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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1917
Page
10
Advertisement notes piano teaching in twenty lessons with popular music styles. Mentions Jacobs Ridg and Ada P Evans at 211 Union Ave Apt R as contact. Includes price of 10 cents for a roll and a promotion for a friendship club with ladies free membership.
The advertisement promotes Kryftian Clairvoyant and Cliffs Ton Great offering free advice on business success, marriage, romance, and luck. It claims guaranteed accuracy, lists two address locations, a special 50 cent reading, and asserts no charges for falsified readings while promising definite, practical results from psychic sessions with hourly availability.
A lengthy advertisement touts Madam Lesslie a scientific phrenologist and medium at Antlers Hotel Fourth and Union and Hotel Norris room 5 offering guidance on love marriage and luck with satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. Special readings 60 cents for two weeks. hours 9 a m to 8 30 pm daily and Sundays.
When the keel was laid Saturday for the first 3,500 ton wooden ship to be built by Paterson McDonald Shipbuilding Co on the Duwamish waterway it added another shipbuilding plant to Seattle's booming industry. The new plant spans 25 acres with 2 500 acres water frontage and the company organized in June already holds contracts to build 10 vessels.
Concrete ships to be built in the area will bear the name Rock Line. The first vessel launched will be called the Rock of Gibraltar, with its hull already laid at Redwood City as of August 12.
Beginning today the larger Lake Washington canal lock closes for two weeks for painting. During this period the smaller lock will be used and only vessels under 17 feet draft or 126 feet length or 30 feet beam may pass. The American bark Elizabeth formerly the Sir Robert Fernie, after 20 years afloat and serving as a storehouse and barge, sailed into Tacoma on Monday and drifted to the Danaher Lumber Co docks.
A Japanese freighter Fukui Maru chartered by H F Ostrander Co Seattle suffered heavy damage after a cargo hold fire. Reports from Muroran Japan relay the incident to Seattle Merchants Exchange.
The Alaska Steamship freighter Cordovan is due later this month with one of the port’s largest fish cargoes. The vessel will carry 60 000 cases of canned salmon valued at about 300 000 dollars.
A fragment lists daily grocery items with prices including sugar Crisco olive oil milk olives pickles and meats. Items shown include veal cutlets sirloin steak fresh halibut cheeks and cod with baked goods and eggs also noted are cleaning products and shoe polish stalls numbers appear alongside product lines.
Fragmented OCR lists prices and items from market stalls with Crisco Royal baking powder tea spices crisp breads and dairy goods including sugar veal stew veal chops pot roast eggs cottage cheese peanut butter whole milk pink beans and baking essentials.
An OCR fragment lists grocery items and prices: canned tomatoes, lard, honey, rice, beans, maple syrup, milk, sauerkraut, pickles, olives, and related staples. Mentions include quantities like quarts and pints and prices around 40 cents for some goods.
A list of miscellaneous grocery prices appears with items like veal roasts at 124¢ Th, pot roast 11%¢ Ib, sirloin steak, veal cutieta 17% Ib, hamburger, bacon 11 %o Ib, club sausage 11% Ib, fresh butter 4c Ib, eggs 7c and 18c dos, peanut butter, new comb honey 20¢ Ib, brick cheese 1s9 Ib, tea 6e Ib, Postum cereal 30¢ pkg, fig prune cereal 200 pkg, fruit jar rubbers.
A busy grocery display lists varied goods with prices and stalls. Items include coffee 40¢, Ghirardelli chocolate, tomatoes, watermelons, beans, oil 33¢, tuna 17¢, veal stew 124¢ per pound, beef cuts, cheese, bread loaves, Crisco 86¢, milk 45¢, eggs, cantaloupes 3 for 16, peaches, rhubarb, corn, apricots 900 crate, and other sale notes across stalls 60 to 162.
Mrs. Walter Hempfing is accused of uncovering evidence that her husband worked for German agents. She alerted police promptly and Hempfing is in federal custody today. Authorities allege his involvement in German plots in Missouri and Illinois after he had filed for naturalization.
Sheriff Jack Stringer announced a ban on public picnics at Fortuna Park saying only private gatherings or those under a bona fide organization will be allowed. He cited numerous complaints of rough conduct at Sunday picnics during the summer.
Eighty thousand foreign born Americans joined a Loyalty day rally at Jefferson barracks. Several Germans and Austrians received entry permits to the barred zone but could not take part in the parade. Police logged thefts including a blue serge coat a ladies ring a Bord a rubber hose a canvas two sacks of cement and a bicycle.
Factory whistles Monday noon signaling the opening of Modern-Walington week at the Fifth annual Manufacturers' and Merchants' Industrial fair. The event at the Exhibition building features vaudeville and educational lectures. Aviator Arthur Davis will drop paper bombs with Washington-made articles Tuesday noon for redemption at the Exhibition building. Hundreds of out of town buyers attend.
A half hour engagement on July 31 between a German submarine and an American steamship off the Ireland coast ended with no hits for either side. The clash was reported from New York on August 13.
Kansas City market observers predict $18 hogs soon after the first of the month as hogs jumped 20 to 30 cents. Top prices reached $17.35 as commission men anticipate higher levels.
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