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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1917
Page
6
A historic want ad page lists cent per word insertions and a five ad rate. It mentions partial line charges, subscriptions, and contact details for agents and law notices. Various listings reference furniture for sale, rental info, and free consultations in legal and patent matters, with addresses such as Lyon Street and Main avenues.
A collage of real estate and misc notices sells land and homes in Oregon and nearby towns. Listings include two acres near a city with water, fruit, and poultry potential. another lot with electric lights. various farm tracts, lumber yard offerings, and a Montreal departure note. Also ads for clerical jobs, public notices, and goods.
An advertisement promotes Mme Royal a clairvoyant and palm reader at Vernon Hotel and a spiritual science church. It claims to reveal true loves, marriages, and business fortunes, with lectures and palmistry classes offered by Mme Royal and others.
A promotional notice touts Madam Huth as a clairvoyant adviser for business success, marriage, and locating ideal work. It promises confidential readings, guaranteed satisfaction, and special hours at a downtown location to help absent friends, relationships, and personal plans.
A sensational ad hawks a famed Egyptian phrenologist and clairvoyant, promising life readings from cradle to grave. It touts guaranteed satisfaction or no charge, with services at Abbott Hotel and a Second Ave location, offering business, health, love guidance, and a future spouse reveal.
Numerous listings offer clairvoyants palmist card readers and trance mediums with daily consultations at hotels and rooms along Madison Fourth avenues and Union Street. Public notices mention a dancing event at Silver Lake pavilion with Wagner's Orchestra on April 16 rain or shine.
In New York on April 14 Judge Hand issued a formal federal court injunction against Hearst's International News Service. The order forbids INS from pirating Associated Press dispatches prior to their publication.
A garbled retail listing details various groceries and prices at stalls including butter, milk, sugar, beef, veal, beans, coffee, cereals, olives, eggs, and canned goods. Mentions Saintary and Annet locations and multiple stalls with price quotes and quantities.
The Marine Iron Works of Seattle buys a West Seattle waterfront site and forms the Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation with Capt J L Anderson as president. The merger consolidates Gray and Guerin interests and plans for Lake Washington and Ballard plants, plus contracts for large wooden ships and navy commissions for Libby and Witchell. Pier 2 dock floor rebuilt by Alaska Steamship Co to handle anticipated summer traffic and a new waiting room will be installed.
Ernest Shackleton, arriving in Seattle from Tacoma, recounts his era at sea and the hardships of exploration. He notes ten months without a bath as a trivial hardship and emphasizes imagination over sheer strength in explorers. He plans to tell his rescue story Sunday, aids backers, and aims to help the British navy and dependents.
The new exhibition building at Fourth Ave and University will be dedicated next week with a program and exhibitors demonstrating daily. The Seattle Fine Arts Society joins with more than 50 firms offering gifts, demonstrations, music, and moving pictures of Washington industries from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Open to the public starting Monday at 2 p.m.
Six more American residents fighting with Canadian forces have died in the war, with seven more listed as casualties in today’s report. Lieut. A. Highstone of St. Paul is noted as a DSM recipient among the wounded. Private F. F. Olsen of Tacoma and Private J. Huston of Hillyard, Wash., are cited as severely wounded. In Ottawa, burglars stole items valued at $350 from F. D. Black’s residence at 1219 12th Ave. S., including a $200 price tag. Entrance gained through a window.
United States to assist the Russian government with a group of prominent men from the military naval and business sectors. The effort aims to solidify the new regime against German influence as international commissions prepare to meet in the United States and other allied nations.
Defense witnesses testified about the Beverly park incident in the Thomas Tracy trial for shooting Deputy Sheriff Jefferson Beard at Everett city dock on November 5. Roy Ketchum and relatives described a night of shouting near Beverly park station with about 60 deputies present and confrontations along the railway, while Henry Kreig claimed I W W members were seized and beaten by deputies during the October 36 event.
Mars Henry Watterson submits the line To hell with the Hapsburge and the Hohenzollerns as a proposed war slogan. Col Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal sent it to the Oyster Bay committee aided by Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs Henry questions its suitability.
Commandant Coontz of the Naval district at Berton says the war zone order has not yet taken effect on Puget Sound and no official date is known. When enforced, no vessels may traverse Port Orchard Bay from sunset to sunrise and will be fired upon without hesitation.
Twenty injured passengers travel toward Juarez on a relief train sent from El Paso after news that bandits wrecked a north bound Mexican National train twenty miles south of Juarez during the night. Four were killed.
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