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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1905
Page
6
A cluttered page features rental offers nine room house listings on Eighteenth and 2243 Boylston Ave, several loan and mortgage services including Virtue, O Neil, and Washington Financial, plus law firms and abstract companies. Also small notices of homes for sale, acreage tracts near Seattle, and real estate agents advertising financing and property opportunities.
Prices slashed to 1225 and easy terms touted by Druen & Brst at 24 Marion Building. Local buyers urged to act quickly on the deal.
A young woman purchased a lace fan for 300 in currency at a shop. The fan blends Duchenne lace with tortoiseshell, its slender strands nearly transparent and the lace like cobweb. It pleases briefly before becoming an idle dream.
Capitol Hill division on the market with graded streets and cement walks at our expense. Bi 601.60 per lot, take capital HIN to Aloha Street then east to the Little White Office. MM and Turner Investment Co. 6-06 Lumber Exchange.
Auction style notices describe Capitol Mill area access to Aloha Street and Jdt the White fire on Us Our caleeman. Investments by TURNER INVESTMENT CO list 164 Lumber Exchange. Acres cleared and pare cleared with timber, fruit trees, frame house, barn, cellars, and chicken house near county road one mile from P.O. Beat landing. Also acre tracts near Columbia City Georgetown and north of State University with small cash payments and monthly balance at low interest. Blomberg & Brickbon 410 Washington Building also advertise an $80 lot at Fremont with a new room house and barn. Danner & Co 419 Lumber Exchange.
Last night the council discussed a new grade ordinance on Third north of Pine and city franchise requests for a car line on North Avenue. It approved five more firefighters funded from the water department and created police rank enhancements plus a detective and sergeant with salaries. Also authorized fire alarm box purchases, design fees for a Third and Pine engine house, and a public park land request was tabled. A general noise ordinance was set for study by health and sanitation committees.
A large part of the King county exhibit from Lewie and Clark will be shown at the high school during the King County Teachers Institute starting next Tuesday and running all week. State officials McCully or Dewey will represent the office with instructors including M W O Shea A H Yoder E Meany J A Smith M L Dagry F H Swift D A Thornburg F M McCully L L Benbow Catherine Montgomery Adelaide Pollock F B Cooper and B W Johnson among others.
The new 2200 compension bridge spanning 300 feet across the Skykomish River near Skykonveh is completed and undergoing final inspection by County Surveyor A L Valentine. If approved, it will open to the public within days, praised as a vital improvement by ranchers and locals.
District attorney receives a Calexico dispatch describing the killing of a Cocopah Indian on the desert. The victim was tied with a wire, throat cut, and stabbed. no clue to the murderer has been found.
A break in at the Hibbard-Stewart company store at foot of Madison Avenue yielded an estimated ivory and fur haul nearing $1,000. An unknown man lingering the day before, pricing valuables, is suspected by the manager. Readjustment of prices at the Sully Sale of Clothing, 719 Second Ave. King Bros. Co. will sell the stock at once.
Health Officer Ludlow urges state action to stop manufacturing old rag and wool mattresses used by the public. He says city ordinances fail to curb outside producers and that only a legislative enactment can effectively abate the danger to public health.
Robert Pitcairn of the Pennsylvania Railroad faces forced retirement next May under the pension at 70 rule he championed for voluntary retirements at 65. At 76 and after 50 years of service, he began as a telegraph messenger with Andrew Carnegie and rose to resident assistant to President Cassatt in Pittsburgh.
Memphis banks faced collapse with Merchants Trust Co liquidating and American Savings Bank closing to avert a run. Merchants held about 500000 in capital and 600000 in deposits, American about 250000 capital and 625000 deposits. Directors say depositors will be paid in full though rumors claim 80 cents on the dollar.
The president and his family left at 11 30 this morning for Pine Pine in Virginia on an outing.
Cleveland December 27. Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D Rockefeller, says Lawson made more money in recent days than ever before. He believes Lawson is too shrewd to be caught short of the market despite reports to the contrary.
J. E. Connor a special agent from the department of commerce and labor in Washington spent several days in the city last week collecting data from the Seattle public employment office for an upcoming report on public employment offices.
In Des Moines Indiana, the Western Association of Fruit Growers opened its annual meeting with large attendance. Prominent fruit growers and experts from this and other fruit states attend as important papers are read.
Market report listing dozens of items with prices per unit weight or container including cornpeppers lettuce tomatoes cranberries figs apples pears and various nuts and dairy products. Poultry and meat prices feature dressed and live weights for chickens turkeys geese ducks veal lamb and mutton. Reported for The Star by Downs Hopkins & Co. brokers.
The page lists commodity futures for Wheat Corn and Oats with December May and July contracts. percent and price figures are given for Wheat High and Low and closing values. It also includes Liverpool Wheat closes and a long list of American and Canadian stock prices with bids and asks, concluding with noon sales totaling 591,100.
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