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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1904
Page
6
A fragmented collage of classified lines lists furnished flat offers, real estate plots near universities, acreages for sale, and small business ads. It mentions Pier Avenue and Meadowdale Beach access, various terms, and multiple agents like LESLIE M. ADAMS and PETTIT & BON. The noisy mix includes rental asks, tract prices, and streetcar proximity notes.
Real estate ads offer new modern rooms near Linden Avenue, with easy terms including $0 down and monthly payments. Several properties are listed near Madison and 4th avenues, plus corner lots, a hotel bargain, and houses with car-line access. Also notes on moving services and local businesses in Seattle as plated.
Classified fragment reports a home for bale sale with half cash and balance terms. The readable text mentions a well built property and a buyer named Bertanene or similar, but OCR is unclear on full names and details.
Meeda Ho and partners advertise blocks near Water and Lake Washington with down payments from 10 and monthly terms. Listings include corner lots one block from car line, 2 and 4 room cottages, new houses on avenues with easy terms. Also notes Hillman property plans to expand boulevards connecting with Garden of Eden area.
A boiler explosion at the Walworth and Neville Manufacturing plant in Walville near Chehalis killed four men and fatally injured another. R. G. Hicks 32, Frank Dowell 38, Prespling 26, Roy Ickes 26 died instantly or soon after. Buchanan 22 was critically injured. The plant, on the Chehalis & South Bend railroad, had been shut for repairs and thousands of dollars in damage ensued. The company operates a large sawmill and cross-arms plant nearby.
Roy Ickes is identified as one of the men killed yesterday and carrying life insurance. Others may belong to local fraternal societies. Residents from Pe Ell and nearby areas rushed to the disaster scene by train as soon as word spread.
Charles H. Smith, a well known Eastern Washington figure, stepped into Mill Street Main Avenue and fired four shots at 6 15 last night. More than a thousand shoppers witnessed the fatal act as the crowd hurried home from stores and offices.
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