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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
6
A lost gold watch with bead chain is reported at the Raymond Apartments. The finder is advised to return it to Dexter Horton Trust and Bayings Bank for safekeeping and possible reward. AAA
An old newspaper page fragment mixes dating ads and service notices. It lists names and contact tones for a range of personal ads including widows seeking spouses, a lawyer seeking a financially comfortable partner, a registered midwife, and a spiritual adviser, along with dining and pawnbroker notes.
Read by residents, Madam Neemia offers past life insights and future forecasts guiding business, family, and marriage. She promises protection from enemies, personal happiness, and tailored life advice, with a guarantee of effort in all affairs. Located at 116% Union between Second and Third avenues, Vernon Hotel.
An ancient astrology and phrenology themed feature markets a lineup of clairvoyants and phrenologists. Ads tout past present and future readings, love and business advice, marriage prospects, and personal luck with various specialists at multiple Midtown locations.
Long list of rental and for sale notices across Washington including unfurnished apartments, houses, and farms. Entries mention locations such as Perry, Sedro-Woolley, Tacoma, Bremerton, Bangor and North Yakima with various prices, terms, and contact notes. Several legal notices and estate sale items appear, including guardianship matters and probate sales requiring court appearances.
Market list details numerous items with unit prices including sugar, macaroni, beef, butter, eggs, milk, salmon, cheese, and bread. Highlights include Jersey creamery butter, storage eggs, fresh churned butter, canned sardines, coffee, sugar, and various produce with per unit or per dozen pricing.
The Cormick Steamship Co. announces the Willamette fast liner will sail Wednesday December 6 for all California ports. Fares include $14 to San Francisco and $9 to San Francisco other listings with low rates for Los Angeles and San Diego. Boats run full, reservations advised at Milwaukee ticket office Second Ave and Cherry St. Elliott 4812.
Establishment of American military government in Santo Domingo amid fighting. Marines reported injured and eleven Dominicans killed with six wounded in the clashes signaling the violence surrounding the transition.
New York Life Insurance sues Orpheum Theatre and Realty Co to bar use of the Orpheum name and seeks 5000 dollars in damages. Testimony before Judge Kerr says Alhambra signs caused confu sion and box office drops of about two thousand per week. Wilkes Stock Co manager and Alhambra treasurer dispute value and trade-name status with Carl Rieter arguing the word Orpheum represents the vaudeville brand.
Pantages features Ethel Whiteside in All Aboard with Ardelle Cleaver on violin and Moss and Frye providing comic songs. The European circus acts impress with trained animals and stunts while Nancy Fair performs a boisterous impersonation routine. The Robey Trio and Novell brothers add song, humor, and acrobatics. Helen Holmes appears in The Lass of the Lumberlands chapter.
Police records show 25 auto accidents reported Monday due to rain slick pavements and glare from poor lights. Eight persons suffered bruises but no serious injuries reported amid the city’s slick streets and hazardous conditions.
Market stalls list various groceries with prices for items such as pancake flour coffee peas onions walnuts eggs jelly margarine honey peanut butter sugar milk and canned tomatoes. Includes stall numbers and unit prices typical of a 20th century grocery catalog.
The fragment lists varied groceries with prices such as herring salmon oysters sugar and rice, plus a line about 2000 ton steamers from Pacific American Fisheries Co of Bellingham entering freight service, implying a mixed domestic ad and industrial notice.
London reports a slim chance Bucharest can be saved as Romanian Russian forces defend the capital along the Argesha river. Analysts fear a German rail link to Kronstadt would be threatened if Russians press from Guinea Pass, forcing a German strategic readjustment in East Transylvania. Evidence suggests Germans have not yet mounted long range artillery to shell the city.
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