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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Aug 17, 1915

Page

6

Auction and sale ads mix in Oregon Washington properties

A jumble of real estate and business notices lists mining interests, farms, ranches, and ventures for sale or partnership. Listings include price notes from 500 dollars to 7,600 cash, with terms and contact details for buyers, owners, and brokers across Okanogan County, Chehalis, Ketchikan, Alaska, and Florida reclamation projects, plus rail and road development hints.

Okanogan County C. W. Phelps Coupertile Ward Pannen Sound la Duke Commercial St Anacartes Waah Alaska Ketchikan

Real Estate Listings Include Low-Cost 4-Room Home

Real estate ads describe a $960 four room house with a big yard and chicken space near a school north of the university, with graded street and paid assessments. Other offerings include a Hood Canal area beach lot at $14.75 per unit and a near-by bungalow with basement and paid assessments. Listings show multiple addresses and contact numbers across Beachmont, Union City, Port Townsend, and Queen Anne.

University Collyer-Vilab-Elliott, Inc Beachmont Union City Port Townsend Hood Canal Mandy Beach

Western Washington land and water front excursion offer

Tickets 50 cents round trip invites the public to view land north of Beattie. The brochure touts acres of farming land at 4 cents per acre or less with easy terms, water front tracts and camping sites on Sound or lakes. Prompt reservations advised with representative calls for tickets and information.

New York Block Beattie Washington Aleo

Mortgage Loans and Real Estate Offers in Madison and Milverdate

Mortgage loans and real estate offers from firant investment Ga 430 Lor Buchanee and CALMUOUN DENNY EWING Alaska Building. loans on improved city property. real estate montagores fully secured for sale by Joe K Thomas Co. Listings include two cottages near Madison and five acre land on Green Lake North for cattle, with contacts at Main 1240 and 313 New York Bik.

Central Storage Co Seveath Fillott Keattle Billott Lplull Ewanson & Freed Pine J. Malndai Fred P. Gorin Central Adame & Reyno Central Bide Mason Fenwick Lawrence Hurke Ballou Wright Epar Broadway Jurniture Binke Furn Ga POL J. Marsh & CO Kent Maryeville Wash Hughes Madison North Green Lake New York Firant Investment Calmuoun Denny & Ewing Alaska Northern and & Mortgage Co Columbia Marion Real Eatate Montoagre Joe K. Thomas Co Ihe Cherry Et Papa

Public Markets South End Offers Wide Grocery Bargains

A crowded market listing stalls 20 through 424 showcases butter, cheese, fish, produce, meats, coffee, flour, canned goods, and household items with numerous prices. Notable items include fresh butter, beets, potatoes, apples, pears, pork and lamb cuts, sugar, coffee, bread, and honey, with many per unit or per weight prices.

South End Lée Westlake Bbc IBM Cotner

Government plan to regulate unemployment with labor zones

Secretary of Labor W B Wilson outlines a national system of signal stations to move unemployed into jobs where needed. Ethelbert Stewart and others discuss zones, public works funding, agricultural inclusion, and interagency cooperation with the Post Office and Interior Departments to mobilize labor, including 1,500 wheat harvesters this summer from Oklahoma to North Dakota.

W. B. Wilson Ethelbert Stewart Federal Labor Bureau Beattie Washington San Francisco Wilson Labor Department Post Office Department Interior Department Stewart South Oklahoma North Dakota

Central garage plan defeated and budget actions voted

The budget committee reserved a central garage plan, deciding to require monthly department maintenance reports. Street light rate increases were postponed due to absent council members Marble and Fitzgerald. An extra $1,000 was approved for street signs.

Marble Fitzgerald

N Y Society Man Divorced Here

Rex Lee a former prominent New York society figure, divorces Neva Finley Paris daughter of banker Charles E. Finley. Paris testified abandonment in 1913. Finley formerly led Aetna National Bank. daughter a society leader. Somers H. Smith defended plaintiff, George S. Hannon defended defendant.

Rex Lee New York Neva Finley Paris Charles E. Finley Somers H. Smith George 8. Hannon

Vital Statistics Marriage Licenses and Births in Seattle

A station list shows multiple marriage licenses across Tacoma Seattle Vancouver and nearby areas with couples named including Thomas A Keiburgn Artes L Wood and many others. Births are reported for families with listed residences in Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods along with infant genders and home addresses.

Thomas A. Keiburgn Tacoma Artes L. Wood Seattie Nathan Seharin Lucile Gertrude Johnson San Francisco J. K. Masters Mary Scarrett Beattie John O'Bfrien Annie Alford Vancouver Maee Gagener Sarah Galloway Ta‘coma John Menry Mille Bellevue Ian Bella Cogburn Moughton James Rameay Mary Doig Edwards Hitacum Almer Thomas Porter Victoria RBC Pearl May Stevens Seattle Lessle Groves Jane Griffith Fort Lawton Albert A. du Rocher Catherine France Port Stanley Frank Gutewilier Maniia Anna A. Thomeen John A. Hagen 20Th Ave Eon W. A. Trowbridge Fauntleroy Ave Filippo Vendresca 19Th Ave A. Ditore Diet Mre G. Fata Fist Ave

Local Street Market Prices Reported in Fragment

Fragmentary listing shows stalls with assorted grocery items and prices. Items include olives, corned beef, lard, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, apples, salmon, sugar, and clothing notes. Several stalls reference quantities and unit prices amid garbled OCR.

Stall &T Appien

Port Commission Opens East Marginal Way for Industrial Sites

The city considers granting Port of Seattle a franchise to build a double track along East Marginal Way linking Harbor Island with rail and water access. The plan aims to create a large new industrial district with a 20 foot right of way, leveraging county land at three dollars per acre.

Spokane Ave Port Commission Milwaukee Washington Com Ave Port Belt Great Northern Angern Pacific Mong Kaat Way Vila Dawson

Pantages Presents Corking Vaudeville Hit "The Haberdashery"

The Pantages week bills a farce “The Haberdashery” with Harrington Reynolds and Lucille Palmer plus a bevy of pretty girls. Reverend Frank Gorman, the former Portland stage preacher, is billed as a regular comedian alongside Windie and Poore and the Dow and Dow cycle riders with a feature film to close the program.

Pantages Harrington Reynolds Lucille Palmer Frank Gorman Ing Portland Chauncey Harry von Fossen Windie Poore Dow

No Pardon Yet for Seattle Men

Washington August 17 Attorney General Gregory sent to Assistant Attorney General Warren the applications for J H Bullock and Charles E Houston Seattle contractors accused of defrauding the government Warren will study the matter and report back.

Washington Gregory Warren J. H. Bullock Charles E. Houston Seattle

Germans Prepare to Land Troops in Finland

Stockholm dispatch reports Germans plan to land troops in Finland as of August 17. No further details on dates or forces are provided in the readable text.

Finland London Stockholm

Frank’s mother reacts to Leo Frank lynching news

Mrs Rudolph Frank expresses relief and sorrow after learning her son Leo Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a mob in New York. She says the death ends his trouble and reflects on the potential torture he might have faced if he had lived.

New York Rudolph Frank Leo Frank

Seattle Sailors In A War Prison

A letter from Capt. E. R. Sterling of the Seattle barkentine E. R. Sterling reports German officers and six seamen were arrested at Newcastle by Australian officials and held at the Liverpool detention camp near Sydney just before the ship sailed. Also note a Missouri mail fraud charge against Portland resident Thomas Billyeu was dismissed.

E. R. Sterling Seattle Newcastle Otto Schutt Liverpool Sydney Sterling Everett G. Griggs

Crescent oil well in Teming has no oil

Emery C. Williamson reports the Crescent well in Teming, once hailed in Southwestern Washington, has no oil after sinking 46 000 dollars. He notes doubt about the Tenino field but believes formations may lie at 306 feet. Crescent drillers reached 218 feet. Scatter Creek well should not be relied on.

Temipg Washington Emery C. Williamson

Poles Hope For Great Polish Empire Archduke Crown Report

In San Francisco on August 17 Ignace Paderewski denied a report that Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria would be crowned king of Poland in Warsaw. He said Poles still cherish the ambition of building a great Polish state.

San Francisco Poland Ignace. Paderewski Charles Stephen Austria Warsaw

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