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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1904
Page
6
A dense mix of business listings, drugstores, bakeries, and furniture sales alongside rental notices and real estate offers. Addresses include Fremont area and Seattle regions, with numerous druggists, pharmacies, and door-to-door services, plus rental housing and home furnishings for sale. The page also advertises carpet cleaning and auto services.
An advertisement touts PROF WALLACH THE PRINCE OF CLAIRVOYANTS and PALMIER, now at the Vendom Hotel on First Ave between University and Union. He offers readings on love, marriage, business, mining, lawsuits, and other life affairs daily for modest fees, with locations and hours listed.
A mixed classified page shows Seattle Abstract Co and multiple for sale items. Listings include house and land, rental rates, lodging houses, and timber lands with prices, payments, and terms. Several attorneys and real estate firms are noted among the postings.
A jumble of old classified items lists loans private money bargains dressmaking and beauty services, lost and found notices, and miscellaneous ads. It mentions private loans at 5 percent, a pocketbook found with reward, vapor baths, millinery, and a summer drama season. The scattered items reflect a bustling urban ad page.
A tersely written notice reports W A B Vil million of Salt Lake City murdered amid initial suicide doubt. bullet calibers 38 and 32 found, body under a self firearm. Also details the drowning of Miss Katie Rast and William McKengle in Lake Whatcom, with their burial at Bay View cemetery. It notes wheat harvest prospects in Oregon and Idaho, a fatal railway accident near Wapato, a street fair in Aberdeen, and a Spokane region post office burglary with jewelry-store safe theft. The page lists local clinicians and services, then Mississippi Populist delegates, a house robbery, and a divorce.
Filipino chiefs from the Pike spectacle at the St Louis world fair visited Washington attracting crowds and department clerks. War department officials forced them to dress up and they presented gifts to President Roosevelt who jokingly declined a Morro chief’s offer to fetch a Filipino rebel head.
The ad proclaims a single fixed price policy for sash and doors with no agents and claims the largest Northwest stock. It notes a fresh warehouse unload of silver clear glass beer lighting glass and promotes cheaper heavy clear glass windows sold directly to consumers over traditional dealers.
Window prices listed by size and style includes 20526-1 3 8 20x24 1 3 8 24x26 1 8 8 24x28 1 38 8 24x30 1 8 8 26x32 1 3 8 28x30 1 3 8 30x28 1 3 8 20x320-1 3 8 36x30 1 8 8. Two lights. Two Nehte. Two lights two Nahts.
Door prices offered for Orcas pattern front doors with glass featuring Florida scenes and Morro Castle Cuba. Glass doors priced at 3.60 including glass, plain giana 5.00. Stock includes 2,500 five cross panel doors 1% thick, No.1 vertical grain, price 1.40. Also fir doors at 1.40 each with various sizes. Send for price sets to salesroom.
The Third Avenue theater audience will enjoy a season featuring James Keane and his company. This week presents Fablo Roe mani, with next week's attraction starting Sunday afternoon, a New York farce comedy A Furnaway Match. Eastern critics praise the play for its humor and broad appeal.
Uncle Tom's Cabin draws large crowds all week and many local youngsters who missed the auction are expected at Saturday matinee. Beginning Sunday afternoon the Wiedemann company opens a week run of Hazel Kirk featuring a visible stage setting with full view scenes.
A dispatch from Ajaccio in West Corsica reports a town reduced by fire with several surrounding villages at risk. More than 1,000 acres of vineyards and forest have been burned and destroyed.
The Market section lists varied prices for fresh meats, produce, dairy, poultry, fish, and groceries. Items include cow beef veal pork mutton and breakfast bacon, vegetables like potatoes carrots cucumbers and onions, fruits such as apples peaches cherries and melons, staples like flour sugar and corn meal, and dairy goods including butter and cheese with numerous per unit or per ton quotes for regional markets. Prices cover multiple regions and brands, indicating a broad, daily market survey.
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