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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
6
The Star lists rates for classified ads including Situations Wanted and Help Wanted. 18 words cost 26 cents with additional space charged per word, and the paper cannot guarantee accuracy or assume responsibility for telephoned advertisements.
Classified style snippet lists Ballard Agency and Mullen office locations with addresses near 8400 Ballard Avenue and Seventh Avenue between Union and University. Includes city hall proximity and telephone numbers Ballard 306 and Main 1050.
Birth notices list several August dates for wives of Sinclair Johnson Beweirth Herth Erickeon Reulean Mason etc. also Anna Percy and Catherine Jones. The city funeral for Anna Percy at Reach residence and interment at Lake View cemetery. Mere FP will have funeral at residence Tuesday. Also listing for undertakers Butterworth & Sons and special notices from Eagles. Also real estate and goods for sale by North Bank Land Co and Magnolia milkwater offerings near Fort Lawton and Washington.
The notice advertises a growing waterfront development by Searree Sons REKRRE CO with offices in Empire Building Bremerton and a cheap close‑in property near the water. It notes a $1,000 mortgage and an investment angle, plus a cheap chicken ranch with land and livestock for $660 with terms.
A frayed notice markets two acres of splendor described as near a harbor area with a quick access from Pioneer 3, and mentions development readiness with a view to immediate building, though many details are garbled. The text implies property availability and a rapid building timeline.
Parcel offers 40 lots of northern shore line with splendid acreage and good water. Features include a level surface and fine view. Platted and priced at 460 per acre under favorable terms. Local office handles inquiries and viewing.
Property ad describes multiple rooms and lots in Woodland Park with phrases about down payments and monthly terms. It mentions concrete basement details and locations near Phinney and Freemont avenues with varied down payments and monthly balances.
Jim Patten, the so called wheat king, battles market fear as he bets on higher prices, holding 5,000,000 bushels and facing a major mill bankruptcy over wheat costs. The interview probes his gambles, methods, and the wider impact on farmers, traders, and boards of trade.
Century Realty Co lists properties in West Beattie including Alaska Building headquarters for key purchases. Yakima Valley orchards and orchard lands are advertised as desirable assets for buyers seeking independence and investment opportunities.
An early Seattle ad offers a rooming house at 40 Newton and Sixth Avenue North near the Queen Anne car line with large light rooms, wired for electricity, a furnace, and a porch, asking four thousand dollars with rent at forty dollars monthly. Also advertised are 40 to 50 foot lots for 90 dollars with 1450 per acre terms near Green Lake with grade and view noted, by HH Boak Company, Inc.
The Meadows overnight entries list six races with selling and allowance conditions. Notable names include Maud McG, Cartel, Edwin Gunn, Arcourt, Jacomo, Cobleskill, Eckersall, Capt. Burnett, and Alma Boy across sprints and routes.
The state conference of charities and correction will be held in Seattle October 5 to 7. A large program is prepared and organizers aim to secure Jane Addams and other prominent speakers for the gathering on the coast.
Sightseeing Eagles linger in Seattle as the tenth annual convention proceeds. Grand Officers hold meetings here while Past Grand Worthy President Bell speaks to Democrats in Everett. Tomorrow the Grand officers depart for San Francisco where Aerie No. 6 hosts a reception.
A Seattle author Charles Eugene Hanks formerly of Chicago, writes Idols a play to be produced in a micro stage at Legatre theater. The work features scenes set on Queen Anne hill and reflects the author who has lived in Seattle for 18 years.
Col W M Ridpath, Spokane candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, opened headquarters on the fourth floor of the Hotel Northern to canvass Seattle and King County. C G Poland of the Fourteenth ward leads at headquarters. Ridpath recently canvassed the state, met with voters, and forecast a heavy statewide vote. He plans to stay at the Hotel Northern into September 1 and push the last primary campaign into northeastern counties.
A French engineer M Geranger plans an airborne auto race for Barnum and Bailey. Two 1100 pound cars with young women ride a 90 foot incline and are released. One car somersaults, the other wins by a fraction of a second. Safety concerns delay erection of the steel ramp and support structures.
Wm J Bryan declines to answer Van Cleave attack but may reply later. Questions posed include whether Bryan knows his platform charges are false if he favors legalization of the boycott and views on the Denver platform’s depositor payment provision penalizing honest bankers.
Farmers had pressed for the ban lift and the return of permits to burn fires in the woods. The notice notes Mrs Elizabeth Cook 58 of Ballard died yesterday at 1547 W 57th St leaving husband John son James and daughter Isabel. Funeral Wednesday 2 pm Ballard Presbyterian church with interment at Crown Hill cemetery.
Washington mourns the death of P. J. Smith, wife of the county commissioner, who died at her Ixsaquah farm yesterday at 2. She was 53 and a longtime resident born in Lawrence Gull. The body will be interred at Renton cemetery tomorrow.
Public Market lists Boston brown bread at 10 cents a loaf and spring at 22 cents a pound. Hamburg 6 cents a pound, bacon ends 11 cents, lard in pails 16 cents, Yakima new potatoes 15 cents a pound. Figs back in season, radishes and celery bunches, cabbage two for a cent? head lettuce three for a cent. Lemons 26 to 30 cents per dozen. fancy apples 1.50 to 1.76 per basket. pineapples 20 to 40 cents each. oranges 26 to 40 cents. Eggs 60 cents a dozen. Potatoes new 10 to 15 cents, onions bunches, carrots three for a cent. Summer squash 6 cents a pound, meat cuts listed: mutton chops 24 cents, steaks 18 cents, porterhouse 7? shoulder roast five to six cents? per pound.
Local market prices list live hens at 18 to 20 cents per pound and dressed birds at 23 to 28 cents per pound. Poultry items include broilers and pigeons. meat prices show cattle at 40 to 4.5 cents per pound and hogs at various rates. Fruit and vegetables feature raspberries at 2.28 per 10 pounds, apples from 1 to 1.50, cabbages at 10 to 15 cents, and lettuce near 30 cents per head.
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