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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1919
Page
6
A collage of wartime classified notices seeking employment for veterans and others. Listings include drivers, surveyors, mining workers, clerks, hotel staff, and sales positions, with ages, addresses, and contact methods amid equipment sales and real estate notices.
Real estate ad offers tracts near the North Trunk highway and country club with water and light from 400 dollars down 40. Nearby Lake Forest park and Cedar Place drive property features an improved ranch five acres with bungalow style home barn and outbuildings. Asking price 1575 with monthly payments and cash options.
Free building plans for the first unit two room farm tract near West Seattle. Five acres with rich loam soil, suitable for berries gardens and poultry plus easy payment options. Also listings for 40 acres stump land near Stanwood and 10 acres water front on Hood's Canal with prices and down payments. Independent rural living close to city. Clarke & Co listings include Main 99 1019 Third Ave and Sidney contact.
A mix of farm and timber land listings with prices and terms in Eastern and Western Washington. Properties include 40 acres for $1,000 with easy terms, 10 acres near Kirkland, and 6,006 acres in Southwest Washington. Also notices for land open to settlement, irrigation projects, and bonds offers amid a regional real estate push. Local agents Burke & Fata and H. Peters advertise multiple parcels and term plans.
A collection of compact real estate notices offers 4 room cottages at 2275 with fixtures near Lake Kenmore, a 75x258 farm in the city with fruit trees, a Queen Anne bargain 4 room home on a paved street, small lot houses from 1100 to 2400, and several land lots with terms. Agents include PATTEN, VAN ARSDALE & CO, CLINTON-BUCK MAN, WM FULLERTON, H A GOODFELLOW, and A A PETERSON.
A dense typed list shows numerous stocks and broker names including Beacon Coal Western Amel & Power Capitol Petroleum Interocean A T Pref Interocean B T Co special Bimplex Auto Wheel and others offered for sale at market. The brokerage department notes incomplete information and invites inquiries on any security or bond, with orders to buy or sell in any week.
San Francisco August 14 The United States army transport Sheridan has lost her starboard propeller 1,700 miles from port and is making the trip to San Francisco under her own steam. A radiogram to General Devol says she is due next Sunday but may be delayed about ten days from Honolulu to San Francisco. She has ample fuel and food.
The board of public works moved to have the city engineer draft plans and specifications for a Skagit power plant on Gorge creek and to prepare data for an ordinance to fund the project. A $400 000 road and mill appropriation was discussed but postponed until full cost estimates exist. A plan to connect Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power lines to the city was approved in principle for under $12 000, with costs and power availability to be finalized.
Former New York police commissioner Arthur Woods, appointed by the war department, heads a large agency in New York City dedicated to linking returning soldiers with employment opportunities.
State federation executive board meets to decide whether to issue an order delaying the referendum amid Frank Morrison A F L ultimatum threatening the federation’s charter. No decision reached by 2 pm Thursday as members weigh action. In Alaska, Ketchikan reports exceptionally strong Prince of Wales coast fish season with canneries overwhelmed.
The annual Washington Tuberculosis association meeting will be held in Tacoma in August 2021. Leaders include Dr. J B Anderson and Dr G C Wagner with talks on public health, child welfare, and tuberculosis campaigns. The event previews a traveling clinic exhibit touring the state and invites county officials to attend for a broader view of the tuberculosis fight.
The Goldwyn production The Silver Horde shoots on Seattle waterfront this Friday with 26 California crew arriving by train to board a ship for a staged sinking scene viewed by about 1,000 locals. Led by Frank Lloyd with author Beach overseeing, the cast includes Myrt Stedman and others as filming moves to Bellingham after Seattle interiors. Local extras and staff are being hired for the waterfront work and street scenes.
Deputy sheriffs raided a Hobart pool hall finding three inebriated patrons and a stash of gambling gear and moonshine. Proprietor Andre Burke faces charges for possessing intoxicants and gambling equipment. In Liverpool England an official report notes rising methylated spirit consumption by women and its dangerous effects.
Mrs Milo Abercrombie von Brincken seeks to revert to her maiden name in San Francisco so her children may bear that name. Her ex husband Wilhelm von Brincken, a former German consulate attache, was convicted of violating American neutrality and serves a two year term in Steilacoom Washington. The mother says she cannot bear to see her children carry a name stained by wartime actions.
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