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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1904
Page
6
A dense list of local ads and notices for brokers stores and services including druggists hardware carpenters and nurseries. The page highlights rental listings and sale opportunities in Seattle area with market pitches for tracts green lake Beattie and Rainier Heights plus carpentry and cleaning services and employment notices.
The fragmentary text mentions a coastal or ship related scene with unclear names and places. Readers get a glimpse of a maritime setting and a possible event or action but key details are unreadable.
A brown water spaniel named Pritale, clipped and registered to an owner on Weet Beattle Avenue, was reported stolen but returned Saturday after a public appeal. The notice urged owners to contact D Barnni for recovery and warned against false reports while offering a reward. The item also lists nearby real estate ads and other classifieds from the same page.
Mee F. W. Cannon, longtime manager, leases the old steamer Idaho from a benevolent corporation led by Frank Black and George Roger Greene. The Wayside Emergency Hospital will receive $400 monthly from the city and aim for a firmer financial footing as debts shrink. Marian B. Baxter will continue with the institution.
P A Klein an instrument repairer buried his cash and securities in a tin box beneath his Howard street shop. A fire last evening burned the building and melted the solder on the box. His nephew found two fifty dollar bills and six ten dollar bills among the ruins. Klein estimates six hundred dollars in bills and thousands in securities were stored there, many ruined.
Nome notes report Duncan and Griggs of the Midas creek stampeders missing after a July voyage on the Louise toward the Yukon. Investors, including officials, seek word on a possible rich strike before the pair’s return.
Patrolman Bunnell arrested William Toler on First Avenue last night. Toler wore his wife's jacket and old trousers claiming to be a gambler. He faced a drunkenness charge while staying with rumors of other days.
The Alcazar screens A Western Judge a lively comedy set in Bluestone Canyon with Opie Reed as the judge and Nellie Wiedemann as Nan. Tom Wiedemann leads and the cast features Miss Gracia Fox and Adelaide Claire Pattington who won best dressed doll at Saturday matinee.
Attendance tops seven thousand at Bremerton Evergreen Park celebration honoring Pacific squadron officers and crews. threshing to begin in Garfield fields with expanding harvest crew. Colville church funds for improvements. Vancouver robbery ends with missing diamonds. Northern Pacific crash at Bozeman kills engineer. Port Gamble mill shifts to day and night. Echo farmer Charles King dies. John McGourty body found downstream from Leavenworth wreck.
A party of university professors who traveled to Mount Rainier a week ago Saturday have not completed the ascent. Six members have returned reporting a maximum altitude of 10 000 feet. Some professors remain camping in Paradise Valley planning another attempt, including Professors F A Osborne Brocker and D A Thompson.
Future National Guard of Washington aspirants must submit to a thorough examination in military science. Officers who fail after two chances will lose commissions. Adjt. Gen. Drain issued the order to boost efficiency. Examinations will be held in all cities with companies, including Seattle on October 6 7 and 8.
New York opens republican and democratic national headquarters simultaneously as Taggart and Cortelyou pledge full time to the campaign. The first meeting of the new democratic executive committee took place at noon at the Hoffman House.
Local grocers will close next Wednesday for their annual picnic at Pleasant Beach. To compensate they will stay open until 9:30 Tuesday evening with a sports and dancing program and many prizes from merchants.
A mass meeting set for August 16 by the Cigar Makers union will distribute free Seattle made cigars to attendees. Speakers will urge support for home products and present a program, led by A W Jones organizer of the International Cigar Makers union based in Chicago.
A piano and instrument showroom promotes a wide range of brands including Kimball Hobart M. Cabie and Haddorff. The store lists pianos organs players guitars mandolins band instruments graphophones and records inviting customers to inspect its facilities and advantages.
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