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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1904
Page
6
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a house or room for sale with partial details including rooms bath cellar and terms. It references a location on Thirty-Second Ave and options for payment or balance, but specifics are unclear due to garbled text.
A collage of classified ads and notices including druggists and shops in Beattie Seattle area, stockholders meeting notices for Golden River Mining Co, and various property sale and rental listings. Also includes advertisements for furniture stores, furniture rentals, land sales, and personal services with numerous street addresses and business names.
Andrew Carnegie refused Spokane's request for an additional 26 000 toward the library project, noting in a tart letter the city’s plans seemed financed beyond the measured population. The missive, dated New York December 14 1904, questions the growth figures and asks for building plans and pictures.
A devastating blaze in Sioux City Iowa gutted the Pelletier department store and adjacent blocks, killing a tenant who leapt from the fifth floor. The fire destroyed the Toy Building, Commercial block, Northwestern National Bank and many shops, causing about 2 million dollars in damage and leaving telegraph lines and local services crippled. Fire crews fought the flames for hours until 11 30 p.m. with wind aiding spread through the Massachusetts and Fourth Street corridors.
F La Verne a 24 year old knot Sawyer was struck by a freight train near Lakeview while traveling with two companions to Aberdeen. He died instantly. He lived with his elderly mother in East Tacoma.
An unknown tramp started a fire in a boxcar loaded with excelsior while riding Seattle to Tacoma. He was badly burned and rescued by train crew, unable to explain the blaze. He was hospitalized in Tacoma for treatment.
Paris reports a Lille railway wreck last night when the Lille express crashed into another train killing twelve from Boulogne and injuring forty. The dead include noted chemist Bertholet and the son of French Senator Cuvino.
The text alleges municipal corruption in Seattle with the board of works taking over printing privileges without bids. The finance committee paid the full, exorbitant bill for election ballots and poll books, then paid less on bond election printing. It claims printers collude to inflate bids, urging low bids by contacting parties to suppress competition.
The board of works blocked a bid scheme by contacting half dozen firms at once to force lower bids and break a perceived abstract form trust. Abstract firms faced scrutiny as city payments rose from 2,690.66 in 1901 to 6,419.59 in 1903 and 4,890.79 by Oct 1904, mostly awarded to one company. In August the city invited bids for 14 250 descriptions in Green Lake and Second avenue districts, yielding 7 cents for regular descriptions and 50 cents for metes and bounds.
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