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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1916
Page
9
Classified line shows rate details for an advertising page. Mentions high cent and word per insertion, price five books, amount five ninety dollars, and a half rate for notices. Appears as a brief rate card fragment from a newspaper display.
A local phrenologist advertises full life readings by a specialist at 604 Pine near Weetlake Market. The service promises guidance on family troubles love marriage separations and life path with guaranteed satisfaction.
A clutter of classified lines details bargain offers from mills and hardware to clothing, furniture and services. Job ads, real estate, tutoring, and personal notices mix with small business promos and theatre or entertainment leads, reflecting a bustling early 20th century urban classifieds page.
Colonial era real estate ad campaign lists multiple acre lots and farms near Seattle and Bremerton in Western Washington. Properties include 16 acre tracts, 20 acre parcels, and riverfront land with house, outbuildings, and chicken houses, with prices from 850 to 7000 dollars and monthly payment plans. Names such as C. K. Sturtevant and Clifford & Van Arsdale appear alongside addresses in Seattle and Kirkland.
Listing advertises 30 furnished rooms in Denver with steam heat and modern amenities at $2.15 per week. Includes one well furnished housekeeping room or suite option at $9.60. Main street address 510 StudIe.
An invitation advertises furnished single rooms with private baths and elevator service at Corner Firet Ave and Pine Mt, plus a two week stay. A small grocery and confectionery business with all cash trade seeks a two-woman household. location 8011 14th Ave N. E. A. Priday.
Lands offered near Snohomish and Everett in a lumber town area with railroad connections to the Northern Pacific. Road access progressive, daily auto stages, schools, stores, telephone, and potential paving. Mail payment deposits possession and long balance term offered by Three Lakes Lumber Co and Mer. Land Dept. 1701 L C with Bide Reattia Wash.
Advertised real estate page lists homes and farms in Priday and nearby areas with items including a nearly new home with hardwood floors, cabinet kitchen, and porch at 336 Third Ave and other properties offering cash or installment options. Also mentions farms, modern cottages, and land for sale with various terms and prices.
The listing details stalls at Westlake Market with onions, potatoes, rhubarb, peas, cod, trout, shrimp, olives, flour, sugar, milk, peanut butter, veal chops, head cheese, cakes, salmon, chickens, asparagus, cucumbers, butter, eggs, bacon, olives, prunes, and various canned goods. Prices often per pound or per item. vendors advertise homemade goods and local produce.
Washington April 20 The Oregon California land grant bill approved by the departments of justice agriculture and the interior will be introduced in Congress today or tomorrow It provides title to 2300000 acres of unsold land from the original grant Proceeds go half to local authorities four tenths to the reclamation service and one tenth to the federal government After timber removal the land will open for homesteading
Seattle councilman Thomson berated Harry Whitney Treat and RB Stimson at the utilities committee meeting for demanding city improvements and then opposing payment. A hearing was set on a $26,000 water main upgrade on Shilshole Avenue.
John Thompson of Seattle Charles Grinnel of Tacoma and Jack Gibson of Spokane are appointed yell dukes by BARRETT HERRICK the university yell king.
Timothy Lyons a 60 year old prominent probate lawyer and Ida Diamond a clairvoyant were found dead in a Market Street room. Diamond in notes describes a triangular love affair and says she turned on a gas jet after stuffing door and window cracks. Lyons attempted to dress and was found leaning on the bed edge. The letter to “Whom It May Concern” notes Lyons frequently consulted her on cases.
New York politicians sought Justice Hughes ratification for president but he told them their visit was unwelcome and asked them to stop involving him and the Supreme Court in politics.
Chicago dated April 20 Wilbur Glenn Voliva the Zion City leader lashes at society calling the daughters of the socially elect ugly and peevish. He claims a man with a wife discovers she is padded and hides behind barber shop looks as the real girl when she washes her face.
In Chicago on April 20 Wilbur Voliva said he saw fur around a girl's ankle while walking the loop and proclaimed that there are still a few decent people in Chicago, addressing an audience with his remark.
In Terra Alta West Virginia on April 20 residents note a local drink nicknamed silo kick. The beverage is the unfermented corn juice drawn from the bottom of a silo and is noted as a popular intoxicating drink in this section.
The Seattle German Press blasts Morgan financial interests over President Wilson's stance toward Germany. It claims Morgan and allied finances would suffer if Germany and its allies lose, urging Congress to prevent what it calls a calamity and noting expected shifts in European loyalties and British influence.
John B. Stanchfield, counsel for Wolf Von Igel, discusses papers taken from Von Igel’s office by Secret Service agents. The German embassy claims the office is German territory and part of its embassy. Captain Tauscher pleads not guilty to bomb investigation.
The Lake Burien municipal car line would not be opened to private logging trains. Utilities committee members feared damage to the line and possible loss of life could outweigh the $5,200 tariff the city would collect.
John MacFarland and his son Thomas were found guilty in Judge Mackintoshs court Wednesday of grand larceny. They killed two heifers belonging to Charles Davis of Tolt and sold the meat.
Mrs Romeyn Jansen, beloved by audiences as Carmen and other heroines, is described as a devoted mother of three. Born in Port Gamble to Captain E W Gove, she trained in Seattle and sang with Seattle church choirs before joining Standard Grand Opera, where she has staged key roles from Carmen to Hansel and Gretel. Next week at the Moore she will reprise the witch in Hansel and Gretel and also sing Martha in Faust.
About 50 property owners protested to the city utilities committee against the Bangor avenue water system costing 43 654. The Rainier Beach property owners support the plan in time but cannot bear the expense now, so the decision was postponed indefinitely Thursday morning.
A letter to the mayor announces a reenactment of the Alamo battle in San Antonio from April 24 to 29. Participants will use flyers as ammunition in the fictional clash, aligning with Fiesta San Jacinto festivities.
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