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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1918

Page

3

Used Chevrolet for sale with cold weather gear

Winter ready Chevrolet with green body and new green bumper. Includes new 37 dollar storage battery, shocks, tires, and lights. Asking price 400 dollars at East S44, Local 3, Wilson.

Fragmentary Classified Notice Fragments From Early Seattle Ads

Mixed OCR of notices lists rights transfer for Olympia Oyster House with 1639 Westlake Seattle names A Damas kas. references to a mother at Seventh Ave N W Beattie. requests to return to husband and ill child. Portland copy request. candles for diamonds old jewelry gold watches. Advertisements for medical services capsule, hair dye, skin care. buyers seeking old gold silver teeth. practical advice by Mrs Will cikeon. various names and addresses.

William Sefer Hansok Hfe Olympia Westlake Ave Seattle Wash A. Damaskas Seventh Ave N. W 15Th Ave Capitol Falhert James Will. Cikeon Tallard Little Sister Nonie C Michael Pike ST

Automobile and tire sale listing at Livengood Motors

Good tires and engine in unit Ford and Chevrolet offerings in best condition. Special $400. Chalmers item described as good tires in top condition. A baby grand Chevrolet offered as extra special value. Odd line about 3 preset or perfect cotton related item. Drive free under easy terms. Located at 3509 Lith.

Ford Mery Auto Ras Copeland Eldridge-Buick Co KE. Pike Harvard EL E Mossnach 10Th Ave Pike Union

SEATTLE'S STOCKADE HELL and QUARANTINE HELL

The article protests quarantine power in Seattle, recounting a lawyer’s account of detainees jailed without hearings, denied access to physicians, and conditions in the stockade and hospital. It argues for legal rights and critiques health officials and police overreach amid Thanksgiving.

City Stockade City Hospital State Supreme Court State Board of Health City Health Commissioner King County Supreme Court Seattle Superior Court Health Department

Car Sales Ad Promises Low Prices and Easy Terms

An ad claims customers may see the car they want and assures the vehicles are in good running order with very low prices and very easy terms.

Market News: Sanitary Monday Stall Listings

Readable fragments show stalls with prunes at 25 cents per unit, vanilla or lemon extract at 65 cents, dill pickles at 20 cents, ana pickles at 19 cents, Guittard chocolate at 3 pounds per tub, and small white beans. Also Pike Place stalls list pure fresh milk at 13 cents, Yakima Gem potatoes at 2.15 per sack, onions and sweet potatoes with delivered pricing.

Pike Place

Fresh Produce and Staples Prices Listed at Market Stalls

Economy Monday price list shows Stall 28 offering fresh corn meal at 26 cents, Stall 51 selling pure fresh milk for 13 cents, and stalls 7 8 9 featuring white beans 66 cents. Also noted are Flake White shortening 65 cents, Siam head rice 2 pounds, macaroni or spaghetti 25 cents, best rolled oats 25 cents per package, Wool soap flakes 25 cents, and Crisco three cans 89 cents.

Corner-Monday Grocery Ad Sells Fresh Peanut Butter and Dairy

A small grocery ad lists stall 102 offerings including fresh peanut butter at 21 cents per, Washington creamery dairy items, Flake White at 27 cents, Nut-Ola at 37 cents, and full cream cheese at 34 cents per half, with bulk coffee at 29 cents. Prices per dozen and multiple product lines are shown in compact listing style.

Washington

Local Grocery Ad Highlights Stall Listings And Prices

A historical grocery ad lists items and prices across stalls including milk 13¢ quart, lemons 400 size, Spitzenberg apples 25 box, sweet potatoes 25¢, Burbank potatoes 26c, fresh churn butter 62¢, Ivory soap 50c, naptha and cleaners, Fels Naptha and Hea Foam, Karo syrup 800, evaporated apples 2c each, walnuts 3c, honey 95c, corn or peas 2 for 50c, red salmon 25c, and Searchlight matches 35c.

Kristoferson Cleanker Red Seal Grocery Annex

British Troops Occupy Cologne

A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam reports British forces entered Cologne yesterday. The city forms the Rhine bridgehead to be held under the armistice terms.

Cologne London Amsterdam Rhine

Rent Relief Granted to Thirty Shipyard Workers

Federal fair rentals commission met Friday evening and reduced rents for thirty shipyard workers. In twenty cases rents were kept up or only partly lowered. Five landlords received a rehearing. Eviction requests: four refused, one allowed.

Federal Fair Rentals Commission

Belgian Troops in Dusseldorff Reported Concentrated in Dusseldorff

Paris dispatch says Belgian troops are in Dusseldorff and mentions armored cars entering Cologne at 11 am. A subsequent exposé criticizes Seattle city stockade conditions, alleging overcrowding, shared facilities, and putrid food for prisoners and wounded, with planned further details promised next week.

Suit to Quash Home Colony in Tacoma

In Tacoma on December 7, 18 members of the Home Colony filed suit to dissolve the 1898 cooperative group at Joe's Hay Puget Sound. The case cites ongoing "atrose and hostility" within the community which had drawn attention for alleged free love practices and its refuge for social undesirables.

Home Colony Joe's Hay Puget Sound Free Love

Dancing Judge Backs School Floor Dance Proposal

Judge Richard Windsor supported a request from Lincoln and Sroadway high schools for an extra after football dance at the school board meeting. He said dancing is a privilege and favored granting it, despite skepticism from Director I. Shor rock. The plan, submitted by a women’s committee and written by Principal K. F. Adama, aims to allow more dancing in schools.

Richard Windsor Lincoln and Sroadway Windsor I. Shorrock K. F. Adama Lincoln

Epidemic Tightens Grip in Yakima as Health Chief Plans Ban

Yakima on December 7 1918 or 1919 city health officer Cerswell warns that without a material improvement in the influenza outbreak a strict ban will be enforced starting Monday. The notice signals heightened public health measures amid rising cases.

Yakima Cerswell

Adams Given Life Sentence

Alvin Adams, a 19 year old soldier, was convicted of murdering taxi driver BK Raymer near Medmond on June 27. Judge Mitchell Gilliam sentenced him to life imprisonment in Walla Walla penitentiary after a prompt overrule of a motion for a new trial. Adams declined to speak.

Alvin Adams BK. Raymer Medmond Walla Walla Penitentiary Mitchell Gilliam Lewis Silvain Adama

Habitual Criminals Receive Lengthy King County Terms

Two colored men faced long prison sentences in King County court. George Moore, a repeat offender, was given a habitual criminal sentence with a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life at Walla Walla prison for burglary on May 20 and robbery of Jack Lippy for $34 on October 2. Monroe Guy also carried a lengthy record and received a 10 to 15 year term at Walla Walla.

King County George Moore Ronald Walla Walla Jame Kiefer Jurey Guy

Quarantine Affects Tekoa Area as Flu Spreads

Tekoa Washington reports a traveling public influenza quarantine with appeals for nurses. Authorities note over 300 flu cases in Tekoa and surrounding areas, labeling the situation serious and requiring rapid public health response.

Tekoa, Waah

State chamber of commerce to be formed in December

A state chamber of commerce will be formed December 17. Announcement came at a meeting to be held under Club at 10:45 am, with the local Commercial Association organizing the event in Tacoma.

Tacoma Chamber of Commerce

Loyal Legion Ends Session in Portland Vote on Peace Bank

About 500 delegates representing 100000 Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen head home after a Portland convention. A negative vote on continuing the peace bank drew only six abstentions as Lieut. Col. C Stearns urged those not wanting the organization to continue not to sit in the council. The group also urged Congress to restore duties on foreign lumber to shield American workers from harm.

Col. C. Stearns Portland Loyal Legion of Loggers Congress United States Legion

Prince Higashi Fushimi Arrives in New York Escort Named

Officials in Washington arrange an honorary escort from navy arming and state department staff for Prince Higashi Fushimi and his suite as they land in New York en route home to Japan after visiting Prince Arthur of Connaught. Tacoma plans a $1,000,000 nonprofit to provide homes for shipyard workers, funded by rents and sales.

Washington Navy State Department Prince Higashi Fushimi Suite New York Japan Prince Arthur of Connaught Tacoma Riddell

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