Classifieds Emphasize Trustworthy Results
Readers urged to use the Star’s classifieds for genuine results and trustworthy advertising, urging spending on listings to find real value and effective exposure.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1904
Page
6
Readers urged to use the Star’s classifieds for genuine results and trustworthy advertising, urging spending on listings to find real value and effective exposure.
A dense ad fragment lists druggists, pharmacies, bakeries, and various shops with rosters of addresses and contact lines. It includes employment and service notices, rental and sale listings, and catalog-like entries for dozens of local businesses and homes. The page also hints at entertainment and public notices with scattered addresses and phone lines.
Classified notes describe multiple cottages and houses for sale near Green Lake, Lake Union, and Fremont avenues. Listings include five room cottages, modern houses, and a one block to car line with cash and installment terms. Buyer incentives feature down payments and affordable monthly payments.
An old classified page lists a private home for women in confinement with a trained nurse, address 212 Bpring, Cedar 1981, and terms described as reasonable. The notice also promotes hair work services, ostoeopathy, and various ads for clairvoyants, palmists, and real estate, all reflecting a dense urban classifieds scene.
Fragmentary notices describe properties for sale and rental offerings in multiple locales. Listings mention cottages near Lake, water front views, other lots and parcels on Car Park Drive and Columbus Street, plus references to jewelry stores and loan services in a dated, disjointed text.
Classified notices advertise loan companies such as The Ar Star Loan Company offering monthly payments and unsecured advances to salaried individuals in multiple cities. Other items promote Lake Washington five-acre tracts for sale and private money loans on real estate with easy terms.
Approximately 200 The Star carriers and news boys will march from The Star offices to the Alcazar theater for the stock company production Held by the Enemy. The Star and theater manager Charles Newman sponsor the guest event with plans to entertain and reward the young readers.
A cluttered column advertises a loan of 60 at 8 percent for four years plus security and privileges. It lists houses for sale near the Fairview area, including 6 and 3 bedroom options, plus grocery and fruit stands for sale, and various business opportunities. Contact details include Main 1841 and addresses in the times block.
Advertising blurb notes a for sale by owner 0 room house and a 3 room low priced home with city water. Contact Gener im Weller for details. Possible listing shows Seventh Avenue address and indicates available particulars.
Three acres of rich bench land cleared and cleared away. Orchard and springs on site with a house woodshed barn chicken house and root house. Located seven miles from Pioneer oil. Potential buyers urged to visit or contact Ballard or James Til at Six ty-Diet street Green Lake for terms and viewing.
Fragmentary text notes a salesman named Kasey Terme and a ground walk tomorrow, with references to price restrictions and blocked lines. No clear event or location is identifiable from the readable fragments.
A large cougar entered Skookum Jim's cabin five miles north of Haines Mission Alaska on December 1 and carried off a three month old papoose while the mother was away. After a nightlong chase, a rifle shot ended the chase and the infant was found unharmed. The news came by the Farallon steamer.
The Western Central Labor Union began distributing 2000 circulars to local merchants in reply to Citizens' Alliance messages. The mild Western Central missive censures the alliance for seeking to abolish the union shop, urging patronage withdrawal from union papers, and pushing wage reductions. It accuses the alliance of secretly opposing organized labor and widening employer union rifts.
F. E. Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul, famed as owning much of Washington state wealth, travels with son C. A. Weyerhaeuser and J. A. Humbird to inspect coastal timber interests. Horace B. Irvine, allied with the group, is a young timber heir whose father is a leading northern coast magnate. Irvine received 1,000,000 dollars at age 21 from his father.
James Conn and Ferdinand Bokien were arrested in Tacoma by local secret service under Captain W. Bell for conspiracy. The hearing is scheduled for next Monday in Tacoma. The suspects are alleged to be involved in various counterfeiting cases.
The Independent Telephone company buys 40 000 dollars of cable and wire to extend from the city to Port Townsend Port Town send Dungeness and Port Angeles. The project aims to spend 300 000 dollars and string 100 000 miles of wire as part of a larger Northwest network expansion. The company already owns Citizens Independent Telephone of Port Townsend and will connect with Port Angeles Telegraph and Telephone company lines linking Port Hadlock Sequim Junction and Fort Washington. Night Bertender Means reports a pocketbook theft at the Rainier Grand hotel. FE Meston claims railroad tickets were stolen in the Hamman baths. A new cable net forms in Belgrade after the December 2 cabinet resignation over a railroad project.
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