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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1916
Page
6
A jumble of old classified lines offers want ad rates and several personal ads. Entries mention money offers, marriage prospects, and product promises with instructional details and contact addresses. The fragmentary notices reflect early 20th century advertising styles and contact methods.
Madam Nina, a spiritual medium in Vernon, offers advice on love marriage business and finances. She claims to reveal enemies, aid happiness between spouses, and forecast marriages with initials and timing. Readings are private and promise truthful guidance to ease troubles.
An old city notice promotes Madam Mellife Wortt offering clairvoyant and phrenologist readings on business love health and family affairs. It claims guaranteed satisfaction and promises to reveal future spouses and life success with multiple locations and other readers listed in the ad.
Classified notice lists various rural parcels and homes for sale. Includes 5 25 cash and 15 monthly terms, 214 acres fenced and partly cropped, fronting county highway near a lake, large poultry house for hundreds of chickens, and nearby timber lands. Mentions brokers Burke & Farrar Kirkland and Van Arsdale Inc. Also notes nearby towns, moving sales, and assorted real estate listings with diverse terms.
In the United States District Court Western District of Washington Northern Division case S730 Aaron G Mehfeld was adjudicated bankrupt on August 1 1916. The first meeting of creditors will be held September 1 1916 at 2 06 PM at 1264-5 L. Hrntth Building Beattie. Creditors may attend prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact other business. Seattle August 1 1916 KR Hawking Referee in Bankruptcy.
Teare Beattie arrives as Puget Sound Steamers announce all local routes from Colman Dock at the foot of Marion Street.
In city hall square a large boulder commemorating the January 26 1856 battle of Seattle was unveiled. Daughters of the American Revolution president William Cumming Story and Sons of the American Revolution vice president Orison J. C. Dutton spoke as copper tablets honor the battleship Maine and the old wooden decatur. Judge Hanford noted the battle’s limited fatalities yet its role in city progress while family histories and Christianized religion origins were discussed.
In a crowded Marysville depot Mrs. Q A Gilmore shot Mrs. Ella Shipps as she prepared to board a train to Kansas City. Shipps died from four bullet wounds. Gilmore surrendered to sheriffs. The two women had fought over a divorce.
Dr Macy invites afflicted persons for a confidential talk and thorough examination to diagnose conditions and show how he can benefit them. He claims to cure cases others failed, offering references and assurance of quick permanent results with no cost or obligation.
United Press staff correspondent reports from a high ground along the British advance in Northern France. Describes ruined villages, heavy shelling, and the vast wartime panorama with troops, motor lorries, and new arrivals behind the fighting front.
Market list from Pike Place details prices and items across stalls including milk eggs flour and canned goods. Notable items include pasteurized milk 7 percent fat jars rubber cheese and salmon with multiple stalls offering prices per pound or per can.
A cluttered catalog of bulk grocery items and prices including flour at $1.50 per sack, canned milk 12 cans, toilet paper, sugar, lard, hamburger steak, pot roast, lamb, fish such as halibut and Dolly Vardone trout, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, peas, beans, spinach, corn, and Washington milk with many unit prices and bulk quantities listed.
A fragmented kitchen market listing details stalls 2 through 16 with prices for lemons okra cucumbers apples squash butter eggs cheese milk sardines and coffee. It notes stall numbers, item prices per unit or weight, and brief descriptors for fresh goods and canned items.
A cluttered price list from Whirk at Stong's shows various items and unit prices including baking soda at 25c, shredded wheat in 106 packs, 400 bulk coffee at 5e, jars of pickled pears, 10c cans of shrimp, prunes, olive oil at $1.65, corned beef 25c, macaroni at 5e, pancake flour two for 1e.
The list shows varying prices for common items such as sugar, flour, butter, eggs, cheese, salmon, berries, tomatoes and peaches. It records quantities in pounds and baskets with unit prices ranging around one dollar per item or bag.
A London court report reveals a woman stored her cash on her mother's grave in Forest Hill cemetery to keep it safe, expressing distrust of banks.
Mrs. Hugh R. Rood, noted as the state's highest income earner, has been chosen to lead the Hughes alliance in Washington. Miss Anne Rhodes and Miss Anne Grimes from New York assist in establishing campaign machinery as the party expands nationally with planned women auxiliaries in vote-restricted states.
John E. Ballaine, candidate for congress, met Chas. E. Hughes in Spokane and Tacoma to discuss Alaska. He pledged if elected to congress to continue government railroad projects ensuring 3000 miles of government owned railroads open the territory to all equally.
Former Congressman Bryan states support for both state and national prohibition. He will speak Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon at Bird's Cafeteria on Pending Issues of Interest to Women Voters.
J Y C Kellogg republican congressional candidate speaks Wednesday night at Mrs Frank A Steele home 815 38th avenue on American Trade at the Course of the European War.
Elmer E. Conner seeks the Republican county auditor nomination with a concert tour featuring Master Howard Neiding. The first performances are set for Redmond at 7 30 and Kirkland at 7 50 Wednesday night with brief campaign addresses interspersed. Henry W. Odom spoke to Women’s clubs at the First Presbyterian church. A 300 member civic group in Walla Walla forms to back Senator Miles Poindexter, with P. C. Elliott as president and E. Poindexter at Burlington planning a large turnout for the senator’s remarks.
Republican prosecutor candidate Frank E Green spoke to a Ballard Druids meeting following the Hughes gathering Tuesday night, signaling campaign activity in the area and leveraging the post-meeting venue for remarks.
W G Lane candidate for senior judge will speak Wednesday night at the Asbury M E church located at 40th and Richmond streets. The meeting starts at 8 o'clock with the public invited to attend.
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