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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1908
Page
7
City council votes on amendments to municipal charter sections affecting licenses and city offices. Provisions include license transfer rules, taxation, public notices, and election ratifications to be submitted to voters in upcoming elections.
Proposed amendment to Article IV section 1 authorizes designating a daily newspaper as official publication for city notices and sealed bid announcements. Sets publication terms and costs, with a 3500 dollar reference, deadlines, and duties for City Clerk and Public Works to issue calls and manage sealed proposals.
A pair of resolutions proposes amendments to the Seattle City Charter Article VIII sections. Resolution 1129 seeks to add a city utilities superintendent and oversight provisions with amendments to franchise management and public works. Resolution 1142 advances a change to Section 12 of Article VIII detailing payment modes for local improvements and related assessment procedures.
Page message shows Want Ads pricing and multiple listings. Includes downtown Kennedy Drug Co Ballard Agency and Main Office contact points. Mentions Help Wanted Female and Male with sample ads. rental and room listings. terse notices about meetings and local businesses. Contains scattered garbled text and partial addresses.
A long OCR page lists loan companies, banks, attorneys, real estate dealers, and service providers. It names Money to Loan Company, The Loan Company, Osner & Mehlhorn, Newton, People's Bank, The Canadian Bank, and various professionals like Hillmann, Adolph Behrens, and Delmonte. It mentions salary advances, confidential terms, and low interest options.
Louisa W. Hill of Great Northern and Howard E. Hott of Northern Pacific arrived at Beattie and urged new entrants and capital in grain buying. Hill proposed government inspection and warehouse receipts to widen foreign purchases and speed grain movement, noting excess empty cars and stalled freight-rate talks with railroads awaiting ICC decision.
A jumble of property offers includes five to sixteen acre tracts near Beattie and Tacoma with prices from $360 per acre to $4 000 for a full estate. Listings mention terms cash down monthly payments and livestock facilities plus nearby town access and booming Boston Harbor style waterfront improvements. Contact details show Robert Maltby and Hillman's cashier among others.
A jumble of property offers shows Tacoma listings with payments like 6 down 1 month and 10 cash, prices from 900 down to 2500, several with terms and location clues near schools, parks, and streetcar lines. Names like WHITE, DRAKE, and BOND REALTY appear alongside addresses and building features.
Police search for Annie Matsgie an 18 year old Prepos wens girl who vanished yesterday from her employer Mrs Wax at 939 24th Ave. She left with a large savings and planned to visit Mrs Cone neighbor but has not returned. Friends and neighbors unable to locate her and detectives interview acquaintances in Seattle. She wore a pleated blue skirt dark blue hat and navy blue waist. she is described as fair complexioned with light curly hair and brown eyes.
Miners' union loses strike in Tanana as scores of outside workers are brought into Fairbanks, a no-union camp is established, and claims resume with non-union labor at six dollars per day plus board and lodging.
Otis Hergert was elected editor in chief of the 1908 Sealth annual by Wash ington and Lincoln seniors after Edward Leigh resigned the annual post to focus on the Whims monthly. Leigh remains Whims head. Hergert will lead Sealth in assembling material and illustrations for timely June distribution.
President A. J. Barling of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line and H. L. Williams of the Washington railway lead a corporate tour, accompanied by other officials, traveling north from the city to assess coast traffic. They will be away most of the week.
Deaths registered today include A W Taylor 83 on Jan 30 at 615 70th N, J F Jackson 52 on Jan 26 at 546 22nd, Kennedy Kennedy 35 on Feb 2 at 603 Boylston, and L M Thompson 74 on Jan 2 at 317 Coryell place.
Mirths were registered today noting births for J English at Seattle General Hospital on Feb 1 a son. J Barnes at 2431 7th W on Jan 31 a son. T Gilbert at 2130th on Feb 3 a daughter. F T Thompson in Seattle on Feb 2 a son. G H Heaton in Seattle on Jan 23 a daughter.
Rubberized Silk Raincoats offered at two prices 14.95 and 25.00 each with regular 30.00 to 50.00 styles. Prices apply to all remaining garments second floor displays handsome plaids stripes and novelty effects in navy and brown. Limited sale highlights include long and short models in latest fashion.
A clearance sale offers leather belts at 63 cents each in tans reds browns navy lavender black white and satin lined options. Includes large Colonial buckles fancy mounted buckles and small square buckles on main floor.
Practically all knit goods are on sale at one-half the regular price. Shawls children’s sweaters underskirts and more offered in various styles and sizes on the second floor with prices ranging from .50 to 1.00 for plain white or pink and blue bordered pieces.
The Iyo Maru sails this afternoon for the Orient. Steamer Buckman and City of Puebla arrive from Frisco. Northwestern to sail for Valdez and Seward next Saturday with many passengers for Fairbanks. Acilia from Hamburg due today. Nome steamers may gain wireless capacity. Tacoma named a treasury reserve city on February 4.
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