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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1916
Page
6
41 acres on sale offering a new cottage and good water supply with heat, near school stores and docks. Also 6 acres about half a mile from Lake Washington priced at 750 with some terms. Inquire for Mr Hackworth at Hurke and Parrar’s office, via county ferry from Madison.
A dense price list from Public Markets South End detailing assorted meats dairy produce and staples. Items include lard salt pork veal cutlets beefsteak leaf lard smoked pork ribs and various fish with prices per pound can each and per unit along with eggs butter cheese and dry goods. Local stalls such as Stall 102 403 204 211 208 27 and 2% are referenced amid a mix of fresh and preserved foods.
Stall listings show a mix of tomato cans peaches and pineapple plus flour and raisins with prices and bulk items. Stalls 1 through 12 offer items from vegetables to meats and cheeses with dollar and cent pricing noted.
A fragmented OCR list details stalls with items such as sugar milk peas prunes chips salmon butter potatoes and various meats. Prices and stall numbers appear with occasional misspellings and unclear dates noting a marketplace setting and delivery notes.
Councilman Hesketh drafts a charter change to declare a candidate elected if they win a majority of all votes in a given office primary. He urges council endorsement and voter action at the next general election.
Wilder of Anacortes arrives in Seattle after two years abroad in Bangkok where he built a sawmill. His voyage included a chase by commerce raiders off the South African coast and engagements with submarines in the Mediterranean and English Channel. He survived a railroad wreck near Cleveland in which eighty passengers perished.
Robert Grandville a 203 Queen Anne ave clerk is jailed on an open charge after an alcohol fueled incident Saturday night in Cowen park. He fired several shots while a fishing party wandered near the district before Patrolmen Olmstead and Ruth halted him. Mrs J McMahon and Ernest Gmellner were also arrested. Grandville says he remembers nothing beyond drinking squirrel whisky.
An unidentified 40 year old man drowned in Elliott bay at Virginia street foot Sunday afternoon after refusing a rope. Rescue attempts failed. the body was recovered by C. A. Woodley of the steamer Edith and Robert Presho. The victim wore brown trousers a black coat and logger’s boots with a four day beard and carried $1.11 in small change.
City council members will vote Monday on Erickson’s resolution to call the new public building the city and county building. County commissioners have declared the structure will officially be named the King County building.
Mrs Emma May Shoudy won a divorce from Dexter Shoudy in four minutes before Judge Ronald. The decree awards $125 monthly alimony and custody of their seven year old child Kenneth Dexter Shoudy. Shoudy, a salesman, abandoned her, she testified, and Dexter Horton is noted as the late banker’s nephew.
United Press report from Washington states that U S Army officers expect Maj Gen Funston to report Villa’s capture before the weekend, hoping to break Villista bands in Mexico.
Govnor Teata, a noted state orator, will speak at the Nonpartisan league noon luncheon in Seattle at the Good Kates cafeteria on Wednesday. Teata led the 1911 legislative fight that secured initiative and referendum. the league's headquarters are in the Arcade building.
Rev. Cleveland Klethauer told a story at a YMCA Sunday club mass meeting. L F Swift of Swift's Pharmacy spoke at The Tender Link friendship supper.
President B. J. Wall and Secretary George W. Carr of the Pacific Underwriting Syndicate in the Railway Exchange building are under arrest on charges of misusing the mails to promote alleged fraudulent stock sales. They are held in 1500 bail each. Frances Jacobs and Lucy Ham are named among victims.
Judges named Capitol Hill the nearest section of the city after a clean-up contest closing Saturday. Mount Baker Park and West Queen Anne earned the second and third silver cups. Judges C. E. Us, H. S. Volkmar and R. M. Buttle led the panel with assistants A. J. Izzard, M. M. Sul linger and C. M. Williams.
Hon George Anderson consul general for the United States at Hong Kong will address the foreign commerce committee Monday noon at the Chamber of Commerce. He will also speak to the Commercial Club after the regular meeting and again Tuesday night at Hong Kong chamber.
W. M. Grant and R. M. Monaghan proprietors were found not guilty of selling liquor. A waiter testified he served two women from his private bottle, but the defendants were acquitted.
William V. Doak was sentenced to three to 15 years after pleading guilty to grand larceny. It marked his third offense, and he said the thefts were to feed his starving family.
Rev. Geo. Kindred faced trial Monday morning on charges of subornation of perjury. The state alleges he had W K Hitchcock swear falsely about the age of Herbert Carroll who is 19.
Mayor Gill must select Seattle delegates for the 43rd national conference of charities and correction to be held in Indianapolis from May 10 to 17. The event gathers leaders in reform and social services.
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