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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
4
Capacity about 14 cars with steady work for two men plus extra hire. Features two floors including a cement wash floor and all necessary tools for light repair. Due to partner disagreement, will sell below invoice at cheap rent. Price $800. See us about others.
Classified ad items describe multiple land parcels and houses for sale around Seattle and Tacoma interurban area. Listings include 5 to 21 acre tracts of loam soil, 4 room houses with fruit, beaver dam bottom land, and 15 acre Old Home estate. Prices range from 375 to 2 600 with down payments and monthly plans. Also notes on government homesteads and Liberty bonds for sale. Contact details and real estate companies are provided.
Classifieds advertise garage investment with $700 monthly profit on $3,000 outlay and 120-car capacity. half-interest sale of a well-known Seattle garage with equipment. a vulcanizing shop for quick sale at $1,750. an old established grocery invoicing about $4,000 with lease. a restaurant with $100 daily receipts and $2,700 price. a Seattle investment company listing. a blacksmith shop for sale in a farming town for $3,000 with $1,000 down.
Attorneys at Law Cyn Way Blinn and associates advertise general practice legal services with free initial consultations. Offices listed at 1215 Barke Didg and 906 Second Ave Main 7308.
A detailed listing of vendors at Public Markets Pine Street stalls 19 through 111 notes pasteurized milk per quart 18 in cents ranges for Carnation or Borden milks 2 cans 29 cents and a variety of pantry items. It catalogs brands such as Crystal White Flakes Ivory soap Sea Foam Goblin Dutch Cleanser Red Seal Grocery items and baked goods with prices including margarine coffee and canned vegetables.
Paris reports a slow rise in France's birth rate despite wartime losses with 20 per 1,000 as the rate. Government studies note depopulation in 63 of 86 departments, Germany and Russia higher rates elsewhere, and urbanization growing from 25 to 49 percent since 1860.
England proposes that hotels be staffed by British workers after the war. For 40 years most Great Britain hotels employed aliens, with German managers often selecting alien staff. English training in war activities would prepare locals for hotel work, promising shorter hours better wages and improved meals to attract workers.
Free trade between Murman and Norway, halted by Bolsheviks, has been renewed under British control of the Murman coast. The exchange of wood flour hemp and other Russian products for Norwegian fish aids the Finnmark fishing population. The article notes that only a third of the world’s population uses bread daily and half rely on rice.
The long OCR reads like a bustling market inventory with dozens of items and prices. It lists full cream cheese, Del Monte raisins, candied peel, currants, citron, walnuts, seedless raisins, soap, coffee, tea, flour, milk, cocoa, baking powder, vanilla, soda, fish, meat, eggs, molasses, and numerous stalls with prices per pound or container. Names include Sun Maid, Rogers, Folger, Karo, Jiffy Jel, and Liberty steak among others.
Market list details numerous stalls with varied goods including pot roast bacon lamb chops milk cranberries apples oranges cheese cocoa marmalade and Crisco. Prices shown per item pound can or box with multiple stall numbers referenced.
A conference of welfare bodies and agencies coordinated government and national groups to place soldiers and war workers in employment. The plan links national and local welfare networks with the federal employment service to create a cooperative system across the United States. Officials from the American Red Cross YMCA Catholic War Council and others join national and local agencies to form a central committee directing efforts to assist returning soldiers and civilian war workers.
Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meijer completed the four traction finance ordinances Thursday morning and handed them to the council. Councilman C. B. Fitzgerald, a member of the traction committee and finance chair, said a special council meeting was likely for late Thursday afternoon.
Seattle union men plan to honor Italian labor delegates and army officers expected to arrive Friday. The local labor committee includes James Duncan Tom Egan Ida Levi O E Mile and Frank Walker. Visiting party members are Lieutenants Via Fiaschi Silvani Fasula Carlo Barri Alcesto De Ambrig Ettore Cuzzani A De Ambris Ade Hinis Pedrini.
Demobilization center at San Francisco will remove California and Arizona from Camp Lewis jurisdiction in discharge of men, per corrected war department orders received at Camp Lewis.
August Frank a 69 year old Des Moines area pioneer was found dead in his home after neighbors reported he had been missing for several days. Deputy Ramage was summoned to the residence where Frank had lived alone for over 25 years.
Frank Waterhouse, chairman of the war memorial committee and named by Mayor Hanson, indicated on Thursday that a committee meeting would likely be held the following week.
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