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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
6
A compact historic classified entry notes 26 situational want ads for 18 words each with additional space per person. It outlines small notices from job seekers seeking positions and minimal personal details for space efficiency.
The notice provides contact details for the Ballard Agency run by P. H. Mullen at 5409 Ballard Avenue and the Main Office on Seventh Avenue between Union and University with phone numbers Ballard 306 and Main 1060.
Fragmented OCR lists names ages and dates with marriage and birth notes, quarried from a city paper. Includes several individuals with ages, locations, and dates in a jumbled format, plus stray classified lines about real estate and exchanges.
180 acres choice orchard and garden land in Wenus Valley ten miles from North Yakima and four miles from MN P Station. Water rights in private tract, 120 acres under cultivation. Finest platting proposition in Yakima country. $24,000 with easy terms. Also mentions dentist Dr Edwin Jrown in Seattle and North DANK LAND COMPANY address.
Exposition accelerates completion fueling long needed improvements and rising real estate values. About 190 lots in the University district appear sure bets, as the city’s real estate market strengthens with the new development push and university area transportation upgrades.
An ad fragment offers a seaside day on August 4 2040 with money refunds if a contact locates a Vicing along friends. It mentions a Beattie round fleet and a Fine hotel amid beach plans and town tours by agents.
The Meadows announces overnight entries for next Monday across six races. Entries include salting and selling conditions for 3year-olds and up, with six furlong and one mile distances and various horse names such as Nun'a Welling Mowe Cherry Korosilany and Lord of the Forest, each listed with assigned weights or statuses.
The Democrats of the Fifth Ward hold a meeting this evening in Room 652 563 554 Empire Building.
Four room cottage priced per lot with fine level terrain and water wiring. Includes woodshed and a good location near the lake. Potential buyers directed to visit the office for details and monthly payments mentioned in the ad.
Advertisements tout land tracts from $1 and up with monthly payments, new houses on easy terms, and free deeds upon death. Listings include Navy yard work expected, cheap waterfront and lake view lots near buses, schools, and churches, with options from Bremerton to Charleston Park Second Addition and nearby realty offices.
Fragmentary ad notes limited sale of lakefront lots on Lake Washington near Madison Park. Mentions control of prime property and transportation access, with unclear specifics and branding terms.
New York reports rail averages reach 106.76 the year high while stock brokers in Seattle note market activity. Monarch Tobacco sues Tobacco Trust for 1.506 million. Cleveland to add furnaces and ore docks costing 2.5 million. Nomination plans and labor issues surface in political and industrial circles. Public figures face varying political stances as trade and currency policies draw comment.
A mixed 1908 financial page lists stock figures for major railroads and metals with percent changes and totals, alongside open high low close prices for wheat corn and oats. A Seattle real estate blurb promotes a free deed offer in Greenw Park and a sales push by T. P. Fay Company in Seattle.
United Press reports from Saint Paul that James J. Hill and railroad men discuss Pacific trade with China and Japan. Hill claims transcontinental lines were blocked from the Pacific by interstate barriers, stating American routes lack seaward reach and cannot compete with foreign fleets.
The Woodland Park Band presents a concert led by Conductor EB N Seattle. The program features Whistling John American Triumph The Silver Brook The Eastern Star Intermezzo The King Bee selections Indian Dance Under the Tropic Dreaming and Two Step with an intermission and solo by Hone.
The forty hours devotions begin tomorrow at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Marion Street. Mass is at 1:30 pm with Rev. Patrick O’Rourke delivering the sermon at 7:30 pm.
Leonard Hendricks 31 kills two then himself in Hartford and leaves a note for Mia. He mentions his daughters Anna aged five and a younger child and warns Mia to seek a band. Authorities report a family tragedy with unclear motive and no further details.
Listing of Saturday market prices for beef mutton stew corned beef and other meats with per pound and bulk offers. Includes produce such as lettuce celery cabbage lemons apples oranges and peppers with various per unit prices and bulk deals.
The excerpt lists agricultural prices for poultry butter meats and produce including hens per pound live chickens live pigeons butter per pound and various vegetables with unit prices. It reads as a market snapshot showing farm product values and farm gate quotations.
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