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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
2
A crowded classified page offers saleman and canvasser ads for national groups in Seattle, plus furniture sales, secondhand items, and room for rent. Listings include housewares, pianos, wood, coats, hats, and various consumer goods with prices and contact points.
Advertises a week long sale at Eckmann Furniture Co corner Sixth Ave Westlake. Highlights items like Victrola sewing machine dining set chests and rugs with prices and delivery. urges customers to visit 1637 Fighthave and 820 Pike st for bargains. Includes poultry feeds toys bulbs and auto parts ads intermingled. mentions carriers Randall McLoughlin and various contact details.
Investigate a two unit dwelling at 2622 Boylston with furnished lower apartment and $100 monthly rent. Owner leaving for California, asking $11,000 price with $2,600 cash and balance terms. Also mentions Royer Ave property near paved streets with fine lot, currently rented for $12 monthly, asking $2,500 with $500 cash and balance monthly. J. X Prigmore 607 Alaska Building Main 3762. Munday Big Company for rent or sale signs. “Letter bevel sign by Munday.” Main.
A collage of small ads for houses near Ballard and Queen Anne areas. Listings include a 4 room house with basement and fruit trees at $4,200 with $800 down and $40 monthly, other 2 to 4 room homes, bungalows, and acreage. several call numbers and agent names. notes on location near university district, Ballard, Queen Anne, and Edmonds. mixed terms and view highlights.
A chaotic directory entry lists magnetic bath and vapor treatments, medical baths, electric cabinets, and chiropractors. It names Loula Myera as a mechano-therapist and provides several phone numbers and addresses including 11 Pioneer Building and 4th Ave locations. The text also includes miscellaneous listings for repairs, transfers, coats, and a Christmas poem note.
Classifieds advertise stove lengths at 6.56 per load with delivery and contact numbers 2510 and Capitol 3085. Salesmen wanted with potential earnings of 200 weekly. Also offers formulas for home beverages and a book on a proposition from Buyers Expert Rawnes Inc at 446 Broome St.
A seven year old boy left in the care of Mrs C O Barnes Jr of 1927 Broadway N was found by a police officer after a week away. The boy explained his mother was working and he was placed in juvenile detention while Mrs Barnes asked that he be held until she could reach his mother. Another seven year old, Bidin Wood Force Rice, disappeared from Seward school at noon Friday and was found by a policeman late Friday night handled similarly.
London reports an inventory of Queen Elizabeth’s wardrobe, revealing 99 robes 126 kirtles 269 rowan 136 foreparts 125 petticoats 96 cloaks 85 doublets and 93 safeguards. It cites fabrics such as gold tissue crimson satin cloth of gold and silver white velvet and satin shades with elaborate embroidery and accessories including a pearl handled fan and cloth of silver slippers.
A burglar found a $150 coon skin overcoat in J. F. McAllister's Olympic apartments at 2012 Western Ave, early Saturday morning but left other clothing untouched. Police investigate the break in and identify the thief.
Deputy Sheriffs raid at 219 Washington street uncovers about 30 men gambling. Harry Wong and Mark Moon arrested as operators of the game.
Countess Erbach sister of the queen mother of Holland returned to Germany from Holland where she visited former Emperor William. Train traffic between Germany and Holland resumed as hundreds crossed the border. William, hindered by cold, sawed his 12,000th log in a special shed at his castle yesterday.
Capt. Gabrielle D'An nunzio in command at Fiume presents gold medals to two American women for wartime relief work. Mrs. Williams Boyes Thompson, wife of the Roosevelt Memorial Association president, and Mrs. John Adams Drake, head of the American Free Milk and Relief for Italy, Inc., receive honors for their long service to Italy since the war began.
Tom Popus reported to police on Saturday that daily gambling occurs at 118 Washington Street and that he and a friend recently lost a substantial amount. The police recorded his report.
Mrs. A. J. Markwell, 75, struck her son Joseph, 39, with an ax and cut her throat in Des Moines. Alienists Dr. Nickiolson and Dr. Calhoun deem her insane after examination in the hospital ward. Joseph Markwell, with a fractured skull, shows gradual improvement. deputy prosecutor Carmody notes the motive appeared to be dying with his wife.
Judge Clay Allen’s petition to amend the $10,000 suit against him was granted. H Stivers of East Seattle appealed the ruling and the argument will go to the supreme court. The case involves Stivers’s claim that as U S district attorney Allen accused him of possessing an anti subscription circular linked to prior convictions.
A mermaid statue and several green items were taken from L. E. Johnson at 343 Ave. The thief fled with a green mill overcoat a green fedora hat and a pearl stickpin while a tiny pearl was held in the mouth. Sgt. W. F. Donlan and Patrolman E. B. Perry investigated but found no trace of the thief or the statue.
Deputy sheriffs raided a camouflaged moonshine operation hidden in ferns on a steep ravine at Panther Creek Friday. Operators Charley Lang and Little Bar B. Rice were arrested. eighteen barrels of mash seized. Deputies Ramage Julius Von Gerst Roht Murdock and John Hineman led the raid. Lang and Rice boasted their craft would stay hidden from deputies.
New York December 6 The Harvard Endowment Fund committee cites need to raise faculty pay across colleges. The smallest contributor to the $15,200,000 drive was a University of Illinois professor who donated 50 cents in stamps as his initial pledge.
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