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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
9
A garbled directory page lists lawyers offices and services including notices, advertising rates, and various small business ads. Names such as Mullens, Farrell, Matheny, Hart appear amid scattered addresses, rates, and offerings including free consultations and patent ads.
Florenice A Leavitt, long frail resident of 4812 Ziet N Hh, passed away Thursday morning after years of poor health. Survived by sister Mre Wales and Mre Powell, with other relatives attending the funeral arrangements. Services set for Terworth's at 2 with Christian rites to follow.
An odd ad from a newspaper notes remedies including a spiritual medium and an Egyptian phrenologist offering guarantees. It features a crude address list and claims for matrimonial services and health cures with doubtful efficacy.
A listing notes small house with some cleared land and term prices at 150 each with 810 monthly payments, located within a mile of the NP railroad. It mentions buying access via A road and boats at Madison Park to the Murke Farrar office in Kirkland.
An ad lists Madam Ellis and Madam Lesslie Purenuiolet offering private readings at Liberty Building downtown. They claim to reveal present and future loves, marriages, business, luck, health, and life plans. Separate entries advertise aphrenology based on head reading with guaranteed satisfaction and a “special reading” for $1.08 in San Francisco.
A dense grocery advertisement lists numerous items with prices across categories. Items include honey, sugar, milk, bread, mincemeat, peanut butter, butter, cheese, steak, rice, peaches, pork and beans, prunes, ketchup, corned beef, oysters, pumpkin, beans, pineapple, dates, raisins, coffee, cider, lamb chops, butter, eggs, Kellogg cereals, Crisco, sauerkraut, rye bread, fruit cake, cranberries, celery, and more with varied prices and weights. The tone mirrors a mid century market catalog.
Claude Grahame White, early English aviator, married Ethel Levy the ex wife of George M. Cohan in London. Grahame White now serves in the Royal Flying Corps.
Public notice details steamers between Seattle Port Townsend Tacoma and Olympia with daily freight service and bi hourly departures. Includes passenger limits, landing points, liability limits, and ticket office hours at Colman Dock.
The Andres Sisters from Sweden perform sings and dances with witty dialect jokes at the Grand Waddl, while Hip presents a double headliner with Charles Sweet, Miss Gillis and The Perfect Woman, and The Three Melody Girls. Viva and a fix screen drama Her Double Life also feature.
Amsterdam dispatches report Clem Martinetz has formed a new Austrian cabinet and that earlier efforts by Dr. Von Spitzmuller to assemble a cabinet failed. The Vienna reports confirm the reshuffle and ongoing political unsettled state.
British officials display outrage at President Wilson's peace message to belligerents. Censors suppress publication in London as press dispatches from the U S are held up. United Press sends the note to clients in London and Paris. no acknowledgment by early hours today.
A group of ambassadors from belligerent nations, including Britain, Italy, Japan, Germany, Bulgaria, Persia, and Turkey, met Secretary Lansing in Washington. He handed each a printed copy of the note and did not reveal its full intent beyond what the press had received.
Olympia journalist John Miller Murphy founder of the Washington Standard died in Olympia yesterday. He started the Olympia newspaper in 1860 and served as publisher and editor until retirement in 1911 due to failing health.
Dispatches report Gen. Von Bissing the German governor general of Belgium seriously ill with pneumonia and temporarily replaced at Brussels. Also, Mrs. G. Leech and Mrs. H. A. Fink of Chicago were married on the same day and became mothers to 10 pound baby girls in the same hospital room and hour.
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