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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1904
Page
6
A dense Beattie page of classified ads shows job wanted notices, rental rooms and houses for rent, farn land for sale, and business opportunities. It lists carpenters wanted, exclusive terms for hustlers, furnished rooms, housekeeping suites, and real estate offers near Beattie and Everett with interurban access and car line proximity. Many ads mention daily rates, minimum charges, and payment plans.
Notice of sale for a tract of land in a county with rural delivery. Property offered at 810 per acre and 475 total price. Sale held by Adams at 19 percent first avenue in Starr Boyd area.
Classified notices praise homesteads and desert claims with parcels near wheat belts, offers on small farms and four acre plots. Lenders advertise low interest loans, confidential terms, and weekly payments. jewelry and watches secured loans abound. many offices in Times Building and First Avenue advertise cash advances and financing.
Fragmented ad text describes plots for sale near Capitol Hill with terms of payment and lots near a bay and new car line. Mentions corner lots, easy terms, down payments around 410, monthly balances, and building options with new avenues and attic space.
Fragmentary classified ad describes a home on Thirty Second Ave near Yesler Way with modern comforts and cash price terms. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
In Columbus, a faulty electric wire sparked a blaze in the business district destroying Krause, Butter & Benham carpet house and damaging nearby buildings. losses reach 300000. In Washington, the Metropolitan Club suffered a major fire gutting the clubhouse, offices, and its library of 16,000 volumes with losses around 100000.
An international marriage linked to Mrs Roosevelt culminated in a December wedding at the Church of the Epiphany Washington. Elizabeth Glover wed Jonkeer R de Marees van W Swinderen Netherland minister with Bishop Satterlee presiding and the President and Mrs Roosevelt in attendance. Isabella Hagner served as bridesmaid. The Belgian minister Baron Moncheur was best man.
George W Reynolds, one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventy, was a polygamist and the first man jailed under the Edmunds Tucker act. He surrendered to make a case of the act. The First Seven Presidents direct missionary work with about 1,700 missionaries worldwide. When called, missionaries resign office or business to preach without salary.
Superior Judge Hatch restored the Seattle Kennel Club to its original name and holdings. The seceding faction that incorporated last May was permanently enjoined from interfering or claiming membership. A meeting after the ruling elected new officers, leaving the old club in undisputed possession of the field.
Mrs Elizabeth Adelia Pease 34 wife of Cascade laundry employee shot herself through the right temple at her home at Tenth avenue south and Main street Tacoma. Coroner notified and remains taken to Bonney-Watson morgue. The death followed a hospital discharge a month ago and her husband found the weapon after returning from work.
Street Superintendent Walters says the ordinance against abandoned wagons has reduced street clutter. Since enforcement began, 15 deserted wagons were hauled to the pound and owners paid 2 to 3 dollars to redeem them, cleaning Western avenue and other thoroughfares of the nuisance.
Aberdeen December 21 excitement follows the arrest of Gus Lemke a Northern Pacific freight clerk and Ed Hendy a Hudsons Transfer driver on charge of stealing clothes valued at 4 55 from tailor A Karjola Northern Pacific detectives had worked on the case and a search of rooms occupied by the men uncovered goods worth several hundred dollars.
A lone thief masked with a woman's stocking robbed a Tacoma gambling club on Pacific Avenue last evening. He forced three employees to hand over cash from a roulette area and a stack of bills from the 21 table, then escaped through a rear exit.
Robert Morris, bishop of the 11th ward in Salt Lake, and head of Utah Tanning Company, is expected to testify that he recently took a second wife while his first wife remains alive. The case involves his role as vice president of Rowe Morris Summerhays Co. and concerns civil or church law questions.
The Spokane Critic sues Shaw-Horden Publishing for 10000 damages claiming boycott by major local printers over its opposition to Charles Sweeny for the U S Senate. Other firms refuse to print the weekly, the publisher says, citing anti-Sweeny bias.
Congressman Humphrey on the congressional commission pushes for a ship subsidy clause to aid American vessels between Puget Sound and British Columbia ports. Opponents say the Puget Sound fleets to BC ports are mainly ferries, but Humphrey argues they would have parity with other ships in serving between American and foreign ports, differing only in voyage length.
In Menominee, two killed when a St. Paul passenger train derailed at Lena last night due to spreading rails. Engineer Gavin and Fireman Miller died in the accident.
The Deseret editor Charles W. Penrose becomes the church’s newest apostle following Owen Woodruff’s death in Mexico last July from smallpox. Penrose, editor of the Deseret Evening News and Deseret Semi-Weekly News, has long defended Mormonism and is a prominent, polarizing figure in Utah.
Bids opened in the quartermaster's office yesterday for 2,800,000 feet of lumber to build barracks and other structures in the Philippine islands. The St. Paul Tacoma Lumber company submitted the low bid of 9 dollars per thousand. Bids were forwarded to the quartermaster general this morning.
Nome special reports Herman von Sohner a Nome merchant attempted suicide after learning Hilda Linguist would not marry him. He is in critical condition.
Health Officer Ludlow reports only 12 houses under quarantine for diphtheria and scarlet fever, down from 60 houses at this time last year. James Turner and Barbara Harrison face superior court today on charges of attempting to murder Raymond Grego on the sandspits last August.
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