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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1907
Page
6
An OCR fragment lists property notices and land offers with phrases about farms and rents. It mentions blocks, cars and stops near Fauntleroy Gatewood, and per acre prices including 89 and up. Also advertises cows, down payments, and farm terms from local listings.
Classified notice lists multiple property offerings including quarter acre tracts near water with prices around $680 to $900 first payments, and homes with terms of cash or monthly payments. Additional lots at Green Lake and Queen Anne area priced from about $1,100 to $4,000, with improvements paid and water access noted. Contact details reference Weno & Carland and Cox properties in Alaska Boulevard area.
Property listings near the Northern Pacific depot and Eagle Harbor offer 4 room houses with lots from 60 to 1260 feet, near schools churches and university. Payments include low cash down and monthly installments with no interest. agents Johnsonton & Co advertise land, lots and affordable homes close to work and transport.
Judge Humphries invites W P Trimble to a public joint debate at Odd Fellows hall Fremont on Jan 2 1908 over subjects of mayoral qualification. Subjects include Battle Lighting taxes, Trimble’s interest in the Battle Lighting company, club memberships, and use of money or goods to secure nomination. Music will be supplied by R S Smith of Kotor & Chase band.
Seattle party selects Geo K Cooley of West Seattle and Oliver T Erickson of the Seventh ward as candidates for councilmen at large. Cooley filed his candidacy. Erickson may run after petition drive at the Manufacturing Association linked headquarters. Erickson is senior partner of Erickson Wyman Co makers of electrical equipment.
A. G. Keene, elected to the council as a Republican, filed to succeed himself as a candidate on the Democratic ticket amid questions of his party loyalty. His move follows opposition to local enforcement actions against his drugstore sales of intoxicants and stirs tension within the municipal ownership faction.
The New York Stock Market opened with strong upward momentum and gains of 1 to 2 points in the first half hour. By midday professional traders showed tentative profit-taking in later trading as the market cooled from early advances.
Prompt listing of several Fremont Ballard properties with description of views lots and improvements. Includes price $1204, rent $18, 5 room 21m, and nearby commerce. calls for cash offers and mentions vacant holdings and valuable location near Ballard area.
The market finished near its lows as traders aligned with the weak side of sugar and tagged along the downturn despite an upward drift elsewhere. Banks reported a generally good statement, signaling progress toward normal conditions, while Reading Railroad directors declared the regular semiannual dividend of 2 percent payable February 1.
Butte Montana December 28 The matter of the receivership of the State Savings Bank the Heinze financial institution in this state goes over until March 2 on condition that by that time Mr Heinze has deposited to the credit of the bank 260 000 together with a debt of 75 000 by M S Largey president If the bank is not reopened for business by March 2 it will not liquidate The State Savings Bank suspended immediately following the explosion of Heinze to Wallat in October
Port Townsend reports Warren Dodge of Port Angeles and eight others towed a dead whale ashore in the Straits after finding it floating. They valued it at $2,000, but an expert from Vancouver Island says the creature is not oil-bearing. The carcass decomposes, causing a terrible stench, and the group has abandoned the prize.
A blast on the gasoline schooner Alice at Port Town Bend injured Harry McKnight of Standard Oil and severely hurt Peter Nordby who was repairing a gas line tank. The vessel was wrecked with its deck blown off while crews sought doctors and aid.
Assistant Postmaster W. J. Colbett said that by tonight all holiday mail would be cleared and the office would be back in routine operation.
Burglars, described as youths by police, entered George F. Spangenberg's cellar store at 1336 Secondary Avenue last night via a transom and stole nine revolvers valued at $40. Police are investigating the case.
Washington reports the arrangement of the entire starry portion of the American flag will be adjusted to accommodate a new star, to be added on July 4. The note appears in Beattie Star's Exclusive Service dated December 28.
The text describes the design changes after Oklahoma’s admission adding a 46th state. It outlines the blue field star arrangement in six alternating rows of eight and seven stars and notes the top eight star row and subsequent rows.
Army and navy authorities approve a new 46 star flag arrangement and begin manufacturing in December. Tacoma reports plans for one million spawn bags of trout to Pierce County next year, government supplied. British steamer Dania valued near $1,000,000 sails from Tacoma for Liverpool. France consumes about 2.68 billion gallons of cider annually, mainly from Normandy.
The notice explains that dwelling owners represent a profitable insurance class and deserve lower, fair rates. It promotes Northwestern Mutual Fire Association as purely mutual, returning dividends to policy holders. It invites readers to request an illustrated Rocklet and mentions endorsements by Seattle banks.
Cholera sweeping through Mecca and nearby areas with high fatalities. Reports indicate rapid spread and alarm among residents as authorities impose measures. Historic notes mention Taft era rents and dates 1924 to 1926 in regional context.
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