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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
8
Del Monte Solid Pack Tomatoes No 2 size priced at 12 cents a can with a limit of six cans per customer. Also listed are candied peels orange and lemon at 19 cents a pound and citron peel at 25 cents a pound. Del Monte spinach in No 2 cans at 10 cents. Oklahoma soft shell pecans and large walnuts offered, plus Washington macaroni at 7 46 a package. Fourth Floor.
A brief appeal asks readers to carry parcels during busy shopping days to lighten the delivery department’s labors and speed the sending of larger packages. The note thanks readers in advance for their kindness.
William Killies, a Great Northern railway laborer, was struck by a falling plank while building a scaffold. The Washington Supreme Court ruled the injury not compensable under state industrial insurance because the incident occurred before painting the shed, and the federal act did not apply. Killies loses damages after a year’s lapse and the court directs the distinction between scaffold construction and painting.
King county officials announced the dock contract for Lake Union at Howard Ave N Fairview and Almynta will be let December 21. The project costs about $11,000 and will aid farmers on the far side of Lake Washington by allowing them to haul produce to central Seattle by boat.
Capt Frederick Mears of the Alaskan engineering commission travels from Seattle to Washington to confer with Secretary Lane and Chairman W C Edes on government railroad materials for next year. He says the railroad will be completed in 1920.
A $50 000 building will be erected at Fourth Ave and University St as an exhibition space for the Chamber of Commerce and the Manufacturers' Association. Alaska's copper exports for 1916 total $26 000 000 and $17 000 000 in gold has been shipped. T Banber of Bellingham was killed by a Northern Pacific switch engine near his home. King County grand jurors met in November for 14 days costing $1 178 05. D L Burkhart, Seahurst Land Co. president, has resumed dentistry in the Lumber Exchange building. John A Carson, former attorney for Guggenheim and Havemeyer interests in Alaska, died in Salem, Oregon. Suggestions at Seattle library urge parents to buy Christmas books for children. Bremerton Navy Yard officials expect several new submarines to be located at Puget Sound yard. Washington bricklayers plasterers and masons seek $7 daily pay. City Attorneys say the board of Public Works cannot grant permission to place portable gasoline tanks on sidewalks. Mrs M H O'Brien home burglarized with $200 in jewels taken. G F Bunker and five men arrested in pool room on Western Ave for gambling. S P Weston, receiver of Sun Publishing Co, sues stockholders for unpaid stock.
Practical suggestions from the Basement Salesroom feature womens and misses party dresses priced from 12.50 to 19.50 with fur and plush muffs, silk and net waists, wool sweaters and middies, silk petticoats and jackets, and a range of children's wear. Aprons in lawn organdie and dotted Swiss with lace and embroidery offered at 25 to 75 cents along with chafing dish aprons 35 to 59 cents.
Desirable gift quality towels woven from soft thread. Turkish weave towels with blue and white or rose and white borders. Price 30 cents each for the first group and 35 cents each for the Turkish weave towels.
Cretonne laundry bags priced at 50 and 75 cents feature strong serviceable cretonne with tasseled draw cords. Also offered are short lengths of cretonnes scrims marquisettes silkelines and nets at sharply reduced closeout prices in the basement salesroom.
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