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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1906
Page
3
U S government announces upgrades to the Burnsides service and cable ship with a new hoisting system and machinery for cable handling at a cost of 32000 dollars. The vessel will be repaired, then sent north to lay cable between forts, with the work extending over several weeks and aboard crew to implement the upgrade.
A garbled OCR fragment lists races and participants with odd spellings and stray letters. It mentions races for various ages and unclear runners, interspersed with nonstandard words and names, all within a noisy street race context.
The Alaska Packers Association and cannery firms announce salmon prices on tall cans. Red Alaska starts at 85 cents per chosen and medium red at 86, pinks at 80 cents. Total 1906 production estimated between 1.5 and 1.6 million cans.
Tomorrow the Hepburn and sun dry Dills affect railroad matters bringing brewing unrest among railroad workers. A new notice requirement begins, demanding today’s notice before any fate can be changed.
Frank Waterhouse and Co. closes charter of the Dunette for transporting a cargo of sacked coal from Ladysmith to Nome aboard the British steamer.
The National rifle shoot began at Seagirt New Jersey today with 44 entrants from regular army and National Guard groups.
Ashcroft section house near the railway yard reports Foreman Albert Downee badly wounded from nine gashes inflicted by William McLaren a simple man who had been repeatedly teased. McLaren fled but was captured by Constable Hart and committed for trial.
Kit Carson arrives in Beat the Northwestern as Rock Island passenger agent with headquarters here. He is joined by W F Baker who will manage the freight business.
Vice President Fairbanks speaks at the Ohio Colored Industrial exposition in Columbus. A public reception at the governor's mansion follows, as he tells attending Black residents that work is essential.
The passage presents the vice president urging that work should count and be tied to broad opportunity for all. He emphasizes that outcomes depend on the actions taken and framed the message around progress for African Americans.
The Senttle Rotary Engine company and Norman HB Smith and associates lease Ballard Ways for 10 years. The facilities will be used to build steamers by the Engine company. construction work begins today on the fort about 190 feet long and to be pushed rapidly.
Grain from state sections reaches Seattle as hoped but quality trails last year due to weeks of hot weather across the state. The incident references Chilean bark Antofagasta in Valparaiso and a wreck involving the Hound, which carried a lumber cargo on its last voyage south.
Mayor Mueller of Georgetown ordered a stop to all pleinie gatherings planned by an Italian society after repeated complaints of noise and disturbances. Acting Marshal James Olson was instructed to halt the plenie events for the rest of the summer, with ongoing efforts to curb such amusements in city parks.
Railroads project 306000 visitors to the city for W. J. Bryan arrival as delegations join in greeting efforts.
The funeral for Abraham Lincoln Jacobs an old Washington settler who died Saturday evening of heart disease will be held tomorrow at 2 p m from his father Orange Jacobs home 1801 Jefferson Street. Jacobs born in Jacksonville in 1862 in a mining camp.
Fifty members of the W C A were entertained yesterday at the Lake Washington boarding camp of the M C A. A Bengal native, the guest of the W C A provided cultural entertainment and spoke to attendees.
Dr J F Forest of Glasgow will return home early this week and Dr Matthews will resume charge of the pulpit next Sunday at First church.
City, Missouri August 27 Governor Folk has granted another respite to Aggie Meyers who was sentenced to hang on Labor Day for complicity in her husband’s murder. Kansas City labor groups protested desecrating the holiday by a hanging.
The Rural Letter-carriers Association of Washington will hold its annual convention in Tacoma on September 3. The opening session is scheduled for 8 a.m. in the rooms of the Y.M.C.A.
Des Moines and much of the state recorded a 40 degree low as frost appeared in Charlier City, signaling an unusually cold end of August. The unseasonably chilly weather prompted growers to check crops and prepare for frost risk.
K Yamaguchi a Christian Japanese missionary writes the police asking them to locate his wife whom he believes committed suicide two years after their marriage in Portland. The couple reportedly did not get along well.
The Hawthorn hotel on Madison near Bevent Ave has new owner A. Johnson, paid 60 for the property and building. Moore Investment Co sold the southwest corner of Third Ave and Stewart for about 100000. J Davi e & Co arranged the sale. An east-side seventh Ave jet lot between Spring and Beason sold for 25000 to ABE Griffin.
A brief public notice encouraging men to rent a safety deposit box at Wm. Perkins & Co. 211 Cherry St for valuables. Emphasizes security and keeping papers safe from loss or damage.
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