Northwest want ads amplify audience for cars and houses
Classified listings showcase 1916 to 1918 autos including 1918 Oldsmobile and 1917 Paige alongside 1916 Maxwell and 1916 Chevrolet. Also offered are Seattle area housing lots and small homes on Little City Farms with terms. Private sellers advertise bargain cars and real estate in Charlestown and Kirkland areas.
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Maxwell
Henry Mosserach
10Th Ave
Paige
Porrd
Lota
Johnson
We Hill
Kirkland
Wash
North &C
Chevrolet
Overland
Real estate ads mix among Seattle area homes for sale
Numerous listings show small houses and cottages in Ballard, Queen Anne, University District, Green Lake, and nearby areas with prices from 600 to 4000 dollars. Buyers can pay cash portions with installments, and several properties advertise proximity to streetcar lines and shipyards.
Little Farm for Little Money in West Seattle District
Classified ad notes multiple land offers near Seattle with plots of 5 acres and 4 acres, prices from 735 to 150 cash plus monthly payments. Includes near Junction California and Alaska, military road access, city water and electric light, and exchanges for real estate and ranch commitments. Contact W J Marvin and Co. BISBEE & Co. listings in Fauntleroy Gatewood area.
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Bseattle District
Nudson
Junction
California
Alaska
Seattle
W. J. Marvin
Boston Block
Second Ave
Killott
Fphone West
Co. A. Bisbee & CO
Fauntleroy
Gatewood Station
Improved Ranch 1 Acre with House and Buildings
Attractive bungalow style house with large rooms, barn, chicken house, tool shed, storage and wood shed in excellent condition. Spring water, good loam land, fenced with 5 wires, near cedar district and 1.5 miles from creamery. Price 1476 cash or balance 15 monthly. Burke & Farrara, 203 New York Bik.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Frice
Burke & Farrara
New York
Bik
Land Sale Dilemma and Local Acreage Offers
An advert compares land values near Beattie and beyond city limits with dry gravelly land at 200 to 300 per acre versus black muck and heavy clay loam soil at 56 to 80, urging a ride out to inspect before paying higher prices. The note promotes easy terms and open evenings by KL Gilham, owner, 908 Seaboard Bank Building. It also lists two parcels near Seattle: 40 acres with two years free, subdivisible, offered by Empire Mortgage Loan Co in the White Building at 203.
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Seattle
Wash-ngton
R. E Terry
Combian Builiding
Washington
Phe Co
Roylaton Ave
Apt
East
Christian Science
Sidney
Star
Washington Children’s Home
Kenwood
Karate Han
Shipya
Wagernerou
Hale
Echionning
Clipart
Lake Orien
City
Cara
Riverside
17Th
Spokane
Lake Darien
Fred
W. J. Marvin
Boston Block
Hilcott
MR. Gilham
Seaboard (Northern Bank
N. BP
Empire Mortgagh Loan CO
White
Kirkland Water Front Ranch Well Improved and For Sale
Good house with large rooms and several outbuildings on a cultivated slope to the lake. Fruit trees and berries, soil on both bottom and upland, four blocks from school in a good district. Price 2400 dollars terms 500 cash and 20 dollars monthly. Take Hart Madison car and Kirkland ferry to Burke and Farrar's office in Kirkland.
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W. Lee
Bath
Itteworth
Queen Anne
Marvin
Hroston
Paved Street University District
Burke
10Th Ave
N. E. University
Charles Dousens
Alaska
Noom
26Th Ave
Rainier Ave
Seattle
Aldridge
Marion Ruldg
van Arsdalg & Main
Green Lake
Lek. W. Ss. Robison Co
Third Ave
Dossemaion Prompt
BE. Kh. Thomas & Company Elliott
Georgetown
Patterson-MacDonald
Yealerway
Maynard
Youngstown View
Chandler & Goff
Weat
Magnolia Bluff
Shalf
37Th Ave
Beacon
Sunnyside
Second Ave
Alfred Hoderon
New York Bic
Ron
Hart Madison
Kirkland Ferry
Burke & Farrar
Kirkland
DIRECTORY OF ATTORNEYS LOANERS AND SERVICES Seattle Star
The Seattle Star directory lists attorneys patent specialists and general practitioners with free consultations, a chiropractor and medical services, pawn and loan offices offering fast confidential loans on diamonds jewelry and other valuables, and a Turkish bath and wellness provider. It mentions firms such as Fred P. Gorin Rivers Leola May Elvin Downes and JP Rall along with lenders like Provident Loan Society and American Jewelry Co and Imperial Turkish Baths.
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Provident Loan Society, Inc
Seneca
Marion
American Jewelry CO
You're Next: The Barber College Yell and Its Provoking Lore
A satirical look at barber colleges set in a colorful district below Yesler. The piece humorously questions origins of barbers, describes the three departments free room main room finishing, and notes barberettes earning in finishing room while graduates fare well economically during wartime.
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College Yell
Barber Schools
Winky-Biinky
Yesler
Old Dame
Barber Colleges
Barber College
Blinkywinky
Ute Barber College
Public Market Stalls Feature Wide Fresh Produce and Meats
Public Market stalls list diverse goods from halibut and king salmon to fresh vegetables. Prices show per pound and per item details across stalls 1 to 161, including butter, coffee, milk, canned goods, and baked items, with multiple vendors offering weekly specials and bulk buys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine ST. Market Stong
Annex
Hershey
Elliott Fish Co
M. J. B. Coffe
Hill
del Monte
Douglas Morse Co Offers Dairy Ranch Near Seattle and Tacoma
Classified ad describes 10 acre dairy ranch between Seattle and Tacoma with water, a small home, cow barn, orchard, bottom land, milk route, and proximity to county road. Priced at 81 800 with 300 cash and monthly balance. Also promotes other timber land sales and steady wage work with Liberty bonds as first payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Tacoma
F. B
Douglas-Morse CO
Leary
Allied Gains To Split Teat Home Groups
Special to The Star by N. Be. From Paris August 1. German industrialists and military leaders clash over war aims as U boat failures and Russian collapse tempt a split. Peace advocates push for cessation of U boat warfare while militarists press westward offensives. Disputes threaten a major German political realignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. BE
Paris
Entente
Germany
Geremany
Russian
Russia
This Naval Officer Just Loves the Sea
Special to The Star by N. EB. A. LONDON Aug. 1. Here is the best American naval yarn. A naval officer was asked what he would do after the war. He said he would go ashore buy an oar sling it over his shoulder and seek a place where a man stops him and asks what that is and he would answer I am going to settle down there for life.
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Barbers’ College
Donkey Tonkey Town
Barber College
Barberette
N. EB. A
London
Airplane Flight Triggers Panic in Swaziland Natives
Johannesburg dispatch reports Maj. Miller’s 800 mile flight over Swaziland caused 100000 natives to flee into brush or to their kraals. A local native quipped the white man can have Swaziland now, only thing he cannot do is raise the dead, and that will come in time.
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N.eba
London
Johannesburg
Maj. Miller
Swaziland
Berlin Band Arrested for Concealing Cherries in Instruments
A Berlin area concert at Werder ended with all musicians being arrested for attempting to steal cherries hidden in their instruments. The unusual incident follows a note about wartime ration files and allotments listed in the Werder report.
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Neb
Amsterdam
Berlin
Werder
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Spring
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Success Shorthand School
Hiawatha St
Agh Farner
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Lowman Building
Stetson-Roas
Kent Lumber Co
White Ridg
Seattle Et A
Dept OF Labor Employment Service Union
First Ave
Ont
Sears-Roebuck Co
Sumas
Hoge Bldg
Seattle Chain Co
South Park
Jeylinder
Lewis Sears Paper Co
West Coast Steel Co
Ward
Mullin's
Klickitat
Jackson St
Lallard
Auburn
Hetween Pennington Hotel
16Th and Jefferson
A. KE. Goff
H.C. Plturs
Firat Ave
Dennyway
Standard
Pine St
Barrington
Elliott Billoc Bank
Ag. Ft
Williams CO
IMS
Piret Ave
Kavanagtes
Olve
Foreign
Weatlake Elliott
New Times
Rob Sale
Fringer
Piano House
J. Webb Kitchen & Co
University New Pianos
Meyer‘oner
Union Ravanaghus
Davenport
Corwin
Kent
Sunnydale
REDE
Clare Mechanical
Fee Gari
Houghton
Seattle Automobile Co
Pike
Agg
Ford
Overland Chamain
Willys-Knight
Willys-Knoight
Ata
Isié
Automobilea
Overland Pacific CO
Deed Car Department
Andy Ford
King
Scripps Pooeth
Buick
Flanders
Studebaker
Oakland
Winton
Franklin
W. & Dalmage Motor CO
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E Pine St
Elgin Stix
von Stutz
M. Leedham
Henry Momsbach
Vickly
Dodge
Henry Moasabach
Lake
Henderson
Stewart
Harroun
Liberty
Rev
Saxon
Cole
Metz
Ueen Anne
Wallingford
Coe
Stephen Berg
Room
Noousse
Shields-Liven Good CO
H. C. Peters
Henry Mos
Bach
Gatewood
Maunticroy
Gatewood Cars
Jitneys
WM. A. Brady
California Ave
Camberain Ave
Charleston
West End
Navy Yard
Fine View
Hay
Lafayete
Bixth
Fine School
A. Williams
Homes For Sale
Lith Ave
N. W
W. Glat
Omng & Broberg
Ballard Ave
Ballard
Ourerry Lake
Cary
Port Orchard
Hremerton
van Aksdale & CO
Lake Burten Carine
H.C. Phuit
W. Andover
Youngstown
Green Lake District
J. Manvin
Walker
M. Jondan & CO
Iudg
Main
Filiott
JOIN
J. Blalott CO
Leary Building
29Th Ave
I Howell St
Fifth Ave
Crockett
Collins
C. Smith
West Seattle Property
Second Avenue
Bartell
Beattie
N. FP
Kirkland Water Front Ranch
Young & Dore Mallard
Kitcap County
Iremerton
Siiverdale
Malf Cash
John Belbo
Beattlig
Douglas
Mote CO
Leary Iwnide
Hood Canal
Viret
Des Moines
Liberty Bonds
Alaska Petroleum & Coal
Ned Monarch
Universal Marsh Power
Jones Holding Yndicate
International Wimneee Cor
Lone Star
Puget Sound
Liberty Min
Mill
Crystal Lake Gold Mining
Cs Weean
Beacon Coal
Red Monarch
Alaska Homestake
Liberty O11
Gaa
Wyo
Wyoming Pacific Oi
Alaska Vetroeum & Coal
Max Winkle
Unoin St. Elliott
Miis
Willeskeen
Amonds
SMITH
Cherry
REV Greene
Nort’ Ffolland
Jefferson
Diamond
Michael
Pire ST. Persie
Tair
Keitel
Anni McMahon
North
Money Sion
The
Seattle Star Directory
Fred P. Gorin
Central
Wick - Lawrence
Attorneys At Law
Leola May Wlvin
Downes
JP Rall
Lae
Snell
Ry Stewart
Nders & BA ° Co
L. C. Smith Tidg
Fe & Tooms
Fike Howard
Kodakers
Jacobs
P.L
Bide
Wifpodrome
Oswald
Hippodrome
Stevens
Halle
Assn
G. R. Hartwis
Opticians
Central Storage Co
Bought and Son
Westlake Ave
Imperial Turkish Baths
Louis Myers
Stalin
J. BK. Coffer
Columbus River
Three Lakes
Africa
Busea
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