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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1906
Page
7
Promoters of a municipal ownership plan for street cars push the cause with a broad, nonpartisan appeal. They seek thousands of supporters from Judge Moore backers and Republican voters alike, forming ward and district groups to rally backing for public ownership of transit.
Twelve year old Fray Mayhew in Kent visits Seattle reading The Star and helps a boy climb a telegraph pole to retrieve a cardboard prize. He earns two big silver dollars after delivering the card, as local readers search for eggs and nursing bottles hidden around Pioneer Place Queen Anne and Green Lake locations with a noon deadline for rewards.
Fragmentary report describes bees, a club house, and officers involved in an incident. Text mentions examination, insanity defense, and ongoing actions by authorities. Details are unclear due to damaged wording.
Advertisement notes Hutchinson Company pricing for hats at 200 currency units. The fragment mentions hats and branding, with scattered references to buyers, bets, and a corner location, but the text is incomplete and lacks clear events or figures.
Fragmentary OCR lists real estate fee sale notices and local property transactions in Washington area. It mentions electric piping, Prone North and Delance, with names and dates obscured. The legibility limits full detail.
The ad describes cash rental options for homes with bright view and modern amenities. Features include a neat car line, a large new room, and a pleasant Matron setting near Downs Bick, offering several lots and an attractive Madrona area location.
Police report an overnight theft of pulverized rock from a car at Twelfth Avenue and Jefferson Street. Bell & Price owned the rock, valued at 75 sacks weighing 190 pounds each, suggesting the culprits used a wagon to move the cargo.
Realty firms report steady sales in West Seattle and surrounding districts. Transactions include 4 125 dollars in West Beattie residence property to F A Way, 15 000 dollar Homestead tract to Whitney Treat, 22 acres for 16 500 dollars, and 28 000 dollars for 40 acres between Ballard and Richmond Beach.
Easter egg dyes offered by Bartell Drug Stores at 606 and 610 Second Ave., Friday only, advertised as special sale.
Ballard residents will soon taste California beer as Weiland Brewing Inspection of San Francisco leases the Junction store at Ballard and 2nd Ave and begins saloon sales after fixtures. Andrew E B Nelson is sought by police for desertion amid destitute family. he is described as a habitual drinker who drew wages last week and vanished. City council reviews charges against Captain Seth Chandler of the Ballard police. resignation expected with a successor to be appointed Friday night.
Melody Choir a wealthy retired recluse living in squalor complains to Mayor Moore that city inspectors forced entry to his home and stole $30. He says authorities persecute him to gain his property and seeks protection for person and estate. The mayor directed him to the police chief as he left in anger claiming mistreatment and exile.
Funeral services were held for Margaret Hawkes who died from carbolic acid poisoning. Rev. M A Matthews officiated and burial followed at Lake View cemetery. Haight her father and his two daughters came from Bellingham for the obsequies. Leon Butler a 16 year old of Cedar Mountain died yesterday with arrangements for Lakeview burial in Beattie. Clark was arrested at night by Patrolmen Carteron and Crandall on vagrancy charges.
The city council committee rejected a Union Pacific railroad franchise for Fourth Street and South. F. W. Cotton, general counsel, was informed by committee chair Gill. The company plans alternative entry, but would face crossing Great Northern property it owns and is reluctant to sell.
James Menry Leroy, a literary convict known as the Western Presse Bureau of Lockport New York, was moved from the county jail to the state penitentiary at Walla Walla chained in a lime wagon. He had written of suicide as preferable to life imprisonment and protested when told of the life sentence under the habitual act.
Indiana leaders at the Republican state convention lambasted radical plans and backed Hoonevelt for stance against trusts. Beveridge warned the party must resist radical social reforms and remain firm. A Seattle meeting drew four new members as A J Woodhouse secured top-floor quarters at 1428 for Bone of & organizer work.
An advertisement urges shoppers to visit Bartells Red Crosse drug store at 61fad ave on Friday for Ever Ready safety razors with seven extra blades for 81.0% and Williams’ soap at low prices. The copy uses bold claims and a bold tone to entice purchases.
Ballard April 12 Palling to come to an agreement with the striking weavers the Bolcom Lumber company resumed operation in their single mill the morning with non union men hired in Battle and towns in the interior of the state It is understood the other mills are on a still hunt for men and at 8000 48 they can be secured will make an attempt to start Officials of the Shingle weavers union state that enough weavers cannot be hired to operate the Hallard mill on the strike has been advertised all over the country and how the support of every union weaver in the business An unsuccessful effort was made yesterday by a number of prominent citizens affected only indirectly by the trouble to bring the mill owners and the weavers together hoping in that way to settle the controversy.
Unruly youths have caused widespread damage over the past week with vandalism on telephone poles and repeated carousals across Newton and Waverly streets. Police are urged to suppress the rowdy gangs as complaints flood in from every city section.
Residents face constant fear as youths smash windows, hurl rocks at doors, and damage property in local neighborhoods. The spree disrupts daily life, leaving families anxious and seeking relief from the misconduct.
The June 6 1889 Seattle fire anniversary may be celebrated this year by the Bremerton Volunteer Fireman's Association with festivities at Evergreen Park near the navy yard. L Prichard invites use of the park for the gathering, as A C James of El Paso & Southwestern visits Seattle. W B Hutchinson Co advertises hats and Rogers Peet suits.
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