Seattle Star Classified Listings From 1899 Evening Edition
The Seattle Star prints daily business notices and subscription details. It includes rates for home delivery in Ballard and Sunset districts, pricing per week and per month, and notes on address labeling and suspension when payments lapse. It also states post office registration as a second class matter.
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Seattle Star Ny
Orrici
Ballard
Hellard
Melow Earer
Free Covlea
Uate
le Tanen
Beattl Washington
A Square Deal for All How Roosevelt Fights for Equality
The piece argues that a fair republic depends on an average citizen’s integrity and government regulation of railroad rates. It endorses President Roosevelt’s push for a square deal to end rebates and ensure equal treatment under law, framing regulation as necessary for peace and prosperity.
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Eftinen
Providentelt
Roosevelt
Wanted A Cure For Poverty The Global Challenge
A reflective editorial argues poverty is a disease and hunger a cancer that demands a cure. It notes famine relief and unemployment in England, the red tape hindering aid, and urges humanity to vote for lif e plans that give hungry people a chance to earn bread without luxury. Hungry men are dangerous men.
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Ireland
England
London
Canada absorbs Americans as it shapes U S industrial ties
A Commerce and Labor Special Agent reports 25 000 Americans move to Canada in 29 months with 16 000 000 in effects while Montreal estimates 25 000 000 in American investment over five years. The piece argues Canada’s growth relies on American capital and that eventual US control may integrate Canada into the United States.
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Department of Commerce and Labor Haseen
Dominion
Montreal Bank
Canada
Farma
Canadian Northwest
Tere
United States
Women’s clubs deny race death by own action charge
Pittsburg Pa Dee 27 In dignant Pittsburg club women canvassed married members to disprove the allegation that the club woman commits race death by own action and encourages others. The result is a vindication showing an average of 3.6 children per married member in the General Federation of Women’s clubs. Twenty one women sampled had 62 children an average about three per member. Club babies are named on membership lists and meetings feature rose bouquets for newborns.
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Pittsburg
Dee
Pittabure Club
General Federation of Women’s Cluba
Itta
Wimodasausia
Minnie Carey Roberts
Prominent Pittsburgh Women Lead Local Social Clubs
A list of Pittsburgh area women presiding over clubs and groups, with counts of their children. Names include Mrs. Enoch Raugh, Mrs. Jardwig Koethen Jr, Mrs. Minnie Carey Roberts, Mrs. Grace Warmcastle, Mrs. A. Leo Weil, Mrs. W. H. Phillis, Mrs. 8. M. B. Hooker, Mrs. W. P. Price, Mrs. Dallas Albert, Mrs. Jas. R. Kibler, Mrs. John H. Armstrong, and Mrs. Chas Brown, among others.
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Minnie Carey Roberts
Ludwig Kobthen
Women's Civic Club
Pittsburg
Enoch Raugh
Juvenile Court Aid Society
Jardwig Koethen, Jr
Woman's Civic Club
Grace Warmcastle
A. Leo Weil
Columbian Council School
W. H. Phillis
Civile Club
Wilkinsburg
M. B. Hooker
Woman's Club
Sedgwickley
W. P. Price
Travelers’ Club
Dallas Albert
Pittsburg Sorosis
Jas. R. Kibler
New Era Club
John H. Armstrong
Wimodausis
Chas, Brown
Sewickley
Leap Year Proposal Changes Brownsfield Heiress to Bride
Caleb Chickfield, a 50 year old salt magnate, receives a leap year proposal from Barbara Trefoil, a former governess. He visits, misreads the note’s boldness, but ends up proposing and marrying Barbara after her unexpected note leads to elation and a wedding.
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Mr. Chickfield
Longworth Roosevelt wedding invitations stir Washington
A jumble of topics notes a wave of invitations to the Longworth Roosevelt wedding across 10,000 Washington residents while other items mock politics economy and society including Navy figures, a Beery family birth, and Rockefeller profits.
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Washington
Senate
Kansas
Standard Oil Ca
John D. Rockefeller
John
Optimist Astronomer Sees Business Always Looking Up
A proud astronomer declares pessimism has no place in his proteaction while surveying the stars. He jokes that business with him is always looking up as he weighs the vast heavens. An irrelevant aside notes a six cent cigar named after Taft.
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Toma
Dicks and Harrys
Hig
Ilies
Ludwig Klethen, Jr
Women's Club
Ecrus
Chickfield
Caleb Chickfield
Chickfield & Gunnebag
Saratoga
Mr. Chic
Barbara
Mr. Simple
Mamma
Caleb
Mr.Chickfield
Joerpion
Kaatman
Eastman
The
Quaker Drug CO
First Avenue
Amberson Err
Navy
Long
Schley
Iet
Chicago
Steel Trust
Henry
W. T. Stead
Ctar
Eddie Bok
Sarah Bernhardt
Texas
Spain
Annapolis
Bennetop
Chas. E. Beery
Mr. Beery
Beery
Taft
Ohio
Tom Lawcen
Sherman, Clay & Co
Steinway Piano Dealers
Seattle
Pacific Ave
Tacoma
Wes v. He
Collins
James
School OF Quality
Second and
Union
Pike St. and
Fifth Ave
Geo. H. Woodhouse Co
Second Ave
Bract Optical CO
John Howard Payne
Home Sweet
Hillman
Hillman Meadow Gardens
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