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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
6
Multiple ads offer Madam Lesslie and other psychics for life readings in business, love, health, and luck. Names include Madam Lesslie, Madam Edelis, Madam Mellie, and Mme Victoria with locations around Third Ave, Union, Pike, and Pine streets. Readings promise life details from past to future with money back guarantees.
A jumble of personals from Joe Wansor and others seeks companionship, marriage, or business ties. Messages mention money, investments in corporations, rooming houses, matrimony, and discreet arrangements, with contact details scattered through contacts and addresses.
Madam Neomia, an Egyptian phrenologist, claims to reveal past lives and future titles, advise on business and family matters, predict marriage, and guide fortune in love and success. She can tell who you are suited for and how to conquer enemies, with a guarantee of satisfaction. Located at 114% Aston St between Heconmd and Third area, Vernen Hotel.
A dense optional page offers Madam Zona and others in New York and beyond promising read backs of present and future lives. Ads list room locations at Elliott Motel Union and Fourth, 618 University between Math and Telepathy, and several clairvoyants offering card readings, massage, and fortune services with testimonials and no charge if truth not told.
A mixed page of property ads describes acreage with a new timber house, barn, sheds, water, fruit trees, and berry bushes. several hundred bearing trees and yard improvements offered to interested buyers willing to pay a small down payment. Also listed are for sale houses with prices and owner contact, and a request for poultry land to lease with transport access. responses directed to local contacts in Washington state.
Real estate notice offering 16 acres level partly cleared with outbuildings including barn chicken house wood shed and root house on gravel road near araded school and milk routes. Features good well water and fruit trees. Price 2500 cash plus 50 cash 810 monthly terms. Contact RK KB McCune Hedro Woolley Wash. Also adjacent acreage near lake with small house and county road frontage offering 2500 price terms through Kirk land boats at Madison Park to office of Warker and Farrar Kirkland.
A scanned public market page lists numerous items with unit prices including butter honey peanut butter corn flakes and coffee. Prices range from 8 to 16 cents per unit with many staples such as flour oats canned goods and eggs noted among stalls.
Puget Sound Navigation Co operators list steamship routes from Colman Dock with daily sailings to Townsend, Port Townsend, Anacortes, Bellingham, Everett, and Neah Bay. Details cover port calls, times, special services, passenger and freight rules, landing risks, and ticket office hours.
A long OCR fragment outlines a local market basket with numerous items and prices. It lists apples, lemons, walnuts, potatoes, peanut butter, butter, hams, bacon, tomatoes, oysters, coffee, prunes, olives, flour, sugar, milk, tea, vinegar, and meats with various bulk prices. The note resembles a period shopping catalog or price card from a bygone era.
SHORT NEWS items include Rev Charles Thomson preaching on Christianity in China at the Y M C A and the Schubert Club planning its annual concert in Odd Fellows hall Monday night. Funeral for George Ierol, lawyer, occurred Sunday. Swedish Lodges of Seattle backed a November 19 Dreamland mass meeting call for Congress to probe Everett labor troubles. Cook John Haglund died Sunday aboard the Sirius from heart disease. Samuel Rosenberg Seattle merchant left estate valued at 546694.36 in will probated. Nazarene church convention closed with services at First Pentecostal church. L F Richardson of Alaska Steamship Co resigns to lead training at the North Island camp in San Diego. William Pigott named Seattle Chamber Alaska committee chair, replacing Scott C Bone. Infant Aid Society to host a benefit dance Tuesday at the settlement house on Eighteenth Ave and Main St. Donald Hill of Byron cut legs by a Northern Pacific train near Prosser Saturday. An old Indian duck trap found in Lake Washington excites history professors.
The King County Anti-Tuberculosis league began selling Red Cross stamps Monday with sales lasting until December 23. Mrs. Trafford Huteson led a team of women who organized the first day, with more prominent women to oversee future days of the drive.
Funeral services for Frank La Farge chief checker at Pier 4 for Dodwell and Co. will be held Tuesday in Tacoma after he was found dead in his Ritz hotel room Sunday morning.
Guy E Kelly Tacoma candidate backed by Jimmy Davie claims the old house rules remain workable. He asserts the speaker under those rules controls bills and three fifths can override committees with notice and a majority. Kelly visited town amid discouraging signals from followers.
Federal Judge Landis issued a bench warrant at 11 30 a m in Chicago for Charles H Wax. He is sought in New York as the Oliver Osborne linked to Rae Tannzer charges. A $50 000 bond is planned to secure Wax as a material witness in the Osborne case after his alleged relations with Miss Tannzer.
Following a Superior Court judge's order dismissing a suit against the Seattle Clearing House Association, the organization was discontinued on Friday and its rooms in the Alaska Building abandoned. Steps are underway to reorganize a new association.
Two porcupines advertised as an Oak theatre stunt caused chaos on Sunday as a glass case was broken and a panic ensued. Comedian Monte Carter and actor Walter Spencer were startled while Phyllis Gordon restrained the animals and restored order in minutes.
Radio messages from Norfolk report a mutiny on the naval auxiliary Arethusa ending with at least one death. The vessel returned to Norfolk for investigation and stabilization.
Washington lawmaker Representative Humphrey requested a 3.5 million dollar appropriation for a dry dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard. The plan envisions a dock at least 1000 feet long to accommodate the largest battleships. SIGNOR FRANCISCO PAOLO Tosti, noted songwriter, died in Rome. GEORGE BRACKETT, a carpenter, died after drinking poison at the Waldorf hotel following marital disputes.
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