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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1906
Page
6
Classifieds show varied listings for barber schools and trades, railway jobs, hotel staff, and clerical posts. Real estate ads promote acreage, homesteads, and apartment rooms around Ballard, Renton, Panther Lake, and interurban lines with easy terms and monthly payments.
Fragmentary notice mentions a cash amount and monthly balance tied to a property deal. It references a location on Rainier Boulevard and a firm Lewia & Co with an address on Main 208, Indianapolis area. Details are incomplete and uncertain.
Real estate ads tout Wenatchee and Leavenworth areas with acreage near Yenworth and Wenatchee Valley apple prospects. Listings include cottages and modern houses with flexible terms, water rights, and convenient access to streets and public amenities. Multiple agents advertise plots, farms, and homes across riverfront and hill locations with easy financing.
Local classified ads promote modern rental and sale options. Five room residences on Queen, six room cottages, and large plots with cash or monthly terms. Listings highlight city water, electric lights, and proximity to cars and schools. North Street and Lake Union area tracts noted with flexible payments and waterfront prospects.
A real estate notice announces a property sale at South Park under the Realty Act. The description mentions non resident purchasers and a sale at Mainina 2R9, indicating a specified street and legal framework governing the conveyance.
Readable fragments describe multiple vacant lots and parcels around Fort Lawton, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and Queen Anne Place with prices such as 15000 dollars. The notation references landmarks like Maple Leaf, Hite and Mannin Ace, Steel Works, 10th Avenue and Queen Anne Place.
A listing shows Gale Real Estate Dealers with Kares Adama at 40 Colman bidding against Rebert Maltby at 14 02 aska bide neh pros, 8 Colman. The fragment notes a real estate transaction or auction contact.
A strictly modern house with a tidy bath ed pantry and large basement features a 16 ft alley wall and cement walk. It offers a fine garden with roses fruit trees and various berries and a serene view of Bound mountains and the city. Built by AMERICAN KAT PATATE CO near Pioneer Hidg.
The notice advertises camping spaces with a $20 fee to reserve a summer lot through West & Wheeler at Colman Building. It notes limited access and directs readers to contact for details.
A wartender named Tom Koyce inflicted a knife wound on C. BP Kino of 403 Weattakeav. may cost him an eye. Kino is at Wayside hospital for extended examination as police hold both men after a disturbance at the Federal saloon, Sixth Ave. and King St. The assailant is in custody.
Southern Pacific reports a relief train reached Oakland at 10 30 due to missing tracks between Henecta and Pinole. Ten cars from Beattie, sent via Portland, carry tents and merchandise with additional arrivals planned. Also, the Alaska Commercial Co. damages award to George M H Meine is reduced to 14 000 by the supreme court after a longshoreman injury in 1903.
Real estate listings from Sun Realty and Investment Co and Columbia Realty feature acreages, cleared tracts, orchards, and homes near car lines in Seattle area. Properties include Iame Lake district homes, Green Lake and Ballard areas, and lots close to public transit with terms offering down payments and monthly installments. Several firms advertise exchanges, cheap lots, and speculative bargains with emphasis on proximity to suburbs and new urban routes.
J L Waller, president of Seattle Aerie No 1 Fraternal Order of Eagles, has authority to draw on treasury to aid destitute Eagles in San Francisco. He will secure transportation for those stranded. subscription papers are with Secretary Dowd and Treasurer Becklet, with State Deputy Coon urging statewide support.
The Beattie Commercial club in Beattie agrees with a San Francisco call to house the destitute. Secretary KR B Williams Richard Mansfield White and A G Buchanan were appointed to handle the effort. They met with Mayor Moore who approved the plan and will assess how many Seattle families can shelter one or more needy sufferers.
Olympia arrives from Honolulu with Japanese laborers for railroad work and heads for Nome route. Oregon reaches Seward while Humboldt sails south from Skagway. Shawmutte heads to Beattie via Hong Kong from Manila. J. D. Peters at Pier 10 for cannery supplies and Maid of Orleans outfitting at Pier 6 for northern cod banks. City of Seattle le Que from the north tonight. Buckman and Watson to be known as Anchor line ships as Alaska-Pacific adopts an anchor flag. American-Hawaiian awaits American to sail from San Francisco. New Pacific Coast steamer to be christened President at Camden. Prof Georgeson to Sitka with cattle for Kodiak station. Larry Delmer heads north tonight. Cunard agent A. E. Johnson Co. reports Caronia carried many Seattle people to New York.
Major W. L. Geary, commissary officer in Seattle, received orders from the commissary general to buy 100 tons of supplies in the open market. The items will be shipped today to the suffering city with expectations of a further 200 tons ordered beyond existing shipments.
James Braid of 2018 Charles Street seeks news of his brother David Braid a San Francisco millinery merchant. David has lived in the city 18 years and has not been heard from for 33 years near the city hall area leaving James greatly concerned.
Amid cheers at the Lake Witon wharf the remodeled steamer Keller was launched yesterday. George Fat her, owner, and Mr Rebery at the windlass directed operations when a workman was struck in the forehead by a cable. The injured man received facial wounds and possible brain concussion, was carried home, and reported improving this morning.
A nervy thief reached through an open air ash barrel at 1709 EB Alder and stole items worth about 8 dollars. Victims include a meerschaum cigar holder valued at 10 dollars a pair of gold cuff buttons and two gold rings totaling 16 50. Police investigated but the theft went undiscovered for some time.
F. Flanders, a capitalist aiming at the Lincoln hotel, reports over $160,000 in San Francisco. A private dispatch says the fire has halted at Van Nuys, and a quarter of the city is saved. Distress is appalling as thousands suffer from lack of milk and other eatables.
Chief Engineer J. J. Talley of the cableship Burnside learns his wife has a newborn as the San Francisco fire rages. He heads to join her after receiving word on the fate near Twenty second and Fee womets. Insurance coverage and earthquake clauses are noted amid widespread destruction. Seattle lodge No of PWI plans an entertainment dance at the Pythian hall Wednesday.
An advertisement extols long walks with sturdy shoes sold by the Men’s Shoe Store at First Ave. The copy links comfort to walking endurance and contrasts price points around three to four dollars for Old Oak shoes.
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