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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1919
Page
6
The page lists employment and housing ads from The Star including mills, drivers, clerks, and skilled trades. It also features help wanted notes for soldiers returning from service, a lumber business offer, and various rental and sale notices across Seattle with contact details and phone numbers.
A crowded Seattle housing page lists multiple real estate offers. Cottage with two lots at Phinney district priced around 2250 includes fruit trees, garden, veranda, and modern fixtures. several modern 5 room cottages and 5 room homes on various lots. Farms, trade options, and small ranches with features like orchards and car exchanges are advertised. Burke & Farrar, Inc. leads listings.
Advertisement offers free building plans for a small unit house on a Little City tract in West Seattle. Terms list price for half acre with unit house at 1 150 dollars with 100 dollars cash and 15 dollars monthly. Also promotes 40 acres stump land near Stanwood with small down payment and easy terms and urges quick sale.
The Alabat, a cargo cruiser, heads the first voyage of a new U S Shipping Board merchant marine training fleet. Five ships including Sturgeon Bay Utoka Newton Ile will carry about 1500 apprentices at sea, with routes to officer and engineer tracks as prep for merchant marine careers.
Representative James A Frear of Wisconsin chairs a House subcommittee investigation in Seattle into wartime spruce division expenditures. The panel, also including two other lawmakers, aims to curb extravagance amid airplane production costs regardless of who bears the blame.
A mixed directory listing highlights general practice law offices with free consultations and contact details, plus ads for bicycles loans chiropractors and lenders. The article notes a congressional committee in Seattle visiting Port Angeles and Pleasant Lake to inspect railroad work with 100 witnesses listed and Brig Gen Disque to be summoned.
Here Is the First Line for Next Week s WANT AD RHYME CONTEST Add three more lines to the above line that will jingle. a eee aod tion WANT ADS. Rhyme to consist of four lines only. You can Write your The Star by next Friday noon. Write on one side of the paper or a farm of name and address at top of the page. If you did not win Janeunaet Hhadied, Wil contests, try again. First prize is 3. Twenty five tickets to Comecota ie be given as additional prizes.
A complete list of contestants includes many names with street addresses across cities such as Tacoma and Port Orchard. The notice notes some winners and invites all readers to watch the Classified page for a rhyme prize, even if not a winner.
Bene no more tie for small one offers disposal at very low price on display at Auto Westlake and Olive. Open Sundays 10 AM to 4 PM. Henry Mossbaugh Automobile Co. 616-618 E. Pike. Phone 2651.
Tokyo reports mujiro shidehara vice minister of foreign affairs may be chosen as ambassador to Washington. Officials silent but an announcement is expected. Ishii leaving Washington likely to succeed Chinda in London. Shidehara formerly embassy counsellor in Washington in 1902 and minister to the Hague in 1914 15.
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