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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1916
Page
6
Rates listed for classified notices include cent a word per insertion with a five book price option and a five dollar deal for five hundred lines. One half rate for notices. The ad format suggests brief space for readers and merchants to place notices and situational ads.
Classified page lists phrenologists and psychics offering marriage matchmaking and readings. Notices seek wealthy, refined widowed or single women and men for matrimony, with multiple addresses and contact points across Seattle and nearby hotels.
Property notices describe 20 acres of cleared land near a railroad town with 2% miles to market at 20 per acre cash terms 1.60 per acre monthly credits and 4 cent fare from Seattle. Other ads offer 10 and 20 acre tracts with improved pasture stock and farming equipment in Chehalis and Port Orchard areas.
Price 966 dollars with 60 cash 10 monthly payments. Mostly level land with southern slope at back good well and pump near house barn and fruit bushes strawberries raspberries currants and gooseberries. Plenty of wood fair house near school in good neighborhood half a mile from N P depot not far from boat wharf. Parties on place going East seeking possession before May 154. Inquire at Burke Farrar office Kirkland at ferry dock.
Improved acreage on the interurban line with a good house and barn six blocks from the station. Land cleared and ready for cultivation with no better options near Seattle. Also another improved place in Hypoeres with house, outbuildings, cleared and in cultivation near Seattle public market. Terms: $60 cash, $10 monthly. Information call 202 New York Block.
A collage of real estate ads offers 43 lots and homes near Lake Tip, with cash and monthly terms, listing prices from 1 150 to 1 600 and university district bungalows. Also legal notices in United States District Court Western District of Washington announce bankruptcy filings for John F Crowley and Adelaide W Crowley with a June 15 hearing in Seattle to seek discharge of debts.
Classified line up spans the North West region with notices for jobs, sales, services, and personal ads. Readers are directed to nearby listings and contact details across multiple towns and cities.
Mrs. George F. Russell, wife of a former postmaster and Seattle businessman, rose from minor parts to leading soprano roles with the Standard Grand Opera Company. Trained locally since childhood, she has sung in Il Trovatore Elsa Rigoletto and The Flying Dutchman, now appearing as Marguerite in Faust with Con statino in the title role.
Stall numbers and a long catalog of produce meat and pantry goods with prices, including strawberries, veal roasts, pork, cabbage, salmon, apples, flour, butter, eggs, coffee, and more. Mentions diverse stalls across locations such as Colombia river, WESTLAKE, PIKE PLACE, and other markets with varying prices per pound or unit.
The Seattle, Renton & Southern line may change hands before the city’s claim for unpaid gross earning taxes is resolved as a preferred claim. Corporation Counsel Caldwell filed a petition for the 1912 1918 and 1914 2 per cent earning taxes totaling $13,078.08. An order signed by Judge Frater directs the company to show cause why the city should not be allowed the preferred claim, returnable May 5. The road is to be sold at auction May 1.
A writer reflects on letters from young women yearning for city life. She encourages them to value their good homes and parents, resist imitation, and pursue authentic paths, stressing that genius arises from within and there is no royal road to a bright goal.
Walter Shiel former football captain defeats Louis Seagrave football captain elect for University of Washington student body president. A tobacco advertising referendum in the University Daily failed. Other officers include Henry Zimmerman vice president Hazel Jones secretary Margaret White Year Book editor Arthur Simon Emil Hurja senior reps Crawford Goodwin Miss Effie Thompson junior reps Darwin Mets nest sophomore rep Bryant MacDougall Daily editor Matthew O Connor Washingtonian editor.
A furious wind and electric storm in northwestern Oregon caused several thousand dollars in damage to Portland area structures. Lightning struck the chimney of the old Ohio hotel as investigators assess local ruin and hazards. Sumida, a Japanese worker, was tending the boiler when the retrofitted building reported the incident.
A minor injury occurred after a furnace mishap. A person was jolted but sustained only a slight injury and received prompt care at the scene.
Sergt Putnam’s squad confiscated 500 bottles of liquor during a search of Smith’s Pharmacy at 2300 Jackson Street on Wednesday night. Clerk Charles Goerner was arrested for selling whisky without a prescription while Sergt Victor Putnam was assigned to direct police efforts for liquor enforcement. Chief Beckingham announced the action.
Chief Beckingham reported that booze raiders have seized at least one drug or soft drink bar per night since he assumed office 15 days ago.
The light and water department started relocating their offices from the Prefontaine building to the new city county building on Thursday. Most remaining offices will move next week.
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