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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Aug 27, 1917

Page

10

Local Advertisements and Spiritual Services Listing

A collage of notices offers piano lessons and weddings officiated by ministers, private consultations by spiritual mediums and psychics, and a pyramid of listings for fortune telling and spiritual guidance. Includes contact details, prices, and venue locations in Denver and nearby areas.

Brandwyk Matferatty Willette N. W Ballard Kodarers Jacobse Hide Avanaug Bats Denver MTN Ister Mybee Third Ave Huett Bertha Nelson Thur AAPA

Egyptian phrenotogist and medium advertises success counsel

A transient clairvoyant offers business and family success guidance, love luck, and ways to avoid bad influences. She promises truthful readings, satisfaction guaranteed with no charges, at Hotel Norris room 3, 1423% Third, daily 9 to 8:26. Also promotes Cliff ton the Great with special 69 cents readings at 1239 Bisth ave near Union st, hours 10 to 9.30.

Madam Mellie Worls Patest Madam Mellie Eatia Elk Recond Ave Pike Beattie Norris Cliffton Bel Bisth Ave Union St D.m. Elliott Victoria Abbott Hotel Owl Drug Store Adaline Lloyd Stewart Bweketler Howard N Kathryn Sterling Hotel Halen Rick” Burleigh Third Ave Mib Ee Golder Wifth Ave Pike St

Gairvoyant and clairvoyant readings offered at local hotels

Madame Nena and a genuine Egyptian palm reader advertise fortune telling and palmistry services. They promise to reveal marriage timing, business success, health, divorce, and other life events with special readings priced at 60 cents. Locations include Hotel Barrington and 622 University near Sixth Ave.

Gairvoyant Mme Nena Barrington Second Ave To & P Sixth Ave

Spiritual Mediums Adams TonIa Clairvoyant and Palmistry

Readings by Adams TonIa clairvoyant and palmist at Plaga Hotel room 204 offer guidance on divorce, love, and future steps. Special weekly reading promises full names of lovers and enemies with daily adaptions for nice readings. Call evenings and Sundays.

Adams Tonia Clainvoyant Palmianthy University Piftth Plaga

Directory of Attorneys at Law and General Practice Listings

A fragmented directory listing multiple law offices and general practice firms. It notes attorneys at law in probate, mortgages, notes, collections, and general law with consultations offered, featuring addresses on Lyon Street and nearby avenues and references to Burke MIdg and Main.

Alerande HLM All Courte Lyon Hide James Eliett Lacla WLINN RO Law Mik Burke Midg

Public Market Prices in Mountall Market Stall List

Readable items include pure natural milk at Cedar pallah 206. pancake flour 500. elder vinegar 6 bottles. Ivory soap 1 percent. Miller cream melons 3 for Bho. bread 2 jerks. oleomargarine 28 and 50 cents per pound. ground peanut butter prices. fresh salmon 40 cents each. Prices and stalls show commodity range.

Sanitary stalls offer varied groceries and prices

A garbled list shows Sanitary stalls 24 26 selling flour oats milk sugar beans butter cheese cocoa and canned goods. Items include Carnation milk 6.00 a sack sugar 60 per 100 pounds and multiple seafood meats and dairy products with prices and weights scattered throughout.

Local Market Selections Include Dairy Goods and Groceries

Listings from stalls show pasteurized milk, cottage cheese, olives, coffee, canned peas, and roasted coffee. Staple items include herring, flour, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, rhubarb, cucumbers, corn, cottage cheese, and pickled items priced by weight or unit. Multiple stalls offer fresh bakery items and preserves.

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Grocery List From South End Market Sale

South End Andersons sale list shows sugar at 11 cents, boxes of corn flakes, baking powder, bacon and ham by the pound, Jersey butter, full cream cheese, bread priced at 35 cents per dozen, rolls and other staples. Items include milk, crackers, tuna fish, and various canned goods in bulk.

Anderson's Best Jersey

Western Engineers Sail for France From Seattle Area

A letter from a spectator details 18th and 19th Engineers departing Atlantic port for France under Col Cavannaugh. Seattle and San Francisco men, university students among them, endured nine days on transport, sleeping in clothes. A piano-like sendoff featured mandolins and a British flag as the ship sailed away.

Pacific Coast France Atlantic Seattle Col J. B. Cavanaugh Lake Washington Canal San Francisco

Mass meeting to discuss suppressing sedition in Seattle

A Seattle mass meeting at the Arena Monday night will hear officials discuss actions to stop sedition. Veterans groups organized the event after a prior protest at the Armory, with Mayor Gill Sheriff Stringer and Prosecutor Lundin invited to speak.

Seattle Arena Armory Gill Stringer Lundin O. N. Willett

Mayor’s Fishing Trip Ends With Lost Specs

Mayor Gill fished last week and returned with 100 trout. His secretary James Crehan notes he can flip a flapjack with one hand. A mishap occurred when the mayor dropped his glasses down a well, delaying city business while an oculist fitted new specs.

Gill James Crehan

Young Widow Held by Slavers In Chicago Disorderly House

Mrs Margaret Mulhall a Vancouver widow and mother to a 3 month old baby was held prisoner for ten days in a disorderly house. A well dressed man in a limousine guided her there as she sought directions to visit an aunt. Her clothes were taken and she collapsed after resisting her captor. She believes this led to her release.

United Press Chicago Margaret Mulhall Vancouver B. C Liberty

Mashers Flee From Women's Hat Pins

Seattle women use hat pins to deter attackers as Mrs. W. FE. Newell reports a man attempting to seize her at 36th Ave SW and Edmonds St. He fled after she drove him back with the weapon.

Seattle W. FE. Newell 36Th Ave. S. W 36Th Ave Edmonds St

Von Buelow Could Give Daily Recital for a Month from Memory

The report notes that August Wilhelm von Bülow displayed extraordinary piano memory by performing a complete recital each day for thirty days without repeating any piece. He demonstrated flawless recall and varied repertoire across the period.

von Buelow

More Colored Troops to Be Sent to Texas

Houston, August 27. Maj. Gen. George Bell Jr. announced more negro troops will be sent to Houston despite last week's riot by negro regulars. The Eighth Illinois Infantry, all black, is being dispatched here. Bell said he can control them and won’t recommend sending them elsewhere. Brig. Gen. A. Hulen left Camp Logan for Camp Bowie. Terry Smith of Company M, 24th U. S. Infantry, the last rioter at large, was captured by negro civilians who claimed they would turn him over to a policeman.

Engineer Department Hodgen Brother Stringer Lundin Gill P. m Centea Willett Col Will H. Thompson George Danworth Jesse D. O. Powers H. C. Henry Homer Campbell Theo Earle Mme Louise Clary Houston George Beil, Jr Eighth Ilinole Infantry Bell Ot A. Hulen Camp Logan Camp Bowie Fort Worth Texas Terry Smith Company M 24Th U. S. Infantry Smith

Sugar price cuts come with tighter sugar supply

President Hoover announced a new sugar price cut of one cent per pound starting October 1, tied to a agreement with the food administration and U S beet sugar producers. He warned allies are on rations and urged the public to economize amid a reduced supply.

Washington Herbert Hoover Chicago Food Administration U. S

Dividends to Depositors at Broadway and German American Banks

The first dividends since the Broadway State Bank and the German American Mercantile failure will be mailed this week. The state bank examiner authorized 15 percent on Broadway deposits and 25 percent on German American deposits, as approved by Superior Judge J. T. Ronald.

Broadway State Bank German American Mercantile Broadway Bank

King County Canners Produce Over One Thousand Tons

Approximately 1,326 tons of fruit and berries were canned by several commercial companies in King County during 1916. County Horticultural Inspector F. N. Rhodes revealed the figure to M. L. Dean, assistant state commissioner of agriculture.

King County F. N. Rhodes M. L. Dean State Commissioner of Agriculture

Disappearance Claims Loss of Roommate and Cash

A roommate of Frankk Moser vanishes on Sunday along with $80 belonging to Moser. The report notes the missing person and property without detailing suspects or location.

Frankk Moser Moser

Harmony Special Returns From Wenatchee Convention

Seattle Elks train the Harmony Special arrives from Wenatchee Sunday. Central W C T U holds meetings at Mrs Woods home 1621 24th Ave Tuesday.

Seattle Elks Harmony Wenatchee Central

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