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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1918
Page
7
A mix of property listings and job ads from Seattle area sources. Includes parcels north of Green Lake on Meridian Ave, a $2,250 bungalow, a 1 bedroom bungalow, a lot with sewer and sidewalks, and multiple employment openings for telephone operators and light factory work. Also notes on a barber shop for sale and a delicatessen listing.
Partial OCR reads a reward notice listing a missing person description, location between Capitol Hill and North 40th Street, and an agent Miller at 4023 Bagley Avenue. Amounts shown include 0.75 and 2.96 with unclear units, suggesting monetary reward or cost entries.
A crowded public market listing numerous stalls with prices on chinook salmon herring cod salmon sardines butter milk coffee cocoa olives and assorted fruits vegetables and pantry staples. The ad details stalls by number names such as Elliott Fish Co Stong's and Hun Produce Co with items including Del Monte corn peaches potatoes sugar and various canned goods. Also notes a bankruptcy notice for William J. Horning and Ada D Morning with a court hearing set for May 20 1918 in Seattle.
Wild West star Big Bill Hart arrives in Seattle, stays at the New Washington, plans talks with Maj. Ralph Connor at the Masonic Temple and First Presbyterian Church to boost the Third Liberty Loan drive. He refuses phone calls from women, speaks Sioux, and reflects on his West roots and career.
Seventeen thousand steel workers from local No. 104 plan a Saturday night turnout for a frontier dance to kick off a week of chuck a luck fan tan and general celebration. Carpenters rush to finish a $1,000 dance floor as Klondike scenery arrives for a weeklong carnival of ’49 staged by union men. The roof will serve as a limit for imaginary gambling with fake money. Each night features frontier dances as fox trott and wobble yield to older forms, with other amusements for non dancers. Proceeds go to the union emergency sick fund.
Skinner and Eddy announce receipt of a complimentary telegram acknowledging the steamship Ossineke being turned over to the government in a record 188 days. The Ossineke was launched on April 13.
Frank J. Koch filed a petition Friday morning to change his name to Frank J. Cook. He said the change aims to remove suspicion of Germanic descent while stressing loyalty as an American citizen. Three million pounds of nickel and copper were used by the U.S. mints in 1917 to produce 284,025,785 one-cent pieces.
Delegates from the Makers and Shipbuilders Union plan to press the Emergency Fleet Corporation in Washington DC for insurance. Resolutions directing this action were dispatched from Seattle Thursday night by the drillers' branch of the union.
Louis W. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern railroad, visited Seattle on Thursday. He toured the industrial district to study the city’s development before departing for St. Paul that night.
A. J. Cranwell and wife Annie Cranwell are charged with conspiring to smuggle gold from the United States to Canada. Mrs. Cranwell was stopped by customs officials as she boarded the Princess Adelaide for Vancouver with $900 in twenty dollar gold pieces found in her grip. The husband was later arrested at his hotel.
Ronald Chapman, Seattle war garden generalissimo, urges citizens to begin back-yard trench gardening. He calls the spade brigade to plant gardens by the month’s start as good weather returns. Fifteen women are now in the St. Louis police department.
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