view acres near Renton, and Meadowdale tracts with terms and free land offers. Also includes rental listings, farm for sale, and loan notices alongside business directory ads.
The Pollard Liliputians open at the Grand with The Belle of New York and will repeat Pinafore and When We Were Twenty-One. Ferris stock presents A Poor Relation with Dick Ferris and Florence Stone. Across the Desert opens Sunday as a thriller never seen in Seattle. Star Theater features Zimm’s pony ballet as vaudeville begins Monday. High School notes Edwin Twitmyer’s visit and senior class plans for a petition to run a special train if permitted.
The readable lines hint at a housing or maintenance notice with references to water mains, streets, and building features. Strong entities are limited. themes touch on price, location, and home improvements amid a messy OCR fragment. The piece reads like a public notice or classified blurb with scattered phrases about tenants and properties.
The Seattle Kennel Club expects a crowd larger than any previous event as entries flood in for the dog show. Proceeds go to Wayside Emergency Hospital and Florence Crittenton Home with fixtures like $40 gowns donated for a drawing, and numerous silver cups from Seattle merchants reserved for winners.
A flood of officials visited the town for a day of crowded meetings at multiple hotels. The guest list included State Supreme Judge Herman D. Grow Sheriff J A Denholm Pierce County John Lee Tacoma Attorney General J D Atkinson Lieutenant Governor Charles F E Coon F D Heutis former Collector W H Crawford Olympia Collector of Customs W Ide former State Labor Commissioner Wm Klackman State Labor Commissioner C F Hubbard Secretary of State Sam H Nichole Deputy State Insurance Commissioner J H Schively.
The M. I. A. and the university schedule a track meet Friday April 7 at the university gymnasium with strong entries from both teams. Key sprinters Largo Vance and Martin from the M. I. A. and Lindsay Tilley from the university are highlighted as top contenders. The winner may come from a ten minute sprint. Also the university baseball team faces Whitworth College in Tacoma Saturday with a large student turnout and an observatory visit planned that evening for Ve hos observing conditions. Professor Moritz will oversee the telescope and Dr Kiugh will address the Cheminggi club on Electro Metallurgy of Iron. Planning continues for basement work on the new armory and a meeting of the armory board with the architects. A Calvary Presbyterian Ladies Aid tea was held April 4 at Mrs Boyer’s home.
Ballard Tigers defeated West Seattle by a close score Thursday night at St. Anne Parish House. E B Cox, receiver for Washington Food Co, may recover more than 9 000 from a pending bid by stockholders to protect their interests. April 14 set for settling the receiver ship. Injuries from Stimpson mill work left two men with amputated fingers. Jameson arrested for assault and battery and to be tried in Police Judge Martins court. Bowery saloon fracas involved Jameson and Matthews with Matthews badly beaten. Elks lodge officers installed Thursday night with Daly of Tacoma attending and a supper to close.
Friday morning markets were quiet with activity down from earlier in the week as buyers await a California steamer due Friday afternoon or Saturday. Washington creamery butter fell to 27 cents, a seasonal low, while oranges improve from early in the week. Bananas and native rhubarb increase in supply, and lettuce reaches the $1.50 market.
A market listing shows various vegetables and fruits with prices from beans and cabbage to lettuce and apples. Notable items include Yakima and Greely potatoes, cauliflower by the dozen, California celery and green peas, and a large apples section with several varieties.
A garbled list shows prices for bananas lemons oranges cranberries and more with per-pound and per-crate figures. It also notes butter cheese eggs oats beef pork poultry and various grains with futures data from Seattle and Chicago markets and a brief stock report from the New York exchange.
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