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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
6
Public notice describes a 160 acre relinquishment in the Yakima valley with irrigation under foen nox and a price of 1000 dollars. Also advertised are multiple local farms and acreage prospects near Prosser and Seattle with fenced lands, homes, streams, rail access, and terms including small down payments and monthly balances.
Real estate ads describe orchard parcels along the Yakima River near Prosser with prices from 175 to 860, including water rights and care. buyers are urged to visit Hillman salesmen in Times block for Terme. Also listed are city lots near Green Lake and a modern house at 619 N Saintly Chelt with monthly payments.
Property owners in Seattle are urged to read a new Northwestern Mutual Fire Association booklet. It features a catalog of fine local dwellings and owners' experiences with Northwestern policies, plus a facsimile bank endorsement from fourteen leading Seattle banks. The notice promotes obtaining the booklet by card or phone and touts mutual insurance as secure for loans.
Big quarter acre tracts offered for 200 to 400 dollars. Located within 16 minutes of the beach with four blocks to the streetcar, 4 cent fare to the city, good frontage, level soil, and scenic views. Prospectus invites buyers to ride the Fauntleroy car from Pioneer Square to Gatewood where a representative will meet buyers this afternoon and Sunday.
The notice markets a free bus trip to Tacoma with claims of cleared lots near a future development. It urges customers to visit the office on Sunday morning, promising a free dinner and transportation, and cites a national land company with branches in Ballard, Far Mont, and Gronge town.
Classifieds advertise multiple properties near Green Lake and Phinney in Seattle for sale or rent. Items include a 60 by 68 foot lot with a T-reom house at 1900, two room cottage at 60 cash with monthly balance, five room modern cottages with terms, other parcels with water and electricity, and local improvement bonds offering various yields.
A London paper notes German bread costs more than triple London prices. President George T. Angell of the Boston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, aged 84, is said to be promised five more years of work if he avoids potite meetings and maintains strict bio health by his physician.
An OCR filled notice offering multiple plots and houses with prices from 300 to 2200 dollars. Descriptions note location near Rainier Heights car line and county roads, proximity to wharves and schools, and mention a real estate firm Jomneton & Co with room numbers and old phone numbers.
Real estate ad copy markets multiple Ballard and Fremont properties. Offers include cement walk houses, 4 room box lots, 14 room board house, and 10 lots with alley access. Prices range from 60 to 1,860 dollars with monthly payments and contact through Hall and lat at 2004 Jefferson Place.
Friday the 13th saw a small audience for the Seattle Choral Society in a midafternoon performance at Christensen Hall. The program featured Elijah and The Messiah selections by Arnold Van der Ave and Sylvia Wareland, with Adrienne Langer on piano, while Mendelssohn and Schubert works drew favorable notes from attendees.
In Richmond on December 14 Mis Claude A Swanson wife of the Virginia governor and Jamestown exposition hostess enjoys landscape and china painting between social duties. Her work is described as meritorious and gaining positive notice.
Two highwaymen robbed the Aldrich bank near Springfield at gunpoint, forcing Cashier James Vaughn and Vice President B Toulson to surrender $3,000 in cash. They fled with a third robber waiting in a buggy, and posses pursue them several blocks from the town outskirts.
A telegraph from Concheno Mexico reports Beott White paymaster for the Green mines killed three men in an eating house after Mexicans entered, attacked diners, and forced entry. White is imprisoned in Concheno.
A man was robbed by unknown assailants last night and dumped into a dry goods box in an alley. He later recovered consciousness and staggered along the street before two men found him and took him to his brother in law's home, where he remained in critical condition.
Deaths were registered for Peterson H 60 at Murphy on Dec 6 Chambers M 37 at 118 Kmet Sixty third St Jackson M 1 at Dec 10 Kilbourne McMullen M 4 at 301 Nob Hill Ave Von Engel Infant Dec 11 Kennedy J J 47 at Providence Hospital Coniff M Dec 12 5210 Russell Bewlen William 34 at Wayside Emergency Hospital.
Births were registered today announcing the arrival of a child to Danieleon To wife of R A Dan in a local registry note.
Fare five percent round trip for four daily trips. Leaves Seattle at 4 45 and 10 25 am 2 05 and 6 45 pm. Leaves Tacoma at 8 35 pm 12 15 3 55 and 7 30 pm. U Geeley Jr agent Seattle Main 176 Tacoma 212.
Seattle and Tacoma commission heads travel to Portland to fetch turkeys for Alaska markets. Port land has long held a Thanksgiving demand and plans to ship large quantities north. A shipment last night is expected to reach Alaska ports in time for Christmas.
Classified ad rates listed per insertion with ten words per line and three insertions priced at one cent per word. Minimum ad charge twenty cents. Local agencies Kennedy Drug Co Ballard Agency P H Mullen and Main Office provide contact details. The Star notes it cannot guarantee ad accuracy or assume responsibility for errors from telephone solicitations.
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