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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1917
Page
2
An OCR fragment notes insertion pricing for notices and ads. It references a five dollar rate, per insertion and a discounted bundle for multiple insertions. Mentions transient-character ads and a peg line, indicating a local newspaper advertising rate card.
An advertisement touts Madam Ruth a fortune teller offering true advice on luck, marriage, business, and future fortunes. She promises to reveal past, present, and future, advise on courtship, locate a suitable vocation, and help avoid trouble. Located at Fourth Ave and Pike, Room 16 this week.
Advertises a clairvoyant service claiming power to foresee your life, reveal enemies and how to conquer them, determine true or false love, advise on marriage, happiness, business and finances. Concludes with a call to visit at Presse Hotel 11694 Third Readings Row Se to convince the public.
A renowned phrenologist advertises full life readings from cradle onward. She claims to reveal past, present, and future events, including marriages, health, business, and lawsuits, based on head readings. Confidential consultations guaranteed. free initial visit offered. Room 4 Flatiron Building, 1619 Westlake. hours 7 to 9 pm.
Noted clairvoyant and psalmist from Egypt arrives in San Francisco offering life readings and problem solving. Claims many famous clients, guarantees satisfaction and can be consulted daily at the Oriental parlor on the Hotel Hawthorne lower floor between Sixth and Seventh on Madison Street. Hours from morning to evening.
An assortment of beauty services and rental notices appears, listing manicure and massage offerings, office addresses, and rooms for rent. Also advertised are farms and houses for sale or rent, plus local grocery items and prices from the Wopereson Court of The State of Washington King County notices.
Real farmers seeking rich land near Heattion settle in Thurston County 10-Acta Farma open for settlement. Tacoma and Olympia host army camp and cannery with banner crops. land easy to clear, 12 passenger trains daily. Price 160 dollars for 10 acres with 20 dollars down and 16 dollars monthly. A H Reid & Co 314 New York Block Beattie Wash.
Good well and house on over an acre, cleared and fenced, 436 feet front on county road with fine view of Heattle. Close to school, stores, ferry wharf. price 1325 dollars with 150 cash and 10 dollars monthly. If employed in Seattle, visit for a country home with daily transport from Madison Park to Kirkland via Kirkland boats. Inquire at Nurke and Farrar's office for directions.
Multiple real estate pitches offer 3 to 4 acres with berries, pasture, and a kitchen basement near a county road. Terms include cash and monthly payments. another listing advertises 19 acres of potato land with red soil, good water, and easy clearing near Seattle, Tacoma, and a farm office route.
Stall listings show Carnation milk at 15¢, granulated sugar, fresh pasteurized milk, rice, macaroni, peaches, butter and margarine, peanut butter, and canned goods. Other stalls offer fresh seafood, creamery butter, cheeses, beef cuts, olives, oats, tea, and paper goods with varied prices.
The listing shows round steak 10¢ lb, pot roast 10¢ lb, bread 24¢, cupcakes 1doz, olives 82¢, red snapper 2 lb 60¢, herring 20¢ lb, trout 20¢ lb, sugar 2.75 sack, milk 7¢ quart, flour 50¢ No. 50, eggs 40¢ doz, bacon 1s lb, coffee 28¢ lb, lard 0¢, and other daily grocery items priced across stalls on Pine Street and nearby market stalls.
Shipping notes list arrivals and movements in Yokohama Vancouver Cordova Ketchikan San Francisco and Valdez with ships including Shidevoka Maru Admiral Farragut and America line vessels. An Alaska port report records southbound departures from Valdez Juneau and Seattle and a local musical event introduces the American singer Ethel lynde Smith at a YWCA gathering.
A massive fund raising campaign will target millions of dollars to aid Belgium after the Belgian relief commission withdraws from the country. United States officials say the withdrawal will spur renewed efforts with about 25 million dollars in nap piles food clothing and supplies already stockpiled at relief depots in Europe to feed and clothe Belgian women and children for roughly six weeks.
In Olympia on February 13 E. E. Healey of Puyallup denied instigating a revolt rumored against Speaker Mark Reed. Reed then stated the house functions as a unified body. Healey praised Speaker Kelly as one of the best, while noting past disagreements with Reed.
Oscar Carlson sues the Vashon Navigation Co and Sheriff Donald B. McRae for 50000 alleging negligence in allowing armed men aboard the Verona during its illfated Everett voyage on November 5. He claims lifelong injuries and contends Sheriff McRae acted improperly firing on the vessel while in harbor.
Washington February 123 President Wilson left his usual golf routine and spent the day in seclusion in his study after midnight. No word was released from the White House about his work. The Des Moines Stage Co head D C Neal home burned Monday night while the family was away.
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